List of Denmark national football team hat-tricks explained

This page is a list of the hat-tricks scored for the Denmark national football team.[1] Since Denmark's first international football match in 1908, there have been 56 occasions when a Danish player has scored three or more goals (a hat-trick) in a game. The first hat-trick was scored by Vilhelm Wolfhagen against France B in the team's first-ever game on 19 October 1908. Poul Nielsen holds the record for the most hat-tricks scored by a Danish player with eight, five of which came against Norway. The record for the most goals scored in an international game by a Danish player is ten, which has been achieved on just one occasion: by Sophus Nielsen against France in the 1908 Summer Olympics semi-finals of the 1908 Summer Olympics,[2] which was also a world record until it was broken by Archie Thompson broke it when he scored 13 goals in a 31–0 victory over American Samoa in 2001.[3]

Preben Elkjær are the only Danish players to have scored a hat-trick at the FIFA World Cup finals.

Hat-tricks scored by Denmark

No.Player OpponentGoalsScoreVenueCompetitionDateRef(s)
Vilhelm Wolfhagen France BWhite City Stadium, London1908 Summer Olympics First round19 October 1908
Sophus Nielsen France1908 Summer Olympics semi-finals22 October 1908
Vilhelm Wolfhagen (2)
Anthon Olsen NorwayTranebergs Idrottsplats, Stockholm1912 Summer Olympics quarter-finals30 June 1912
Kristian Gyldenstein SwedenIdrætsparken, CopenhagenFriendly25 May 1913
Poul Nielsen5 October 1913
Poul Nielsen (2) GermanyHamburg, Stadion Hoheluft26 October 1913
Poul Nielsen (3) NorwayKøbenhavns Idrætspark, Copenhagen17 May 1914
Poul Nielsen (4)19 September 1915
Anthon Olsen (2)
Poul Nielsen (5)15 October 1916
Michael Rohde
Victor Klein7 October 1917
Poul Nielsen (6)
Poul Nielsen (7)12 June 1919
Poul Nielsen (8)2 October 1921
Viggo Jørgensen Netherlands13 June 1926
Pauli Jørgensen Finland1929–32 Nordic Football Championship13 October 1929
Pauli Jørgensen (2) Sweden22 June 1930
Pauli Jørgensen (3) GermanyFriendly7 September 1930
Pauli Jørgensen (4) NorwayDansk Boldspil-Union 50th Anniversary Tournament18 June 1939
Oskar Theisen Finland1937–47 Nordic Football Championship17 September 1939
Kaj Hansen SwedenFriendly20 October 1940
Karl Aage Hansen Norway20 October 1946
Carl Aage Præst Poland26 June 1948
John Hansen ItalyHighbury, London1948 Olympic Games5 August 1948
Egon JensenLaugardalsvöllur, ReykjavíkKnattspyrnusamband Íslands 10th Anniversary Tournament10 July 1957
Harald Nielsen FinlandKøbenhavns Idrætspark, Copenhagen1956–59 Nordic Football Championship4 October 1959
Harald Nielsen (2) GreeceFriendly3 July 1960
Henning Enoksen
Jørn Sørensen Finland1960–63 Nordic Football Championship15 October 1961
Ole Madsen Norway11 June 1962
Ole Madsen (2) Malta1964 Euro qualifying28 June 1962
Ole Madsen (3) LuxembourgStade Municipal, Luxembourg City4 December 1963
Ulrik Le Fevre IcelandKøbenhavns Idrætspark, CopenhagenFriendly23 August 1967
Finn Laudrup
Kresten Bjerre
Erik Dyreborg NorwayUllevaal Stadion, Oslo1964–67 Nordic Football Championship24 September 1967
Tommy Troelsen NorwayKøbenhavns Idrætspark, Copenhagen1968–71 Nordic Football Championship23 June 1968
Finn Wiberg LuxembourgFriendly20 November 1968
Bent Jensen BermudaBermuda National Stadium, Hamilton12 January 1969
Bent Jensen (2)Aalborg Stadium, Aalborg1 July 1969
Bent Jensen (3) FinlandKøbenhavns Idrætspark, Copenhagen1968–71 Nordic Football Championship10 September 1969
Kristen Nygaard MexicoFriendly16 August 1972
Henning Jensen Indonesia3 September 1974
Niels-Christian Holmstrøm
Preben Elkjær Northern IrelandUEFA Euro 1980 qualifying6 June 1979
Michael Laudrup LuxembourgUEFA Euro 1984 qualifying12 October 1983
Preben Elkjær (2) UruguayEstadio Neza 86, Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl1986 FIFA World Cup Group stage8 June 1986
Ebbe Sand MaltaBalgarska Armia Stadium, Sofia2002 FIFA World Cup Qualifying24 March 2001
Claus Jensen EgyptCairo International Stadium, CairoFriendly12 February 2003
Peter Madsen PolandStadion Poznań, Poznań18 August 2004
Nicklas Bendtner United StatesAarhus Stadium, Aarhus25 March 2015
Christian Eriksen BulgariaSuita City Football Stadium, Suita2006 Kirin Cup Soccer Third place play-off7 June 2016
Thomas Delaney ArmeniaVazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan2018 FIFA World Cup qualification4 September 2017
Christian Eriksen (2) Republic of IrelandAviva Stadium, Dublin2018 FIFA World Cup play-offs14 November 2017
Rasmus Højlund FinlandParken Stadium, CopenhagenUEFA Euro 2024 qualifying23 March 2023

Statistics

The following table lists the number of hat-tricks scored by Hungarian
players who have scored two or more hat-tricks.[1]

Multiple hat-tricks
Rank PlayerHat-tricks
1Poul Nielsen8
2Pauli Jørgensen4
3Ole Madsen3
Bent Jensen
5Vilhelm Wolfhagen2
Anthon Olsen
Harald Nielsen
Preben Elkjær
Christian Eriksen
Hat-tricks by competition
CompetitionHat-tricks
Friendlies31
Nordic Football Championship9
UEFA Euro qualifying4
UEFA Euro0
Summer Olympics5
FIFA World Cup qualification3
FIFA World Cup1
Others3
Total56
Hat-tricks by opponent
RankOpponentHat-tricks
115
26
34
43
72
141
Total57

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Denmark hat-trick scorers . EU-Football.info . 13 August 2022 . 13 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220813051513/https://eu-football.info/_players.php?id=56&data=13 . live .
  2. Web site: Denmark vs France, 22 October 1908 . FIFA.com . 13 August 2022 . 1 July 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160701225655/http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/London1908/matches/round=196954/match=32252/index.html . live .
  3. News: Australia score 31 without loss in record win . 11 April 2001 . 5 August 2009 . Telegraph.co.uk . Telegraph Media Group Limited . London . Christopher . Davies . 10 February 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190210051454/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/international/3003021/Australia-score-31-without-loss-in-record-win.html . live .

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