List of UEFA Europa League hat-tricks
Since the rebranding of thr UEFA Cup as the UEFA Europa League in 2009, 62 different players from 31 countries have scored three or more goals in a single match (a hat-trick) on 78 occasions, representing 48 clubs from 19 countries. The first to do so was Liédson for Sporting CP against Dutch club Heerenveen on 17 September 2009, the first matchday of the new competition.[1]
Five players have gone on to score more than three goals in a match, with Radamel Falcao, Edinson Cavani, Willian José and Patson Daka managing four goals, and Athletic Bilbao's Aritz Aduriz scoring all five in a 5–3 win over Genk on 3 November 2016.[2] Falcao has scored the most hat-tricks in the Europa League, with three, all for Porto in their victorious 2010–11 campaign; ten players have scored two Europa League hat-tricks, with only Raúl Bobadilla, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Claudiu Keșerü doing so for two different clubs,[2] and only Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Diogo Jota doing so in consecutive appearances.[3][4]
Daka holds the record for the quickest hat-trick in the competition, with just nine minutes between his first and third goals for Leicester City against Spartak Moscow on 20 October 2021.[nb 1] João Félix is the youngest scorer of a Europa League hat-trick, with his three goals against Eintracht Frankfurt on 11 April 2019 coming at the age of 19 years and 152 days.[5] Elvis Manu is the only player to have scored a hat-trick in a match his team lost, having done so in Ludogorets Razgrad's 4–3 loss to LASK on 29 October 2020.
The season with the most hat-tricks was 2014–15, with twelve.
Hat-tricks
As of 26 October 2023[6]
| Key | |
|---|---|
| 4 | Player scored four goals |
| 5 | Player scored five goals |
| Player's team lost the match | |
| Player's team drew the match | |
| () | Number of times player scored a hat-trick (only for players with multiple hat-tricks) |
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Multiple hat-tricks
Eleven players have scored more than one hat-trick in the UEFA Europa League; Radamel Falcao is the only player to do so three times, and only Raúl Bobadilla, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Claudiu Keșerü have done so for multiple clubs.[2]
| Rank | Player | Hat-tricks |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Radamel Falcao |
3 |
| 2 |  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang |
2 |
 Raúl Bobadilla | ||
 Edinson Cavani | ||
 Edin Džeko | ||
 Manuel Fernandes | ||
 Klaas-Jan Huntelaar | ||
| Diogo Jota | ||
 Claudiu Keșerü | ||
 Jonathan Soriano | ||
 Yusuf Yazıcı |
Notes
- Daka scored his first goal in the 45th minute, at the end of the first half, and his third in the 54th; although these two times are nine minutes apart, this does not take first-half injury time into account.
References
- "Liedson treble sinks plucky Heerenveen". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 September 2009. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- "1. Facts & Figures" (PDF). UEFA Europa League Statistics Handbook 2019/20. Union of European Football Associations. p. 18. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- Curran, Paul (15 March 2012). "Huntelaar hat-trick sends Schalke through". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- Stone, Simon (20 February 2020). "Wolverhampton Wanderers 4-0 Espanyol: Nuno staying focused as fans dream of glory". BBC Sport. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- "Europa League round-up: Joao Felix hat-trick; English refs award three pens and a red". BBC Sport. 11 April 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- "Europa League » Statistics » Most goals by a player per game". WorldFootball.net. Retrieved 6 November 2020.