This is a list of hat-tricks in the AFC Asian Cup, that being when a player scores three or more goals in a tournament match of the AFC Asian Cup (not including qualification matches). Hat-tricks have occurred nineteen times across the eighteen editions.
The first tournament was held in 1956, however no hat-tricks were scored in the first four competitions. The first instance was in 1972, where Hossein Kalani scored three goals for Iran against Iraq in the group stage. Later on in the same tournament again for Iran, Ali Jabbari scored three goals inside nine minutes to defeat Thailand 3–2. The first time a player would score four goals in a match would be 1980, where Behtash Fariba achieved the feat in a 7–0 win for Iran over Bangladesh. After 1980, three tournaments went by without a hat-trick before Ali Daei scored four goals for Iran in a 6–2 win over South Korea in 1996, also marking the first time at least three goals were scored in a match in the knockout stage. Two tournaments later in 2004, another knockout stage hat-trick was achieved by Ali Karimi for Iran in a 4–3 win against South Korea, again in the quarter-finals. In the 2023 tournament, Akram Afif became the first player to register a hat-trick in the final of the competition, scoring all three of Qatar's goals in their 3–1 victory against Jordan; he was also the first player whose hat-trick consisted solely of penalty kicks.
Iran have scored the most hat-tricks with six, while Bangladesh and Uzbekistan have conceded the most, with three each. No player has ever scored multiple hat-tricks in the Asian Cup, and every hat-trick scorer has had their side go on to win their match.
| 4 | Player scored four goals in the match |
| No. | Player | Time of goals | Representing | scope=col class="unsortable" | Result | Opponent | Round | Date | Ref. | ||
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 1972 | scope=row data-sort-value="Kalani, Hossein" | Hossein Kalani | 34', 70', 78' | 3–0 | Group stage | 9 May 1972 | [1] [2] | ||||
| scope=row data-sort-value="Jabbari, Ali" | Ali Jabbari | 80', 86', 88' | 3–2 | 13 May 1972 | |||||||
 1976 | scope=row data-sort-value="Hossein Mazloumi, Gholam" | Gholam Hossein Mazloumi | 63', 74', 80' | 8–0 | Group stage | 8 June 1976 | [3] | ||||
| 1980 | scope=row data-sort-value="Fariba, Behtash" | Behtash Fariba4 | 11', 34', 80', 82' | 7–0 | Group stage | 22 September 1980 | [4] | ||||
| scope=row data-sort-value="Soon-ho, Choi" | Choi Soon-ho | 26', 53', 78' (pen.) | 4–1 | 24 September 1980 | [5] | ||||||
| scope=row data-sort-value="Xiangfu, Shen" | Shen Xiangfu | 1', 5', 72' | 6–0 | 25 September 1980 | |||||||
| scope=row data-sort-value="Yonglai, Xu" | Xu Yonglai | 16', 79', 89' | |||||||||
| 1996 | scope=row data-sort-value="Daei, Ali" | Ali Daei4 | 66', 76', 83', 89' (pen.) | 6–2 | Quarter-finals | 16 December 1996 | [6] | ||||
| 2000 | scope=row data-sort-value="Nishizawa, Akinori" | Akinori Nishizawa | 14', 25', 49' | 8–1 | Group stage | 17 October 2000 | [7] | ||||
| scope=row data-sort-value="Takahara, Naohiro" | Naohiro Takahara | 18', 20', 57' | |||||||||
| scope=row data-sort-value="Dong-gook, Lee" | Lee Dong-gook | 30', 76', 90+1' | 3–0 | 19 October 2000 | [8] | ||||||
| scope=row data-sort-value="Al-Shalhoub, Mohammad" | Mohammad Al-Shalhoub | 35', 78', 86' | 5–0 | 20 October 2000 | [9] | ||||||
 2004 | scope=row data-sort-value="Karimi, Ali" | Ali Karimi | 10', 20', 77' | 4–3 | Quarter-finals | 31 July 2004 | [10] | ||||
 2011 | scope=row data-sort-value="Abdullatif, Ismail" | Ismail Abdullatif4 | 16', 19', 35', 77' | 5–2 | Group stage | 14 January 2011 | [11] | ||||
| scope=row data-sort-value="Okazaki, Shinji" | Shinji Okazaki | 8', 13', 80' | 5–0 | 17 January 2011 | [12] | ||||||
 2015 | scope=row data-sort-value="Al-Dardour, Hamza" | Hamza Al-Dardour4 | 35', 45+2', 75', 80' | 5–1 | Group stage | 16 January 2015 | [13] | ||||
| 2019 | scope=row data-sort-value="Ali, Almoez" | Almoez Ali4 | 9', 11', 55', 60' | 6–0 | Group stage | 13 January 2019 | [14] | ||||
| scope=row data-sort-value="Lux, Vitalij" | Vitalij Lux | 24', 51', 77' | 3–1 | 16 January 2019 | [15] | ||||||
| 2023 | scope=row data-sort-value="Afif, Akram" | Akram Afif | 22' (pen.), 73' (pen.), 90+5' (pen.) | 3–1 | Final | 10 February 2024 | [16] |
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