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.
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.
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.
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.
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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