HAT TRICKS IN MAJOR TOURNAMENTS
Hat-tricks in major tournaments
*Akram Afif (Qatar) became yesterday the first player to score a hat-trick in an Asian Cup final.
This has already happened in similar competitions of three other confederations; only UEFA and CONCACAF are still waiting for their heroes.
Strictly speaking, the 1949 Copa America match Brazil - Paraguay (7-0), in which Ademir scored 3 goals, was a final in fact, but not nominally (it was a playoff in case of equality of points between two teams).
The 1996 Oceania Cup final consisted of 2 matches, and Australian Kris Trajanovski scored hat-tricks in both.
*Another Akram Afif’s achievement: he became the first player to score 3 penalty goals in the same match in any continental championship for senior teams.
But this has already happened in the World Cup qualification: Ronaldo scored a penalty hat-trick in the game Brazil vs Argentina (3-0) on 2 June 2004.
| HAT-TRICKS IN | FINAL GAMES | OF | WORLD CUP | AND | ||
| CONFEDERATION | CHAMPION | SHIPS | ||||
| Scorer | Team | Goals | Game | Date | Tournament | |
| 1 | Ademir | Brazil | 3 | Paraguay 7-0 | 11.05.1949 | Copa America |
| 2 | Ad-Diba | Egypt | 4 | Ethiopia 4-0 | 16.02.1957 | African Cup of Nations |
| 3 | Geoff Hurst | England | 3 | Germany 4-2 | 30.07.1966 | World Cup |
| 4 | Kris Trajanovski | Australia | 4 | Tahiti 6-0 | 27.10.1996 | Oceanian Nations Cup |
| 5 | Kris Trajanovski | Australia | 3 | Tahiti 5-0 | 01.11.1996 | Oceanian Nations Cup |
| 6 | Kylian Mbappé | France | 3 | Argentina 3-3 | 18.12.2022 | World Cup |
| 7 | Akram Afif | Qatar | 3 | Jordan 3-1 | 10.02.2024 | Asian Cup |