KINGS OF HAT-TRICKS
Picture : they are the Football Kings, not only for hat-tricks, of the last 15 years !
“Kings of Hat-Tricks” in XXI century year-wise
Here we publish the list of players to score most hat-tricks for each year of the current century separately. All top-level games worldwide are taken in consideration.
Two players won the title “king of hat-tricks” more than once: of course, Lionel Messi (4 times, in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2018) and Cristiano Ronaldo (3 times, in 2011, 2015 and 2016).
In the cases of equal number of hat-tricks overall, the following tie-breakers are used: 1) hat-tricks in international games (ICC+NT), 2) in national team (NT), 3) in national league (NL), 4) number of total goals scored in the hat-trick games, 5) strength of the league (according IFFHS league ranking).
The right columns indicate the “size” of hat-tricks: number of games with 3, 4, 5 and 6 goals.
| PLAYERS WITH | MOST | HAT-TRICKS | ||||||||||
| YEAR-WISE | IN | XXI CENTURY | ||||||||||
| Year | Player | Country | Club | HT | Total | Goals | ||||||
| NL | NC | ICC | NT | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||
| 2001 | José Alfredo Castillo | Bolivia | Oriente Petrolero | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | |||||
| 2002 | Arman Karamyan | Armenia | Pyunik | 8 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2003 | Ara Hakobyan | Armenia | Banants | 9 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 2004 | Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko | Estonia | Flora | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | |||||
| 2005 | Tarmo Neemelo | Estonia | TVMK | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | |||||
| 2006 | Humberto Suazo | Chile | Colo-Colo | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| 2007 | Aleksandar Đurić | Singapore | Singapore Armed Forces | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| 2008 | Rico | Brazil | Muharraq (Bahrain) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2009 | Luis Suárez | Uruguay | Ajax (Netherlands) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 2010 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | Barcelona (Spain) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | |||
| 2011 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | Real Madrid (Spain) | 9 | 9 | 8 | 1 | |||||
| 2012 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | Barcelona (Spain) | 6 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 2013 | Ali Ashfaq | Maldives | New Radiant | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
| 2014 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | Barcelona (Spain) | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | |||||
| 2015 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | Real Madrid (Spain) | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 2016 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | Real Madrid (Spain) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | |||
| 2017 | Harry Kane | England | Tottenham | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 1 | |||
| 2018 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | Barcelona (Spain) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | ||||
| 2019 | Abderrazak Hamdallah | Morocco | Al Nassr (Saudi Arabia) | 4 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 3 | ||||
| 2020 | Ramiro Rocca | Argentina | Municipal (Guatemala) | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| 2021 | Ali Mabkhout | UAE | Al-Jazira | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | |||||
| 2022 | Kylian Mbappé | France | PSG | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 |