FIFA World Cup Records: A to Z of World Cup Hattricks

Xherdan Shaqiri scored the 50th hattrick of World Cup. Earlier, Thomas Muller has also scored a hattrick in 2014 FIFA World Cup. The German asserted the already established supremacy of Germans in scoring and conceding hattricks. Among the 50 hattricks, 9 of them were the only goals of their sides. One of the penalty extended to record 5 goals by an Individual in one match, while 5 stretched to 4 goals overall in the match. 10 of the hattricks were scored with the help of penalties too. There is only one edition where nobody could score a hattrick. Check the hattrick facts of World Cup, name of scorers, time of goals, for and against which nations, hattricks in every edition, list of hattricks or conceded by name of nations, two hattricks in same match or by players, and what stage of the World Cup how many hattricks were scored.

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The three hattricks of 1958 were probably the most celebrated as two of them were scored by Fontaine, who went on to create record of 13 goals in one edition, while the third saw the youngest hattrick scorer in Pele.

Among the players who have scored 10 or more goals in World Cup, Klose, Gerd Muller, Fontaine, Pele, Sandor Kocsis, Batistuta, Lineker, Teófilo Cubillas have scored hattricks.

Hattrick Facts of World Cup

First Hattrick: Bert Patenaude (USA vs Paraguay, 1930)
Last Hattrick: Thomas Muller (Germany vs Portugal, 2014)
Maximum Hattrick in One Edition: 8 in 1954
No Hattrick in an Edition: 0 in 2006
Maximum Hattricks by a Team: 7 (Germany including West Germany)
Maximum Hattricks by one player: 2 hattricks each by 4 players.
Countries Conceding Hattricks: 35
Countries Scoring Hattricks: 22
Youngest Hattrick Scorer: Pele at 17 years and 244 days
35 of the 50 hattricks were scored in the first round.
Among the 49 hattricks, 8 of them were the only goals of their sides.
7 hattricks included two penalties.
3 hattricks included one penalty. (One of them has fourth goal as penalty)
Gabriel Batistuta is the only player to score two hattricks in different editions.
Oleg Salenko created World Record by scoring 5 goals in a match. The Russian scored 5 goals against Cameroon in 1994 World Cup.
László Kiss (Hungary vs El Salvador in 1982) became the only substitute to score a hattrick in World Cup.

Maximum Hattricks in One Edition

8: 1954
4: 1938, 1982, 1986
3: 1930, 1934, 1958
2: 1950, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1990, 1994, 2014
1: 1962, 1998, 2002, 2010

Maximum Hattricks by a Player

2: Sándor Kocsis (both 1954)
Just Fontaine (both 1958)
Gerd Müller (both 1970)
Gabriel Batistuta (1994 and 1998)

Two Hattricks In same Match

Both Teams: Leônidas of Brazil and Ernest Wilimowski of Poland in 1938.
Theodor Wagner (Austria) and Josef Hügi (Switzerland) in 1954 Football World Cup.
Same Team: Gustav Wetterström and Harry Andersson of Sweden scored hattricks vs Cuba in 1930 FIFA World Cup.

Hattrick By Countries
22 countries have hit at least one hattrick in the World Cup.

7 Germany
4 Argentina, Hungary
3 Brazil, Poland, Uruguay
2 Austria, Czechoslovakia, England, France, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
1 Denmark, Netherlands, Peru, Turkey, USA, Yugoslavia

Hattrick Vs Countries
35 countries have conceded at least one hattrick.

4 Germany, South Korea
3 Belgium, Poland
2 Brazil, Bulgaria, Cuba, Iran, Paraguay
1 Austria, Bolivia, Cameroon, Chile, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Greece, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, North Korea, Peru, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Uruguay, USA, Yugoslavia, Zaire, Honduras

Hattricks at Different Stages

1st Round: 35
2nd Round: 5
QF: 5
SF: 3
3rd Place: 1 (Just Fontaine for France vs West Germany, 1958)
Final: 1 (Geoff Hurst for England vs West Germany, 1966)

Hattricks By Players
The list shows history of 50 hattricks with the name of player, countries participating and the minutes in which it was scored during the match.
Time with P indicates penalty.

Player	For	Against	Minutes	Year
Bert Patenaude	USA	Paraguay	10,15,50	1930
Guillermo Stábile	Argentina	Mexico	8,17,80	1930
Pedro Cea	Uruguay	Yugoslavia	18,67,72	1930
Angelo Schiavio	Italy	USA	18,29,64	1934
Edmund Conen	Germany	Belgium	66,70,87	1934
Oldřich Nejedlý	Czechoslovakia	Italy	19,71,80	1934
Ernest Wilimowski	Poland	Brazil	18,93,104	1938
Gustav Wetterström	Sweden	Cuba	32,37,44	1938
Harry Andersson	Sweden	Cuba	9,81,89	1938
Oscar Míguez	Uruguay	Bolivia	14,45,56	1950
Ademir	Brazil	Sweden	17,36,52,58	1950
Sándor Kocsis	Hungary	South Korea	24,36,50	1954
Erich Probst	Austria	Czechoslovakia	4,21,24	1954
Carlos Borges	Uruguay	Scotland	17,47,57	1954
Sándor Kocsis	Hungary	Germany	3,21,67,78	1954
Burhan Sargın	Turkey	South Korea	37,64,70	1954
Max Morlock	Germany	Turkey	30,60,77	1954
Theodor Wagner	Austria	Switzerland	25,27,53	1954
Josef Hügi	Switzerland	Austria	17,19,58	1954
Just Fontaine	France	Paraguay	24,30,67	1958
Pele	Brazil	France	52,64,75	1958
Just Fontaine	France	Germany	16,36,78,89	1958
Flórián Albert	Hungary	Bulgaria	1,6,53	1962
Eusébio	Portugal	North Korea	27,43P,56,59P	1966
Geoff Hurst	England	Germany	18,98,120	1966
Gerd Müller	Germany	Bulgaria	27,52P,88	1970
Gerd Müller	Germany	Peru	19,26,39	1970
Dušan Bajević	Yugoslavia	Zaire	8,30,81	1974
Andrzej Szarmach	Poland	Haiti	30,34,50	1974
Rob Rensenbrink	Netherlands	Iran	40P,62,79P	1978
Teófilo Cubillas	Peru	Iran	36P,39P,79	1978
László Kiss	Hungary	El Salvador	69,72,76	1982
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	Germany	Chile	9,57,66	1982
Zbigniew Boniek	Poland	Belgium	4,26,53	1982
Paolo Rossi	Italy	Brazil	5,25,74	1982
Preben Elkjær Larsen	Denmark	Uruguay	11,67,80	1986
Gary Lineker	England	Poland	9,14,34	1986
Igor Belanov	Russia	Belgium	27,70,11P	1986
Emilio Butragueño	Spain	Denmark	43,56,80,88P	1986
Míchel	Spain	South Korea	22,61,81	1990
Tomáš Skuhravý	Czechoslovakia	Costa Rica	12,63,82	1990
Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina	Greece	2,44,89P	1994
Oleg Salenko	Russia	Cameroon	14,41,44P,72,75	1994
Gabriel Batistuta	Argentina	Jamaica	72,80,82	1998
Miroslav Klose	Germany	Saudi Arabia	20,25,70	2002
Pauleta	Portugal	Poland	14,65,77	2002
Gonzalo Higuaín	Argentina	South Korea	33,76,80	2010
Thomas Müller	Germany	Portugal	12P,45,78	2014
Xherdan Shaqiri	Switzerland	Honduras	6,31,71	2014