🏆 UEFA Champions League Multiple Hat-tricks (1992s-Present)

Summary

Since the rebranding of the European Champion Clubs' Cup as the UEFA Champions League in 1992, 117 different players from 38 countries have scored three goals or more in a single match (a hat-trick) on 164 occasions, representing 55 clubs from 17 leagues. 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 and Cristiano Ronaldo have scored three or more goals in a match eight times each in the Champions League, more than any other player, followed by Robert Lewandowski with six, and Karim Benzema with four.

Eighteen players have scored four or more goals in a match; of these, only Messi and Lewandowski have achieved this more than once. Only Messi (on 8 March 2012 against Bayer Leverkusen), Luiz Adriano (on 21 October 2014 against BATE Borisov) and Erling Haaland (on 14 March 2023 against RB Leipzig) have scored five goals in a match. Only Ronaldo (four times), Kylian Mbappé (three times), Messi, Lewandowski, and Benzema (twice each) have scored multiple hat-tricks in the knockout phase. Only Lewandowski has scored a hat-trick for three clubs (Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich and Barcelona), with a further fourteen players having scored hat-tricks for two clubs.

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