Fifty-eight hat-tricks have been scored at men’s World Cup finals, from Bert Patenaude’s three goals for the United States against Paraguay at the 1930 World Cup to Bukayo Saka’s three for England against France in the match for third place on 18 July 2026. Fifty-four players share them. Four scored two.
Two were scored in a final, by Geoff Hurst in 1966 and Kylian Mbappé in 2022. Brazil, the most successful team in the tournament’s history, has three, and the last of them was Pelé‘s against France in 1958. Germany, counting West Germany, has seven.
Every World Cup hat-trick since 1930
| # | Year | Player | For | Against | Stage | Score | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1930 | Bert Patenaude | United States | Paraguay | Group stage | 3-0 | 3 |
| 2 | 1930 | Guillermo Stábile | Argentina | Mexico | Group stage | 6-3 | 3 |
| 3 | 1930 | Pedro Cea | Uruguay | Yugoslavia | Semi-final | 6-1 | 3 |
| 4 | 1934 | Angelo Schiavio | Italy | United States | Round of 16 | 7-1 | 3 |
| 5 | 1934 | Edmund Conen | Germany | Belgium | Round of 16 | 5-2 | 3 |
| 6 | 1934 | Oldřich Nejedlý | Czechoslovakia | Germany | Semi-final | 3-1 | 3 |
| 7 | 1938 | Ernst Wilimowski | Poland | Brazil | Round of 16 | 5-6 aet | 4 |
| 8 | 1938 | Leônidas | Brazil | Poland | Round of 16 | 6-5 aet | 3 |
| 9 | 1938 | Gustav Wetterström | Sweden | Cuba | Quarter-final | 8-0 | 3 |
| 10 | 1938 | Harry Andersson | Sweden | Cuba | Quarter-final | 8-0 | 3 |
| 11 | 1950 | Óscar Míguez | Uruguay | Bolivia | Group stage | 8-0 | 3 |
| 12 | 1950 | Ademir | Brazil | Sweden | Final group stage | 7-1 | 4 |
| 13 | 1954 | Sándor Kocsis | Hungary | South Korea | Group stage | 9-0 | 3 |
| 14 | 1954 | Erich Probst | Austria | Czechoslovakia | Group stage | 5-0 | 3 |
| 15 | 1954 | Carlos Borges | Uruguay | Scotland | Group stage | 7-0 | 3 |
| 16 | 1954 | Sándor Kocsis | Hungary | West Germany | Group stage | 8-3 | 4 |
| 17 | 1954 | Burhan Sargın | Turkey | South Korea | Group stage | 7-0 | 3 |
| 18 | 1954 | Max Morlock | West Germany | Turkey | Group stage | 7-2 | 3 |
| 19 | 1954 | Theodor Wagner | Austria | Switzerland | Quarter-final | 7-5 | 3 |
| 20 | 1954 | Josef Hügi | Switzerland | Austria | Quarter-final | 5-7 | 3 |
| 21 | 1958 | Just Fontaine | France | Paraguay | Group stage | 7-3 | 3 |
| 22 | 1958 | Pelé | Brazil | France | Semi-final | 5-2 | 3 |
| 23 | 1958 | Just Fontaine | France | West Germany | Third place | 6-3 | 4 |
| 24 | 1962 | Flórián Albert | Hungary | Bulgaria | Group stage | 6-1 | 3 |
| 25 | 1966 | Eusébio | Portugal | North Korea | Quarter-final | 5-3 | 4 |
| 26 | 1966 | Geoff Hurst | England | West Germany | Final | 4-2 aet | 3 |
| 27 | 1970 | Gerd Müller | West Germany | Bulgaria | Group stage | 5-2 | 3 |
| 28 | 1970 | Gerd Müller | West Germany | Peru | Group stage | 3-1 | 3 |
| 29 | 1974 | Dušan Bajević | Yugoslavia | Zaire | Group stage | 9-0 | 3 |
| 30 | 1974 | Andrzej Szarmach | Poland | Haiti | Group stage | 7-0 | 3 |
| 31 | 1978 | Rob Rensenbrink | Netherlands | Iran | Group stage | 3-0 | 3 |
| 32 | 1978 | Teófilo Cubillas | Peru | Iran | Group stage | 4-1 | 3 |
| 33 | 1982 | László Kiss | Hungary | El Salvador | Group stage | 10-1 | 3 |
| 34 | 1982 | Karl-Heinz Rummenigge | West Germany | Chile | Group stage | 4-1 | 3 |
| 35 | 1982 | Zbigniew Boniek | Poland | Belgium | Second group stage | 3-0 | 3 |
| 36 | 1982 | Paolo Rossi | Italy | Brazil | Second group stage | 3-2 | 3 |
| 37 | 1986 | Preben Elkjær | Denmark | Uruguay | Group stage | 6-1 | 3 |
| 38 | 1986 | Gary Lineker | England | Poland | Group stage | 3-0 | 3 |
| 39 | 1986 | Igor Belanov | Soviet Union | Belgium | Round of 16 | 3-4 aet | 3 |
| 40 | 1986 | Emilio Butragueño | Spain | Denmark | Round of 16 | 5-1 | 4 |
| 41 | 1990 | Míchel | Spain | South Korea | Group stage | 3-1 | 3 |
| 42 | 1990 | Tomáš Skuhravý | Czechoslovakia | Costa Rica | Round of 16 | 4-1 | 3 |
| 43 | 1994 | Gabriel Batistuta | Argentina | Greece | Group stage | 4-0 | 3 |
| 44 | 1994 | Oleg Salenko | Russia | Cameroon | Group stage | 6-1 | 5 |
| 45 | 1998 | Gabriel Batistuta | Argentina | Jamaica | Group stage | 5-0 | 3 |
| 46 | 2002 | Miroslav Klose | Germany | Saudi Arabia | Group stage | 8-0 | 3 |
| 47 | 2002 | Pauleta | Portugal | Poland | Group stage | 4-0 | 3 |
| 48 | 2010 | Gonzalo Higuaín | Argentina | South Korea | Group stage | 4-1 | 3 |
| 49 | 2014 | Thomas Müller | Germany | Portugal | Group stage | 4-0 | 3 |
| 50 | 2014 | Xherdan Shaqiri | Switzerland | Honduras | Group stage | 3-0 | 3 |
| 51 | 2018 | Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | Spain | Group stage | 3-3 | 3 |
| 52 | 2018 | Harry Kane | England | Panama | Group stage | 6-1 | 3 |
| 53 | 2022 | Gonçalo Ramos | Portugal | Switzerland | Round of 16 | 6-1 | 3 |
| 54 | 2022 | Kylian Mbappé | France | Argentina | Final | 3-3 aet | 3 |
| 55 | 2026 | Lionel Messi | Argentina | Algeria | Group stage | 3-0 | 3 |
| 56 | 2026 | Jonathan David | Canada | Qatar | Group stage | 6-0 | 3 |
| 57 | 2026 | Ousmane Dembélé | France | Norway | Group stage | 4-1 | 3 |
| 58 | 2026 | Bukayo Saka | England | France | Third place | 6-4 | 3 |
What counts as a World Cup hat-trick
Three goals or more by one player in one match at a World Cup final tournament. Qualifiers are left out. Goals in extra time count, own goals obviously do not, and neither do penalties in a shoot-out. That last point matters in two matches. FIFA’s data feed files every shoot-out kick as a goal in the 121st minute, which would give Mbappé four in the 2022 final and Lionel Messi three. In open play and extra time Mbappé scored three and Messi two, and the table follows that.
We did not copy the list. For 1930 to 1998 we went through every match on RSSSF and looked for any player with three goals or more: 45 hat-tricks, the same 45 as Wikipedia, player for player. For 2002 to 2026 we read FIFA’s own match data for every game in which a team scored three times or more: 13 hat-tricks, again the same as Wikipedia. The minutes are another matter. RSSSF often puts a goal a minute or two away from FIFA and Wikipedia, so the table gives the number of goals and leaves the minutes out.
The two hat-tricks in a final
For 56 years, Geoff Hurst was the only player to score three in a World Cup final. England beat West Germany 4-2 at Wembley on 30 July 1966. Hurst scored once in normal time and twice in extra time, and the first of those two, the shot that came down off the crossbar, is still argued about.
Mbappé matched him in Lusail on 18 December 2022, and lost. France were 2-0 down to Argentina when he scored a penalty in the 80th minute and a volley in the 81st. Messi put Argentina ahead again in extra time, Mbappé made it 3-3 with a second penalty in the 118th minute, and Argentina won the shoot-out 4-2. Officially the match was a draw, but he is the only player to score three in a final and not win it.
Four goals or more in one match
Seven of the 58 are more than a hat-trick. Ernst Wilimowski scored four for Poland against Brazil in 1938, Ademir four against Sweden in 1950, Sándor Kocsis four against West Germany in 1954, Just Fontaine four against West Germany in the 1958 match for third place, Eusébio four against North Korea in 1966 and Emilio Butragueño four against Denmark in 1986.
Then there is Oleg Salenko. The record for one match is Oleg Salenko, 5 goals in 1994, for Russia against Cameroon in a 6-1 group match on 28 June 1994. Russia were already out. Salenko never played another World Cup match, and the five goals, plus one against Sweden, were enough to share the Golden Boot with Hristo Stoichkov.
The four players with two
Kocsis scored his two in the same week in 1954, 9-0 against South Korea and 8-3 against West Germany. Just Fontaine scored his in 1958, the first and the last of his six matches in Sweden, on the way to 13 goals. Gerd Müller scored his three days apart in 1970, against Bulgaria and Peru.
Gabriel Batistuta is the odd one. His came four years apart, against Greece in 1994 and Jamaica in 1998, which makes him the only player with a hat-trick at two different World Cups. Both were scored on 21 June, and both opponents were playing their first World Cup.
Hat-tricks on the losing side
Three players scored a hat-trick and lost. Wilimowski’s four for Poland in 1938 came in a 6-5 defeat after extra time, and Leônidas scored three for Brazil in the same match. Josef Hügi scored three for Switzerland against Austria in the 1954 quarter-final and lost 7-5; Theodor Wagner scored three for Austria in the same game, the highest-scoring match in World Cup history. Igor Belanov scored three for the Soviet Union against Belgium in 1986 and lost 4-3 after extra time.
Two more did not lose, and did not win either. Cristiano Ronaldo’s three against Spain in 2018, the last a free kick two minutes from time, gave Portugal a 3-3 draw. Mbappé’s final ended 3-3 before the shoot-out.
By tournament and by country
Switzerland 1954 had the most, eight, in only 26 matches. Germany 2006 had none. Seventeen of the other 21 tournaments had between one and three, and the remaining four had four each: 1938, 1982, 1986 and 2026.
By country, Germany leads with seven: three as Germany (Edmund Conen in 1934, Miroslav Klose in 2002, Thomas Müller in 2014) and four as West Germany (Max Morlock, Müller twice, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge). Argentina have five. France, England, Portugal and Hungary have four each. Brazil’s three all came before 1960, and no Brazilian has scored one since Pelé against France in the 1958 semi-final. Pelé was 17.
Paolo Rossi‘s three against Brazil in 1982 is probably the most famous group-stage hat-trick of all. It was a second-round group, Brazil needed only a draw, and Italy won 3-2.
The first one: Patenaude, not Stábile
For 76 years the first World Cup hat-trick belonged to Guillermo Stábile, who scored three for Argentina against Mexico on 19 July 1930. Two days earlier, Bert Patenaude had scored three for the United States against Paraguay, but one of his goals was credited to his teammate Tom Florie. FIFA gave it back to Patenaude on 10 November 2006. Stábile is now second, and the list starts in Montevideo with an American.
2026: four hat-tricks in one tournament
Lionel Messi opened with three against Algeria in a 3-0 group match. The three goals took him to 16, level with Klose’s record, and he was 38. Two days later Jonathan David scored three for Canada in a 6-0 win over Qatar, the first World Cup hat-trick by a Canadian, two of them in stoppage time. Ousmane Dembélé needed 32 minutes against Norway: 7, 20 and 32, in a 4-1 win for France.
Saka scored the last, in the match for third place, and England beat France 6-4. His first two came before half-time, at 37 minutes and in stoppage time, and the third was a penalty three minutes from the end. It is the first hat-trick in a third-place match since Fontaine’s four in 1958. Mbappé scored twice for France that night and took the all-time scoring record from Messi, so the game is on our list of all-time top scorers for another reason.
Sources and method
RSSSF’s complete match records for every tournament from 1930 to 1998, searched match by match for any player with three goals or more; FIFA’s match data (api.fifa.com) for every match of 2002 to 2026 in which a team scored three times or more, 138 match reports in all; Wikipedia’s List of FIFA World Cup hat-tricks (edited 4 August 2026) and its pages on the players and matches named. All read on 26 September 2026. The three sources agree on all 58 hat-tricks.