The veteran Spanish winger scored the Sevillian team's second goal in the 39th minute, surpassing the previous Europa League record, which belonged to Daniel Hestad, who scored at the age of 40 years and 98 days, for Molde, against Celtic, in 2015.
In the Champions League, the record belongs to the already retired Italian footballer Francesco Totti, who, for 'his' Roma, scored against CSKA Moscow, aged 38 years and 59 days, in 2014.
Roy Chipolina, from Gibraltar, is the oldest goalscorer in the Conference Europa League, a competition created in 2021/22, when he scored for Lincoln Red Imps against Slovan Bratislava, aged 38 years and 288 days.
In the European Super Cup, the other of the European competitions currently in dispute, the oldest scorer is the German Klaus Allofs, who scored at the age of 36 years and 67 days in the 1993 final, against FC Barcelona.