Since the inception of the UEFA Champions League in 1992, 87 players from 36 countries have scored three goals or more in a single match on a total of 129 occasions for 49 different clubs from 17 different leagues. The first player to achieve the feat was Juul Ellerman, who scored three times for PSV Eindhoven in a 6–0 victory over FK Vilnius on 16 September 1992. Fourteen players have scored four or more goals in a match; of these, only Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski have achieved this more than once. Only Messi and Luiz Adriano have scored five. The other eleven players to score four goals are Marco van Basten, Simone Inzaghi, Dado Pršo, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Andriy Shevchenko, Bafétimbi Gomis, Mario Gómez, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Cristiano Ronaldo, Serge Gnabry and Josip Iličić. Messi and Ronaldo have scored three or more goals eight times in the Champions League, more than any other player, followed by Lewandowski, Filippo Inzaghi, Gómez and Luiz Adriano, who have done it on three occasions, while Andy Cole, Michael Owen, Samuel Eto'o, Marco Simone, Van Nistelrooy, Roy Makaay, Roberto Soldado, Didier Drogba, Adriano, Shevchenko, Sergio Agüero, Karim Benzema and Neymar have scored two hat-tricks. Only Ronaldo and Messi have scored three or more goals on more than a single occasion in the knockout stage. Eleven of the players have each scored hat-tricks for two or more different clubs: Inzaghi, Owen, Eto'o, Simone, Van Nistelrooy, Makaay, Shevchenko, Drogba, Lewandowski, Neymar and Ronaldo. Nine players have scored a hat-trick on their debut in the Champions League: Van Basten, Faustino Asprilla, Yakubu, Wayne Rooney, Vincenzo Iaquinta, Grafite, Yacine Brahimi, Erling Haaland and Mislav Oršić. Six players have scored hat-tricks in two consecutive seasons: Adriano, Gómez, Soldado, Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, and Gabriel Jesus. Two players have achieved hat-tricks in back-to-back games. Cristiano Ronaldo did it for Real Madrid against Bayern Munich on 18 April 2017 and Atlético Madrid on 2 May 2017, the shortest gap at just 14 days, and Luiz Adriano did it for Shakhtar Donetsk against BATE Borisov on 21 October and 5 November 2014, a gap of 15 days. The longest spell between two hat-tricks was achieved by Owen, who scored his first hat-trick on 22 October 2002 for Liverpool and his second over seven years later on 8 December 2009 for Manchester United. Cristiano Ronaldo is the only player to score more than two hat-tricks in the same season, having scored three goals for Real Madrid on 15 September 2015, four on 8 December 2015, and another three on 12 April 2016. Two other players have scored hat-tricks in the same season: Messi scored two for Barcelona in two separate seasons, the first on 1 November 2011 and the second on 7 March 2012, repeating the feat with hat-tricks on 13 September 2016 and 19 October 2016, and Gómez scored a hat-trick for Bayern Munich on 2 November 2011 and another four goals on 13 March 2012. Bafétimbi Gomis holds the record for the quickest Champions League hat-trick, netting three times for French team Lyon against Croatian team Dinamo Zagreb in 7 minutes on 7 December 2011. The record was previously held for 16 years by Mike Newell, who scored a perfect hat-trick for English teamBlackburn Rovers against Norwegian team Rosenborg on 6 December 1995 in 9 minutes. The youngest scorer of a Champions League hat-trick was Raúl, who scored a hat-trick for Real Madrid against Ferencváros, aged 18 years and 114 days, on 18 October 1995. Wayne Rooney is the youngest debut scorer of a Champions League hat-trick, aged 18 years and 340 days, when he scored for Manchester United against Fenerbahçe on 28 September 2004. The oldest scorer of a hat-trick in the UEFA Champions League is Cristiano Ronaldo, who was 34 years and 35 days old when he scored for Juventus three times against Atlético Madrid on 12 March 2019. The season with the most hat-tricks is 2019–20, which currently has ten.
The following table lists the number of hat-tricks scored by players who have scored two or more hat-tricks. Boldface indicates a player who is currently active.
The following table lists the number of four-goal matches of players who have scored at least four goals in two or more games. Boldface indicates a player who is currently active.
Lionel Messi
Cristiano Ronaldo
Robert Lewandowski
Mario Gómez
Filippo Inzaghi
Luiz Adriano
Karim Benzema
Andy Cole
Didier Drogba
Samuel Eto'o
Roy Makaay
Andriy Shevchenko
Roberto Soldado