When are goals scored?

SoccerSTATS.com - updated on: 26 Jun 2024

Yet another last-minute equalizer against our team? This seems to be happening much too often lately. Another two points lost. What on earth might be happening with the team during those last minutes this season? Is that the sign of a specific weakness, or just plain bad luck?

Well maybe the team didn't actually concede a lot of goals in the last minutes, but it feels otherwise when each of those goals has been a crucial one, changing the course of the game.

It feels as if it doesn't matter if our team would have actually scored more goals than they have conceded in that same time segment. If those goals scored were the likes of a 3-0 becoming a 4-0 lead, the mild positive short-lasting memories left by all such goals combined will never offset the feeling of that single nasty late goal conceded that ended up costing hardly-fought points.

Goals by time segments

When we think our team has scored or conceded a lot of goals at specific times during matches, we can take a look at the goal timing stats to look up how many goals have been scored and conceded by each team during specific time segments.

Goals scored / conceded in each 15-minute segment

The table shows, for each team, the number of goals scored and conceded during minutes 1 through 15, 16 through 30, etc.

Goals scored / conceded in each 10-minute segment

That table provides a more granular view of goals scored and conceded by each team, as it focuses on shorter (10-minute) time periods.

Goals by Half

The Goals by Half table shows, for each team, the percentage of goals scored in the first half and in the second half. It also lists the average minute of when the team has been scoring their goals.

Regarding the "Average minute" value, for a team with an average goal minute value of say, 46, that does not necessarily mean that the team has been scoring a majority of their goals around the 46th minute. A team that scored half of their goals very early and the other half very late in their games, with no goal scored between the 10th and the 80th minute, could also have an average goal minute value of 46.

The objective for such average minute value is rather to identify which teams have been scoring their goals earlier or later than others, on average.

Goals timing at the league level

Goals per time segment

The table below shows an example of when the goals have been scored for a given league all teams combined during the season. It lists, for each 15-minute segment, the number of goals scored and the percentage relative to total goals scored.

The same type of data is also provided for goals scored in the first half compared to goals scored in the second half.


In addition to those goals timing stats for a given league, an overview of the same statistical tables is also available for some of the top European leagues on a single page.

Average minute each subsequent goal has been scored

This table shows when on average the first goal has been scored, all matches combined, during the season. Same for the second goal, etc.

In the example below the first goal has been scored on average on the 30th minute. That first row also indicates that a first goal has been scored in 279 matches, representing 91.2% of played matches.

Early scoring analysis

Here we are looking at how many goals have been scored during the time segment 16 minutes until 90 minutes, for three different situations:

• Matches where any number of goals (including none) have been scored during the first 15 minutes (basically all played matches)
• Only in matches where no goal has been scored during the first 15 minutes
• Only in matches where there has been at least one goal scored during the first 15 minutes

For each situation, the last two columns show how many goals were scored following those first 15 minutes, in total and on average per match.

Related articles

Here are a few other articles that also relate to goals scored at specific times during the match:

• First-half and second-half statistics
• First Goal stats
• Lead-taking goals
• Equalizers scored

Examples

In addition to the Goal Timing page, for example the 2. Bundesliga goal timing section, which displays those goal times tables on one page, some of the tables can also be displayed individually, for example:

• Goals by 15-minute segment in the Bundesliga
• Goals by 10-minute segment in the Italian Serie A
• Featured leagues overview showing the goals per 15-minute segment for some of the top European leagues.