Gabriel Batistuta of Argentina is the only player to score a hat-trick at two World Cups.

Oleg Salenko of Russia scored a record five goals in a match against Cameroon at the 1994 World Cup.

The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition established in 1930. It is contested by the men's national teams of the members of the FIFA, the sport's global governing body. The tournament has taken place organised every four years, except in 1942 and 1946, when the competition was cancelled due to World War II. A hat-trick occurs when a player scores three or more goals in a single match and it is considered an achievement, especially while playing at the largest international football tournament in the world. Across the over 800 matches at the 22 tournaments of the FIFA World Cup, 54 hat-tricks have been scored. The first hat-trick was scored by Bert Patenaude of the United States, playing against Paraguay in 1930; the most recent was by Kylian Mbappé of France, playing against Argentina on 18 December 2022. The only World Cup not to have at least one hat-trick scored was the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. The record number of hat-tricks in a single World Cup tournament is eight, during the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland.

Only four players have scored more than one hat-trick at the FIFA World Cup: Sándor Kocsis (two in 1954), Just Fontaine (two in 1958), Gerd Müller (two in 1970) and Gabriel Batistuta (1994 and 1998) - the latter being the only player in history to score hat-tricks at two World Cups. 19 players have scored a hat-trick in the knockout stage of the FIFA World Cup. Two were playing in their first ever World Cup match, Edmund Conen and Angelo Schiavio, both in 1934, a tournament without a group stage. Geoff Hurst (1966) & Kylian Mbappé (2022) are the only players to have scored a hat-trick in the final. Two players have scored a hat-trick in the second group stage of the World Cup, Paolo Rossi and Zbigniew Boniek, both in 1982.

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FIFA World Cup hat-tricks

No.	Tournament	Player	Number and time of goals	For	Goals	Result	Against	Round	Date	FIFA report
1.	1930, Uruguay	Bert Patenaude	3 – 10', 15', 50'	United States	1–0, 2–0, 3–0	3–0	Paraguay	Group stage	17 July 1930	[1]
2.		Guillermo Stábile	3 – 8', 17', 80'	Argentina	1–0, 3–0, 6–3	6–3	Mexico		19 July 1930	[2]
3.		Pedro Cea	3 – 18', 67', 72'	Uruguay	1–1, 5–1, 6–1	6–1	Yugoslavia	Semi-finals	27 July 1930	[3]
4.	1934, Italy	Angelo Schiavio	3 – 18', 29', 64'	Italy	1–0, 3–0, 5–1	7–1	United States	Round of 16	27 May 1934	[4]
5.		Edmund Conen	3 – 66', 70', 87'	Germany	3–2, 4–2, 5–2	5–2	Belgium			[5]
6.		Oldřich Nejedlý	3 – 19', 71', 80'	Czechoslovakia	1–0, 2–1, 3–1	3–1	Germany	Semi-finals	3 June 1934	[6]
7.	1938, France	Ernst Wilimowski	4 – 53', 59', 89', 118'	Poland	2–3, 3–3, 4–4, 5–6	5–6 aet	Brazil	Round of 16	5 June 1938	[7]
8.		Leônidas	3 – 18', 93', 104'	Brazil	1–0, 5–4, 6–4	6–5 aet	Poland
9.		Gustav Wetterström	3 – 32', 37', 44'	Sweden	2–0, 3–0, 4–0	8–0	Cuba	Quarter-finals	12 June 1938	[8]
10.		Harry Andersson	3 – 9', 81', 89'	Sweden	1–0, 6–0, 8–0	8–0	Cuba
11.	1950, Brazil	Óscar Míguez	3 – 14', 45', 56'	Uruguay	1–0, 4–0, 5–0	8–0	Bolivia	First group stage	2 July 1950	[9]
12.		Ademir	4 – 17', 36', 52', 58'	Brazil	1–0, 2–0, 4–0, 5–0	7–1	Sweden	Final group stage	9 July 1950	[10]
13.	1954, Switzerland	Sándor Kocsis	3 – 24', 36', 50'	Hungary	3–0, 4–0, 5–0	9–0	South Korea	Group stage	17 June 1954	[11]
14.		Erich Probst	3 – 4', 21', 24'	Austria	2–0, 3–0, 4–0	5–0	Czechoslovakia		19 June 1954	[12]
15.		Carlos Borges	3 – 17', 47', 57'	Uruguay	1–0, 3–0, 5–0	7–0	Scotland			[13]
16.		Sándor Kocsis (2)	4 – 3', 21', 67', 78'	Hungary	1–0, 3–0, 6–1, 8–2	8–3	West Germany		20 June 1954	[14]
17.		Burhan Sargın	3 – 37', 64', 70'	Turkey	4–0, 5–0, 6–0	7–0	South Korea			[15]
18.		Max Morlock	3 – 30', 60', 77'	West Germany	3–1, 4–1, 6–1	7–2	Turkey		23 June 1954	[16]
19.		Theodor Wagner	3 – 25', 27', 53'	Austria	1–3, 3–3, 6–4	7–5	Switzerland	Quarter-finals	26 June 1954	[17]
20.		Josef Hügi	3 – 17', 19', 58'	Switzerland	2–0, 3–0, 5–6	5–7	Austria
21.	1958, Sweden	Just Fontaine	3 – 24', 30', 67'	France	1–1, 2–1, 5–3	7–3	Paraguay	Group stage	8 June 1958	[18]
22.		Pelé	3 – 52', 64', 75'	Brazil	3–1, 4–1, 5–1	5–2	France	Semi-finals	24 June 1958	[19]
23.		Just Fontaine (2)	4 – 16', 36', 78', 89'	France	1–0, 3–1, 4–1, 6–3	6–3	West Germany	3rd place match	28 June 1958	[20]
24.	1962, Chile	Flórián Albert	3 – 1', 6', 53'	Hungary	1–0, 2–0, 5–0	6–1	Bulgaria	Group stage	3 June 1962	[21]
25.	1966, England	Eusébio	4 – 27', 43' (p), 56', 59' (p)	Portugal	1–3, 2–3, 3–3, 4–3	5–3	North Korea	Quarter-finals	23 July 1966	[22]
26.		Geoff Hurst	3 – 18', 98', 120'	England	1–1, 3–2, 4–2	4–2 aet	West Germany	Final	30 July 1966	[23]
27.	1970, Mexico	Gerd Müller	3 – 27', 52' (p), 88'	West Germany	2–1, 3–1, 5–1	5–2	Bulgaria	Group stage	7 June 1970	[24]
28.		Gerd Müller (2)	3 – 19', 26', 39'	West Germany	1–0, 2–0, 3–0	3–1	Peru		10 June 1970	[25]
29.	1974, West Germany	Dušan Bajević	3 – 8', 30', 81'	Yugoslavia	1–0, 5–0, 9–0	9–0	Zaire	First group stage	18 June 1974	[26]
30.		Andrzej Szarmach	3 – 30', 34', 50'	Poland	3–0, 5–0, 6–0	7–0	Haiti		19 June 1974	[27]
31.	1978, Argentina	Rob Rensenbrink	3 – 40' (p), 62', 79' (p)	Netherlands	1–0, 2–0, 3–0	3–0	Iran	First group stage	3 June 1978	[28]
32.		Teófilo Cubillas	3 – 36' (p), 39' (p), 79'	Peru	2–0, 3–0, 4–1	4–1	Iran		11 June 1978	[29]
33.	1982, Spain	László Kiss	3 – 69', 72', 76'	Hungary	6–1, 8–1, 9–1	10–1	El Salvador	First group stage	15 June 1982	[30]
34.		Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	3 – 9', 57', 66'	West Germany	1–0, 2–0, 3–0	4–1	Chile		20 June 1982	[31]
35.		Zbigniew Boniek	3 – 4', 26', 53'	Poland	1–0, 2–0, 3–0	3–0	Belgium	Second group stage	28 June 1982	[32]
36.		Paolo Rossi	3 – 5', 25', 74'	Italy	1–0, 2–1, 3–2	3–2	Brazil		5 July 1982	[33]
37.	1986, Mexico	Preben Elkjær	3 – 11', 67', 80'	Denmark	1–0, 4–1, 5–1	6–1	Uruguay	Group stage	8 June 1986	[34]
38.		Gary Lineker	3 – 9', 14', 34'	England	1–0, 2–0, 3–0	3–0	Poland		11 June 1986	[35]
39.		Igor Belanov	3 – 27', 70', 111' (p)	Soviet Union	1–0, 2–1, 3–4	3–4 aet	Belgium	Round of 16	15 June 1986	[36]
40.		Emilio Butragueño	4 – 43', 56', 80', 88' (p)	Spain	1–1, 2–1, 4–1, 5–1	5–1	Denmark		18 June 1986	[37]
41.	1990, Italy	Míchel	3 – 22', 61', 81'	Spain	1–0, 2–1, 3–1	3–1	South Korea	Group stage	17 June 1990	[38]
42.		Tomáš Skuhravý	3 – 12', 63', 82'	Czechoslovakia	1–0, 2–1, 4–1	4–1	Costa Rica	Round of 16	23 June 1990	[39]
43.	1994, United States	Gabriel Batistuta	3 – 2', 44', 89' (p)	Argentina	1–0, 2–0, 4–0	4–0	Greece	Group stage	21 June 1994	[40]
44.		Oleg Salenko	5 – 14', 41', 44' (p), 72', 75'	Russia	1–0, 2–0, 3–0, 4–1, 5–1	6–1	Cameroon		28 June 1994	[41]
45.	1998, France	Gabriel Batistuta (2)	3 – 73', 78', 83' (p)	Argentina	3–0, 4–0, 5–0	5–0	Jamaica	Group stage	21 June 1998	[42]
46.	2002, South Korea & Japan	Miroslav Klose	3 – 20', 25', 70'	Germany	1–0, 2–0, 5–0	8–0	Saudi Arabia	Group stage	1 June 2002	[43]
47.		Pauleta	3 – 14', 65', 77'	Portugal	1–0, 2–0, 3–0	4–0	Poland		10 June 2002	[44]
48.	2010, South Africa	Gonzalo Higuaín	3 – 33', 76', 80'	Argentina	2–0, 3–1, 4–1	4–1	South Korea	Group stage	17 June 2010	[45]
49.	2014, Brazil	Thomas Müller	3 – 12' (p), 45', 78'	Germany	1–0, 3–0, 4–0	4–0	Portugal	Group stage	16 June 2014	[46]
50.		Xherdan Shaqiri	3 – 6', 31', 71'	Switzerland	1–0, 2–0, 3–0	3–0	Honduras		25 June 2014	[47]
51.	2018, Russia	Cristiano Ronaldo	3 – 4' (p), 44', 88'	Portugal	1–0, 2–1, 3–3	3–3	Spain	Group stage	15 June 2018	[48]
52.		Harry Kane	3 – 22' (p), 45+1' (p), 62'	England	2–0, 5–0, 6–0	6–1	Panama		24 June 2018	[49]
53.	2022, Qatar	Gonçalo Ramos	3 – 17', 51', 67'	Portugal	1–0, 3–0, 5–1	6–1	Switzerland	Round of 16	6 December 2022	[50]
54.		Kylian Mbappé	3 – 80' (p), 81', 118' (p)	France	1–2, 2–2, 3–3	3–3 aet	Argentina	Final	18 December 2022	[51]

Notable World Cup hat-tricks

This section features records and notable hat-tricks relating to the men's World Cup. For notable hat-tricks at the Women's World Cup, see List of FIFA Women's World Cup hat-tricks#Notable World Cup hat-tricks.

• Bert Patenaude was the first player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup match, on 17 July 1930 against Paraguay. However, until 10 November 2006 the first hat-trick that FIFA acknowledged had been scored by Guillermo Stábile of Argentina, two days after Patenaude. In 2006, FIFA announced that Patenaude's claim to being the first hat-trick scorer was valid, as teammate Tom Florie's goal in the match against Paraguay was re-attributed to him.^[52]
• Four players have scored two hat-tricks in World Cup matches: Sándor Kocsis (both 1954); Just Fontaine (both 1958); Gerd Müller (both 1970); and Gabriel Batistuta (1994 and 1998).^[53] Batistuta is thus the only person to score hat-tricks in two World Cups. He has another unique record of scoring hat-tricks, both were achieved on 21 June of the year, against World Cup finals debutants (Greece and Jamaica), and each time the third goal was a penalty.^[54] Kocsis and Müller scored their hat-tricks in consecutive matches.
• Oleg Salenko is the only player in World Cup history to have scored five goals in a single match. He did this during the 1994 FIFA World Cup match between Russia and Cameroon.^[55]
• One player has scored a hat-trick on his international début: Guillermo Stábile (1930).^[56]
• One player has scored four goals for the losing side: Ernst Wilimowski (5–6, 1938).^[57]
• Two players have scored a hat-trick for the losing side: Josef Hügi (5–7, 1954) and Igor Belanov (3–4, 1986).
• Two other players have scored a hat-trick in a game that their side did not win: Cristiano Ronaldo (3–3, 2018)^[58] and Kylian Mbappé (3–3, losing 4–2 on penalties, 2022).
• There have been three occasions when two hat-tricks have been scored in the same match. Two occurred during the 1938 FIFA World Cup: when Sweden defeated Cuba, Gustav Wetterström and Harry Andersson, both playing for Sweden, scored three goals, with the former completing his in the first half. In the Brazil vs Poland, Leônidas did it for Brazil and Ernst Wilimowski for Poland. One occurred in 1954: when Austria defeated Switzerland, Theodor Wagner and Josef Hügi scored hat-tricks for Austria and Switzerland respectively.
• Two players have scored hat-tricks in World Cup Finals. Geoff Hurst scored three goals for England against West Germany in the 1966 final.^[53][59] This is also the longest hat-trick to be completed — most time between the first and third goals. His first goal came at 18', while the second and third goals were in extra time at 98' and 120'. Kylian Mbappé scored the other World Cup finals' hat-trick in the 2022 FIFA World Cup final for France against Argentina. His goals were scored at the 80th, 81st and 118th minute marks. Two of his goals - 80th and 118th - were successful penalty kicks.
• The quickest hat-trick by a player is Erich Probst, who scored at 4', 21', and 24' in 1954, playing for Austria against Czechoslovakia in the first round.
• The briefest hat-trick to be completed — that is, the shortest time between the first and third goals — is the one by László Kiss in 1982 against El Salvador. He scored at 69', 72', and 76', making the time between his first and third 7 minutes. This is also the only hat-trick scored by a substitute.
• The only players to have scored from three headers in a single match are Tomáš Skuhravý in 1990 and Miroslav Klose in 2002.^[53]
• The youngest player to score a hat-trick is Pelé, at 17 years, 244 days. (5–2 against France in 1958)
• The oldest player to score a hat-trick is Cristiano Ronaldo, at 33 years, 122 days. (3–3 against Spain in 2018)^[60]
• Germany (incl. West Germany) holds the record for most hat-tricks scored with 7. Germany also shares with South Korea the record for most hat-tricks conceded with 4.