65 HAT TRICKS FOR CRISTIANO RONALDO !
Players with most hat-tricks in XXI century: CR7 now at 65!
Cristiano Ronaldo achieved hat-tricks in two consecutive games, vs Al Tai (5-1) on 30 March and vs Abha (8-0) on 2 April (both in Saudi league).
With this feat, he reached already 65 hat-tricks in all top level games for clubs and Portugal throughout his career, topping sovereign the ranking for players with most hat-tricks in XXI century.
The updated ranking contains the breakdowns of hat-tricks by tournament and by “size”.
The right column (6+) mean 6 or more goals in a game: 6 and 12 for Ashfaq, 7 for Bounedjah, 6 for Lloyd Williams (3 times), Suarez and Gruznov.
Active players are taken in bold.
| MOST HAT-TRICKS | XXI CENTURY | ||||||||||
| Player | Country | DL | DC | ICC | NT | HT | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6+ | |
| 1 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | 44 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 65 | 54 | 9 | 2 | |
| 2 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | 36 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 57 | 49 | 6 | 2 | |
| 3 | Ali Ashfaq | Maldives | 26 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 42 | 22 | 12 | 6 | 2 |
| 4 | Robert Lewandowski | Poland | 16 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 31 | 26 | 4 | 1 | |
| 5 | Luis Suárez | Uruguay | 24 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 31 | 22 | 8 | 1 | |
| 6 | Ali Mabkhout | UAE | 17 | 1 | 9 | 27 | 25 | 2 | |||
| 7 | Vyacheslav Zahovaiko | Estonia | 22 | 4 | 26 | 20 | 5 | 1 | |||
| 8 | Marc Lloyd Williams | Wales | 22 | 2 | 24 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 9 | Harry Kane | England | 12 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 20 | 2 | ||
| 10 | Aleksandar Đurić | Singapore | 17 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 19 | 3 | |||
| 11 | Neymar | Brazil | 12 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 15 | 5 | 1 | |
| 12 | Sebastián Tagliabúe | UAE | 13 | 6 | 2 | 21 | 19 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 13 | Abderrazak Hamdallah | Morocco | 15 | 5 | 1 | 21 | 17 | 4 | |||
| 14 | Zlatan Ibrahimović | Sweden | 12 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 16 | 4 | ||
| 15 | Erling Haaland | Norway | 12 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 16 | 2 | 2 | |
| 16 | Firas Al-Khatib | Syria | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 17 | 3 | ||
| 17 | Greg Draper | New Zealand | 17 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 3 | |||
| 18 | Kylian Mbappé | France | 9 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 2 | 1 | |
| 19 | Baghdad Bounedjah | Algeria | 14 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
| 20 | Eran Zahavi | Israel | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 16 | 2 | ||
| 21 | Sergio Agüero | Argentina | 13 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 15 | 2 | 1 | |
| 22 | Mario Gómez | Germany | 12 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 14 | 4 | ||
| 23 | Klaas-Jan Huntelaar | Netherlands | 13 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 14 | 4 | |||
| 24 | Washington | Brazil | 14 | 4 | 18 | 14 | 4 | ||||
| 25 | Omar Al Somah | Syria | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 14 | 3 | ||
| 26 | Edinson Cavani | Uruguay | 12 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 14 | 2 | ||
| 27 | Araújo | Brazil | 11 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 14 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 28 | José Alfredo Castillo | Bolivia | 14 | 1 | 15 | 13 | 2 | ||||
| 29 | Maksim Gruznov | Estonia | 12 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||
| 30 | Tarmo Neemelo | Estonia | 12 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 1 | |||
| 31 | Joe Gormley | Northern Ireland | 10 | 5 | 15 | 15 |
Tie-breakers: 1) most international hat-tricks (ICC+NT), 2) most for national team (NT), 2) most in domestic leagues (DL), 3) aggregate “size” of hat-tricks (sum of goals in consideration).