List of England national football team hat-tricks

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Geoff Hurst scored a hat-trick in the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final, which England won 4–2.

Since the inception of international association football matches in 1872, 59 England male footballers have scored three or more goals (a hat-trick) in a game. The first players to score a hat-trick for England were Howard Vaughton and Arthur Alfred Brown, both Aston Villa players; in a friendly match against Ireland in 1882, they scored nine goals between them.[1] Four players, Vaughton, Steve Bloomer, Willie Hall and Malcolm Macdonald, have scored five goals in one match. Jimmy Greaves has scored the greatest number of hat-tricks, with six. Five players, Albert Allen, Frank Bradshaw, Walter Gilliat, John Veitch and John Yates, have scored hat-tricks on their only international appearance.

In the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final, Geoff Hurst scored a hat-trick, generally considered one of the most famous of all time.[2][3][4] The most recent hat-trick was scored by Bukayo Saka in a European Championship qualifier against North Macedonia in June 2023.

England have conceded eleven hat-tricks since 1872, the most recent being scored by Zlatan Ibrahimović who scored four goals in a 4–2 defeat by Sweden in a friendly match in November 2012. Richard Hofmann was the first player from outside the Home Nations to score a hat-trick against England, scoring three times for Germany in a friendly match in May 1930. Previously only the Scottish players John McDougall, George Ker, John Smith, Robert Smyth McColl and Alex Jackson had scored hat-tricks against England.

  1. ^ "Kit unveiled". Aston Villa F.C. Archived from the original on 28 September 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
  2. ^ Moore, Kevin. Museums and Popular Culture (Contemporary Issues in Museum Culture). Leicester University Press. p. 108. ISBN 0-7185-0227-2. ... probably the most famous hat-trick of all time ...
  3. ^ "Hat-trick heroes". BBC Sport. 1 September 2001. Archived from the original on 19 May 2009. Retrieved 16 July 2009. Possibly the most famous hat-trick in footballing history.
  4. ^ "Legends: Bobby Moore". The Football Association. 27 December 2007. Archived from the original on 7 April 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2013. ... GeoHurst ran on to seal the most famous hat-trick in history ...