IFFHS STATISTICS - COPA LIBERTADORES ALL TIME BEST ONE MATCH SCORERS
Picture : Julian Alvarez is the new recordholder !
Copa Libertadores all-time best one-match scorers
As we reported, River Plate striker Julián Álvarez established on 25 May the new club record on goal scored in the same game – 6 (in the Copa Libertadores game vs Alianza Lima).
He became also the joint record holder of the competition along with his compatriot Juan Carlos Sánchez (who has scored 6 goals in 1985 playing for Bolivian Blooming) and with the Brazilian Fernando Baiano.
The latter has scored 6 goals in 1999 game for Corinthians against Paraguayan Cerro Porteño (8-2). Official CONMEBOL data gives Baiano only 5 goals but the 5-0 goal attributed to Índio was actually also Baiano’s (the error is clearly seen on video report of that game).
Now we publish the list of forwards who managed to score 5+ goals in a Copa Libertadores game since its creation in 1960. It includes 8 players; more than half of them (5) are Argentines, plus 2 from Ecuador (including the tournament’s all-time best goal-scorer Alberto Spencer) and 1 from Brazil.
Enrique Raymondi, another Ecuadorian, has scored all 5 his goals for Emelec in 1962 in the time frame of 38 minutes: it’s fastest one among all the penta-tricks. Julián Álvarez scored first 5 of his 6 goals within 42 minutes (from 15th to 57th) adding then the last on 83rd.
| COPA LIBERADORES | BEST | ONE-MATCH | GOAL | SCORERS | |
| Player | Country | Goals | Club | Date | Game |
| Juan Carlos Sánchez | Argentina | 6 | Blooming (Bolivia) | 07.04.1985 | Deportivo Italia (Venezuela) 8-0 |
| Fernando Baiano | Brazil | 6 | Corinthians | 10.03.1999 | Cerro Porteño (Paraguay) 8-2 |
| Julián Álvarez | Argentina | 6 | River Plate | 25.05.2022 | Alianza Lima (Peru) 8-1 |
| Enrique Raymondi | Ecuador | 5 | Emelec | 22.02.1962 | Universidad Católica (Chile) 7-2 |
| Alberto Spencer | Ecuador | 5 | Peñarol (Uruguay) | 07.07.1963 | Everest (Ecuador) 9-1 |
| Raúl Castronovo | Argentina | 5 | Peñarol (Uruguay) | 22.03.1971 | The Strongest (Bolivia) 9-0 |
| Alfredo "Chango" Moreno | Argentina | 5 | Boca Juniors | 23.03.2000 | Blooming (Bolivia) 6-1 |
| Ignacio Scocco | Argentina | 5 | River Plate | 21/09/2017 | Jorge Wilstermann (Bolivia) 8-0 |