IFFHS EURO STATISTICS 37 - MOST HAT TRICKS
Picture : Marco Van Basten scored hat tricks in two Euros 1988 and 1992 for Netherlands.
Team with most hat-tricks (including qualification): Netherlands
Throughout the history of the European Championships, there have been 137 hat-tricks (including qualifying and final tournaments).
The very first hat-trick was made by Just Fontaine (France) on December 13, 1959 in the qualifying match against Austria (5:2).
Netherlands has the largest number of hat-tricks (12).
Dutch players have scored hat-tricks in 5 consecutive Euro editions (from 1988 to 2004). Later, this achievement was repeated by Russia (from 2004 to 2020, the series can be continued).
The fastest hat-trick was scored by Arif Erdem (Turkey), in 4 minutes (from 44th to 48th) in the match against Northern Ireland (3:0, qualifier for Euro 2000).
Robbie Keane (Republic of Ireland) scored the earliest hat-trick, to the 18th minute, in the Euro 2016 qualifier against Gibraltar (7:0).
Defender's only hat-trick so far: Cosmin Contra (Romania), in Euro 2004 qualifier against Luxembourg (7:0).
Janusz Żmijewski (Poland) scored a hat-trick in his only European championship match, against Belgium (4:2) on October 8, 1967. At the same time, it was the very first in the history of Euro hat-trick in an away match.
| ALL HAT-TRICKS | ||||||||
| Country | HT | Stage | HT | |||||
| 5 | 4 | 3 | Qual | Fin | Total | |||
| 1 | Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 12 | Cruyff 72, Van der Kuijlen 76, Rensenbrink 76, Bosman 88, Van Basten 88, 92++, Overmars 96, |
| Kluivert 00, Van Nistelrooy 04, Huntelaar 12, Van Persie 12+, Wijnaldum 20 | ||||||||
| 2 | Spain | 4 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 11 | Guillot 64, Santillana 84+, Rincón 84+, Bakero 88, Butragueño 92+, Raúl 00+,00, Luis Enrique 00, | |
| Urzaiz 00, Guerrero 00, Villa 08 | ||||||||
| 3 | England | 1 | 8 | 9 | 9 | Macdonald 76++, Blissett 84, Lineker 88, Scholes 00, Shearer 00, Defoe 12, Sterling 20, Kane 20,20 | ||
| 4 | Germany | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 8 | G.Müller 68+, D.Müller 76, K.Allofs 80, Bierhoff 00, Ziege 00, Podolski 08+, Schürrle 16, Gnabry 20 | |
| 5 | Portugal | 1 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 7 | Alves 96, Sá Pinto 00, João Pinto 00, Sérgio Conceição 00, Cristiano Ronaldo 16,20+,20 | |
| 6 | Hungary | 1 | 5 | 6 | 6 | Farkas 68, Nyilasi 76++, Póczik 84, V. Sebők 00, Gera 04, Szalai 12 | ||
| 7 | Poland | 1 | 5 | 6 | 6 | Żmijewski 68, Lubański 72, E.Smolarek 08, Lewandowski 16+,16,20 | ||
| 8 | Russia | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | Bulykin 04, Kerzhakov 08, Pavlyuchenko 12, Dzyuba 16+,20+ | ||
| 9 | Republic of Ireland | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | Givens 76, 76+, Aldridge 92, Robbie Keane 08,16 | ||
| 10 | Israel | 5 | 5 | 5 | Benayoun 00,12, Damari 16, Zahavi 20,20 | |||
| 11 | France | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Fontaine 60, Loubet 68, Platini 84,84 | ||
| 12 | East Germany | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Frenzel 68, Kreische 72+, Hoffmann 80, Thom 88 | ||
| Italy | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | Orlando 64+, Riva 68, Zola 96, F.Inzaghi 04 | |||
| 14 | Denmark | 4 | 4 | 4 | O. Madsen 64,64, Elkjær 80, M.Laudrup 84 | |||
| Romania | 4 | 4 | 4 | Frățilă 68, Dumitriu 68, A.Ilie 00, Contra 04 | ||||
| Northern Ireland | 4 | 4 | 4 | Best 72, Clarke 92, Healy 08,08 | ||||
| Austria | 4 | 4 | 4 | Parits 72, Polster 96, Stöger 96, Vastić 00 | ||||
| 18 | Croatia | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Šuker 96, Petrić 08+, Eduardo 08 | ||
| 19 | Belgium | 3 | 3 | 3 | Stockman 68, Claesen 88,88 | |||
| Yugoslavia | 3 | 3 | 3 | Zl.Vujović 88, Pančev 92,92 | ||||
| Greece | 3 | 3 | 3 | Sideris 68, Mavros 80, Gekas 08 | ||||
| Scotland | 3 | 3 | 3 | S. Fletcher 16,16, McGinn 20 | ||||
| 23 | Turkey | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | Arif 00, Hakan Şükür 08+ | ||
| Finland | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | Paatelainen 96+, Forssell 12 | |||
| Bosnia-Herzegovina | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | Baljić 00+, Džeko 16 | |||
| 26 | Czech Republic | 2 | 2 | 2 | Panenka 76, Siegl 96 | |||
| Switzerland | 2 | 2 | 2 | Bregy 88, Shaqiri 12 | ||||
| Sweden | 2 | 2 | 2 | Jonson 04, Ibrahimović 12 | ||||
| Cyprus | 2 | 2 | 2 | Efrem 16, Mitidis 16 | ||||
| 30 | Wales | 1 | 1 | 1 | Edwards 80+ | |||
| 31 | Faroe Islands | 1 | 1 | 1 | T.Jónsson 96 | |||
| Lithuania | 1 | 1 | 1 | Ivanauskas 00 | ||||
| Georgia | 1 | 1 | 1 | S.Arveladze 08 | ||||
| Slovenia | 1 | 1 | 1 | Matavž 12 | ||||
| Ukraine | 1 | 1 | 1 | Yarmolenko 16 |