Full list of players to score a hat-trick at the FIFA World Cup: Canada’s Jonathan David joins Messi, Ronaldo, Pele


Scoring a hat-trick at the World Cup is one of football’s greatest individual achievements; doing it at the World Cup is a feat reserved for the elite. It serves as the exact moment when a player takes over the field, thrives under pressure and potentially steers his side to victory.

Throughout the tournament a host of players achieved a number of standalone hat-trick records; For example, Hungary’s László Kiss remains the only player to have scored a hat-trick from the bench, while also scoring the fastest hat-trick, in a historic 10-1 win against El Salvador at the 1982 World Cup. Meanwhile, Geoff Hurst occupies a unique place in World Cup history as the first player to score a treble in a World Cup final, inspiring England to a 4-2 victory over West Germany in 1966. Meanwhile, Gabriel Bautista wrote his his name in the record books by becoming the first player to score World Cup hat-tricks in multiple World Cup editions (1994 and 1998).

Now that Jonathan David has recorded the final hat-trick of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, let’s take a look at all the players who managed to achieve this remarkable feat

List of players to score a hat-trick at the FIFA World Cup

Bert Patenaude (United States) – vs. Paraguay – 1930 Guillermo Stabile (Argentina) – vs. Mexico – 1930 Pedro Cea (Uruguay) – vs. Yugoslavia – 1930 Angelo Schiavio (Italy) – vs. United States – 1934 Edmund Cohen (Germany) – vs. Belgium – 1934 Oldrich Nejedly (Czechoslovakia) – versus Germany – 1934 Ernst Wilimowski* (Poland) – versus Brazil – 1938 Leonidas (Brazil) – versus Poland – 1938 Gustav Wetterstorm (Sweden) – versus Cuba – 1938 Harry Andersson (Sweden) – versus Cuba – 1938 Oscar Miguez (Uruguay) – versus Bolivia – 1950 Ademir* (Brazil) – vs. Sweden – 1950 Sandor Kocsis (Hungary) – vs. South Korea – 1954 Erich Probst (Austria) – vs. Czechoslovakia – 1954 Carlos Borges (Uruguay) – vs. Scotland – 1954 Sandor Kocsis* (Hungary) – vs. West Germany – 1954 Burhan Sargin (Turkey) – vs. South Korea – 1954 Max Morlock (West Germany) – vs Turkey – 1954 Theodor Wagner (Austria) – vs Switzerland – 1954 Josef Hugi (Switzerland) – vs Austria – 1954 Just Fontaine (France) – vs Paraguay – 1958 Pelé (Brazil) – vs France – 1958 Just Fontaine* (France) – vs West Germany – 1958 Florian Albert (Hungary) – vs Bulgaria – 1962 Eusebio* (Portugal) – vs South Korea – 1966 Geoff Hurst (England) – vs West Germany – 1966 Gerd Müller (West Germany) – vs Bulgaria – 1970 Gerd Müller (West Germany) – vs Peru – 1970 Dusan Bajevic (Yugoslavia) – vs. Zaire – 1974 Andrzej Szarmach (Poland) – vs. Haiti – 1974 Rob Rensenbrink (Netherlands) – vs. Iran – 1978 Teofilo Cubilas (Peru) – vs. Iran – 1978 László Kiss (Hungary) – vs. El Salvador – 1982 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (West Germany) – vs Chile – 1982 Zbigniew Boniek (Poland) – vs Belgium – 1982 Paolo Rossi (Italy) – vs Brazil – 1982 Preben Elkjaer (Denmark) – vs Uruguay – 1986 Gary Lineker (England) – vs Poland – 1986 Igor Belanov (Soviet Union) – vs Belgium – 1986 Emilio Butragueno* (Spain) – vs Denmark – 1986 Michel (Spain) – vs South Korea – 1990 Tomas Skuhravy (Czechoslovakia) – vs Costa Rica – 1990 Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina) – vs Greece – 1994 Oleg Salenko* (Russia) – vs Cameroon – 1994 Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina) – vs Jamaica – 1998 Miroslav Klose (Germany) – vs Saudi Arabia – 2002 Pauleta (Portugal) – vs Poland – 2002 Gonzalo Higuain (Argentina) – vs South Korea – 2010 Thomas Müller (Germany) – vs Portugal – 2014 Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland) – vs Honduras – 2014 Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) – vs Spain – 2018 Harry Kane (England) – vs Panama – 2018 Gonçalo Ramos (Portugal) – vs Switzerland – 2022 Kylian Mbappé (France) – vs Argentina – 2022

Lionel Messi (Argentina) – vs Algeria – 2026

Jonathan David (Canada) – vs Qatar – 2026

Published on June 19, 2026



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