Football Players With Most Hat-Tricks In Professional Career

Scoring a hat-trick in football is no easy task. While even the giants of the sport go goalless in several games, making a hat-trick is considered a milestone. Let us have a look at football players with the most hat-tricks in their professional career. 

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Most Hat-Tricks In Football History: Scoring a hat-trick in football is no easy task. While even the giants of the sport go goalless in several games, making a hat-trick is considered a milestone.

However, there have been players in the history of football who have time and again shown their sheer brilliance to score hat-tricks on many occasions.

Let us have a look at football players with the most hat-tricks in their professional career. 

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Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)- 66

Cristiano Ronaldo tops the list with most hat-tricks at 66. He scored the majority of those for Spanish giant Real Madrid. The central striker is also the top goalscorer of all time. He is still scoring like a goal-machine for his current club Al Nassr and it wouldn’t be a surprise if his figure goes on to rise.

Football Players With Most Hat-Tricks In Professional Career

Lionel Messi (Argentina)- 57

Lionel Messi has 57 hat-tricks to his name to be the second player with most hat-tricks in a professional career. The eight-time Ballon d’Or winner has had an incredible football career making him one of the most decorated players in the history of the sport.

Ali Ashfaq (Maldives)-35

Ali Ashfaq played most of his games in the Maldives, his home country. In a career spanning over two decades, he has played for a total of 13 clubs during his career, scoring more goals than the number of appearances he had made at seven of those teams.

Ashfaq netted 58 times in 98 games for the Maldives.He is currently playing for Club Eagles in his home country. He is the third in the list of players with most hat-tricks. 

Robert Lewandowski (Poland)- 32

Robert Lewandowski has the joint-most Bundesliga hat-tricks in a single season with five, the same number as Mario Gomez. The Polish forward has netted a hat-trick for three different clubs in the history of Champions League with trebles coming for Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich and Barcelona. He has also scored six hat-tricks for his national team.

Football Players With Most Hat-Tricks In Professional Career

Luis Suarez (Uruguay)– 30

Luis Suarez boasts of 30 hat-tricks over the course of his career. He has had wonderful careers in Ajax, Liverpool and Barcelona where he scored so many goals. After retiring from his national team, Suarez is still playing for in the MLS with Inter Miami and could add more hat-tricks to his tally.

Footballers with the most hat-tricks since 2000
Rank Player Number of Hat-tricks Total Appearances (Club and Country)
1 Cristiano Ronaldo 66 1234
2 Lionel Messi 57 1097
3 Ali Ashfaq 35 617
4 Robert Lewandowski 32 934
5 Luis Suarez 30 944
6 Ali Mabkhout 27 464
7 Vyacheslav Zahovaiko 26 409
8 Erling Haaland 24 325
9 Marc Lloyd Williams 24 576
10 Harry Kane 24 653
11 Aleksandar Duric 22 653
12 Abderrazak Hamdallah 21 379
13 Sebastian Tagliabue 21 420
14 Neymar 21 632
15 Greg Draper 20 371
16 Firas Al-Khatib 20 507
17 Zlatan Ibrahimovic 20 949
18 Kylian Mbappe 19 465
19 Mario Gomez 18 686
20 Klaas-Jan Huntelaar 18 736
21 Sergio Aguero 18 786

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