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List of AFC Asian Cup hat-tricks

This is a list of hat-tricks in the AFC Asian Cup, that being when a player scores three or more goals in a tournament match of the AFC Asian Cup (not including qualification matches). Hat-tricks have occurred nineteen times across the eighteen editions.

Hossein Kalani scored the first hat-trick in the tournament's history, in the 1972 edition.

The first tournament was held in 1956, however no hat-tricks were scored in the first four competitions. The first instance was in 1972, where Hossein Kalani scored three goals for Iran against Iraq in the group stage.[1] Later on in the same tournament again for Iran, Ali Jabbari scored three goals inside nine minutes to defeat Thailand 3–2. The first time a player would score four goals in a match would be 1980, where Behtash Fariba achieved the feat in a 7–0 win for Iran over Bangladesh. After 1980, three tournaments went by without a hat-trick before Ali Daei scored four goals for Iran in a 6–2 win over South Korea in 1996, also marking the first time at least three goals were scored in a match in the knockout stage. Two tournaments later in 2004, another knockout stage hat-trick was achieved by Ali Karimi for Iran in a 4–3 win against South Korea, again in the quarter-finals. In the 2023 tournament, Akram Afif became the first player to register a hat-trick in the final of the competition, scoring all three of Qatar's goals in their 3–1 victory against Jordan; he was also the first player whose hat-trick consisted solely of penalty kicks.

Iran have scored the most hat-tricks with six, while Bangladesh and Uzbekistan have conceded the most, with three each. No player has ever scored multiple hat-tricks in the Asian Cup, and every hat-trick scorer has had their side go on to win their match.

Hat-tricks

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Key
4 Player scored four goals in the match
No. Tournament Player Time of goals Representing Result Opponent Round Date Ref.
1   1972 Hossein Kalani 34', 70', 78'   Iran 3–0   Iraq Group stage 9 May 1972 [1][2]
2 Ali Jabbari 80', 86', 88'   Iran 3–2   Thailand 13 May 1972 [2]
3   1976 Gholam Hossein Mazloumi 63', 74', 80'   Iran 8–0   South Yemen Group stage 8 June 1976 [3]
4   1980 Behtash Fariba4 11', 34', 80', 82'   Iran 7–0   Bangladesh Group stage 22 September 1980 [4]
5 Choi Soon-ho 26', 53', 78' (pen.)   South Korea 4–1   United Arab Emirates 24 September 1980 [5]
6 Shen Xiangfu 1', 5', 72'   China 6–0   Bangladesh 25 September 1980
7 Xu Yonglai 16', 79', 89'
8   1996 Ali Daei4 66', 76', 83', 89' (pen.)   Iran 6–2   South Korea Quarter-finals 16 December 1996 [6]
9   2000 Akinori Nishizawa 14', 25', 49'   Japan 8–1   Uzbekistan Group stage 17 October 2000 [7]
10 Naohiro Takahara 18', 20', 57'
11 Lee Dong-gook 30', 76', 90+1'   South Korea 3–0   Indonesia 19 October 2000 [8]
12 Mohammad Al-Shalhoub 35', 78', 86'   Saudi Arabia 5–0   Uzbekistan 20 October 2000 [9]
13   2004 Ali Karimi 10', 20', 77'   Iran 4–3   South Korea Quarter-finals 31 July 2004 [10]
14   2011 Ismail Abdullatif4 16', 19', 35', 77'   Bahrain 5–2   India Group stage 14 January 2011 [11]
15 Shinji Okazaki 8', 13', 80'   Japan 5–0   Saudi Arabia 17 January 2011 [12]
16   2015 Hamza Al-Dardour4 35', 45+2', 75', 80'   Jordan 5–1   Palestine Group stage 16 January 2015 [13]
17   2019 Almoez Ali4 9', 11', 55', 60'   Qatar 6–0   North Korea Group stage 13 January 2019 [14]
18 Vitalij Lux 24', 51', 77'   Kyrgyzstan 3–1   Philippines 16 January 2019 [15]
19   2023 Akram Afif 22' (pen.), 73' (pen.), 90+5' (pen.)   Qatar 3–1   Jordan Final 10 February 2024 [16]

By nation

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Nation Hat-tricks
  Iran 6
  Japan 3
  South Korea 2
  China 2
  Qatar 2
  Jordan 1
  Saudi Arabia 1
  Bahrain 1
  Kyrgyzstan 1

References

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  1. ^ a b "Asian Cup 1972". Inside World Football. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Asia's greatest national teams: IR Iran (1970s)". Asian Football Confederation. 29 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Iran Wins 8-0; To Face Chinese". The Japan Times. 10 June 1976. p. 10.
  4. ^ "Profile: Behtash Fariba". Team Melli. Retrieved 2 August 2020. Fariba continued to be a star of the team and he was the first Iranian footballer to score four goals in an international match which was against Bangladesh in that championship
  5. ^ "아시아축구 韓國(한국) 「아랍에미레이트」 大破(대파) 4대1". 동아일보 (in Korean). 25 September 1980. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  6. ^ "Magical Moments: Ali Daei vs Korea Republic (1996 AFC Asian Cup)". Asian Football Confederation. 6 June 2020.
  7. ^ Himmer, Alastair (19 October 2000). "Japan runs riot over Uzbekistan". The Japan Times.
  8. ^ "Lion King eases South Korea through". BBC Sport. 19 October 2000.
  9. ^ "World Cup - Squad - Mohammed Al-Shlhoub". BBC Sport. 30 May 2002. Few can forget his amazing hat-trick against Uzbekistan at Lebanon 2000.
  10. ^ "Iran wreaks its Asian Cup revenge on S Korea". Independent Online. 31 July 2004.
  11. ^ "India trail 1-4 at half-time against Bahrain". The Times of India. 14 January 2011.
  12. ^ "Okazaki hits hat trick as Japan routs Saudis". The Japan Times. 19 January 2011.
  13. ^ Veo, Valerio (17 January 2015). "Jordan beat Palestine, but how good are they against stronger opposition?". ESPN.
  14. ^ "Almoez Ali makes history as Qatar thump North Korea to reach Asian Cup knockouts". ESPN. 13 January 2019.
  15. ^ Caygill, Graham (16 January 2019). "Vitali Lux's hat-trick puts Kyrgyzstan in good position to qualify for Asian Cup last 16". The National.
  16. ^ "Afif stars as Qatar defeat Jordan to retain title". Asian Football Confederation. 10 February 2024. Retrieved 10 February 2024.
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