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. 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. 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.

Hat-tricks for England

Wartime internationals, not regarded as official matches, are not included in the list.
Steve Bloomer scored England's first hat-trick of the twentieth century.
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Bryan Robson scored a hat-trick in an 8–0 victory against Turkey in 1984.
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Gary Lineker scored five hat-tricks for England.
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Michael Owen scored a hat-trick against Germany in 2001.
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Peter Crouch scored a hat-trick in a friendly fixture against Jamaica in 2006.
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Theo Walcott scored three times against Croatia in a World Cup qualifying game in 2008.

Hat-tricks conceded by England

England have conceded eleven hat-tricks, the first five of which were scored by players from Scotland. England have lost ten of the eleven matches in which they have conceded a hat-trick; the other was a 3–3 draw against Germany in 1930.

Zlatan Ibrahimović scored four goals against England. He achieved the feat for Sweden in 2012 at the opening game of the Friends Arena.

Statistics

The following table lists the number of hat-tricks scored by English
players who have scored two or more hat-tricks.

See also

References

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