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GOAL 2-2 Fulham midfielder Harrison Reed (6) gets a late equaliser during the Premier League match between Fulham and Liverpool at Craven Cottage, London, UK on 4 January 2026.

Fulham's top 10 goals: Will last season’s award-winning worldies from Harrison Reed and Harry Wilson make the cut?

Some of these strikes are simply stand-alone masterpieces, others were hugely significant – some have both beauty and context. Here are Fulham’s top ten goals of the past 30 years…although all opinions are welcome. Start the bar-room debates now.

17.07.26, 14:25 Updated 12.08.26, 10:34

Dave Kidd

Dave Kidd

WHILE Fulham may have struggled for goals overall last season, there was certainly no shortage of absolute bangers. And while our wait for a major trophy goes on, Marco Silva's Whites did bag awards for the two finest goals of the entire top-flight campaign.

Harrison Reed's injury-time thunderbastard against Liverpool saw our Ginger Iniesta carry off the Premier League's Goal of the Season gong, while Harry Wilson's sumptuous outside-of-the-booter against Crystal Palace earned him the BBC Match of the Day award.

That's not even to mention Kevin's cracker at Old Trafford, Alex Iwobi's wonderful piece of improvisation at home to Tottenham or Tom Cairney's trademark 'don't let him get it on his left peg' effort on the final day against Newcastle.

But where do Reed and Wilson's award-winners rank among the top ten Fulham goals of the past 30 years? And we're limiting to this list to the era in which every goal was captured on film - so no Alan Mullery against Leicester or Ray Houghton at Newcastle, sorry. These rankings aren't scientific – and you will have your own favourites. Some of them are here for their context, as well as their aesthetic beauty.

10. Louis Saha (Manchester United 3 Fulham 2 - 19th August 2001)

This was the goal which announced Fulham and their magnificent French striker to the Premier League – as well as the first top-flight goal many of us had ever seen the Whites score.

Saha outpaces the United defence to collect an artful ball over the top from Sean Davis with a cute touch, then dinks it over Fabien Barthez in front of a stunned Stretford End, which had just seen their team win three consecutive titles.

It was the first of a brace for Saha and even though the afternoon ended in a narrow defeat, it was clear from just those 90 minutes that Jean Tigana's side belonged in the Premier League. Saha ended up being poached by Sir Alex Ferguson two and a half years later.

We never did become the 'Manchester United of the South' but we would at least become a top-flight team for 13 consecutive seasons. And this was the first of 842 Fulham goals in the Premier League to date.

9. Jon Harley (Fulham 2 Aston Villa 1 - 8th February 2003)

Left-back Harley only ever scored once for the Whites - but what a chuffing goal it was.

Fulham netted a few belters during our two-year Loftus Road exile – and even won the InterToto Cup one time while holed up in the badlands – but none was as jaw-dropping as this howitzer from our cockney rebel Harley.

From a full FORTY yards out, Harley unleashes a dipping, swerving, stinging missile which left keeper Peter Enckelman grasping at thin air. The Shepherds Bush shoebox has never seen anything quite like it.

8. Dimitar Berbatov (Fulham 1 Stoke 0 - 23rd February 2013)

'Keep calm and pass me the ball' – that was the message on Dimitar Berbatov's T-shirt. And here was why. I'm not sure if I've ever seen a more naturally gifted footballer in a Fulham shirt than the velvet-booted Bulgarian.

And I've never seen a Whites player pluck the ball out of the heavens quite like this instinctive genius. Berbatov may have been at the tail end of a stellar career and his attitude may have been questionable at times but this beauty made all the frustrations worthwhile.

The power, balance and technique are exquisite as Berba rifles a volley into the top corner from an attempted headed clearance. Sublime.

7. Harry Wilson (Fulham 1 Crystal Palace 2 - 7th December 2025)

A Match of the Day Goal of the Season winner which wasn't even the best Fulham goal scored at the Cottage last winter. But an absolute peach of a finish after a build-up of pure Silva-ball gold.

With Fulham in all white and Palace in red-and-white stripes, it looked like El Clasico. And this goal would have been befitting of Real v Barca. Wilson meets an incisive pass from Alex Iwobi with a backheel on the turn to Raul Jimenez, whose lay-off is greeted by the outside of Wilson's deadly left boot. A 'trivela', the hipsters call it. For the rest of us, an effing masterpiece.

Fulham lost thanks to a dodgy VAR call and a late Palace winner but this was the highlight of Wilson's magnificent 2025-26 campaign.

6. Papa Bouba Diop (Fulham 1 Manchester United 1 -13th December 2004)

The late, great Senegalese Wardrobe lit up the Cottage on a cold Monday night with a belting late equaliser to frustrate Fergie's boys.

Diop is 30 yards from the Hammy End goal when he steps on to a square ball from Mark Pembridge and wallops a shot which bends and crashes against the inside of Roy Carroll's right-hand post, beating the United keeper all ends up.

The Wardrobe then dashes the full length of the pitch to perform a gleeful dance in front of the Cottage. What a man, what a mighty big man.

5. Harrison Reed (Fulham 2 Liverpool 2 - 4th January 2026)

The finest moment our Ginger Iniesta has ever known in the five years since Tony Khan picked him up on the south coast in a Ford Fiesta.

Fulham were in the middle of a purple patch and had deservedly led the champions at half-time, but looked to have fallen to a sucker punch when Cody Gakpo netted an apparent 'winner' in injury-time.

Then with 97 on the clock, Kevin plays the ball back to Reed, with only the referee inside a five-yard radius.

Our man hasn't scored in almost three years. Alisson, one of the finest keepers in the world, is 30 yards away. There are a few muffled, ironic, cries of 'shoot' from the Hammy End. Irony, though, is dead. Reed shoots. Top bins. Wallop. Utter glorious bedlam.

4. Joe Bryan (Fulham 2 Brentford 1 – 4th August 2020)

The Championship Play-Off Final. The richest single game on Earth. And the most laugh-out-loud goal I've ever seen. Against a Hounslow Bus Stop which then held a horribly good record against us.

It's goalless at the end of the first period of extra-time, Bryan lines up a free-kick 40 yards out near the left-hand touchline. Every Brentford player is expecting a cross. Bryan has different ideas.

Spotting David Raya off his line the left-back targets the near post, the ball bounces in front of the Spaniard, who stumbles and dives like a dying fish, with exquisite comic timing, after the ball has already crashed into his net.

Whisper it, but Scott Parker had planned this. 'You have to feel sorry for the goalkeeper' says the Sky commentator. No you f***ing don't. Bryan soon adds a second. Fulham are back in the Premier League. If only we could all have been inside Wembley to witness this God-given moment in the flesh.

3. Rodney McAree (Carlisle 1 Fulham 2 - 5th April 1997)

After the most miserable 14-year period in the club's history, Micky Adams has turned around the tanker, promotion from the Football League basement is within reach. The longest trip of the season, a top-of-the-table clash in Cumbria, and after Micky Conroy's equaliser, an unsung Ulsterman seizes his moment, attaining immortality.

Christer Warren nods back to McAree on the edge of the D, and our man catches it so sweetly on the half-volley – arrowing a shot inside the post. The Brunton Park away end erupts, Fulham are as good as up, our promotion confirmed in a goalless draw at Mansfield on the Tuesday night.

Those of us from the Old School still go all misty-eyed, almost three decades on, when the shout occasionally goes up of 'who put the ball in the Carlisle net?' Rodney McAree. God love him. Keep singing it. This was where we came from.

2. Clint Dempsey (Fulham 4 Juventus 1 - 18th March 2010)

The greatest night Craven Cottage has ever known as the Old Lady of Turin falls victim to a street mugging in leafy SW6. Within two minutes of this Europa League last-16 second-leg tie, Fulham are 4-1 down on aggregate. Stand up if you still believe. Bobby Zamora and a Zoltan Gera double give us hope, aided by the sending-off of Golden Boot winner Fabio Cannavaro.

Then Dempsey – who had arrived as a sub just ten minutes earlier – collects a Dickson Etuhu pass with his back to goal, near the right-hand edge of the penalty area. There is a swivel, then a clipped chip which arcs and soars over the bald bonce of Antonio Chimenti.

The Texan's vision is supernatural, the accuracy laser-like. Heaven by the Thames on a Thursday teatime. The moment of our lives.

1. Pajtim Kasami (Crystal Palace 1 Fulham 4 – 21st October 2013)

McAree and Dempsey both had the context. They were goals which meant the world to us. This one arrived at the start of a relegation campaign in a low-key Monday-nighter at Selhurst Park. It was the last win of Martin Jol's reign, preceding a seven-match losing streak, the sixth of which earned the Dutchman his P45. And yet this was simply the greatest goal I have ever seen live.

Like Harley, Reed, Bryan and McAree, this was a goal from an unlikely source – Kasami was a Swiss bit-part player who momentarily transformed into peak Marco Van Basten. Sascha Riether lofts a pass from the right, Kasami angles his run to the corner of box, chests it down and volleys on the turn into the far corner with a technique from the heavens.

All evidence says it was a fluke. Our 13-year stay in the Premier League was careering towards its end. But this early equaliser was pure majesty. Steve Sidwell would score the finest goal of his long career that night and nobody really remembers it. From the poxy Selhurst away end, our eyes had seen the glory.

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APOLOGIES go to Bryan Ruiz – who didn't score many but only ever scored worldies – and to Chris 'Bairdinho' Baird for his pair of memorable plums on a wet afternoon in Stoke.

Also to Tom Cairney, whose long-range volley at Molineux tops a long list of belters, and whose winner against Aston Villa in the 2018 Play-Off Final might also have made this list.

To Collins John at Middlesbrough, to Joe Kamara for his overhead equaliser against Spurs and to Paul Konchesky at Upton Park. We could have compiled a top 100. Maybe someday we will.

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Dave Kidd

Dave Kidd has been a leading journalist for three decades and was Chief Sports Writer on four national newspapers. As a Fulham fan of 45 years and a season-ticket holder on the Hammersmith End, he will deliver the highest quality coverage of the Club, with the passion of a true fan and the insight of an elite sports writer.

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