IFFHS EURO STATISTICS 37 - MOST HAT TRICKS



Picture : Marco Van Basten scored hat tricks in two Euros 1988 and 1992 for Netherlands.


Team with most hat-tricks (including qualification): Netherlands

Throughout the history of the European Championships, there have been 137 hat-tricks (including qualifying and final tournaments).
The very first hat-trick was made by Just Fontaine (France) on December 13, 1959 in the qualifying match against Austria (5:2).
Netherlands has the largest number of hat-tricks (12).
Dutch players have scored hat-tricks in 5 consecutive Euro editions (from 1988 to 2004). Later, this achievement was repeated by Russia (from 2004 to 2020, the series can be continued).
The fastest hat-trick was scored by Arif Erdem (Turkey), in 4 minutes (from 44th to 48th) in the match against Northern Ireland (3:0, qualifier for Euro 2000).
Robbie Keane (Republic of Ireland) scored the earliest hat-trick, to the 18th minute, in the Euro 2016 qualifier against Gibraltar (7:0).
Defender's only hat-trick so far: Cosmin Contra (Romania), in Euro 2004 qualifier against Luxembourg (7:0).
Janusz Żmijewski (Poland) scored a hat-trick in his only European championship match, against Belgium (4:2) on October 8, 1967. At the same time, it was the very first in the history of Euro hat-trick in an away match.


 ALL HAT-TRICKS       
         
 CountryHT  Stage HT 
  543QualFinTotal 
1Netherlands111010212Cruyff 72, Van der Kuijlen 76, Rensenbrink 76, Bosman 88, Van Basten 88, 92++, Overmars 96,
        Kluivert 00, Van Nistelrooy 04, Huntelaar 12, Van Persie 12+, Wijnaldum 20
2Spain 4710111Guillot 64, Santillana 84+, Rincón 84+, Bakero 88, Butragueño 92+, Raúl 00+,00, Luis Enrique 00,
        Urzaiz 00, Guerrero 00, Villa 08
3England1 89 9Macdonald 76++, Blissett 84, Lineker 88, Scholes 00, Shearer 00, Defoe 12, Sterling 20, Kane 20,20 
4Germany 26628G.Müller 68+, D.Müller 76, K.Allofs 80, Bierhoff 00, Ziege 00, Podolski 08+, Schürrle 16, Gnabry 20
5Portugal 16617Alves 96, Sá Pinto 00, João Pinto 00, Sérgio Conceição 00, Cristiano Ronaldo 16,20+,20
6Hungary1 56 6Farkas 68, Nyilasi 76++, Póczik 84, V. Sebők 00, Gera 04, Szalai 12 
7Poland 156 6Żmijewski 68, Lubański 72, E.Smolarek 08, Lewandowski 16+,16,20
8Russia 235 5Bulykin 04, Kerzhakov 08, Pavlyuchenko 12, Dzyuba 16+,20+
9Republic of Ireland 145 5Givens 76, 76+, Aldridge 92, Robbie Keane 08,16
10Israel  55 5Benayoun 00,12, Damari 16, Zahavi 20,20 
11France  4224Fontaine 60, Loubet 68, Platini 84,84
12East Germany 134 4Frenzel 68, Kreische 72+, Hoffmann 80, Thom 88
 Italy 134 4Orlando 64+, Riva 68, Zola 96, F.Inzaghi 04
14Denmark  44 4O. Madsen 64,64, Elkjær 80, M.Laudrup 84
 Romania  44 4Frățilă 68, Dumitriu 68, A.Ilie 00, Contra 04
 Northern Ireland  44 4Best 72, Clarke 92, Healy 08,08
 Austria  44 4Parits 72, Polster 96, Stöger 96, Vastić 00
18Croatia 123 3Šuker 96, Petrić 08+, Eduardo 08 
19Belgium  33 3Stockman 68, Claesen 88,88
 Yugoslavia  33 3Zl.Vujović 88, Pančev 92,92
 Greece  33 3Sideris 68, Mavros 80, Gekas 08 
 Scotland  33 3S. Fletcher 16,16, McGinn 20
23Turkey 112 2Arif 00, Hakan Şükür 08+ 
 Finland 112 2Paatelainen 96+, Forssell 12
 Bosnia-Herzegovina 112 2Baljić 00+, Džeko 16
26Czech Republic  22 2Panenka 76, Siegl 96
 Switzerland  22 2Bregy 88, Shaqiri 12
 Sweden  22 2Jonson 04, Ibrahimović 12
 Cyprus  22 2Efrem 16, Mitidis 16 
30Wales 1 1 1Edwards 80+
31Faroe Islands  11 1T.Jónsson 96
 Lithuania  11 1Ivanauskas 00
 Georgia  11 1S.Arveladze 08
 Slovenia  11 1Matavž 12
 Ukraine  11 1Yarmolenko 16