Scoring records

Hat-trick hall

Who scored the most hat-tricks, who put the most goals past one opponent, who needed the fewest minutes for three, and who lives off penalties?

Goals by players (no own goals): 97,889
Hat-tricks (3+ goals in a match): 1,947
of these goals were penalties: 7.1 %
Goals in the first minute: 462

Most hat-tricks

Matches with three or more goals by the same player. Goals: all the player’s goals in the database.

#	Player	Team	Hat-tricks	Goals
1	Lionel Messi	Argentina	11	125
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	10	146
3	Ali Mabkhout Al-Hajeri	United Arab Emirates	8	81
4	Poul 'Tist' Nielsen	Denmark	8	45
5	Robert Lewandowski	Poland	7	92
6	Ali Daei	Iran	6	88
7	Erling Håland	Norway	6	65
8	Siu Ki Chan	Hong Kong	6	36
9	Harry Kane	England	5	89
10	Romário	Brazil	5	55
11	Imre Schlosser	Hungary	5	55
12	Công Vinh Lê	Vietnam	5	51
13	Ali Ashfaq	Maldives	5	49
14	Gary Lineker	England	5	48
15	Vaughan Coveny	New Zealand	5	29
16	Damian Mori	Australia	5	29
17	Sunil Chhetri	India	4	96
18	Romelu Lukaku	Belgium	4	94
19	Neymar	Brazil	4	80
20	Miroslav Klose	Germany	4	71

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Most multi-goal matches

Matches with two or more goals by the same player – braces, hat-tricks and beyond.

#	Player	Team	Matches	Goals
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	38	146
2	Lionel Messi	Argentina	26	125
3	Romelu Lukaku	Belgium	26	94
4	Robert Lewandowski	Poland	21	92
5	Ali Mabkhout Al-Hajeri	United Arab Emirates	21	81
6	Sunil Chhetri	India	20	96
7	Erling Håland	Norway	19	65
8	Miroslav Klose	Germany	18	71
9	Harry Kane	England	17	89
10	Aleksandar Mitrović	Serbia	16	64
11	Ronaldo	Brazil	16	62
12	Ali Daei	Iran	15	88
13	Kylian Mbappé	France	15	67
14	Dimitar Berbatov	Bulgaria	15	48
15	Neymar	Brazil	14	80
16	Edin Džeko	Bosnia & Herzegovina	14	73
17	Robbie Keane	Ireland	14	68
18	Carlos Ruíz	Guatemala	13	67
19	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	13	64
20	Stern John	Trinidad & Tobago	13	60

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The biggest hauls

Players who scored 4 or more goals in a single match, the most goals first.

#	Goals	Player	Team	Opponent	Score	Date
1	13	Archie Thompson	Australia	American Samoa	31:0	11 Apr 2001
2	10	Sophus Nielsen	Denmark	France	17:1	22 Oct 1908
3	10	Gottfried Fuchs	Germany	Russia	16:0	1 Jul 1912
4	8	David Zdrilić	Australia	American Samoa	31:0	11 Apr 2001
5	7	Abdul Ghani Minhat	Malaysia	Cambodia	9:2	17 Mar 1956
6	7	Pretin Waoute	Vanuatu	Samoa	13:1	7 Jul 1981
7	7incl. 1 penalty	Gary Cole	Australia	Fiji	10:0	14 Aug 1981
8	7	Luis 'Zague' Alves	Mexico	Martinique	9:0	11 Jul 1993
9	7	Karim Bagheri	Iran	Maldives	17:0	2 Jun 1997
10	7	Esala Masi	Fiji	Kiribati	12:0	5 Jul 2003
11	7	Siu Ki Chan	Hong Kong	Guam	15:0	7 Mar 2005
12	7	Noh Alam Shah	Singapore	Laos	11:0	15 Jan 2007
13	6	Imre Schlosser	Hungary	Switzerland	9:0	29 Oct 1911
14	6	Poul 'Tist' Nielsen	Denmark	Sweden	10:0	5 Oct 1913
15	6incl. 1 penalty	Jarl Öhman	Finland	Estonia	10:2	11 Aug 1922
16	6	Hans Krankl	Austria	Malta	9:0	30 Apr 1977
17	6	Steve Sumner	New Zealand	Fiji	13:0	16 Aug 1981
18	6	Edwin Westphal	Guatemala	Nicaragua	7:1	7 Jun 1992
19	6incl. 1 penalty	Kazuyoshi Miura	Japan	Macau	10:0	22 Jun 1997
20	6	Karim Bagheri	Iran	Guam	19:0	24 Nov 2000
21	6	John Aloisi	Australia	Tonga	22:0	9 Apr 2001
22	6	Paul Poatinda	New Caledonia	Federated States of Micronesia	18:0	1 Jul 2003
23	6	Fahed Attal	Palestine	Guam	11:0	1 Apr 2006
24	6	Osea Vakatalesau	Fiji	Tuvalu	16:0	25 Aug 2007
25	6	Teaonui Tehau	Tahiti	Kiribati	17:1	5 Sept 2011
26	6	Kévin Parsemain	Martinique	British Virgin Islands	16:0	5 Sept 2012
27	6incl. 2 penalties	Ali Ashfaq	Maldives	Sri Lanka	10:0	2 Sept 2013
28	6	Abdulaziz Al-Muqbali	Oman	Bhutan	14:0	28 Mar 2017
29	6incl. 1 penalty	Adisak Kraisorn	Thailand	East Timor	7:0	9 Nov 2018
30	5	Howard Vaughton	England	Northern Ireland	13:0	17 Feb 1882

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Fastest hat-tricks

Playing minutes between a player’s first and third goal of the match, as recorded. A hat-trick across half-time does not count the break.

#	Minutes	Player	Opponent	Score	Date
1	3 minutes1′–4′	Masashi NakayamaJapan	Brunei	9:0	16 Feb 2000
2	4 minutes3′–7′	Sophus NielsenDenmark	France	17:1	22 Oct 1908
3	4 minutes41′–45′	EvaristoBrazil	Colombia	9:0	24 Mar 1957
4	4 minutes12′–16′	Dionisio MejíaMexico	Cuba	3:2	4 Mar 1934
5	4 minutes44′–48′	Arif ErdemTurkey	Northern Ireland	3:0	4 Sept 1999
6	4 minutes40′–44′	Abdel-Hamid BassiounyEgypt	Namibia	8:2	13 Jul 2001
7	4 minutes64′–68′	Sarayoot ChaikamdeeThailand	East Timor	8:0	12 Dec 2004
8	4 minutes89′–93′	Robert LewandowskiPoland	Georgia	4:0	13 Jun 2015
9	5 minutes23′–28′	Shalendra LalFiji	American Samoa	13:0	7 Apr 2001
10	5 minutes19′–24′	Sven RydellSweden	Egypt	5:0	29 Jun 1924
11	5 minutes19′–24′	Włodzimierz LubańskiPoland	Finland	7:0	24 Oct 1965
12	5 minutes29′–34′	Tae-Se JongNorth Korea	Mongolia	7:0	19 Jun 2007
13	5 minutes81′–86′	Seule SoromonVanuatu	American Samoa	15:0	29 Aug 2007
14	5 minutes85′–90′	Juan BarreraNicaragua	Haiti	3:0	28 Mar 2017
15	6 minutes70′–76′	Poul 'Tist' NielsenDenmark	Norway	12:0	7 Oct 1917
16	6 minutes15′–21′	Herbert CarlssonSweden	Greece	9:0	28 Aug 1920
17	6 minutes3′–9′	Dollah SallehMalaysia	Laos	9:0	11 Jun 1993
18	6 minutes38′–44′	Nuno GomesPortugal	Andorra	7:1	1 Sept 2001
19	6 minutes42′–48′	Jan KollerCzechia	North Macedonia	6:1	8 Jun 2005
20	6 minutes73′–79′	Oliver BierhoffGermany	Northern Ireland	3:1	20 Aug 1997

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Early birds

Most goals in the first 5 minutes of a match.

#	Player	Team	Early goals	Goals
1	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	7	146
2	Carlos Ruíz	Guatemala	7	67
3	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	6	62
4	Toni Polster	Austria	5	47
5	Oliver Bierhoff	Germany	5	37
6	Siu Ki Chan	Hong Kong	5	36
7	Robert Lewandowski	Poland	4	92
8	Neymar	Brazil	4	80
9	Almoez Ali Abdulla	Qatar	4	59
10	Clint Dempsey	USA	4	57
11	Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina	4	55
12	Marko Arnautović	Austria	4	49
13	Michael Ballack	Germany	4	42
14	Yasser Al-Qahtani	Saudi Arabia	4	37
15	Sebastián Soria Quintana	Qatar	4	37
16	Eran Zahavi	Israel	4	35
17	Michael Olunga	Kenya	4	34
18	Alan Shearer	England	4	30
19	Damian Mori	Australia	4	29
20	Maciej Żurawski	Poland	4	17

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Most penalty goals

Penalties scored during the match – shoot-outs do not count.

#	Player	Team	Penalties	Goals
1	Harry Kane	England	26	89
2	Lionel Messi	Argentina	25	125
3	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	22	146
4	Neymar	Brazil	22	80
5	Sunil Chhetri	India	17	96
6	Robert Lewandowski	Poland	17	92
7	Sadio Mané	Senegal	17	56
8	Raúl Jiménez	Mexico	16	48
9	Ali Daei	Iran	14	88
10	Ali Mabkhout Al-Hajeri	United Arab Emirates	14	81
11	Luis Suárez	Uruguay	14	69
12	Landon Donovan	USA	14	57
13	Hristo Stoichkov	Bulgaria	14	35
14	Robbie Keane	Ireland	13	68
15	Kylian Mbappé	France	13	67
16	Akram Hassan Afif	Qatar	13	40
17	Hakim Ziyech	Morocco	13	25
18	Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	12	64
19	Memphis Depay	Netherlands	12	54
20	Davor Šuker	Croatia	12	46

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Highest share of penalties among a player’s goals, at least 20 goals.

#	Player	Team	Penalties	Goals	Penalty share
1	Mile Jedinak	Australia	11	20	55.0 %
2	Alberto García Aspe	Mexico	11	21	52.4 %
3	Hakim Ziyech	Morocco	13	25	52.0 %
4	Hristo Stoichkov	Bulgaria	14	35	40.0 %
5	Khalfan Ibrahim Al-Khalfan	Qatar	8	21	38.1 %
6	Luka Modrić	Croatia	11	30	36.7 %
7	Sergio Ramos	Spain	8	23	34.8 %
8	Lothar Matthäus	Germany	8	23	34.8 %
9	Gerson Rodrigues	Luxembourg	8	23	34.8 %
10	Raúl Jiménez	Mexico	16	48	33.3 %
11	Benjamín Galindo	Mexico	9	27	33.3 %
12	Michel	Spain	7	21	33.3 %
13	Akram Hassan Afif	Qatar	13	40	32.5 %
14	Kubilay Türkyılmaz	Switzerland	11	34	32.4 %
15	Hakan Çalhanoğlu	Turkey	7	22	31.8 %
16	Safawi Rasid	Malaysia	7	22	31.8 %
17	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	Gabon	12	39	30.8 %
18	Zoltán Gera	Hungary	8	26	30.8 %
19	Hassan Maatouk	Lebanon	8	26	30.8 %
20	Sadio Mané	Senegal	17	56	30.4 %

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Youngest and oldest hat-trick scorers

Age on the day of the match, for players with a known date of birth.

Youngest

#	Age	Player	Opponent	Goals	Score	Date
1	16 years, 194 days	József HorváthHungary	Bohemia	3	5:2	7 Apr 1907
2	17 years, 11 days	Jean KaltackVanuatu	Tuvalu	4	5:1	30 Aug 2011
3	17 years, 17 days	Jean KaltackVanuatu	American Samoa	3	8:0	5 Sept 2011
4	17 years, 44 days	Desmond Fa'aiuasoSamoa	American Samoa	4	8:0	9 Apr 2001
5	17 years, 87 days	Wálter PinoPanama	Nicaragua	3	5:0	29 Oct 1995
6	17 years, 208 days	Reggie LambeBermuda	Saint Martin	4	7:0	30 Aug 2008
7	17 years, 244 days	PeléBrazil	France	3	5:2	24 Jun 1958
8	17 years, 279 days	Bruce MusakanyaZambia	India	3	5:0	29 Nov 2011
9	17 years, 319 days	Keith FletcherGrenada	Guyana	3	6:0	7 Apr 1996
10	17 years, 324 days	Alex DavaniPapua New Guinea	Federated States of Micronesia	3	10:0	7 Jul 2003

Oldest

#	Age	Player	Opponent	Goals	Score	Date
1	38 years, 357 days	Lionel MessiArgentina	Algeria	3	3:0	16 Jun 2026
2	38 years, 322 days	Sunil ChhetriIndia	Pakistan	3	4:0	21 Jun 2023
3	38 years, 166 days	Beto GonçalvesIndonesia	Vanuatu	4	6:0	15 Jun 2019
4	38 years, 42 days	Robert LewandowskiPoland	Romania	3	6:0	2 Oct 2026
5	37 years, 113 days	Lionel MessiArgentina	Bolivia	3	6:0	15 Oct 2024
6	36 years, 357 days	Carlos RuízGuatemala	Saint Vincent & Grenadines	5	9:3	6 Sept 2016
7	36 years, 306 days	Hassan MaatoukLebanon	Bangladesh	3	4:0	11 Jun 2024
8	36 years, 249 days	Cristiano RonaldoPortugal	Luxembourg	3	5:0	12 Oct 2021
9	36 years, 182 days	Ángel LabrunaArgentina	Uruguay	3	6:1	27 Mar 1955
10	36 years, 173 days	Marko ArnautovićAustria	San Marino	4	10:0	9 Oct 2025

How it's counted

All goal events of played matches between A national teams of different countries. Own goals and penalty shoot-outs are not counted, a goal belongs to the player recorded as its scorer. Minutes are taken as recorded, counted from kick-off (stoppage time as 45+2 = 47); minute 0 means the minute is unknown. Not every match has minutes, and for old matches some goals may be missing or attributed differently in other sources. A player’s team is the one he scored most of his goals for. Hat-tricks are only timed when all of the player’s goals in the match have a plausible minute.

Most hat-tricks

Most multi-goal matches

The biggest hauls

Fastest hat-tricks

Early birds

Most penalty goals

Penalty specialists

Youngest and oldest hat-trick scorers

Youngest

Oldest

How it's counted