THE MONTH OF MIKA BIERETH
Mika Biereth’s fantastic February
Mika Biereth became a revelation of the month in European football in February.
The London-born Dane, aged 22, joined Monaco from Sturm Graz in the winter transfer window and scored for his new team 3 hat-tricks in 3 consecutive home league matches.
Biereth is first player from a French club to score 3 hat-tricks (in any top-level games) within a month in XXI century, and the 3rd to do so among players from top 5 European leagues, along with Cristiano Ronaldo (May 2015) and Karim Benzema (April 2023).
Overall, there are now 12 such occasions in world football in the current century; they are listed below with details.
Some other achievements of Biereth:
*He is the first player to score 10 goals in his first 7 Ligue 1 matches over the last 70 years. He surpassed Zlatan Ibrahimovic who scored 9 goals in his first 7 games after joining PSG in 2012.
*He became the first Monaco player to score 3 hat-tricks during a season in Ligue 1 since Delio Onnis in 1975-76.
*He became the 3rd player to score in each of his first 4 appearances at the Stade Louis II with Monaco in Ligue 1 in the XXI century after Oliver Bierhoff in 2001 and Wissam Ben Yedder in 2019.
| MOST HAT-TRICKS IN A | CALENDAR | MONTH IN XXI CENTURY | |||
| Player/Club/Nation | Date | Game | Comp. | Goals | |
| 1 | Arman Karamyan | 12/09/2002 | Dinamo-2000 5-0 | NL | 3 |
| Pyunik | 17/09/2002 | Lori 13-2 | NL | 6 | |
| Armenia | 24/09/2002 | Zvartnots 5-3 | NL | 3 | |
| 2 | Ara Hakobyan | 04/10/2003 | Kotayk 6-0 | NL | 3 |
| Banants | 14/10/2003 | Lernagorts 4-1 | NL | 3 | |
| Armenia | 27/10/2003 | Dinamo-2000 5-0 | NL | 3 | |
| 3 | Vitali Leitan | 02/07/2011 | Ajax Lasnamäe 4-1 | NL | 3 |
| Levadia | 27/07/2011 | Lootus 8-0 | NC | 4 | |
| Estonia | 30/07/2011 | Tammeka 4-0 | NL | 3 | |
| 4 | Aleksandrs Čekulajevs | 13/09/2011 | Viljandi 5-0 | NL | 3 |
| Trans (Estonia) | 24/09/2011 | Nõmme Kalju 3-2 | NL | 3 | |
| Latvia | 27/09/2011 | Ajax Lasnamäe 12-0 | NL | 5 | |
| 5 | Cristiano Ronaldo | 02/05/2015 | Sevilla 3-2 | NL | 3 |
| Real Madrid (Spain) | 17/05/2015 | Espanyol 4-1 | NL | 3 | |
| Portugal | 23/05/2015 | Getafe 7-3 | NL | 3 | |
| 6 | Abderrazak Hamdallah | 03/01/2019 | Al-Jndal 6-0 | NC | 3 |
| Al Nassr (Saudi Arabia) | 15/01/2019 | Al-Ansar 5-0 | NC | 4 | |
| Morocco | 21/01/2019 | Al Feiha 6-0 | NC | 4 | |
| 7 | Michael Olunga | 07/09/2022 | Qatar SC 3-0 | NL | 3 |
| Al-Duhail (Qatar) | 20/09/2022 | Al-Markhiya 8-3 | DC | 3 | |
| Kenya | 26/09/2022 | Al-Arabi 3-2 | DC | 3 | |
| 8 | Karim Benzema | 02/04/2023 | Valladolid 6-0 | NL | 3 |
| Real Madrid (Spain) | 05/04/2023 | Barcelona 4-0 | NC | 3 | |
| France | 29/04/2023 | Almeria 4-2 | NL | 3 | |
| 9 | Martín Cauteruccio | 16/02/2024 | Los Chankas 4-1 | NL | 3 |
| Sporting Cristal (Peru) | 25/02/2024 | Carlos Mannucci 4-0 | NL | 3 | |
| Uruguay | 28/02/2024 | Always Ready 3-1 | CL | 3 | |
| 10 | Garbhan Coughlan | 06/04/2024 | Twenty 11 12-0 | NL | 6 |
| Cashmere Technical (NZ) | 20/04/2024 | Selwyn United 4-2 | NL | 4 | |
| Republic of Ireland | 28/04/2024 | Nelson Suburbs 6-1 | NL | 3 | |
| 11 | Viktor Gyökeres | 01/11/2024 | Estrela 5-1 | NL | 4 |
| Sporting (Portugal) | 05/11/2024 | Manchester City 4-1 | CL | 3 | |
| Sweden | 19/11/2024 | Azerbaijan 6-0 | UNL | 4 | |
| 12 | Mika Biereth | 01/02/2025 | Auxerre 4-2 | NL | 3 |
| Monaco (France) | 15/02/2025 | Nantes 7-1 | NL | 3 | |
| Denmark | 28/02/2025 | Reims 3-0 | NL | 3 |