Every record Max Dowman has broken as Arsenal wonderkid matches Wayne Rooney feat

Arsenal youngster Max Dowman has made past erstwhile again aft becoming lone the second 16-year-old to people a brace for a Premier League club successful immoderate competition.

The teen struck doubly successful Arsenal's Carabao Cup triumph implicit Ipswich Town connected Tuesday evening, matching a feat antecedently achieved lone by Wayne Rooney backmost successful 2002 for Everton.

Dowman has enjoyed a singular emergence since making his competitory first-team debut for the Gunners past twelvemonth and the teen has already made plentifulness of history.

Here, Sports Mole takes a look astatine the bonzer commencement Dowman has made to his career.

Every grounds Arsenal youngster Max Dowman has broken

Youngest Champions League player 
Dowman made his Champions League debut against Slavia Prague successful November 2025 astatine 15 years and 308 days, becoming the youngest subordinate ever to look successful the competition.

Youngest Premier League goalscorer
In March 2026, Dowman scored against Everton astatine 16 years and 73 days, breaking James Vaughan's grounds arsenic the competition's youngest-ever goalscorer which had stood since 2005.

Youngest Premier League champion
When Arsenal won the 2025-26 title, Dowman was 16 years and 144 days old, making him the youngest subordinate ever to triumph the Premier League and surpassing Phil Foden's erstwhile record.

Youngest Premier League starter
Dowman started Arsenal's final-day gathering with Crystal Palace that play astatine 16 years and 144 days, becoming the youngest subordinate ever to commencement a Premier League match.

Youngest Arsenal goalscorer
His record-breaking onslaught against Everton besides saw him surpass Cesc Fabregas to go Arsenal's youngest-ever elder goalscorer.

Youngest Arsenal starter
Dowman became Arsenal's youngest-ever elder starter erstwhile helium was named successful the XI to look Brighton successful the Carabao Cup astatine 15 years and 302 days.

Youngest subordinate to people a brace for a Premier League club
Dowman was 84 days younger than Rooney erstwhile helium scored his 2 goals against Ipswich, making him the youngest subordinate to container a brace for a Premier League side.

Dowman has besides made plentifulness of past successful youth-team football, becoming the youngest subordinate to correspond Arsenal's Under-18s and Under-21s.

The teen is besides Arsenal's youngest goalscorer successful Premier League 2 and the youngest starter and goalscorer successful the UEFA Youth League.

Dowman besides became the youngest England Under-19s goalscorer earlier this year, breaking a grounds held by Ryan Sessegnon erstwhile helium recovered the backmost of the nett successful a 7-0 triumph implicit Wales.

The aboriginal is bright

Arsenal brag Mikel Arteta was afloat of praise for Dowman aft his goals against Ipswich, but admitted they "have to beryllium truly cautious" with his development.

When asked if Dowman was acceptable to play regularly successful the Premier League, Arteta replied: "Everything is possible. The probability astir apt is highly low, due to the fact that you don't spot the players with the capableness to grip conscionable the physicality of the game.

"Not lone that, but the demands that you person to enactment your bodies done successful the week to beryllium capable to beryllium successful a bully information to compete, the magnitude of information, the challenges that you person to face.

"But he's doing it, and he's doing it truly good each clip he's got a chance. What we person to bash is look aft him -- he's 16-years-old, you don't spot that successful this league.

"In different leagues successful Europe, that's a wholly antithetic context. But successful this league, with the demands that the league, the players and everything puts connected you, we truly request to marque definite each clip we propulsion him in, he's successful the close discourse with the close preparation, and that's what we are trying to do.

"We're going to marque definite that erstwhile we conscionable propulsion him there, he's acceptable to grip that astatine each level, and it's not conscionable that helium tin tally past somebody.

"There's a batch much things that we request to look aft him...the lone happening that we person to negociate is that helium needs to perpetually beryllium alert that helium needs to beryllium prepared for what helium needs to do."