Jamie Maclaren scored a record eight A-League Men hat-tricks: for Perth Glory (1), Brisbane Roar (2), and Melbourne City (5).

The A-League Men is the top and only professional soccer league in Australia. Since its inaugural season in 2005–06, more than thirty individual players have scored hat-tricks in A-League Men matches, including five players who have scored four or more goals in a match.

Statistics

Hat-tricks

Archie Thompson scored five goals in the 2007 A-League Grand Final.
Sergio van Dijk became the first non-Australian player in the A-League Men to score a hat-trick in January 2009.
Henrique became the first player in the A-League Men to score a hat-trick as a substitute in November 2014.
Key
4 Player scored four goals
5 Player scored five goals
† Player scored hat-trick as a substitute
* The home team
Player[a] Nationality[b] For Against Result[c] Date Ref
Ante Milicic Australia Australia Newcastle Jets New Zealand Knights* 2–4 4 November 2005 [1]
Sasho Petrovski  Australia Sydney FC Central Coast Mariners* 1–5 5 November 2005 [9]
Damian Mori  Australia Perth Glory Adelaide United* 2–4 6 November 2005 [10]
Jamie Harnwell  Australia Perth Glory* New Zealand Knights 4–1 26 November 2006 [11]
Nathan Burns  Australia Adelaide United Central Coast Mariners* 1–3 21 January 2007 [12]
Archie Thompson5  Australia Melbourne Victory* Adelaide United 6–0 18 February 2007 [3]
Billy Celeski  Australia Perth Glory Sydney FC* 2–4 15 December 2007 [13]
Matt Thompson  Australia Newcastle Jets* Melbourne Victory 4–2 19 December 2008 [14]
Sergio van Dijk  Netherlands Queensland Roar* Sydney FC 3–1 17 January 2009 [15]
Shane Smeltz4  New Zealand Gold Coast United* North Queensland Fury 5–0 15 August 2009 [16]
Shane Smeltz  New Zealand Gold Coast United* Brisbane Roar 5–1 26 December 2009 [17]
Robbie Kruse  Australia Melbourne Victory* Perth Glory 6–2 16 January 2010 [18]
Robbie Fowler  England Perth Glory* Melbourne Victory 3–1 14 November 2010 [19]
Sergio van Dijk[d]  Netherlands Adelaide United* North Queensland Fury 8–1 21 January 2011 [4]
Marcos Flores  Argentina Adelaide United* North Queensland Fury 8–1 21 January 2011
Bruce Djite  Australia Gold Coast United* Newcastle Jets 5–1 22 January 2011 [21]
Besart Berisha4  Albania Brisbane Roar* Adelaide United 7–1 28 October 2011 [8]
Shane Smeltz4  New Zealand Perth Glory* Melbourne Victory 4–2 24 March 2012 [22]
Shane Smeltz  New Zealand Perth Glory* Melbourne Heart 3–0 1 April 2012 [6]
Daniel McBreen  Australia Central Coast Mariners* Sydney FC 7–2 3 November 2012 [23]
Mark Bridge  Australia Western Sydney Wanderers* Adelaide United 6–1 21 December 2012 [24]
Alessandro Del Piero4  Italy Sydney FC* Wellington Phoenix 7–1 19 January 2013 [25]
Michael McGlinchey  New Zealand Central Coast Mariners* Melbourne Victory 6–2 23 February 2013 [26]
Adam Taggart  Australia Newcastle Jets* Melbourne Heart 3–1 24 November 2013 [27]
Dimitri Petratos  Australia Brisbane Roar Sydney FC* 2–5 26 December 2013 [28]
David Williams  Australia Melbourne Heart Wellington Phoenix* 0–5 16 February 2014 [29]
Sergio Cirio  Spain Adelaide United Melbourne Victory* 4–3 22 February 2014 [30]
Andy Keogh  Ireland Perth Glory* Brisbane Roar 3–2 19 October 2014 [31]
Besart Berisha  Albania Melbourne Victory* Melbourne City 5–2 25 October 2014 [32]
Henrique†  Brazil Brisbane Roar Newcastle Jets* 0–4 14 November 2014 [7]
Nathan Burns  Australia Wellington Phoenix* Melbourne City 5–1 30 November 2014 [33]
Archie Thompson  Australia Melbourne Victory* Sydney FC 3–3 13 December 2014 [34]
Robert Koren  Slovenia Melbourne City Newcastle Jets* 2–5 30 December 2014 [35]
Marc Janko  Austria Sydney FC* Brisbane Roar 5–4 15 March 2015 [36]
Steven Lustica  Australia Brisbane Roar* Central Coast Mariners 6–1 2 April 2015 [37]
Jamie Maclaren  Australia Perth Glory* Melbourne City 3–1 19 April 2015 [38]
Blake Powell4  Australia Wellington Phoenix Western Sydney Wanderers* 2–5 14 February 2016 [39]
Bruno Fornaroli  Uruguay Melbourne City* Sydney FC 3–0 5 March 2016 [40]
Jamie Maclaren  Australia Brisbane Roar* Melbourne Victory 5–0 12 March 2016 [41]
Romeo Castelen  Netherlands Western Sydney Wanderers* Brisbane Roar 5–4 25 April 2016 [42]
Andy Keogh  Ireland Perth Glory Melbourne City* 2–3 21 October 2016 [43]
Besart Berisha  Albania Melbourne Victory* Wellington Phoenix 6–1 31 October 2016 [44]
Besart Berisha  Albania Melbourne Victory Western Sydney Wanderers* 0–3 10 December 2016 [45]
Brendon Santalab  Australia Western Sydney Wanderers* Melbourne City 3–1 24 March 2017 [46]
Jamie Maclaren  Australia Brisbane Roar* Central Coast Mariners 5–1 2 April 2017 [47]
Roy O'Donovan  Ireland Newcastle Jets Central Coast Mariners* 1–5 7 October 2017 [48]
Bobô  Brazil Sydney FC Wellington Phoenix* 1–4 23 December 2017 [49]
Bobô  Brazil Sydney FC* Perth Glory 6–0 30 December 2017 [50]
Besart Berisha  Kosovo Melbourne Victory* Central Coast Mariners 5–2 18 March 2018 [51]
Riley McGree  Australia Newcastle Jets Central Coast Mariners* 2–8 14 April 2018 [52]
Alex Brosque  Australia Sydney FC* Central Coast Mariners 5–2 4 January 2019 [53]
Kosta Barbarouses  New Zealand Melbourne Victory Brisbane Roar* 0–5 15 January 2019 [54]
David Williams  Australia Wellington Phoenix* Newcastle Jets 4–1 31 March 2019 [55]
Roy Krishna  Fiji Wellington Phoenix* Melbourne City 3–2 21 April 2019 [56]
Jamie Maclaren  Australia Melbourne City Brisbane Roar* 4–3 17 November 2019 [5]
Roy O'Donovan  Ireland Brisbane Roar* Melbourne City 4–3 17 November 2019
Adam Le Fondre  England Sydney FC* Brisbane Roar 5–1 7 December 2019 [57]
Max Burgess  Australia Western United* Central Coast Mariners 6–2 1 March 2020 [58]
Jamie Maclaren  Australia Melbourne City Central Coast Mariners* 2–4 20 March 2020 [59]
Matt Derbyshire  England Macarthur FC* Adelaide United 4–0 12 February 2021 [60]
Tomi Juric  Australia Adelaide United* Central Coast Mariners 3–2 19 February 2021 [61]
Jamie Maclaren5  Australia Melbourne City* Melbourne Victory 7–0 17 April 2021 [62]
Andy Keogh4  Ireland Perth Glory* Western Sydney Wanderers 5–1 16 May 2021 [63]
Adam Le Fondre  England Sydney FC Central Coast Mariners* 0–5 9 April 2022 [64]
Beka Mikeltadze  Georgia Newcastle Jets* Perth Glory 6–1 10 April 2022 [65]
Lachlan Wales  Australia Western United* Perth Glory 6–0 16 April 2022 [66]
Richard van der Venne  Netherlands Melbourne City* Macarthur FC 6–1 4 February 2023 [67]
Jamie Maclaren  Australia Melbourne City Western United* 1–3 22 April 2023 [68]
Jason Cummings  Australia Central Coast Mariners Melbourne City* 1–6 3 June 2023 [69]
Bruno Fornaroli4  Australia Melbourne Victory* Newcastle Jets 5–3 29 October 2023 [70]
Oskar Zawada  Poland Wellington Phoenix* Brisbane Roar 5–2 4 November 2023 [71]
Bruno Fornaroli4  Australia Melbourne Victory Western Sydney Wanderers* 3–4 10 December 2023 [72]
Ángel Torres  Colombia Central Coast Mariners Melbourne City* 3–3 17 December 2023 [73]
Jamie Maclaren  Australia Melbourne City* Brisbane Roar 8–1 28 December 2023 [74]
Ulises Dávila  Mexico Macarthur FC* Western United 3–3 12 January 2024 [75]
Hiroshi Ibusuki  Japan Adelaide United Sydney FC* 4–3 13 January 2024 [76]
Valère Germain  France Macarthur FC* Western Sydney Wanderers 4–3 4 February 2024 [77]

Multiple hat-tricks

The following table lists the number of hat-tricks scored by players who have scored two or more hat-tricks.

Rank Player Hat-tricks
1 Australia Jamie Maclaren 8
2 Albania Kosovo Besart Berisha 5
3 New Zealand Shane Smeltz 4
4 Republic of Ireland Andy Keogh 3
Uruguay Australia Bruno Fornaroli
6 Brazil Bobô 2
Australia Nathan Burns
England Adam Le Fondre
Republic of Ireland Roy O'Donovan
Australia Archie Thompson
Netherlands Sergio van Dijk[d]
Australia David Williams

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Nationality as at the time of the hat-trick
  2. ^ As at the time of the hat-trick
  3. ^ The result is presented with Australia's score first.
  4. ^ a b Result occurred before van Dijk was naturalized to Indonesian in February 2013.[20]

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