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Ove Claes Johansson (March 31, 1948 – September 30, 2023) was an American football placekicker and the current holder of the record for the longest field goal ever kicked during an American football game, at 69 yards (63 m), for Abilene Christian University in their October 16, 1976 victory over East Texas State. [1]
Matthew Phillip Prater (born August 10, 1984) is an American professional football placekicker for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). Regarded as one of the best long distance kickers in NFL history, he held the NFL record for longest field goal (64 yards) from 2013 until 2021 [2] and holds the NFL record for most 50+ yard field goals in a career, 81 as of 2024.
The longest field goal kick in NFL history is 66 yards, a record set by Justin Tucker on September 26, 2021, which broke the record previously held by Matt Prater (2013) at 64 yards. The third longest is 63, originally set by Tom Dempsey (1970) and then matched by Jason Elam (1998), Sebastian Janikowski (2011), David Akers (2012), Graham Gano ...
He also tied the then-NFL record for the longest successful field goal when he converted a 63-yard field goal, which is the third-longest in league history. Akers is an inductee of the Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame and a member of the Philadelphia Eagles 75th Anniversary Team , along with being named to the second-team of the NFL 2000s All ...
Most field goals attempted, career: 709, Morten Andersen, 1982–2004, 2006–2007 [1]: 542 Most field goals made, career : 599, Adam Vinatieri , 1996–2019 [ 1 ] : 542 [ 14 ] Most overtime field goals made, career : 11, Adam Vinatieri , 1996–2019
With the kick, Dempsey broke Bert Rechichar's NFL record for longest field goal by seven yards. His record was tied three times—by Jason Elam with the Denver Broncos in 1998 , Sebastian Janikowski with the Oakland Raiders in 2011 , and David Akers with the San Francisco 49ers in 2012 [ 13 ] —before it was broken on December 8, 2013, by Matt ...
There, he set the NCAA Division II record of 21 consecutive field goals, nine of which were beyond 50 yards. He set the school record with a 58-yard field goal against Northwest Missouri State University twice. He had a .952 field goal percentage by making 23 of 24 attempts, which was the highest of any NCAA player in any division with 12 or ...
It was just four yards short of the all-time NFL record. The record was broken by Tyler Bass with a 61-yard field goal in 2024. In the 1994 Super Bowl, Christie set the record for the longest field goal in Super Bowl history at 54 yards until it was eventually broken by Jake Moody and Harrison Butker in the 2024 Super Bowl.