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* ''WesternAnimation/Rio2'': The Red and Blue Macaws get into a soccer-like game using nuts after Blu accidentally breaches a territory rule between the tribes and use the game to settle things. Blu joins in on the game and seems to make a winning point... until he's told he scored for the Red team's goal, losing the blue macaws both the game and the territory it was being used to determine ownership of. Eduardo in particular, who already sees him as [[DatingWhatDaddyHates a poor choice for his daughter's husband]] due to being formerly domesticated, is furious with him for this mistake, adding it to his growing list of reasons for considering him [[PetsVersusStrays unwelcome among the wild blue macaws]].

* ''VideoGame/CouncilrysRPG'': One of the strongest physical attacks that [[Characters/HololiveEnglishGenerationTwoCouncil Ceres Fauna]] can learn is "Soccer Smash" at level fifteen, the description of which notes that using it to deal high damage also results in Fauna scoring in her own goal - a MythologyGag to when she accidentally did exactly that in a stream of ''VideoGame/NintendoSwitchSports''.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Adrien/Cat Noir doesn't know much about soccer, which works against him when Chloé gets herself akumatized during a class soccer game. First, as Adrien, he picks the ball up with his hands. After transforming into Cat Noir, he scores an own goal. He gets better as the game progresses.

* ''VideoGame/CouncilrysRPG'': One of the strongest physical attacks that [[Characters/HololiveEnglishGenerationTwoCouncil Ceres Fauna]] can learn is "Soccer Smash" at level fifteen, which notes that using it to deal high damage also results in Fauna scoring in her own goal - a MythologyGag to when she accidentally did exactly that in a stream of ''VideoGame/NintendoSwitchSports''.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E6CommonGround Common Ground]]", Quibble Pants' and Rainbow Dash's attempts to win over Quibble's prospective stepdaughter Wind Sprint by convicting her he's a sporty sort of person culminate in them playing a hoofball match against Ponyville's team, hoofball being a sport where earth ponies attempt to buck a ball past the opposing team's pegasus into a basket held by their team's unicorn. After flubbing his first two scores in a rather humiliating manner, he manages to make a perfect score... in the wrong basket. He tries to RulesLawyer his way out of this by pointing out that the official rules don't strictly specify ''which'' basket an earth pony needs to kick a ball into to score a point, but Wind Sprint leaves the match in disgust before a ruling can be made.

It's a tiebreaker in the game that is being played, and it's up to the main character to score the winning point to win. He shoots, he scores!... Into his own goal.

* ''WesternAnimation/Rio2'': The Red and Blue Macaws get into a soccer-like game using nuts after Blu accidentally breaches a territory rule between the tribes and use the game to settle things. Blu joins in on the game and seems to make a winning point... until he's told he scored for the Red team's goal, losing the blue macaws the game. Eduardo in particular, who already sees him as [[DatingWhatDaddyHates a poor choice for his daughter's husband]] due to being formerly domesticated, is furious with him for this mistake, adding it to his list of reasons for considering him [[PetsVersusStrays unwelcome among the wild blue macaws]].

* ''WesternAnimation/Rio2'': The Red and Blue Macaws get into a soccer-like game using nuts after Blu accidentally breaches a territory rule between the tribes and use the game to settle things. Blu joins in on the game and seems to make a winning point... until he's told he scored for the Red team's goal, losing the blue macaws the game. Eduardo in particular, who already sees him as [[DatingWhatDaddyHates a poor choice for his daughter's husband]] due to being formerly domesticated, is furious with him for this mistake, adding it to his list of reasons for considering him [[PetsVsStrays unwelcome among the wild blue macaws]].

* ''WesternAnimation/Rio2'': The Red and Blue Macaws get into a soccer-like game using nuts after Blu accidentally breaches a territory rule between the tribes and use the game to settle things. Blu joins in on the game and seems to make a winning point... until he's told he scored for the Red team's goal, losing the blue macaws the game. Eduardo in particular, who already sees him as [[DatingWhatDaddyHates a poor choice for his daughter's husband]] due to being formerly domesticated, implies to him afterward that this is yet another reason for his not being welcome among the wild blue macaws.

* ''WesternAnimation/Rio2'': The Red and Blue Macaws get into a soccer-like game using nuts after Blu accidentally breaches a territory rule between the tribes and use the game to settle things. Blu joins in on the game and seems to make a winning point... until he's told he scored for the Red team's goal, losing the blue macaws the game.
-->'''Eduardo''': I'M GONNA KILL YOU, FANNY PACK!

* Almost happens in ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' during the "Wossamatta U." arc, when Boris switches the football team's game plans with Confederate battle plans from the Civil War. They actually start winning with the plans, until Bullwinkle realizes that he should be running towards the north, which would have him scoring towards his own goal. Fortunately, Rocky is able to set him straight.

* The 2001 UEFA Cup Final match between Liverpool and Deportivo Alaves was won by Liverpool after Alaves' player Geli scored an own goal in his attempt to block a free kick from Liverpool's Gary [=McAllister=] in extra time, thanks to [[SuddenDeath the golden goal rule]].

* ''WebAnimation/{{hololive}}'': Ceres Fauna's May 26, 2022 ''Nintendo Switch Sports'' stream opens with a soccer game that goes into overtime. Unfortunately, [[https://youtu.be/uJ58YmnOWZM?t=1000 she accidentally kicks the ball into her team's goal, resulting in defeat]]. She's so upset and ashamed over this that she [[RageQuit briefly switches to the ending screen]], and then switches back, [[ImplausibleDeniability pretending that the stream just started]].

-->--''LetsPlay/AchievementHunterMinecraftSeries'', "Episode 37 - Clouds"

* In ''Film/TheOddLifeOfTimothyGreen'', Timothy’s parents wished for a child who would score the winning soccer goal. [[ExactWords They didn’t say for which team.]]

* One line in [[Music/PaulMcCartney Paul McCartney's]] song, "We Got Married", refers to this trope.
->Working hard for the dream/Scoring goals for the other team

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* '' Manga/SgtFrog'': In Episode 42a, Keroro and his platoon are facing off Momoka's butler, Paul, and his team for a chance to win a trip to Momoka's private spa resort. During the last few minutes of the game, both teams are still tied 0-0. Realizing they still have a chance to win, Keroro's overconfidence and inflated ego get the better of him, as he uses his Finishing Move using ''his hands'' right into his own goal, therefore losing to Paul 0-1. Needless to say, [[WhatTheHellHero Keroro is berated by his platoon for being so impetuous]]. It get worse in the dub, when [[NeverMyFault he blames his error on his own teammates]].

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* Narrowly averted in ''Film/KennyAndCompany''. Kenny starts running in the wrong direction with the football, but Doug runs after him, grabs his shirt, and says, "Other way, dummy!"

* ''Literature/{{Mindblind}}'': During Nathaniel's short-lived attempt at soccer when he was seven, he kept running in the wrong direction no matter how many times his father tried to explain where the goal was.

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* In soccer, an own goal typically happens in multi-player melees near the goal, when a defender tries to tackle an offensive player, or make a pass back to his own side, and accidentally knocks the ball into the net. It's also regarded as an own goal if a shot bounces off a defender into the goal, or if a defender or goal keeper manages to touch a shot but fails to stop it before it goes into the goal.
* In the 1994 FIFA [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup World Cup]], Colombian soccer player Andres Escobar's own goal contributed to their loss against the United States, resulting in him [[DisproportionateRetribution being shot dead by disgruntled gamblers]] a week later. It was reported that his killers [[PreMortemOneLiner shouted "Goal!"]] after each shot.
* In the 1994 Caribbean Cup qualification match between Barbados and Grenada, Barbados needed to win the match by two goals in order to advance to the next round but were only leading by one (2-1) near the end of the match, so they purposely scored an own goal to force extra time. They did so because of an unusual rule put in place for the tournament that a goal scored in extra time counted as two goals. [[CrazyEnoughToWork It worked, Barbados won 4-2 and advanced.]]
* In the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, dark horse team England saw their cup run end rather tragically this way in the semifinal against Japan. The game went into stoppage time 1-1, at which point a Japanese player crossed the ball into the final third and English player Laura Bassett attempted to clear while sliding, but got the angle wrong and sent it into her own goal off the crossbar. They went on to defeat Germany in the 3rd place match.

* In ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' Enid does this when playing for the Point Prep Ultra Football team because she both doesn't really understand the game and is too distracted playing with Rad to care, though at the begining of the match rather than the end of it.
* Almost happens in ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' during the "Wossamatta U." arc, when Boris switches the football team's game plans with Confederate battle plans from the Civil War. They actually start winning with the plans, until Bullwinkle realizes that he should be running towards the north, which would have him scoring towards his own goal. Fortunately, Rocky is able to set him straight.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBuzzOnMaggie'': In one episode, Maggie coaches Pubert for various sports in hopes of getting him to beat their Aldrin at one of them after he [[BigBrotherBully humiliates Pubert]]. After losing in all of them, Maggie invents a sport called "Fun Ball" where scoring involves having fun when shooting the balls into baskets. At the end, Pubert gets bored of playing, tosses the ball, and manages to make a goal... In Aldrin's basket.

* In the 1994 Caribbean Cup qualification match between Barbados and Grenada, Barbados needed to win the match by two goals but were only leading by one (2-1) near the end of the match, so they purposely scored an own goal to force overtime. [[CrazyEnoughToWork It worked, Barbados won 4-2.]]

** In the 1986 Smythe Division Final, the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames were tied 2-2 in the third period of Game 7 when defenseman Steve Smith skated out from behind his net and passed the puck off his own goalie's skate into the net. The Flames would go on to win the game 3-2 and series 4-3, denying the Oilers the chance to be champions for a third straight year.