This is a list of players with the most goals in an association football game. The list only includes players who have scored the most multiple goals in first class or fully professional matches for country or club.
The current world record for an international is held by Archie Thompson, who scored 13 goals against American Samoa in Australia's 31–0 victory during the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification. In the same match, David Zdrilic scored eight goals.[1]
In the most prolific European football leagues, the Premier League and the Football League First Division before it, La Liga, Serie A and the Bundesliga, the top scorers per game have much lower tallies, seven in England and Spain and six in Italy and Germany. The last player in these leagues to score seven goals in a match was László Kubala in 1952 for Barcelona.
List
The players are listed by number of goals scored in an individual game. Players on equal goals are listed in chronological order with the earlier ones on top.
Continental
Europe
- The most successful scorers per game in a UEFA club competition match
Domestic
Austria
- The most successful scorers per game in an Austrian Bundesliga match
Colombia
- The most successful scorers per game in an Colombian Categoría Primera A match
England
- The most successful scorers per game in a Football League match
- The most successful scorers per game in a top flight match
- The most successful scorers per game in a Premier League match
Player |
Goals |
For |
Against |
Result |
Competition |
Date |
Notes |
Ref |
Andy Cole |
5 |
Manchester United |
Ipswich Town |
9–0 |
Premier League |
4 March 1995 |
Joint Premier League record |
[8] |
Alan Shearer |
5 |
Newcastle United |
Sheffield Wednesday |
8–0 |
Premier League |
19 September 1999 |
[9] |
Jermain Defoe |
5 |
Tottenham Hotspur |
Wigan Athletic |
9–1 |
Premier League |
22 November 2009 |
[9] |
Dimitar Berbatov |
5 |
Manchester United |
Blackburn Rovers |
7–1 |
Premier League |
27 November 2010 |
[9] |
Sergio Agüero |
5 |
Manchester City |
Newcastle United |
6–1 |
Premier League |
3 October 2015 |
[9] |
Twenty players with four goals: Robbie Fowler (2x), Gianluca Vialli, Jürgen Klinsmann, Michael Owen (2x), Ole Gunnar Solskjær (2x), Andy Cole, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Mark Viduka, Thierry Henry, Yakubu Ayegbeni (2x), Dimitar Berbatov, Frank Lampard (2x), Andrey Arshavin, Robbie Keane, Wayne Rooney, Louis Saha, Edin Džeko, Efan Ekoku, Luis Suárez, Sergio Agüero, Georginio Wijnaldum |
[9] |
- The most successful scorers per game in an FA Cup match
Germany
- The most successful scorers per game in a Bundesliga match
Player |
Goals |
For |
Against |
Result |
Competition |
Date |
Notes |
Ref |
Dieter Müller |
6 |
Köln |
Werder Bremen |
7–2 |
Bundesliga |
17 August 1977 |
Bundesliga record |
[11] |
Thirteen players with five goals: Karl-Heinz Thielen, Rudolf Brunnenmeier, Franz Brungs, Klaus Scheer, Gerd Müller (4x), Jupp Heynckes, Manfred Burgsmüller, Atli Eðvaldsson, Dieter Hoeneß, Jürgen Klinsmann, Frank Hartmann, Michael Tönnies, Robert Lewandowski |
[11] |
- The most successful scorers per game in a 2. Bundesliga match
- The most successful scorers per game in a DDR-Oberliga match
- The most successful scorers per game in a German Cup match
- The most successful scorers per game in a Women's Fußball-Bundesliga match
Italy
- The most successful scorers per game in a Serie A match
Netherlands
- The most successful scorers per game in an Eredivisie match
- The most successful scorers per game in an Eerste Divisie match
Norway
- The most successful scorers per game in a Tippeligaen match
Pakistan
- The most successful scorers per game in a Pakistani women's football championship match
Romania
- The most successful scorers per game in a Liga I Feminin match
Scotland
- The most successful scorers per game in a top flight match
- The most successful scorers per game in a Scottish Premier League match
- The most successful scorers per game in a Scottish Cup match
- The most successful scorers per game in a Scottish Women's Cup match
- The most successful scorers per game in a Scottish Women's Premier League match
Spain
- The most successful scorers per game in a La Liga match
- The most successful scorers per game in a Copa del Rey match
References
- ↑ Aussie Rules as Socceroos smash world record again The Guardian, published: 11 April 2001, accessed: 18 August 2012
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Österreich " Bundesliga " Statistik " Die meisten Tore eines Spielers pro Spiel (German) Weltfussball.de – Austria – The most goals by a player in a game, accessed: 18 August 2012
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 http://www.semana.com/imprimir/94906
- ↑ Asociación de Clubes del Fútbol Profesional Colombiano - Historia 1951 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 The forgotten story of … the Football League's record scoring trio The Guardian, published: 18 October 2011, accessed: 18 August 2012
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Goals The Football League website, accessed: 20 August 2012
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 England " Premier League " Statistik " Die meisten Tore eines Spielers pro Spiel (German) Weltfussball.de – England – The most goals by a player in a Premier League game, accessed: 20 August 2012
- ↑ When Ted MacDougall scored nine goals in the FA Cup for Bournemouth BBC website, published: 17 November 2011, accessed: 18 August 2012
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Bundesliga " Statistik " Die meisten Tore eines Spielers pro Spiel (German) Weltfussball.de – Germany – The most goals by a player in a game, accessed: 18 August 2012
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 2. Bundesliga " Statistik " Die meisten Tore eines Spielers pro Spiel (German) Weltfussball.de – Germany – The most goals by a player in a game in the 2. Bundesliga, accessed: 18 August 2012
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 DDR " Oberliga " Statistik " Die meisten Tore eines Spielers pro Spiel (German) Weltfussball.de – Austria – The most goals by a player in a game, accessed: 18 August 2012
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 DFB-Pokal " Statistik " Die meisten Tore eines Spielers pro Spiel (German) Weltfussball.de – Germany – The most goals by a player in a DFB-Pokal game, accessed: 19 August 2012
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Italy 1933/34 RSSSF.com, accessed: 18 August 2012
- ↑ Juventus Records accessed: 18 August 2012
- ↑ Omar Sivori The Daily Telegraph, published: 19 February 2005, accessed: 18 August 2012
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Niederlande " Eredivisie " Statistik " Die meisten Tore eines Spielers pro Spiel (German) Weltfussball.de – Netherlands – The most goals by a player in a game, accessed: 18 August 2012
- ↑ Niederlande " Jupiler League " Statistik " Die meisten Tore eines Spielers pro Spiel (German) Weltfussball.de – Netherlands – The most goals by a player in a game in the Eerste Divisie, accessed: 18 August 2012
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ cluj.citynews.ro accessed: 18 August 2012
- ↑ olimpiacluj.ro accessed: 18 August 2012
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 Scottish League SFAQs ScottishLeague.net, accessed: 19 August 2012
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 Schottland " Premier League " Statistik " Die meisten Tore eines Spielers pro Spiel (German) Weltfussball.de – Scotland – The most goals by a player in a Premier League game, accessed: 21 August 2012
- ↑ A day when Scottish football scorched the record books The Scotsman, published: 9 December 2005, accessed: 18 August 2012
- ↑ Daily Record accessed: 18 August 2012
- ↑ Daily Record accessed: 19 August 2012
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 32.3 32.4 Spanien " Primera División " Statistik " Die meisten Tore eines Spielers pro Spiel (German) Weltfussball.de – Spain – The most goals by a player in a game, accessed: 18 August 2012
- ↑ FC Barcelona individual records FC Barcelona website, accessed: 18 August 2012