THE MOST PENTA-TRICKS (5 GOALS) IN XXI CENTURY
Players with most penta-tricks in XXI century
Erling Haaland (picture) has scored a penta-trick for Manchester City on April 27 in a FA Cup match against Luton (6-2).
This is the second time in his senior career that he has scored 5 goals in a match, following his feat last year in the Champions League against RB Leipzig (7-0).
(At junior level, Erling became famous for his incredible 9 goals in the 12-0 Norway-Honduras U20 World Cup match in 2019).
In connection with this, we publish for the first time the ranking of players with most penta-tricks in XXI century. Only top level games are considered.
Ali Ashfaq leads the ranking. The prolific striker from Maldives managed to score 5+ goals in 8 games for his clubs and country!
The third placed Maksim Gruznov (Estonia) made 1 penta-trick also in XX century (indicated in brackets).
The total number of penta-tricks is broken down by competitions and by “size”.
The right column (7+) mean 7 or more goals in a game (13 for Thompson, 12 for Ashfaq, 7 for Bounedjah).
Tie-breakers: 1) most international feats (ICC+NT), 2) most national league feats (NL), 3) league strength.
Active players are taken in bold.
| PLAYERS WITH | MULTIPLE | |||||||||
| PENTA-TRICKS | IN XXI CENTURY | |||||||||
| Player | Country | NL | NC | ICC | NT | Total | 5 | 6 | 7+ | |
| 1 | Ali Ashfaq | Maldives | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2 | Marc Lloyd Williams | Wales | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | |||
| 3 | Maksim Gruznov | Estonia | 3(+1) | 1 | 4(+1) | 3(+1) | 1 | |||
| 4 | Greg Draper | New Zealand | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 5 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| 6 | Archie Thompson | Australia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 7 | Erling Haaland | Norway | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| 8 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| 9 | Baghdad Bounedjah | Algeria | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 10 | Garbhan Coughlan | Republic of Ireland | 2 | 2 | 2 |