List of men's Olympic football tournament hat-tricks explained

Football at the Summer Olympics has been included in every Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition sport, except 1896 (the inaugural Games) and 1932 (in an attempt to promote the new FIFA World Cup tournament). Since the first official tournament in 1908 in England, 99 hat-tricks have been scored in over 1,000 matches of the 28 editions of the tournament. The first hat-trick was scored by Vilhelm Wolfhagen of the Denmark, playing against France B in 1908; the most recent was by Rafa Mir of Spain, playing against Ivory Coast on 31 July 2021. The only Olympic Football Tournaments not to have at least one hat-trick scored were the 1976, 2008, 2012 and 2024 editions. The record number of hat-tricks in a single Olympic Football Tournament is twelve, during the 1928 Olympics in the Netherlands, including three in the Bronze medal match as Italy defeated Egypt 11–3.^[1]

List

Olympic Football Tournament hat-tricks

scope=col	No.	scope=col	Player	scope=col		scope=col	Time of goals	scope=col	For	scope=col	Result	scope=col	Against	scope=col	Tournament	scope=col	Phase	scope=col	Date	scope=col class="unsortable"	FIFA report
.	Alexander Hall	3	', ??', ??'	Galt F.C.	7–0	Christian Brothers College	1904 Summer Olympics
.	Vilhelm Wolfhagen	4	', 17', 67', 72'		9–0	B	1908 Summer Olympics	First round
.	Clyde Purnell	4	', ?', ?', ?'		12–1
.	Harold Stapley	4	', 60', 64', 75'		4–0			Semi-finals
.	Sophus Nielsen	10	', 4', 6', 39', 46', 48', 52', 64', 66', 76'		17–1
.	Vilhelm Wolfhagen (2)	4	', 72', 82', 89'		17–1
.	Harold Walden	6	', 23', 49', 53', 55', 85'		7–0		1912 Summer Olympics	Quarter-finals
.	Anthon Olsen	3	', 70', 88'		7–0
.	Jan Vos	5	', 43', 46', 74', 78'		9–0			Bronze Medal match
.	Gottfried Fuchs	10	', 9', 21', 28', 34', 46', 51', 55', 65', 69'		16–0		1912 Summer Olympics – Consolation tournament	First round
.	Fritz Förderer	4	', 27', 53', 66'		16–0
.	Imre Schlosser	3	', 39', 82'		3-1			Semi-finals
.	Jan Vanik	3	', 46', 79'		7–0	Kingdom of SCS	1920 Summer Olympics	First round
.	Antonín Janda	3	', 50', 75'		7–0
.	Herbert Karlsson	5	', 20', 21', 51', 85'		9–0
.	Antonín Janda (2)	3	', 66', 77'		4–0			Quarter-finals
.	Robert Coppée	3	', 52', 55'		3–1
.	Otakar Mazal	3	', 75', 87'		4–1			Semi-finals
.	Paul Sturzenegger	4	', 43', 68', 85'		9–0		1924 Summer Olympics	First round
.	Max Abegglen	3	', 50', 58'		9–0
.	Édouard Crut	3	', 28', 55',		7–0			Second round
.	Kees Pijl	4	', 52', 66', 68'		6–0
.	Rudolf Kock	3	', 24', 77'		8–1
.	Sven Rydell	3	', 61', 83'		8–1
.	Richard Hofmann	3	', 75', 85'		4–0		1928 Summer Olympics	First round
.	Mahmoud Mokhtar	3	', 50', 63'		7–1
.	Domingo Tarasconi	4	', 63', 66', 89'		11–2
.	Roberto Cherro	3	', 49', 57'		11–2
.	José Maria Yermo	3	', 63', 85'		7–1
.	Domingo Tarasconi (2)	4	', 10', 75', 89'		6–3			Quarter-finals
.	Pedro Petrone	3	', 39', 84'		4–1
.	Domingo Tarasconi (3)	3	', 54', 61'		6–0			Semi-finals
.	Angelo Schiavo	3	', 42', 58',		11–3			Bronze medal match
.	Elvio Banchero	3	', 39', 49'		11–3
.	Mario Magnozzi	3	', 80', 88'		11–3
.	Guillermo Subiabre	3	', 48', 89'		3–1			Consolation first round
.	Adolf Urban	3	', 54', 75'		9–0		1936 Summer Olympics	First round
.	Wilhelm Simetsreiter	3	', 48', 74'		9–0
.	Teodoro Fernández	5	', 33', 47', 49', 70'		7–3
.	Annibale Frossi	3	', 75', 80'		8–0			Quarter-finals
.	Carlo Biagi	4	', 57', 81', 82'		8–0
.	Gerard Wodarz	3	', 48', 53'		5–4
.	Arne Brustad	3	', 21', 84'		3–2			Bronze medal match
.	Francesco Pernigo	4	', 57', 88', 90'		9–0		1948 Summer Olympics	First round
.	Gunnar Nordahl	4	', 40', 78', 80'		12–0			Quarter-finals
.	Henry Carlsson	3	', 64', 82'		12–0
.	John Hansen	4	', 53', 74', 82'		5–3
.	Branko Zebec	4	', 23', 60', 87'		10–1		1952 Summer Olympics	Preliminary round
.	Aredio Gimona	3	', 51', 75'		8–0
.	Joseph Roller	3	', 95', 97'		5–3
.	Elsayed Eldizwi	3	', 75', 80'		5–4
.	Vsevolod Bobrov	3	', 77', 87'		5–5			First round
.	John Laybourne	3	', 82', 85'		9–0		1956 Summer Olympics	Preliminary round
.	Muhamed Mujić	3	', 35', 56'		9–1			Quarter-finals
.	Todor Veselinović	3	', 84', 90'		9–1
.	Dimitar Milanov	3	', 75', 80'		6–1
.	Neville D'Souza	3	', 33', 50'		4–2
.	Bora Kostić	3	', 61', 63'		6–1		1960 Summer Olympics	Group stage
.	Milan Galić	3	', 57', 69'		3–3
.	Gérson	3	', 16', 47'		5–0
.	Ernst Pohl	5	', 40', 42', 84', 89'		6–1
.	János Göröcs	3	', 59', 77'		7–0
.	Ferenc Bene	6	', 38', 70', 74', 78', 87'		6–0		1964 Summer Olympics	Group stage
.	Tibor Csernai	4	', 11', 44', 63'		6–5
.	Ibrahim Riad	6	', 17', 40', 48', 72', 77'		10–0
.	Ferenc Bene (2)	4	', 20', 66', 77'		6–0			Semi-finals
.	Slaven Zambata	4	', 5', 43', 63'		1–6			First consolation round
.	Cornel Pavlovici	3	', 19', 74'		4–2
.	Kunishige Kamamoto	3	', 72', 89'		3–1		1968 Summer Olympics	Group stage
.	Yehoshua Feigenbaum	3	', 30', 70'		5–3
.	Ladislav Petráš	3	', 18', 68'		8–0
.	Lajos Szűcs	3	', 60', 75'		5–0			Semi-finals
.	Bernd Nickel	4	', 43', 70', 86'		7–0		1972 Summer Olympics	Group stage
.	Ahmed Faras	3	', 21', 25'		6–0
.	Oleh Blokhin	3	', 13', 14'		4–1
.	Antal Dunai	3	', 40', 90+1'		5–0
.	Robert Gadocha	3	', 49', 72'		5–1
.	Jürgen Sparwasser	3	', 51', 89'		7–0
.	Sergey Andreyev	3	', 27', 44'		8–0		1980 Summer Olympics	Group stage
.	Faisal Al-Dakhil	3	', 40', 85'		3–1
.	Stjepan Deverić	3	', 76', 87'		2–4		1984 Summer Olympics	Group stage
.	Borislav Cvetković	3	', 58', 70'		5–2			Quarter-finals
.	Kalusha Bwalya	3	', 55', 90'		4–0		1988 Summer Olympics	Group stage
.	Romário	3	', 57', 61'		3–0
.	Jürgen Klinsmann	3	', 42', 89'		4–0			Quarter-finals
.	Kwame Ayew	3	', 55', 120+1'		4–2		1992 Summer Olympics
.	Andrzej Juskowiak	3	', 52', 78'		6–1			Semi-finals
.	Bebeto	3	', 53', 74'		5–0		1996 Summer Olympics	Bronze medal match
.	Iván Zamorano	3	', 45+1', 55'		4–1		2000 Summer Olympics	Group stage
.	Tenema N'Diaye	3	', 24', 55'		3–3		2004 Summer Olympics	Group stage
.	Carlos Tevez	3	', 82', 83'		4–0			Quarter-finals
.	Peter Etebo	4	', 42', 52', 66'		5–4		2016 Summer Olympics	Group stage
.	Ryu Seung-woo	3	', 63', 90+3'		8–0
.	Érick Gutiérrez	4	', 55', 58', 73'		5–1
.	Nils Petersen	5	', 33', 40', 63', 70'		10–0
.	Max Meyer	3	', 49', 52'		10–0
.	André-Pierre Gignac	3	', 78', 86'		4–3		2020 Summer Olympics	Group stage
.	Hwang Ui-jo	3	', 45+2', 52'		6–0
.	Richarlison	3	', 22', 30'		4–2
.	Rafa Mir	3	', 117', 120+1'		5–2			Quarter-finals

Notable Olympic Football Tournament hat-tricks

• Vilhelm Wolfhagen was the first player to score a hat-trick in an Olympic football match, on 19 October 1908, while playing for Denmark against France B.
• Four players have scored two hat-tricks in Olympic football matches: Vilhelm Wolfhagen (all in 1928); Antonín Janda (both 1920); Domingo Tarasconi (both 1970); and Ferenc Bene (1964).
• Only one player has scored three hat-tricks in Olympic football matches: Domingo Tarasconi (all in 1928). Tarasconi achieved that with 4 goals in the first round against United States, another 4 goals in the quarter-finals against Belgium, and three goals in the semi-finals against Egypt.
• There has been only one occasion when three hat-tricks have been scored in the same match. It occurred during the Bronze medal match of the 1928 edition, when Italy defeated Egypt 11–3, and Angelo Schiavo, Elvio Banchero and Mario Magnozzi, all playing for Italy, scored three goals, with the later starting his only in the 72' minute.^[1] Furthermore, there have been twelve occasions when two hat-tricks have been scored in the same match, with the most recent occurring during the 2016 edition: when Germany defeated Fiji 10–0, and Nils Petersen and Max Meyer, both playing for Germany, scored 5 and 3 goals respectively.
• The longest hat-trick to be completed (most time between the first and third goals), was scored by Kwame Ayew, who netted his first goal at 17', while the third goal came in extra time at 120+1'. Ayew achieved this feat in the 1992 Olympic Football Tournament, playing for Ghana against Paraguay in the quarter-finals.
• The quickest hat-trick is Sophus Nielsen, who scored at 3', 4', and 6' in the 1908 Olympic Football Tournament, playing for Denmark against France in the semi-finals, and he went on to net more 7 times. This is also the briefest hat-trick to be completed (the shortest time between the first and third goals), as the time between his first and third a mere 3 minutes.
• The only hat-trick scored by a substitute, is the one by Rafa Mir, in 2020 against Ivory Coast in the quarter-finals; he came on in the 90+2' minute, and scored at 90+3', 117', and 120+1'.^[2]
• Germany (incl. East and West Germany) holds the record for most hat-tricks scored with 11. The next closest is Yugoslavia with 8, and then Hungary and Italy with 7, closely followed by Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Denmark and Sweden with 5 each (Brazil and Great Britain have 4).
• United States holds the record for most hat-tricks conceded with 7. The next closest is France (incl. France B) and Japan with 5, being closely followed by Egypt, Fiji, Germany (incl. West Germany), Mexico, South Korea and Yugoslavia (incl. Kingdom of SCS) with 4.

See also

• Football at the Summer Olympics
• List of men's Olympic football tournament records and statistics

Notes and References

1. Web site: Italy 11-3 Egypt . FIFA.com . 12 August 2022 . 1 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220601101548/https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/mensolympic/amsterdam1928/match-center/32334 . live .
2. Web site: Rafa Mir scores hat-trick as Spain overpower Ivory Coast in extra time to reach semi-finals. Sky Sports. 31 July 2021. 12 May 2022. 2 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210802182034/https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12368861/olympics-rafa-mir-scores-hat-trick-as-spain-overpower-ivory-coast-in-extra-time-to-reach-semi-finals. live.