In what year did Haiti end Italy’s record shutout streak? Haiti ended Italy’s streak in 1974. At the FIFA World Cup in West Germany, Haiti’s Emmanuel Sanon scored against Italy on June 15, 1974, ending goalkeeper Dino Zoff’s extraordinary run without conceding an international goal.
Sanon’s goal gave Haiti a surprise 1–0 lead shortly after halftime in the teams’ opening Group 4 match. Italy recovered to win 3–1, but Sanon’s strike became the defining moment of Haiti’s World Cup debut. The match was played at Munich’s Olympiastadion.
The wording about a “19-game shutout streak” is often repeated in trivia, but the better-known record concerns minutes rather than 19 complete matches. Zoff had gone roughly 1,142 minutes without conceding for Italy, across a run spanning 1972 to 1974. Sanon’s goal stopped that clean-sheet record even though Haiti lost the match.
Haiti later lost to Poland and Argentina and exited the tournament, but Sanon scored again against Argentina. His two goals remained Haiti’s only World Cup goals for decades, and his strike against Italy became a lasting part of World Cup history.