List of Africa Cup of Nations hat-tricks

This is a list of hat-tricks in the Africa Cup of Nations, that being when a player scores three or more goals in a tournament match of the Africa Cup of Nations (not including Africa Cup of Nations qualification matches). Hat-tricks have occurred 17 times across the 33 editions.

Notable Africa Cup of Nations hat-tricks

 * Ad-Diba of 🇪🇬 egypt is the first ever player to score a hat-trick in Africa Cup of Nations in 1957; in the inaugural tournament's final. He is the only player to score a hat-trick in an Africa Cup of Nations final.
 * Mahmoud El-Gohary of is the first and only player to score a hat-trick in an opening match of Africa Cup of Nations in a 4–0 victory against 🇪🇹 ethiopia on the 22 May 1959.
 * Hassan El-Shazly of is the only player to score a hat-trick in two Africa Cup of Nations (1963 and 1970).
 * Laurent Pokou of 🇨🇮 côte d'ivoire is the only player to score a hat-trick of five goals in Africa Cup of Nations (1970).
 * The fastest hat-trick was scored by Soufiane Alloudi of 🇲🇦 morocco against 🇳🇦 namibia in 2008, (1', 5', 28) in their 5–1 victory.
 * The latest hat-trick without extra time was scored by Francileudo dos Santos of 🇹🇳 tunisia against in 2006, (35', 82', 90+3') in their 4–1 victory.
 * The latest hat-trick in extra time was scored by Bernard Chanda of against  in the semi-final of 1974, (70', 97', 111') in their 4–2 victory.
 * The shortest hat-trick was scored by Benedict McCarthy of against 🇳🇦 namibia in 1998, in the span of 14 minutes; (8', 11', 19', 21') in their 4–1 victory.
 * The slowest hat-trick was scored by Laurent Pokou of 🇨🇮 côte d'ivoire against 🇪🇹 ethiopia in 1970, in the span of 67 minutes; (21', 60', 71', 80', 87') in their 6–1 victory.
 * The longest hat-trick was scored by Ad-Diba of 🇪🇬 egypt against 🇪🇹 ethiopia in 1957, in the span of 88 minutes; (2', 7', 68', 89') in their 4–0 victory; in the inaugural tournament's final.
 * Every player that has scored a hat trick in a match during the tournament has won the match.
 * 1963; 1970; 1998 and 2006 are the only tournaments to have more than one hat-trick, with two each.
 * On more than 15 occasions there were no hat-tricks scored in a tournament.
 * There has been one occasion when two hat-tricks have been scored in the same match: when defeated  6–3 in the group stage match of 1963; Egyptians Mohamed Morsi Hussein and Hassan El-Shazly scored three goals each.
 * 🇪🇬 egypt holds the record of most hat-tricks scored with 6.
 * 🇪🇹 ethiopia has conceded the most hat-tricks with 3 and conceded the most goals from hat-tricks with 12.

Hat-tricks
A hat-trick is achieved when the same player scores three or more goals in one match. Listed in chronological order.