IFFHS EURO STATISTICS 20 - THE BEST ONE MATCH GOAL SCORERS
Picture : Marco Van Basten was crowned as THE WORLD'S BEST PLAYER in 1988 and 1989 by IFFHS.
Best one-match goal-scorers (including qualification)
In the history of European championships, including qualifying and final tournaments, there are 19 cases when a player scored 4 goals in a game, and 3 cases when a player scored 5.
Authors of “penta-tricks” are Malcolm Macdonald (1975) (picture up), Tibor Nyilasi (1975) (picture down) and Marco van Basten (1990).
Another “penta-trick” made by the Dutchman John Bosman in the qualifying match of Euro 1988 vs Cyprus (8:0) is not taken into account. This match was canceled, and the goal-scorer’s achievement, too, unfortunately.
Artem Dzyuba (Russia) is the only player so far to score 4 goals twice.
Two Spaniards Hipolito Rincon and Santillana made a “poker” in the same match (vs Malta, 1983).
Rincon scored all 4 his goals in one half-time (second). Later, the same made Robert Lewandowski (2014, vs Gibraltar).
| BEST ONE-MATCH | GOAL-SCORERS | (INCLUDING | QUALIFICATION) | ||
| Player | Country | Goals | Rival (score) | Date | |
| 1 | Malcolm Macdonald | England | 5 | Cyprus (5:0) | 16/04/1975 |
| 2 | Tibor Nyilasi | Hungary | 5 | Luxembourg (8:1) | 19/10/1975 |
| 3 | Marco van Basten | Netherlands | 5 | Malta (8:0) | 19/12/1990 |
| 4 | Alberto Orlando | Italy | 4 | Turkey (6:0) | 02/12/1962 |
| 5 | Gerd Müller | Germany | 4 | Albania (6:0) | 08/04/1967 |
| 6 | Hans-Jürgen Kreische | East Germany | 4 | Luxembourg (5:0) | 15/11/1970 |
| 7 | Don Givens | Republic of Ireland | 4 | Turkey (4:0) | 29/10/1975 |
| 8 | Ian Edwards | Wales | 4 | Malta (7:0) | 25/10/1978 |
| 9 | Santillana | Spain | 4 | Malta (12:1) | 21/12/1983 |
| 10 | Hipólito Rincón | Spain | 4 | Malta (12:1) | 21/12/1983 |
| 11 | Emilio Butragueño | Spain | 4 | Albania (9:0) | 19/12/1990 |
| 12 | Mika-Matti Paatelainen | Finland | 4 | San Marino (4:1) | 14/12/1994 |
| 13 | Raúl | Spain | 4 | Austria (9:0) | 27/03/1999 |
| 14 | Elvir Baljić | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 4 | Estonia (4:1) | 09/10/1999 |
| 15 | Lukas Podolski | Germany | 4 | San Marino (13:0) | 06/09/2006 |
| 16 | Mladen Petrić | Croatia | 4 | Andorra (7:0) | 07/10/2006 |
| 17 | Hakan Şükür | Turkey | 4 | Moldova (5:0) | 11/10/2006 |
| 18 | Robin van Persie | Netherlands | 4 | San Marino (11:0) | 02/09/2011 |
| 19 | Robert Lewandowski | Poland | 4 | Gibraltar (7:0) | 07/09/2014 |
| 20 | Artem Dzyuba | Russia | 4 | Liechtenstein (7:0) | 08/09/2015 |
| 21 | Artem Dzyuba | Russia | 4 | San Marino (9:0) | 08/06/2019 |
| 22 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | 4 | Lithuania (5:1) | 10/09/2019 |