Who scored the first goal of 2025?

ByDavid Mitchell
Who scored the first goal of 2025?

Although the first game of the year was played Auckland FC and Melbourne Victorythe Australian and New Zealand teams did not break the zero, so the first goal of 2024 took place in the match between Macarthur FC and Western Sydney Wanderersalso for the A-League, and scored it Jed Drew.

The 21-year-old Australian forward completed a collective play in which Marin Jakoliš opened on the left and Walter Scott sent a low cross that, deflected, was left for Drew, who put Macarthur Bulls ahead before the 13 minutes were up.

10 minutes later, the Spanish Juan Mataworld champion in South Africa 2010, tied for the locals, but Ariath Deng Piol and Drew himself – with a tremendous goal – once again put the visitors ahead. Finally, Anthony Pantazopoulos put definitive figures on the scoreboard: WS Wanderers 2 vs. Macarthur 3.

With this victory, Macarthur climbed to second place, with 18 points in 11 games, while Western Sydney stagnated in seventh position, with 14 points in 10 games. The leader is Auckland FC – it is not Auckland City, Boca’s rival in the Club World Cup, which plays in the New Zealand league -, which earlier had no differences with Melbourne Victory in the first match of the year.

Curiously, the first goal of 2024 had also come in the match between Macarthur and Western Sydney Wanderers, although on that occasion the red and black team had struck first, through the Swede Marcus Antonsson.

David Mitchell
David Mitchell

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