Summary

  • Xherdan Shaqiri's strike against Poland against Poland is voted the winner by you

  • You voted for your winner of the Eurovision Goal Contest - the vote is now closed

  • Twelve goals in the final - watch all of them using play button at top of page

  1. Alessandro Schopfpublished at 12th in semi-final one

    AUSTRIA v Iceland (Euro 2016)

    Austria

    The turn inside the defender is good, but the finish is even better. Alessandro Schopf gives Iceland's defence and keeper the runaround with this goal, which brought Austria level at 1-1 in their final Euro 2016 group stage game.

    Little did he know at the time, but Iceland would have the last laugh with a 94th-minute winner to set up their greatest moment on the international stage against England in the last 16.

    Unfortunately, Schopf's efforts weren't enough to prevent finishing 12 out of the 12 goals in our first semi-final.

  2. Alessandro Schopfpublished at 12th in semi-final one

    AUSTRIA v Iceland (Euro 2016)

    Austria

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    Watch Austria's entrant for the European Goal Contest from Alessandro Schöpf

  3. Gopublished at 12:10 British Summer Time 14 May 2020

    Right then, let's get down to business by going through our first semi-final, in order of the least amount of votes received.

    Remember, the top six from each semi-final go through to the final, making a list of 12 goals on which you can vote.

    You can do this either on the right-hand side of this page if you're on desktop, or by using the vote tab at the top if you're following on mobile.

  4. My memorable Eurovision entriespublished at 12:08 British Summer Time 14 May 2020

    Jahn Teigen - Mil etter mil (1978)

    Colin Paterson
    Entertainment Correspondent, BBC Radio 5 live

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    Norway are one of the three countries standing between Scotland and their first appearance at a major tournament since 1998. But who knew that a man called Davie Cooper was behind Norway’s night of Eurovision infamy?

    In 1978 Jahn Teigen’s “Mil etter mil” becoming the first song in the “12 point” scoring era to fail to register a single vote and hence forever linking the country to the dreaded “nul points” phrase.

    The co-writer of the track was a man called Davie Cooper. Presumably not the Rangers and Scotland winger, who two weeks later would play a crucial part in helping Rangers beat Celtic in the Scottish Cup Final.

    Norway once actually came close to scoring “nul points” in Euros qualification. An away 1-1 draw to Bulgaria stopped them going completely blank in their group ahead of the 1972 tournament.

  5. get involved

    Power to all our friendspublished at 12:06 British Summer Time 14 May 2020

    #europeangoalcontest

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    This routine would probably have earned Bucks Fizz a yellow card at the Euros

    As always, we're keen to hear from you, particularly on the subject of both Eurovision and the European Championships.

    I'm especially eager to hear any good stories you might have of attending either event, watching them or indeed anything else you can think of related to both. Were you there when Bucks Fizz did the skirt whipping off thing? In the stadium when Van Basten hooked in his volley? Or maybe you once had a kickabout with Blue?

    You can get in touch with us on Twitter using the hashtag #europeangoalcontest, external

    To get you going, here is the BBC's very own entertainment correspondent with one of his memorable Eurovision entries. Colin will be helping us out with a few more suggestions over the next two hours...

  6. Making your mind uppublished at 12:04 British Summer Time 14 May 2020

    Yes, we here at BBC Sport are bringing together two of Europe's most beloved things and mashing them together to forge something greater - a bit like the aforementioned Hoddle and Waddle.

    The premise is a simple one - 24 goals from Euro 2016 and Euro 2020 qualifying, split into two semi-finals, voted on and whittled down by you to a final 12, each of which we'll go through in greater detail this afternoon.

    You'll then be handed the task of voting for your favourite - the single stellar goal that will be crowned our very first European Goals Contest winner - the Refrain of European goals if you will (as you can see below, Eurovision was a lot tamer back in 1956. Not a Finnish rock zombie in sight)...

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  7. Love shine a lightpublished at 12:02 British Summer Time 14 May 2020

    Football and music have a long and proud relationship, from the humble terrace chant to the beautiful games' appropriation of some of humanity's greatest works - Puccini's Nessun Dorma, Beethoven's Ode to Joy and Diamond Lights, sung by Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle.

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    Our intention here is to build on this relationship, filling the respective gaps left by both the Eurovision Song Contest and Euro 2020 to bring you a veritable feast of European ball-kicking, note-holding, goal-scoring, guitar-strumming wonder.

    Or maybe we'll just laugh at some awful tunes and outfits while watching a few top strikes, both options are valid.

    Welcome, then, to the European Goals Contest.

  8. That sounds good to mepublished at 11:57 British Summer Time 14 May 2020

    Do you like this?

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    How about this?

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    What about this?

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    And this?

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    If you answered mainly yes to the above questions then do we have a couple of hours in store for you!