***Who scored your club’s initial Champions League goal?

You always remember your initial … or do you?

Hoffenheim make their entrance in a UEFA Champions League theatre subsequent week, though who will have a honour of scoring that ancestral initial goal? And how prolonged will a Bundesliga side’s fans have to wait?

Over a past 26 years, 137 clubs have purebred in a organisation stage. Some didn’t have to wait prolonged (it took 38 seconds for Andreas Möller to get Dortmund adult and running); some did (there were 4 mins of Galatasaray’s lass organisation theatre left when they finally got off a mark).

There have been possess goals and penalties; goals scored by expected suspects and strikes decidedly left of left margin (Cihat Arslan, anyone?). There have been tap-ins and there have been goals truly wise of a arise – step brazen George Weah!

First organisation theatre goals

Michael Owen gets Liverpool off a mark©Getty Images

Atlético – Juan Esnáider v Steaua, 1996 (33 minutes)
Barcelona – Txiki Begiristain v Monaco, 1993 (16 minutes)
Bayern – Mehmet Scholl v Dynamo Kyiv, 1994 (99 minutes)
Club Brugge – Daniel Amokachi v CSKA Moskva, 1992 (17 minutes)
CSKA Moskva – Ilshat Fayzulin v Marseille (235 minutes)
Dortmund – Andreas Möller v Juventus, 1995 (38 seconds!)
Galatasaray – Cihat Arslan v Spartak Moskva, 1994 (536 minutes)
Hoffenheim – N/A
Inter Milan – Youri Djorkaeff v Sturm Graz, 1998 (180 minutes)
Juventus – Michele Padovano v Dortmund, 1995 (12 minutes)
Liverpool – Michael Owen v Boavista, 2001 (29 minutes)
Lokomotiv Moskva – Vladimir Maminov v Anderlecht, 2001 (18 minutes)
Lyon – Sonny Anderson v Heerenveen, 2000 (2 minutes)

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Man. City and Napoli make their bow

Manchester City – Aleksandar Kolarov v Napoli, 2011 (74 minutes)
Manchester United – Ryan Giggs v IFK Göteborg, 1994 (33 minutes)
Monaco – Jürgen Klinsmann v Spartak Moskva, 1993 (17 minutes)
Napoli – Edinson Cavani v Man. City, 2011 (69 minutes)
Paris Saint-Germain – George Weah v Bayern, 1994 (41 minutes)
Plzeň – Marek Bakoš v BATE Borisov, 2011 (45+1 minutes)
Porto – Magalhães v PSV Eindhoven, 1992 (35 minutes)
Real Madrid – Iván Zamorano v Grasshoppers, 1995 (159 minutes)
Roma – Francesco Totti coop v Real Madrid, 2001 (73 minutes)
Schalke – Marco outpost Hoogdalem v Arsenal, 2001 (133 minutes)
Shakhtar – Aleksei Bakharev v Arsenal, 2000 (116 minutes)
Tottenham – Petri Pasanen og v Bremen, 2010 (12 minutes)
Valencia – Kily González v Rangers, 1999 (57 minutes)