IFFHS STATISTICS - EUROPEAN NATIONAL TEAM HAT TRICKS

• Oct 14, 2021
• History Statistics

Picture : Vivian Woodward and Cristiano Ronaldo, 100 years later !

European ranking on hat-tricks for national teams

We publish the European ranking for the goal-scorers which made most hat-tricks for their national teams. Cristiano Ronaldo is now on top of this ranking (after the hat-trick vs Luxembourg on 12 October), alongside with Vivian Woodward. Both share the European record (which is also the World record) with 10 hat-tricks each.
Woodward is ranked first due to tie-break criteria, number of caps. In the case of equal number of hat-tricks, a player with fewer caps is placed higher.

	PLAYERS WITH MOST	HAT-TRICKS FOR
	EUROPEAN NATIONAL	TEAMS
	Player	National team	Career	Hat-tricks	Goals				Caps
					3	4	5	6
1	Vivian Woodward	England, England Amateurs	1903 - 1914	10	5	4		1	53
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	2003 -	10	8	2			182
3	Sven Rydell	Sweden	1923 - 1932	9	7	2			43
4	Poul "Tist" Nielsen	Denmark	1910 - 1925	8	4	2	1	1	38
5	Gerd Müller	Germany	1966 - 1974	8	4	4			62
6	Sándor Kocsis	Hungary	1948 - 1956	7	6	1			68
7	Jimmy Greaves	England	1959 - 1967	6	4	2			57
8	Robert Lewandowski	Poland	2008 -	6	5	1			127
9	Just Fontaine	France	1953 - 1960	5	4	1			21
10	Richard Hofmann	Germany	1927 - 1933	5	5				25
11	Edmund Conen	Germany	1934 - 1942	5	3	2			28
12	Gunnar Nordahl	Sweden	1942 - 1948	5	1	3	1		33
13	Josef Bican	Austria, Czechoslovakia	1933 - 1949	5	4	1			35
14	Jørgen Juve	Norway	1928 - 1937	5	5				45
15	Imre Schlosser	Hungary	1906 - 1927	5	3		1	1	68
16	Włodzimierz Lubański	Poland	1963 - 1980	5	3	1	1		75
17	Gary Lineker	England	1984 - 1992	5	3	2			80
18	Ferenc Puskás	Hungary, Spain	1945 - 1962	5	4	1			89