PLAYERS WITH MOST HAT TRICKS IN A YEAR (XXI CENTURY)


Picture : Cristiano Ronaldo made it 4 years with Real Madrid !


Players with most hat-tricks for a year in XXI century

The maximum number of hat-tricks scored by a player in a calendar year in the current century is 9. Five different players reached this mark and share the record of the century. 
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are in the list of co-holders, accompanied by Ali Ashfaq from Maldives and two Armenians, Ara Hakobyan and Arman Karamyan.
In the table below, the players are listed who achieved 7 and more hat-tricks for a calendar year since 2001. Cristiano Ronaldo made it 4 times, all others once.
All top-level games worldwide are taken in consideration. 
In the cases of equal number of hat-tricks overall, the players are ranked by following tie-breakers: 1) hat-tricks in international games (ICC+NT), 2) in national team (NT), 3) in national league (NL), 4) number of total goals scored in the hat-trick games, 5) strength of the league (according IFFHS league ranking).
The right columns indicate the “size” of hat-tricks: number of games with 3, 4, 5 and 6 goals.  


 PLAYERS WITHMOST HAT-TRICKSFOR A CALENDAR          
 YEARIN XXICENTURY         
              
 PlayerYearCountryClubHT   TotalGoals   
     NLNCICCNT 3456
1Ali Ashfaq2013MaldivesNew Radiant5 2294221
2Lionel Messi2012ArgentinaBarcelona (Spain)6 129621 
3Ara Hakobyan 2003ArmeniaBanants 9   9711 
4Cristiano Ronaldo2011PortugalReal Madrid (Spain)9   981  
5Arman Karamyan 2002ArmeniaPyunik81  971 1
6Cristiano Ronaldo2013PortugalReal Madrid (Spain)411288   
7Cristiano Ronaldo2015PortugalReal Madrid (Spain)5 218512 
8Harry Kane2017EnglandTottenham611 871  
9Abderrazak Hamdallah2019MoroccoAl Nassr (Saudi Arabia)44  853  
10Cristiano Ronaldo2016PortugalReal Madrid (Spain)4 21752  
11Luis Suarez2016UruguayBarcelona (Spain)61  743