Where Patryk Sykut stands in the list of youngest Peterborough United goal-scorers
The PT believes Patryk Sykut is the fourth youngest goalscorer for Peterborough United in a Football League game.
Sykut was 17 years, seven months and six days old when scoring on his full debut in Saturday’s thrilling 3-3 League One draw with Exeter City at the Weston Homes Stadium.
The youngest Posh goalscorer in a a Football League match is Matthew Etherington who was 17 years and 22 days old when scoring with a superb strike in the club record 9-1 win at Barnet in Division Three in September 1998.
Etherington is the youngest player to make a senior Posh appearance, aged 15 on the last day of the 1996-97 relegation season from the old Division Two.
Andrew Furnell was the next youngest Posh scorer in a Football League game at 17 years, two months and 25 days when he scored his only Posh goal in a 4-1 defeat at Bristol City on the final day of the 1993-94 relegation season from the old Division One.
Furnell had played for Posh aged 16 earlier that season.
And Mark Heeley was 17 years, four months and 22 days old when he scored for Posh in a 4-2 Division Three home win over Pompey in January 1977.
The youngest Posh goalscorer in any competition is Ricky-Jade Jones who was 17 years and four days old when scoring on his full debut for Posh in a 2-1 EFL Trophy win over Cambridge United at London Road in November, 2019.
Sykut is therefore the fifth youngest Posh goalscorer in all competitions since the club joined the Football League in 1960.
Other 17 year-old Posh goal-scorers were Flynn Clarke who was a month older that Sykut when he scored on his first Posh start in a 3-3 EFL Trophy draw at home to Burton Albion in September 2020, and Leo Da Silva Lopes who was four days older than Clarke when he netted in a 3-1 League Cup home defeat at the hands of Swansea City in August, 2016.