List of players with the most goals in an association football game
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 8 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:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mascarenhas | 6 | Sporting CP | APOEL | 16–1 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 13 November 1963 | First round | [2] |
Domestic
Austria
The most successful scorers per game in an Austrian Bundesliga match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hans Krankl | 7 | Rapid Wien | Grazer AK | 11–1 | Austrian Bundesliga | 22 June 1977 | Austrian Bundesliga record | [3] |
No player with six goals and three players with five goals: Hans Krankl (2x), Gernot Jurtin, Axel Lawarée | [3] |
Colombia
The most successful scorers per game in a Colombian Categoría Primera A match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gyula Zsengellér | 6 | Deportivo Samarios | Universidad | 12–1 | Campeonato Profesional | 22 July 1951 | Categoría Primera A record | [4][5] |
Alfredo Castillo | 6 | Millonarios | Independiente Medellín | 7–3 | Campeonato Profesional | 5 September 1948 | Categoría Primera A record | [4] |
Jaime Gutiérrez | 6 | Deportes Quindío | Deportivo Samarios | 11–1 | Campeonato Profesional | 9 November 1952 | Categoría Primera A record | [4] |
England
The most successful scorers per game in a Football League match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Joe Payne | 10 | Luton Town | Bristol Rovers | 12–0 | Third Division South | 13 April 1936 | Football League record | [6] |
Robert Bell | 9 | Tranmere Rovers | Oldham Athletic | 13–4 | Third Division North | 26 December 1935 | [6] | |
Ted Drake | 7 | Arsenal | Aston Villa | 7–1 | First Division | 14 December 1935 | English top flight record | [6][7] |
Tommy Briggs | 7 | Blackburn | Bristol Rovers | 8–3 | Second Division | 5 February 1955 | [7] | |
Neville Coleman | 7 | Stoke | Lincoln | 8–0 | Second Division | 23 February 1957 | [7] |
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 | March 1995 | Joint Premier League record | [8] |
Alan Shearer | 5 | Newcastle United | Sheffield Wednesday | 8–0 | Premier League | September 1999 | [8] | |
Jermain Defoe | 5 | Tottenham Hotspur | Wigan Athletic | 9–1 | Premier League | 22 November 2009 | [8] | |
Dimitar Berbatov | 5 | Manchester United | Blackburn Rovers | 7–1 | Premier League | 27 November 2010 | [8] | |
Sergio Agüero | 5 | Manchester City | Newcastle United | 6–1 | Premier League | 3 October 2015 | [8] | |
Twenty-two 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 (2x), Dimitar Berbatov, Frank Lampard (2x), Andrey Arshavin, Robbie Keane, Wayne Rooney, Louis Saha, Edin Džeko, Efan Ekoku, Luis Suárez, Sergio Agüero, Georginio Wijnaldum, Romelu Lukaku, Mohamed Salah | [8] |
The most successful scorers per game in an FA Cup match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ted MacDougall | 9 | Bournemouth | Margate | 11–0 | FA Cup | 20 November 1971 | FA Cup record | [9] |
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 | [10] |
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 | [10] |
The most successful scorers per game in a 2. Bundesliga match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ottmar Hitzfeld | 6 | Stuttgart | Jahn Regensburg | 8–0 | 2. Bundesliga | 13 May 1977 | 2. Bundesliga record | [11] |
Nine players with five goals: Rolf Kucharski, Volker Graul, Rainer Künkel, Wilfried Klinge, Horst Hrubesch, Otmar Ludwig, Frank Mill, Ronnie Worm, Dieter Gutzler | [11] |
The most successful scorers per game in a DDR-Oberliga match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Joachim Streich | 6 | Magdeburg | BSG Chemie Böhlen | 10–2 | DDR-Oberliga | 9 June 1979 | DDR-Oberliga record | [12] |
Two players with five goals: Hans-Bert Matoul, Damian Halata | [12] |
The most successful scorers per game in a German Cup match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Carsten Jancker | 6 | Kaiserslautern | Schönberg 95 | 15–0 | DFB-Pokal | 21 August 2004 | DFB-Pokal record | [13] |
Seven players with five goals: Gerd Müller, Dieter Müller, Ronnie Worm, Olaf Thon, Paulo Sérgio, Carsten Jancker, Marek Leśniak | [13] |
The most successful scorers per game in a Women's Fußball-Bundesliga match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Heidi Mohr | 7 | TuS Niederkirchen | SG Praunheim | 8–1 | Women's Fußball-Bundesliga | 3 March 1991 | Women's Bundesliga record | [14] |
Italy
The most successful scorers per game in a Serie A match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Silvio Piola | 6 | Pro Vercelli | Fiorentina | 7–2 | Serie A | 29 October 1933 | Joint Serie A record | [15] |
Omar Sívori | 6 | Juventus | Internazionale | 9–1 | Serie A | 10 June 1961 | [16][17] | |
11 players with five goals: Miroslav Klose (2012–13), Roberto Pruzzo (1985–86), Kurt Hamrin (1963–64), Antonio Valentín Angelillo (1958–59), Carlo Galli (1957–58), Emanuele Del Vecchio (1957–58), Bruno Ispiro (1948–49), István Mike Mayer (1948–49), Giuseppe Meazza (1937–38), Cesare Augusto Fasanelli (1930–31) and Giovanni Vecchina (1929–30) | [18] |
Netherlands
The most successful scorers per game in an Eredivisie match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Afonso Alves | 7 | Heerenveen | Heracles Almelo | 9–0 | Eredivisie | 7 October 2007 | Eredivisie record | [19] |
The most successful scorers per game in an Eerste Divisie match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Johan Voskamp | 8 | Sparta Rotterdam | Almere City | 12–1 | Eerste Divisie | 20 August 2010 | [20] |
Norway
The most successful scorers per game in a Tippeligaen match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Odd Iversen | 6 | Rosenborg | Vålerenga | 7–2 | Tippeligaen | 1968 | [21] | |
Jan Fuglset | 6 | Molde | Strømsgodset | 6–0 | Tippeligaen | 1976 | [21] |
Pakistan
The most successful scorers per game in a Pakistani women's football championship match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Malika-e-Noor | 14 | Young Rising Stars | Margala | 25–0 | Pakistani women's football championship | September 2011 | [22] |
Romania
The most successful scorers per game in a Liga I Feminin match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cosmina Duşa | 13 | CFF Olimpia Cluj | CFF Clujana | 13–2 | Liga I Feminin | 31 October 2010 | [23] | |
Cosmina Duşa | 8 | CFF Olimpia Cluj | Fair Play Bucuresti | 27–0 | Liga I Feminin | 8 May 2011 | only played last 30 minutes | [24] |
Scotland
The most successful scorers per game in a top flight match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jimmy McGrory | 8 | Celtic | Dunfermline | 9–0 | Division One | 14 January 1928 | Scottish top flight record | [25] |
The most successful scorers per game in a Scottish Premier League match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kenny Miller | 5 | Rangers | St Mirren | 7–1 | Scottish Premier League | 4 November 2000 | Joint Scottish Premier League record | [25][26] |
Kris Boyd | 5 | Kilmarnock | Dundee United | 5–2 | Scottish Premier League | 25 September 2004 | [25][26] | |
Kris Boyd | 5 | Rangers | Dundee United | 7–1 | Scottish Premier League | 30 December 2009 | [26] | |
Gary Hooper | 5 | Celtic | Hearts | 5–0 | Scottish Premier League | 13 May 2012 | [26] |
The most successful scorers per game in a Scottish Cup match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
John Petrie | 13 | Arbroath | Bon Accord | 36–0 | Scottish Cup | 12 September 1885 | [27] |
The most successful scorers per game in a Scottish Women's Cup match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Debbie McWhinnie | 12 | Glasgow City | Motherwell | 28–0 | Scottish Women's Cup | 15 February 2004 | [28] |
The most successful scorers per game in a Scottish Women's Premier League match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Debbie McWhinnie | 10 | Hibernian | East Kilbride | 17–0 | Scottish Women's Premier League | 29 August 2004 | [29] | |
Ruesha Littlejohn | 7 | Glasgow City | Inverness | 11–0 | Scottish Women's Premier League | 7 November 2010 | [30] |
Spain
The most successful scorers per game in a La Liga match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Agustín Sauto Arana | 7 | Athletic Bilbao | Barcelona | 12–1 | La Liga | 8 February 1931 | Joint record holder for La Liga | [31] |
László Kubala | 7 | Barcelona | Sporting Gijón | 9–0 | La Liga | 10 February 1952 | [31] | |
César | 6 | Granada | Castellón | 7–3 | La Liga | 22 March 1942 | [31] | |
Edmundo Suárez | 6 | Valencia | Real Betis | 8–3 | La Liga | 28 February 1943 | [31] | |
Telmo Zarra | 6 | Athletic Bilbao | Lleida | 10–0 | La Liga | 19 November 1950 | [31] |
The most successful scorers per game in a Copa del Rey match:
Player | Goals | For | Against | Result | Competition | Date | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Eulogio Martínez | 7 | Barcelona | Atlético Madrid | 8–1 | Copa del Rey | 1 May 1957 | [32] | |
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