This is a list of all hat-tricks scored during UEFA European Championships; that is, the occasions when a footballer has scored three or more goals in a single football European Championship match (not including qualification matches). Scoring a hat-trick in a European Championship is a relatively rare event: only eight hat-tricks have been scored in the seventeen editions of the European Championships.[1][2][3] As UEFA is the governing body of European association football, official hat-tricks are only noted when UEFA recognises that at least three goals were scored by one player in one match.
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The tournament was first held in 1960, but there were no hat-tricks in any of the first four editions. In the semi-finals of the 1976 competition, Dieter Müller scored the first hat-trick in his first international game, as West Germany came from behind to defeat Yugoslavia 4–2 after extra time.[1] Four years later, his compatriot Klaus Allofs scored the second hat-trick, in a 3–2 group stage win over the Netherlands. The first tournament to see more than one hat-trick was in 1984, both by France captain Michel Platini, who is the only player to score more than one European Championship hat-trick; his first against Yugoslavia is the quickest hat-trick in the history of the competition, with all three goals coming in the space of 18 minutes.[1] After Marco van Basten's three goals for the Netherlands in a 3–1 group stage win over England in 1988, there were no hat-tricks in 1992 or 1996.
At UEFA Euro 2000, there were a joint-record two hat-tricks: Sérgio Conceição scored all of the goals in Portugal's group stage victory over Germany, and Patrick Kluivert recorded three goals in the Netherlands' 6–1 win over Yugoslavia in the quarter-finals. The most recent hat-trick to be scored at the European Championship finals was by Spain's David Villa, who scored three times in a 4–1 win over Russia in the group stage of the 2008 tournament.[1]
Every player who has scored a hat-trick in the European Championship has ended on the winning team in that match. On all but three occasions they have ended up winning the tournament. Dieter Müller's hat-trick in 1976 is the only to be scored by substitue. No player has scored in a European Championship final, nor has any recorded more than three goals in the same game.[2]
Hat-tricks
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No. | Player | Time of goals | For | Result | Against | Tournament | Round | Date | Ref. |
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1 | Dieter Müller | 82', 115', 119' | West Germany | 4–2 (a.e.t.) | Yugoslavia | 1976, Yugoslavia | Semi-finals | 17 June 1976 | [4] |
2 | Klaus Allofs | 20', 60', 65' | West Germany | 3–2 | Netherlands | 1980, Italy | Group stage | 14 June 1980 | [5] |
3 | Michel Platini (1) | 4', 74' (pen.), 89' | France | 5–0 | Belgium | 1984, France | Group stage | 16 June 1984 | [6] |
4 | Michel Platini (2) | 59', 62', 77' | France | 3–2 | Yugoslavia | Group stage | 19 June 1984 | [7] | |
5 | Marco van Basten | 44', 71', 75' | Netherlands | 3–1 | England | 1988, West Germany | Group stage | 15 June 1988 | [8] |
6 | Sérgio Conceição | 35', 54', 71' | Portugal | 3–0 | Germany | 2000, Belgium/Netherlands | Group stage | 20 June 2000 | [9] |
7 | Patrick Kluivert | 24', 38', 54' | Netherlands | 6–1 | Yugoslavia | Quarter-finals | 25 June 2000 | [10] | |
8 | David Villa | 20', 44', 75' | Spain | 4–1 | Russia | 2008, Austria/Switzerland | Group stage | 10 June 2008 | [11] |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d "EURO hat-trick heroes in an elite band". UEFA. Archived from the original on 17 March 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ a b "All the EURO finals hat-tricks: David Villa, Marco van Basten and more". UEFA. 1 January 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ "Team with most hat-tricks in UEFA European Championship (including qualification): Netherlands". IFFHS. 25 June 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
- ^ "UEFA Euro 1976 – History – Yugoslavia–West Germany". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 1976. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ "UEFA Euro 1980 – History – West Germany–Netherlands". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 14 June 1980. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ "UEFA Euro 1984 – History – France–Belgium". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 16 June 1984. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ "UEFA Euro 1984 – History – France–Yugoslavia". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 19 June 1984. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ "UEFA Euro 1988 – History – England–Netherlands". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 15 June 1988. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ "UEFA Euro 2000 – History – Portugal–Germany". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 20 June 2000. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ "UEFA Euro 2000 – History – Netherlands–Serbia". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 25 June 2000. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ "UEFA Euro 2008 – History – Spain–Russia". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 10 June 2008. Retrieved 14 June 2021.