MOST NATIONAL TEAM HAT-TRICKS
Picture : Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi always in all time rankings !
Players with most national team hat-tricks for each confederation
We publish the list of players holding the record on most hat-tricks scored in the national team games for each of 6 confederations separately.
In the case of UEFA, this record is shared by 2 players (Woodward and Cristiano Ronaldo), in the case of CONCACAF even by 4.
Lionel Messi has scored his 9th hat-trick for Argentina in a March friendly increasing thus his record for CONMEBOL.
On the right side of the table, a breakdown of hat-tricks by “size”.
Active players are taken in bold.
| PLAYERS WITH | MOST HAT-TRICKS | FOR NATIONAL | TEAMS | ||||||
| IN EACH | CONFEDERATION | ||||||||
| Confederation | Player | Team(s) | Career | Hat-tricks | Goals | ||||
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |||||
| UEFA | Vivian Woodward | England, England Am. | 1903-1914 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||
| Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | 2003- | 10 | 8 | 2 | ||||
| AFC | Ali Mabkhout | UAE | 2009- | 9 | 8 | 1 | |||
| CONMEBOL | Lionel Messi | Argentina | 2005- | 9 | 8 | 1 | |||
| CAF | Mohammed Ali Al-Biski | Libya | 1961-1970 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
| OFC | Vaughan Coveny | New Zealand | 1992-2006 | 5 | 4 | 1 | |||
| CONCACAF | Emmanuel Sanon | Haiti | 1970-1981 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Carlos Alberto Pavón | Honduras | 1993-2010 | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Ricky Charles | Grenada | 1995-2011 | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Carlos Ruiz | Guatemala | 1998-2016 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |