List of UEFA Champions League hat-tricks

Since the rebranding of the European Champion Clubs' Cup as the UEFA Champions League in 1992, 91 players from 36 countries have scored three goals (a hat-trick) or more in a single match on a total of 144 occasions for 51 different clubs from 17 different leagues.[1] The first player to achieve the feat was Juul Ellerman, who scored three times for PSV Eindhoven in a 6–0 victory over Žalgiris on 16 September 1992.

Lionel Messi is one of only two players to score eight hat-tricks in the UEFA Champions League. He and Robert Lewandowski are also the only players to score four or more goals on multiple occasions.

Cristiano Ronaldo is the joint record holder for the most Champions League hat-tricks. He is the only player to score three hat-tricks in a single season.

Fifteen players have scored four or more goals in a match; of these, only Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski have achieved this more than once. Only Messi (on 8 March 2012 against Bayer Leverkusen) and Luiz Adriano (on 21 October 2014 against BATE Borisov) have scored five goals in a single match.[2][3] The other thirteen players to score four goals in a game are Marco van Basten, Simone Inzaghi, Dado Pršo, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Andriy Shevchenko, Bafétimbi Gomis, Mario Gómez, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Cristiano Ronaldo, Serge Gnabry, Josip Iličić, Olivier Giroud and Sébastien Haller.

Messi and Ronaldo have scored three or more goals in a match eight times each in the Champions League, more than any other players, followed by Lewandowski, who has scored a hat-trick on five occasions, and Karim Benzema, who has done so on four.[4][5] Only Ronaldo (four times), Messi, Lewandowski and Benzema (twice each) have scored three or more goals on more than a single occasion in the knockout stage.[6] Twelve of the players have each scored hat-tricks for two or more different clubs: Inzaghi (Juventus and Milan), Owen (Liverpool and Manchester United), Eto'o (Barcelona and Inter Milan), Simone (Milan and Monaco), Van Nistelrooy (PSV Eindhoven and Manchester United), Makaay (Deportivo La Coruña and Bayern Munich), Shevchenko (Dynamo Kyiv and Milan), Drogba (Marseille and Chelsea), Lewandowski (Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich), Neymar (Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain), Ronaldo (Real Madrid and Juventus), and Giroud (Arsenal and Chelsea).[5]

Ten players have scored a hat-trick on their debut in the Champions League: Van Basten (for Milan; he was the first player to score four goals on his debut), Faustino Asprilla (for Newcastle United), Yakubu (for Maccabi Haifa), Wayne Rooney (for Manchester United), Vincenzo Iaquinta (for Udinese), Grafite (for VfL Wolfsburg), Yacine Brahimi (for Porto), Erling Haaland (for Red Bull Salzburg), Mislav Oršić (for Dinamo Zagreb) and Haller (for Ajax);[1] of those, only Van Basten and Haller have scored four goals on their debut. Seven players have scored hat-tricks in two consecutive seasons: Adriano (for Inter, in 2004–05 and 2005–06), Gómez (for Bayern, in 2010–11 and 2011–12), Soldado (for Valencia, in 2011–12 and 2012–13), Ronaldo (for Real, in 2012–13 and 2013–14, and in 2015–16 and 2016–17), Messi (for Barcelona, in 2013–14 and 2014–15), Gabriel Jesus (for Manchester City, in 2018–19 and 2019–20), and Kylian Mbappé (for PSG, in 2019–20 and 2020–21).

Three players have achieved hat-tricks in back-to-back games. Ronaldo did so for Real against Bayern on 18 April and Atlético Madrid on 2 May 2017, the shortest gap between hat-tricks at just 14 days. Luiz Adriano accomplished this feat for Shakhtar Donetsk on 21 October and 5 November 2014, with both hat-tricks coming against BATE Borisov in a span of 15 days. Benzema scored a hat-trick for Real against PSG on 9 March, and against Chelsea on 6 April 2022. The longest spell between two hat-tricks was achieved by Owen, who scored his first hat-trick on 22 October 2002 for Liverpool and his second over seven years later on 8 December 2009 for United. Ronaldo is the only player to score more than two hat-tricks in the same season, netting three for Real during the 2015–16 season. Four other players have scored multiple hat-tricks in the same season: Messi achieved the feat for Barcelona in both 2011–12,[7] and again in 2016–17. Additionally, Gómez scored two hat-tricks for Bayern, also in 2011–12,[8] Lewandowski scored two hat-tricks for Bayern in 2021–22, and Benzema scored two hat-tricks for Real in the same season.

Gomis holds the record for the quickest hat-trick,[9] netting three times for Lyon against Dinamo Zagreb in 7 minutes on 7 December 2011.[10] The record was previously held for 16 years by Mike Newell,[9] who scored a perfect hat-trick for English team Blackburn Rovers against Norwegian team Rosenborg on 6 December 1995 in 9 minutes.[11] The youngest scorer of a hat-trick was Raúl, who scored a hat-trick for Real Madrid against Ferencváros, aged 18 years and 114 days, on 18 October 1995.[12] Rooney is the youngest debut scorer of a hat-trick, aged 18 years and 340 days, when he scored for Manchester United against Fenerbahçe on 28 September 2004.[13] The oldest scorer of a hat-trick is Benzema, who was 34 years and 108 days old when he scored for Real Madrid against Chelsea on 6 April 2022.[14]

The season with the most hat-tricks was 2019–20, with ten.[1]