Division 1 2021-2022 — First Goal Time Tracker

When goals are scored

822 goals across the 328 matches that produced one, placed by the minute each was scored. The busiest stretch is 75-90, with 16.3% of them. 23.4% arrive from the 75th minute on, and 7.1% in stoppage time at the end.

45% of goals come before half time. That figure counts first-half stoppage time, which is where most published numbers go wrong: goals in added time at the end of the half are recorded as minutes 46, 47 and 48, so cutting the match at minute 45 pushes them into the second half and gives 40.9% instead — out by 4.1 points.

First Goal Timing

Across 380 matches the first goal arrived after 34 minutes on average. The histogram shows when the opening goal was scored, in three-minute bins, including matches with no goal at all.