Quiz! Can you name the first goalscorer for every club in the 2016/17 Premier League season?

Liverpool first goal

There’s nothing like throwing your arms into the summer air, celebrating your club’s first goal of a fresh new season. Unless it’s an injury time consolation when you’re 5-0 down at the Etihad and Pep Guardiola is using the end of the game to experiment with an entire team of 11 overlapping full-backs.

That doesn’t feel so great. But there is something memorable about the first round of league fixtures – and the 2016/17 Premier League delivered a thriller, as Liverpool beat Arsenal 4-3. In fact, goals abound in the opening weekend last year, as only Crystal Palace and Burnley failed to score.

Thank you for reading 5 articles this month* Join now for unlimited access

Enjoy your first month for just £1 / $1 / €1

*Read 5 free articles per month without a subscription

Join now for unlimited access

Try first month for just £1 / $1 / €1

Alex Reid

Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.