Can you name the oldest Premier League goalscorers?

Age	Player	Scored for...
40		West Ham United
38		Manchester City
38		Burnley
38		Blackburn Rovers
38		Blackburn Rovers
38		MK Dons
37		Sheffield United
37		Manchester City
37		Bolton Wanderers
37		Birmingham City

Age	Player	Scored for...
37		Bolton Wanderers
37		Ipswich Town
37		Everton
37		Blackburn Rovers
36		Manchester United
36		West Ham United
36		Queens Park Rangers
36		Arsenal
36		Oxford United
36		Cagliari

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Premier League Oldest Goalscorers Quiz

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Created by: BenUK -
Published: May 1st, 2009
Category: Sports
Plays: 39,399

Tags: Premier League Quizzes, Soccer Quizzes, player, league, rank, premier, score, old, goalscorer

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	DWert19:	May 1st, 2009 at 04:23 GMT	9 points
	very hard. i haven't been watching premier league long enough to know some of those, and spelled bergkamp wrong apparently. could the quiz show the age at which they scored?

	cardboard:	May 1st, 2009 at 04:31 GMT	0 points
	I didn't know any of them, but I got 11 for typing "and."

	amorris525:	May 1st, 2009 at 04:35 GMT	0 points
	Agreed, I got 11 for typing "the"

	bernerd:	May 1st, 2009 at 04:43 GMT	0 points
	Yeh there's definitely something wrong with this quiz, i also got 11 by typing "the", and it wont accept some of the names that it takes for the, such as Bergkamp.

	birkolifer:	May 1st, 2009 at 04:50 GMT	7 points
	Peter Schmeichel. Would never of got him.

	SporcleAdmin:	May 1st, 2009 at 04:59 GMT	2 points
	Sorry, the "And" and "The" bug has been fixed.

	JohnJF:	May 1st, 2009 at 05:06 GMT	-1 points
	I got a solid one (Bergkamp). Looks like currently 1.6% of people are cheating, as it's the exact number that got 100% and also got Harford, Powell, and Gough.

	motrain24:	May 1st, 2009 at 05:38 GMT	13 points
	Definitely don't understand why there's no info on how old they were when they scored... that's kinda the whole point to the quiz

	The_Snakes:	May 1st, 2009 at 05:43 GMT	1 point
	I had no idea John Wark played in the Premier League, he was in 'Escape to Victory' in 1981, and he looked in his 40s then!

	beatrixkiddo:	May 1st, 2009 at 06:30 GMT	3 points
	yep - some kind of age indiactaor would have been useful. i tried alan shearer and was surprised he wasn't there.

	milkmeister:	May 1st, 2009 at 06:40 GMT	12 points
	Dean Windass should be on the list. He scored for Hull against Portsmouth this season in the Premier League, and as he is 40 now, he was at least 39 then! This may have been missed as the goal was originally recorded as an own goal, but this was later changed by the dubious goals panel.

	OscilatingGibbon:	May 1st, 2009 at 08:11 GMT	0 points
	Very tough quiz, still enjoyable though. Got me thinking about players who kept playing well into their thirties, ended up getting 7 but that seems to be about average for this quiz. I like.

	acquiesce:	May 1st, 2009 at 09:16 GMT	6 points
	The answer is always Gary Speed

	Massagraf:	May 1st, 2009 at 09:40 GMT	0 points
	Schmeichel? Really? I've got to see that goal somewhere...

	miko:	May 1st, 2009 at 10:54 GMT	0 points
	Got 4. Sheringham, Zola, Bergkamp and Schmeichel.

	GoonerLover66:	May 1st, 2009 at 11:16 GMT	6 points
	Nice quiz, is there going to be a Youngest Premier League goalscorers equivalent?

	ZeZapatiste:	May 1st, 2009 at 12:29 GMT	0 points
	That was pretty hard ! I've got 3 of them, but I realised I missed some easy ones like Schmeichel or Les Ferdinand...

	Chris_Breezy:	May 1st, 2009 at 13:54 GMT	0 points
	@beatrixkiddo i totally agree with you i kept trying shearer as well and spelled his last name like three different ways just to make sure he wasnt on there which i am suprised about

	lostnone:	May 1st, 2009 at 14:29 GMT	2 points
	I agree that Dean Windass should be on the list, as his goal this season was given to him eventually. Also, Martin Keown never played in the Premiership for Leicester City, only the Championship, and he never scored for them. His last Premiership goal was for Arsenal. It would also be good to see how old you have to be to make the list, as Keown, for example, scored his last league goal for Arsenal in April 2000 when he was 33, which doesn't seem to be old enough to get him on this list. He did score an own goal in April 2003, but surely that shouldn't count.

	darth_shrimper:	May 1st, 2009 at 14:32 GMT	1 point
	Wow. That was bloody tough. Good one though.

	C_W_Browne:	May 1st, 2009 at 15:55 GMT	0 points
	Us Hammers just love the oldies.

	davebesag:	May 1st, 2009 at 16:02 GMT	-1 points
	Got 8 but those included Schmeichel, Pearce, Gough and Wilkins.

	lezardvaleth:	May 1st, 2009 at 16:24 GMT	4 points
	Teddy Sheringham.. What a legend.

	chambers:	May 1st, 2009 at 17:04 GMT	2 points
	hard to know which ones kept playing till they were old for a semi-football fan like me. i just typed the names of people who are old currently. didnt help much

	RobH:	May 1st, 2009 at 17:12 GMT	1 point
	Hmmm....Do you reckon the photo on the homepage skews the results of this quiz a bit? 90% get the player whose photo it is, and the next most guessed is only at 50%. Hehe! That said, Edward Sheringham is an absolute legend and deserves to be at the top.

	lulubelles:	May 1st, 2009 at 17:29 GMT	3 points
	I was surprised there was no Dean Saunders as well, he was quite old when he played for Bradford. Martin Keown is a massive error sporcle please remove - He never scored for Leicester. The only reason I got him was as an Arsenal guess

	ntnon:	May 1st, 2009 at 19:00 GMT	4 points
	RobH - Exactly right! With a couple of exceptions, these players are not famous as members of the teams they scored for, so it makes guessing player names even harder than it would otherwise be... if you see what I mean.

	weizenugb:	May 1st, 2009 at 19:52 GMT	3 points
	This may have already been said (I didn't read all the comments) but it would be cool if the quiz told you how old the player was when he scored his last goal.

	BuggritHall:	May 1st, 2009 at 21:29 GMT	1 point
	not a bad brainteaser. Of course I got Gough (being a Toffee myself) and naturally got Schmeichel as it was against Everton he scored in a 3-2 defeat for da Villa.

	banutzu:	May 2nd, 2009 at 01:50 GMT	4 points
	can we have a sporcle game for the current top 100 tennis players, and also more like this (i.e. non-US sports)

	peanut4:	May 2nd, 2009 at 07:59 GMT	4 points
	Where on earth is Dean Windass who scored earlier this year at pushing on 40 years old?

	gavintj:	May 2nd, 2009 at 13:01 GMT	3 points
	Needs their ages on this.

	Moose:	May 2nd, 2009 at 19:53 GMT	4 points
	I typed in Beardsley as a joke. Quite surprised to see him on here. Was expecting Lineker to pop up too!

	Tricky:	May 5th, 2009 at 15:29 GMT	-3 points
	Neither Wilkens nor Warke played in the premier league

	milkmeister:	May 6th, 2009 at 18:25 GMT	4 points
	Neither Wilkens nor Warke are spelt that way either :-)

	MisterDerp:	May 14th, 2009 at 12:29 GMT	1 point
	What about Ryan Giggs?

	lostnone:	Oct 3rd, 2009 at 21:15 GMT	1 point
	Wark played for Ipswich in the first Premier League season, and scored for them when they were briefly top. Wilkins played in Premier League when he was player/manager at QPR

	tedmaul:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 12:06 GMT	1 point
	haha very surprised at wilkins

	Elder86:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 10:27 GMT	1 point
	What about Graham Alexander from burnley? 38 and scored 5 times already this season?

	samivel:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 02:24 GMT	1 point
	This quiz definitely needs updating - as has already been said, Dean Windass and Graham Alexander should be on this list (Windass at number 2, Alexander at number 4) and so should Gudni Berggson, who scored for Bolton Wanderers at the tender age of 37 years 191 days. Chances are Ryan Giggs will get on here this season as well. Excellent idea, though.