IFFHS NEWS - NEW RECORDS FOR CRISTIANO RONALDO
Picture : Cristiano Ronaldo scored again 3 goals yesterday to break more records !
Hat-tricks and penalties: next records from Cristiano Ronaldo!
In the WC 2022 qualifier vs Luxembourg (5-0), Cristiano Ronaldo has achieved few more records.
*He has scored the 58th hat-trick of his professional career and his 10th for Portugal. He is now a joint world record holder with Vivian Woodward who also made 10 hat-tricks for England and England Amateurs (two parallel national teams once existing in the homeland of football). Sven Rydell (Sweden) and Ali Mabkhout (UAE) with 9 hat-tricks are behind.
*Cristiano Ronaldo is now 2nd in the all-time ranking of World Cup qualification scorers with 36 goals. He concedes only to Carlos Ruiz (Guatemala, 39) and has surpassed Ali Daei (Iran, 35).
*CR7 has scored the most goals (9) at the national team level just against Luxembourg - 9 goals. Lithuania and Sweden conceded 7 goals each from him, Andorra and Hungary 6 goals each.
*He is the first player in the history of World Cup qualification to score 2 penalty goals so early, in the first 11 minutes. The closest case was 2 penalty goals from Widlin Calixte in the first 14 minutes (for Turks y Caicos vs Saint Kitts and Nevis, 26 March 2015).
| CRISTIANO RONALDO | ||||
| HAT-TRICKS FOR PORTUGAL | ||||
| Game | Date | Tourn. | Goals | |
| 1 | Northern Ireland (4-2) | 06/09/2013 | WCQ | 3 |
| 2 | Sweden (3-2) | 19/11/2013 | WCQ | 3 |
| 3 | Armenia (3-2) | 13/06/2015 | ECQ | 3 |
| 4 | Andorra (6-0) | 07/10/2016 | WCQ | 4 |
| 5 | Faroe Islands (5-1) | 31/08/2017 | WCQ | 3 |
| 6 | Spain (3-3) | 15/06/2018 | WC | 3 |
| 7 | Switzerland (3-1) | 05/06/2019 | NL | 3 |
| 8 | Lithuania (5-1) | 10/09/2019 | ECQ | 4 |
| 9 | Lithuania (6-0) | 14/11/2019 | ECQ | 3 |
| 10 | Luxembourg (5-0) | 12/10/2021 | WCQ | 3 |