what if a team scores a goal on itself?

Not always does a goal go to the last opposing player who touched it. If the ball deflects off a defender and into the goal then yes, it is a goal for the opposing player. But if the ball going into net and is considered to be the defenders fault, it is called an own goal. Example: An opposing player takes a shot at goal but is clearly going to miss, however the defender takes a swipe at clearing the ball. It bounces off his foot and into the goal. Own goal.

Yes the goal would still count, and I'm sure there's been a ridiculous accident in games where it's happened. But a high profile example was actually when a team started purposely scoring own goals. During the final game of the Madagascar league championship, in 2002, the players of Stade OlimpiqueL'Emyrne were outraged by how biased they thought the referee was being. In an unusual protest they spent the entire rest of the game scoring own goals....final score 149-0!

Yes, it would certainly count. If it was in Hockey, and it took place right after the opening faceoff, the goal would probably be credited to to opposing center, who faced off at the start of the game.

It has also happened in the NBA, usually while players were fighting for a rebound. One of the defenders would be battling for the ball and might try to tip it towards a teammate. Instead, the ball wound up in the basket instead of the hands of a teammate! Again, the credit for the points usually was given to the last player who touched the ball for the team that got the gift points.

There have also been cases of such things in the NFL ("Wrong Way" Corrigan comes to mind, somehow....). A defensive player might scoop up a fumble and, in the excitement, start running the wrong way. The noise of the crowd would make it hard to hear his teammates yelling "no, no", and such a player might think they were yelling "go, go". Needless to say, those players usually got "the treatment" afterwards.

Not for anything, but I don't think this is possible in baseball, THANK GOD! But football, hockey, and basketball? Oh yes!

The goal counts,and it does not go to the last opposing player who touched the ball. If a defender heads or kicks the ball in to his own net it is an own goal. No player on the opposing team will get credit for it.

For instance. If a corner is taken and a defender tries to head the ball clear but it goes in his own goal off his head, that is an own goal, the corner taker will not get credit for it.

Sure it does, the last person to touch it gets the "credit" for it as OG (own Goal)!!!

Yes.

ea... it does count. That happened in my last game for soccer. (I'm 13)

yea still counts. haha that would really suck

yes. of course. even though it is very embarassing.