List of UEFA European Championship hat-tricks

Michel Platini of France is the only player to have scored two hat-tricks in the European Championship, having scored both at UEFA Euro 1984 as France went on to win the tournament.^[1]

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 15 editions of the European Championships.^[1] 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.

The tournament was first held in 1960, but not hat-trick was scored in any of the first four editions. In the semi-finals of the 1976 version, 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. In the 1984 edition, there were more than one hat-trick in the tournament for the first time, both by French captain Michel Platini, who became the only player to score more than one in the same tournament.^[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 the 1992 and 1996 stagings.

In 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 the Germans, and Patrick Kluivert recorded three goals in the Netherlands' 6–1 win over the Yugoslavs in the quarter-finals. Of the last four editions of the tournament (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016), there has only been one hat-trick, when Spain's David Villa scored three times in a 4–1 win over Russia in the 2008 group stage.^[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. No player has scored in a Championship final, nor has any recorded more than three goals in the same game.

Hat-tricks

UEFA European Championships hat-tricks

Sequence	Player	Time of goals	For	Result	Against	Tournament	Round	Date	Ref
7000100000000000000♠1.	Dieter Müller	7001820000000000000♠82', 115', 119'	West Germany	4–2 (a.e.t.)	Yugoslavia	1976	Semi-finals	17 June 1976	[2]
7000200000000000000♠2.	Klaus Allofs	7001200000000000000♠20', 60', 65'	West Germany	3–2	Netherlands	1980	First round	14 June 1980	[3]
7000300000000000000♠3.	Michel Platini	7000400000000000000♠4', 74' (pen.), 89'	France	5–0	Belgium	1984	First round	16 June 1984	[4]
7000400000000000000♠4.	Michel Platini	7001590000000000000♠59', 62', 77'	France	3–2	Yugoslavia	1984	First round	19 June 1984	[5]
7000500000000000000♠5.	Marco van Basten	7001440000000000000♠44', 71', 75'	Netherlands	3–1	England	1988	First round	15 June 1988	[6]
7000600000000000000♠6.	Sérgio Conceição	7001350000000000000♠35', 54', 71'	Portugal	3–0	Germany	2000	First round	20 June 2000	[7]
7000700000000000000♠7.	Patrick Kluivert	7001240000000000000♠24', 38', 54'	Netherlands	6–1	Yugoslavia	2000	Quarter-finals	25 June 2000	[8]
7000800000000000000♠8.	David Villa	7001200000000000000♠20', 44', 75'	Spain	4–1	Russia	2008	First round	10 June 2008	[9]

See also

• UEFA European Championship

References