Talk:List of footballers who achieved hat-trick records

Pele 7 for Brazil
I've added a cell to include Pele scoring 7 for Brazil. However, unable to centre the numbe7 in the relevant box? Not sure why. Any help to amend this would be appreciated. Thanks Koppite1 (talk) 18:04, 8 January 2023 (UTC)

Own goals?
It would be a short list (one player (Meikayla Moore), two (Stan Van den Buys) depending on inclusion criteria), but we could add a section for Players who scored a(n unintentional) hat-trick of own goals. IFFHS ESPN. Kingsif (talk) 03:39, 17 December 2023 (UTC)


 * I agree. I think we should add the list, but we should not put Stan Van den Buys on the list, because he actually did not score a hat-trick of own goals. --Mishary94 (talk) 10:20, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Women
What is the harm if we differentiate between men's and women's football? The records and numbers are separate for each and should not be confused, and I do not think there is anything preventing us from putting the word (women) next to every female football player. --Mishary94 (talk) 10:31, 27 December 2023 (UTC)


 * The harm is that by making a point of differentiating, the list is explicitly saying that men's and women's achievements should not be considered the same, and by separating only one of them out, the list is implicitly saying the women's achievements are not as important.
 * If this list was just records, it would make sense to even have the "men's football" and "women's football" records in different sections (as is done with the sections for Men's and Women's World Cups in the list). But the list is more non-records than it is records. Now, it would be okay if the differentiation was including both (men) and (women), because that implies they're different but equal.
 * By only doing it to one of them, readers are likely to take it as an asterisk to the achievement, that it's lesser or should be taken with a grain of salt, that the non-specified achievements are the 'regular' ones and anything that needs a parenthesis to define it only matters within that category and not in the 'regular' scheme of things. That's the harm.
 * And as I said, a player's sex has no impact on their chances of scoring a hat-trick in exceptional circumstances. There is no need. Even if there wasn't harm, if there is no need, then differentiating is just unnecessary. Why would you include something unnecessary? If you want to add differentiation that is relevant within the scope of this list, how about cup games between pro and amateur sides that lead to outrageous scorelines? Kingsif (talk) 00:28, 28 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Who said that discrimination between men and women means that women are less important? The original is that the greatest popularity in the world was men's professional football, so it is distinguished from all the remaining categories (women, junior, amateurs, etc.). --Mishary94 (talk) 13:13, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
 * What? Did you actually read my third paragraph there? Adding just "(women)" is not actually differentiating between men and women, it is segregating women out from the 'normal' and this implicitly says to readers that their achievement is only important within the context of women. This is why gender neutral language in e.g. job titles was introduced decades ago.
 * The popularity of men's football is also completely irrelevant in the context of this list.
 * If you think all non-men's, senior, professional, football needs to be distinguished, then why does the list (I say for the third time) not actually have "(amateur league)" etc.? It only has "(women)". And hey, if you are thinking men's professional football [is] distinguished from all the remaining categories, then why not just put "(men)" there? Oh yeah, because your mention of men's football being the most popular is your justification for it not warranting a label as well, meaning you do actually know that having the label means the labelled item will be seen as less important.
 * All in all, you have not only failed to provide any reason (let alone a good one) to include "(women)", you are also invoking spurious irrelevancies that make me believe you're not actually going to try to give a reason, so I'm removing again. If you respond with an actual reason why "(women)" could be included - and no, I do not think there is anything preventing us from putting the word (women) is not a reason for inclusion - we can continue discussing then. Kingsif (talk) 22:37, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Women 2
The article seems chaotic. Women's football should be distinguished so that it is easier for the reader to know who holds the records for men and women. They should not be confused, just as professional and amateur football, senior and reserve clubs, etc. should not be confused. Since football is more popular for men, the distinction will apply to women. --Mishary94 (talk) 11:26, 5 February 2024 (UTC)


 * My tablet must've signed me out, but I have reverted your completely unjustifiable edits.
 * The article is not "chaotic". Adding - very belatedly - women's achievements is not "confusing". Not least when (for what must be the fourth time, and despite you mentioning them in this reason) you have not bothered to distinguish amateur games or cup ties etc., only women.
 * To be perfectly honest - and I'm sorry but I can't WP:assume good faith as you made the edit without trying to discuss despite you full well knowing it is contentious - it looks like as soon as you noticed the international record could no longer be claimed by C Ronaldo, you decided that having a woman topping that record could not be said without a "but". Without you adding some kind of qualification to it.
 * To then come here and say the edit was made since football is more popular for men - which is actually literally saying that football is consumed more by men (than others), but logically I must assume you just garbled saying "since men's football is more popular" - is explicitly sexist. It's not a reason anyone should be proud of giving for making an edit.
 * Everyone knows there are differences between the men's and women's games, some that require distinguishing, predominantly based on culture. A simple list of on-field achievements is not one of those things. Again, you have made it clear through your invocation of popularity (and now attempt at claiming the article needs some kind of clean-up: this may be true, but if so would surely be from editors adding ultra-specific records, not from women being included, no?) that you are aware there is no reason relevant to the scope of this list to distinguish men from women.
 * And, again for probably the fourth time, there may be relevant reasons to distinguish amateur games or cup ties with incredibly unmatched teams - in which the chances of scoring hat-tricks are much greater - and if you genuinely think the article needs some kind of labelling to make it less confused, I suggest you start and stop with those. Kingsif (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2024 (UTC)


 * I am not trying to discriminate in order to belittle women's achievements. How did you judge that? But the standards of men's football differ from the standards of women's football. The tournaments are not the same for both parties. There is a Ballon d'Or award for men and a Ballon d'or for women. Why doesn't FIFA offer one award for everyone? If (according to your logic) FIFA is sexist, does this make sense? I mentioned the reason for popularity because I had to distinguish one of the two parties, and I had to distinguish women because men are the most present in the article, in addition to the popularity of men is the most in the world, do not judge based on your environment and surroundings. You had to assume good faith.


 * I have made these modifications, not for the purpose of distinguishing between genders, but rather for the purpose of making it easier for the reader to easily know who holds the record for men and women, without the hassle of searching and entering the players’ articles just to know whether it is a woman or a man! --Mishary94 (talk) 00:05, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I have to assume you are being deliberately ignorant and knowingly making false equivalencies, either that or you have not read my statement (here, and above) properly. I said Everyone knows there are differences between the men's and women's games, and also that there is no reason relevant to the scope of this list to distinguish men from women. Those are facts.
 * There are differences in the games, so there are different awards, I literally said this. There is no difference between the fact both Alex Morgan and Cristiano Ronaldo were playing top level international football when scoring hat-tricks, against their equals. Men playing against men and scoring hat-tricks is comparable conditions to women playing women and scoring hat-tricks. I assume you are able to comprehend why there are different awards but that on-pitch achievements are not different - i.e. you made the false equivalency about the Ballon d'Or in bad faith - or if not, WP:CIR.
 * And assuming you do know there is no difference in the women's achievement, I would ask why have you only chosen to edit contentiously now, after a period of not doing so. But based on you saying making it easier for the reader to easily know who holds the record for men and women, without the hassle of searching and entering the players’ articles just to know whether it is a woman or a man! (with unnecessary SHOUT!) it seems clear I was spot on in my assumption: you saw that a man no longer holds an international record and decided that a woman taking the overall record needed qualification. It does not need qualification. Most of the notes in the handily present notes column mention players' genders, so nobody does need to click through to articles - if you're concerned about readers knowing who holds gendered records, you can add that in the notes column, too.
 * Last point: users do not actually have to assume good faith all the time, not when editing behaviour points against it. As I noted, you were well aware you were editing something contentious and that you have previously been asked to justify, and yet edited without discussing beforehand. That you then reinstated these edits while discussion was ongoing is further bad faith editing on your part. I suggest you, again, actually come up with a reason before continuing to force these changes. And if you don't get why it's (off the top of my head: focusing on popularity when irrelevant, only editing in distinguishing remarks for women when men are displaced, practically insisting men are the norm) considered sexist, I genuinely recommend learning. Happy to discuss that at a different venue. Kingsif (talk) 00:24, 7 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Through a simple look at your edits and your personal page, it became clear to me that you are a supporter of women. Unfortunately, you see the issue from a different angle than what I intended in my discussion with you. It seems that the discussion will ultimately be useless for both of us. Therefore, until we find a fair final solution, I will separate the men's and women's records similar to this page. I will be making some edits to the page, so I ask that you please do not retrieve any of them until I am finished. --Mishary94 (talk) 00:49, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I just left a message at your talk page to try and find common ground, as I already realised you likely are coming from a different angle. I am disturbed that you would simply write off my perspective based on me being a supporter of women; I am going to assume again that this is just a mistake with English. Of course, I would like you to explain this view a bit more.
 * Sure, I will not revert your edits until you signal that you have finished them, however, I would then like for you to justify them (either with sufficient edit reasons when making them, or here) - or I will revert them. I will also consider your edits to be a form of reinstatement of your preferred version, and warn you against trying to force it re. WP:3RR.
 * Because (again, and hopefully for the last time) two people scoring hat-tricks at the same level of competition and against their equals, are comparable. Separating men and women in this list - which is going further than distinguishing them - has no functional purpose (i.e. you refer to a list of football club seasons. Men's and women's clubs play in separate leagues and through history have had different conditions, it can be said there is a purpose there). It is a fact that Morgan has scored more international goals than C Ronaldo, and it's a fact that doesn't need qualification. Kingsif (talk) 01:00, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Looking at this version of the article, part way through your editing, I am going to have to bring up another genuine concern. If you are planning to duplicate every achievement for men and women, the table of contents is going to be over 60 items long and make the article difficult to navigate properly.
 * As I think about it there are also, again, more intuitive (i.e. relevant to the subject matter of scoring hat-tricks) ways to split the article (separating amateurs, for example). I say this because I am now confident that your edits are just going to result in reversion, so don't expend the effort. Kingsif (talk) 01:16, 7 February 2024 (UTC)


 * I have finished editing, I have separated the records of men and the records of women without distinguishing between any of them.


 * Regarding what you said, that separating them has no functional purpose, I want to answer you and say that men and women have a separate system from each other, so why should we create competition between them? Cristiano does not face the same opponents as Alex Morgan, and he does not play in the same tournament as you, and the competition between them is different by nature. It is not fair to create competition between them.


 * I am a fan of football statistics, and I am not against women. Wikipedia is a main reference for me, so when I look at the statistics pages, I would like to know the records for men and women separately, and I have no problem against women, as I also have additions related to women's football. In Wikipedia, that's all there is to it.


 * If you also see these amendments as discrimination against women, then please explain that. I have tried to please you enough. You want women and men to be on one list and I do not know why. I am happy to discuss with you and do not seek to impose my opinion as you think --Mishary94 (talk) 01:56, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I have reverted your edit, for the ToC reason I mentioned, as I am happy to discuss. I was planning on bringing it to wider discussion to address pros and cons. At the risk of having to exhaustively repeat myself, I will answer you here and ping you there.
 * It doesn't have a functional purpose. We can consider the men's and women's game as different but acknowledge that they play by the same rules and that men v men and women v women have as equal a chance of scoring a hat-trick as any other man or woman. It is not creating competition between them to say that Morgan has more hat-tricks. The same way that men's skiing and women's skiing are different competitions, but woman A with more gold medals in skiing than man A, has more gold medals, and we do not need to say "but for women".
 * The consideration that people want to easily know men's stats, and women's stats, separately is something I was planning to bring up in wider discussion I mentioned. But I have presented to you alternative solutions to this.
 * And as you say, Wikipedia is a reference, and so it is influential. We must be aware of that.
 * We cannot help it, but when we separate men and women then it is saying that there is something different (because, Wikipedia dealing purely with stats, has no semantic reason to separate unless there is, say, a practical or cultural difference) - and one glance at your average football fans on Twitter will tell you that people may generally assume that women's achievements are lesser when they are handled separately. It can even be seen in the sources of this list - that Cristiano is considered the first footballer to score 10 international hat-tricks, because a report said he was the first man, when Christine Sinclair had scored 11 before he even got his first. If sources had acknowledged Sinclair's achievement in the same report as Cristiano's, such a common mistake would likely not be made.
 * I have no problem with having separate lists for men's and women's football achievements, either in the same or separate articles, but only when it serves a purpose. There is no difference between men and women scoring hat-tricks. Where the list mentions specific tournaments, which obviously includes gendered competitions, then they are in separate sections. Otherwise, a hat-trick is an exceptional achievement no matter gender, and is not scored differently depending on gender, so I do not know why you would want them in different lists. Kingsif (talk) 02:19, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

==Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football § List of footballers who achieved hat-trick records and women== You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football § List of footballers who achieved hat-trick records and women. Kingsif (talk) 03:48, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

First sentences
"The first-ever hat-trick in an international match was recorded on 2 March 1878, when John McDougall scored three times for Scotland in a 7–2 win against England. Since then there have been numerous players who scored three or more goals in a single match, either in club or international football." As written, this could easily be interpreted as meaning that nobody had ever scored a hat-trick until 1878, which clearly isn't true. -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:38, 7 February 2024 (UTC)


 * The opening prose is weak in general, but there aren't too many sources that actually talk about the topic (rather than just listing scorers). Kingsif (talk) 13:19, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Reserve teams in age-related lists
Pinging about this content dispute, to stop the edit warring. Anyone may contribute. The conflict has not become flamey or pointy, so no need for reports, but let's not change the content until settled, okay. The issue here relates to the sub-list "Youngest hat-trick scorers", with the contentious material being the inclusion of Erling Haaland. Through editing/reasons, but not yet consensus-building discussion, it seems accepted that the list should include only people who scored a hat-trick: younger than 17 and for a senior team. These considerations seem appropriate as the scope of the sub-list, relating to age as well as scoring ability, realistically needs some bounds to prevent it from including so many players (youth team players potentially from infancy, players up to 21 or even 23 who are considered young in wider football) that it is no longer realistically an achievement and there's no point in a list at all. The reason given for inclusion is that Haaland was younger than 17 and played for a reserve team in a senior league, and would fit the parameters. The reason given for exclusion is that reserve teams are typically used as a team's top youth section and cannot really be considered senior. Another reason for exclusion is perhaps also because including reserve teams in senior leagues is seen as one step to opening the floodgates for many more players (as well as the opposite, being an artificial exclusion: in some countries, like Norway and Spain, reserve teams play in senior leagues, but in others, like England, they do not. Players in England reserve teams, therefore, while having debatably the same achievement as their counterparts in Norway and Spain, could not be included on a technicality). I see both sides of the argument and won't get involved unless you want moderation. Please keep in mind discussion is for, like, expanding on your understanding of the reasons for inclusion/exclusion. I.e. it's not a vote and not a fight. Kingsif (talk) 22:41, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Other content for discussion
This is a mix of pre-empting content conflicts by noting any entries that I think are potentially questionable, as well as some improvement/editing ideas based on reading the listicle top-to-bottom. Numbered for easy reference in replies.

Kingsif (talk) 00:21, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * 1) Spinning off the above discussion about youngest, I think one potential solution (but also something to discuss anyway) is to include a list of "Youngest hat-trick scorers in official competitions" or similar, which could include reserve/youth teams but only to an extent. We would have to discuss what kind of competitions would count, and of course it would only be the top level (so not including e.g. Messi's kid, scoring hat-tricks for Miami U11 for fun). And we would have to look up records to see how many people have scored hat-tricks in e.g. FA Youth Cup, to see if it would be a viable list. But it's an option. - List at FA Youth Cup Kingsif (talk) 03:17, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 2) Is the current colour key valuable in its current form? I already removed the "bold for active players" because it wasn't being updated (so retired players were left in bold) and there were several additions of active players that were not in bold, as well as examples in bold being a mix of mark-up and rowspan table formatting that made editing the latter entries a bit more difficult. Anyway, my thought was that it may be more valuable to present "Players who scored a hat-trick for a non-winning team" as its own list, instead of the colours within other lists. Otherwise, the thought would be, why don't we just have one single massive list of players' hat-tricks and a whole rainbow to tag what achievement(s) they fall under. - Removed also for practical reasons. Kingsif (talk) 03:24, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 3) Pelé and Michelle Akers (7 each) in "Players who scored most hat-tricks for a national team". Pelé is probably more debatable than Akers: as Sven Rydell completed 9 international hat-tricks before Pelé's career, Pelé is not a previous men's record-holder. Akers (unless other women's players with more become apparent, which is entirely possible) did hold the women's record. Why I think Akers is debatable is purely because if she is on the list with 7 hat-tricks, it could be seen as a reason to include Pelé with the same number.
 * 4) Do we need the extensive notes in "Defenders who scored a hat-trick"; i.e. do we need to explain the whole reasoning for the limitations, or just set out the limitations. The explanation could be kept in a hidden note for editors who wish to contest it. Like, there are extensive reasons for other limitations (e.g. the youngest players, see above), but the notes are not given a small paragraph of reasoning. - note has been condensed Kingsif (talk) 00:26, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 5) We have a hat-trick of (unintentional) own goals. Could we include hat-tricks+ of intentional own goals as a trivia item? I personally would say no, based on the goals not being an achievement (albeit negative) in scoring hat-tricks but rather planned disruption/match-fixing, but let's throw it open to discussion.
 * 6) "Records of most goals scored in a single match" seems to indicate that it only includes the records, but Archie Thompson, Hacène Lalmas and Panagiōtīs Pontikos never held the record. Of course, I do know that Thompson was thought to have held the record for a long time before Petrie's was accepted, as well as Thompson holding the international record, and that some sources say Pontikos took the record from Thompson, ignoring both Lalmas and Stefan Dembicki's tallies. There's also the fact that all these tallies are equal to or greater than the first (Petrie) record, and people will take that as a reason for inclusion. Perhaps the ideal solution here is to keep all the entries, add more details to the notes column of the table, and change the sub-header to not include "record"? - Moved to List of footballers with the most goals in a single game. Kingsif (talk) 00:42, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 7) In the youngest players lists, do we want consistent parameters between the international and overall lists? And for the overall list, are we including everyone under 17 or just current and former records? (If just record holders, everyone below József Horváth except maybe Julie Fleeting would need to be removed). FYI, I personally do think the "records and great performances" is a good thing to have, but some people may prefer a streamlined approach based on length. Perhaps another question is the value to including the international list, but I have another thought about.
 * 8) Could the listicle be split to two different listicles: club and international? This suggestion is just based on the fact there are a mix of sub-lists for generic, club-based and international-based hat-tricks, and I haven't really thought it through, but if people do think one listicle is too long? Anther frequent subject of the sub-lists is youngest hat-trick scorers, which might have enough content for a split (again, if people think it's too long for one listicle).
 * 9) Do we need to include tables for achievements that have dedicated articles, or just point to those other articles (Player with most FIFA Confederations Cup hat-tricks; Players with most FIFA World Cup hat-tricks; many of the Continental records)? Though I think this would pose a dilemma with the CONCACAF Gold Cup, as there is an article for hat-tricks in the men's competition but not the women's competition, so we would potentially need to create the List of CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup hat-tricks (or we would be hosting a women's list here with only a link to the men's, which would most likely encourage editors to re-add the list for the men's here and then no point in just having link). See  - lists which are duplicated from other linked articles have been removed Kingsif (talk) 00:26, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 10) We don't have a list for "Players with most goals in an Intercontinental Cup / FIFA Club World Cup match", only the list for Club World Cup Finals: we have lists for most goals and hat-tricks in finals for Men's World Cup and Women's World Cup, so not having both lists for Club World Cup seems like an oversight. Now I look over this section, there's also no oldest/youngest hat-trick scorer in Club World Cup, and we seem to be missing a most hat-tricks in [tournament] list for both Club World Cup and Women's World Cup. See  - the lists creating scope conflicts have been removed Kingsif (talk) 00:26, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 11) Is "Player to score a hat-trick of headers in the FIFA World Cup" (which actually has two entries) really a viable list? Surely be included in a standard hat-trick of headers list with the fact it was in a World Cup match as a note. Same with "Players who scored hat-trick of headers for a national team" and "Players who scored hat-trick of headers in an international club match" (which also only have one entry each). - Has all been condensed into List_of_footballers_who_achieved_hat-trick_records. Kingsif (talk) 00:26, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 12) The Olympics and football. A complicated topic. The 1908 and 1912 Olympic football competitions, while the first 'official' instances of football at the Olympics after previous years had sort of semi-official tournaments, still had some weirdness about them. There's the fact that for a while now the men's Olympic football is a youth competition but with unusual age restrictions. I'm just writing thoughts here, to be fair, I don't have any questions about including it at the moment. Also, Olympic football is more prestigious in the culture of women's football (bigger than World Cup for a while) than it is in men's football, as well as the women's Olympic football matches still having senior national teams - but there aren't any women on the lists. Not judging whoever added all the men, just that we should look up the women, too.
 * 13) It's not been discussed, but it looks like the "Players who scored the fastest hat-tricks in history" is limited to 5 minutes or less, and if so, this should be noted, too. - Noted. Kingsif (talk) 00:45, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 14) Seeing the note for Alex Torr's record saying he played in an unassociated town-level league, and based on the lead being... rambling... as noted in another discussion on this talkpage, I think there needs to be a more formal explanation in the listicle of what levels of football (i.e. all of them) are included. Torr is amateur but there can be different understandings of this - for example, in terms of football history, "amateur" often refers to the teams (including the top ones) about a century ago before they were allowed to be professional - so we should probably outright say that yes, players scoring hat-tricks for teams in "mates' leagues" do count. - Lead now says "all levels of competition when playing in official matches", and planning to BOLDly add a column indicating pyramid level or international in its own edit. Kingsif (talk) 00:51, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 15) Just a thought, but if we're going with "fastest" hat-tricks, surely the counterpart should be "slowest" (not "longest")? - "Longest" seems to be a standard. Kingsif (talk) 00:47, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
 * 16) The European Cup and Champions League are the same competition, different name; do we really need multiple lists for the same achievement in these (i.e. we have both "Oldest hat-trick scorer in the UEFA European Cup" and "Oldest hat-trick scorer in the UEFA Champions League") - European Cup hat-tricks are not included in the Champions League hat-tricks list, and edits have been made accordingly. Kingsif (talk) 00:26, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Most hat-tricks in a year/season?
Just saw Godfrey Chitalu's 18 hat-tricks in 1972 and thought this would be a valuable sub-list. Kingsif (talk) 00:09, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Players with most hat-tricks in history
In the section of players with the most hat-tricks, Pelé appears with 92, but the Brazilian actually scored 86 in official matches (3 goals on 58 occasions, 4 goals on 23 occasions, 5 goals on 4 occasions and 8 goals on 1 occasion). The problem is that the only online sources I know of that have a match-by-match listing of Pelé's goals are Wikipedia itself and this page which also includes his goals in friendly matches. Can they be used as sources? I have an Excel file with all of Pelé's goals in official matches, each backed up by the corresponding press report in the newspapers of the time, but it is not available online. What can be done in that case? 2800:300:66C1:80B0:943A:181A:AD8B:D00A (talk) 18:21, 1 May 2024 (UTC)


 * The list below features association football players who achieved, held or currently hold hat-trick records, including professionals, semi-professionals, amateurs, women, in any football league, cup, official friendlies or other competition around the world.
 * That's what it says in the lead section. But mentioning in a note that 86 of them were official games with your reference would, in my opinion, be of interest. Miria~01 (talk) 20:03, 1 May 2024 (UTC)


 * I strongly support not using friendly matches as statistics, as this is the norm. I suggest adopting only official matches. --Mishary94 (talk) 20:05, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
 * @Mishary94 yes, same opinion. However according to this list this page I get 92 hat-tricks in offical games if I don't count the "Amistoso" games and one Santos sub16 game with 4 gols (22.09.1956 Santos (sub16) 7 x 1 Comercial FC), which would validate the Guinness World Record for Pele's 92 hat-tricks.
 * @2800:300:66C1:80B0:943A:181A:AD8B:D00A
 * Could you tell which 6 other games you have considered as friendly games? Miria~01 (talk) 20:35, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I can't tell you exactly. I am counting 86:
 * SANTOS FC:
 * Brazilian League (4)
 * Paulista League (61)
 * Tournament ‘Rio - Sao Paulo’ (5)
 * Intercontinental Cup (1)
 * Taça Brasil (3)
 * CONMEBOL Libertadores (2)
 * BRAZIL NATIONAL TEAM:
 * Copa América (1)
 * Official friendlies (5)
 * World Cup (1)
 * NEW YORK COSMOS:
 * United States League (3) 2800:300:66C1:80B0:96EE:6D4:B446:CE7E (talk) 20:24, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * NEW YORK COSMOS:
 * United States League (3) 2800:300:66C1:80B0:96EE:6D4:B446:CE7E (talk) 20:24, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Subsectitions + Gender column for World records
The article seems very messy because the numerous sections do not contain any division into subsections. It is also strange, for example, to list the FIFA World Cup or the Olympic Games in a section called world records.

I would also suggest adding a gender column for general world records that span across all competitions. (see List of multiple Olympic gold medalists as an example).

My suggestion for subdivisions:


 * I completely agree with you. The article is very chaotic. Regarding gender, I tried to separate men from women several months ago, but someone accused me of sexism. I suggest that we start dividing the article as you please, with a section for women. --Mishary94 (talk) 17:24, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Pinging, as User has been involved in a discussion about this topic on this talk page.
 * His points about preventing gender bias do have a point. Either a separate article for men and women or, what I would prefer, just this "gender column" (see other Wiki sports articles [1], [2]) for general hat-trick world records, which also makes sorting in the table very easy when looking especially for men or women general records. But of course you can have a separate section for men's and women's competitions, if this is more preferred for a structure.
 * {|class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"


 * +Option B
 * World records
 * Players with most hat-tricks in history
 * Men's competitions
 * National team
 * Players with most FIFA World Cup hat-tricks
 * Players with most hat-ricks in the Olympics
 * Player with most hat-tricks in the AFC Asian Cup of Nations
 * Club
 * Players with most hat-tricks in the UEFA Champions League
 * Women's competitions
 * National team
 * Players with most FIFA Women's World Cup hat-tricks
 * Players with most hat-ricks in the Olympics
 * Player with most hat-tricks in the Africa Women Cup of Nation
 * Club
 * Players with most hat-tricks in the UEFA Women's Champions League
 * } Miria~01 (talk) 20:03, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the ping. In other edits, I had tried to amend the overall heading for the lists regarding specific competitions, and other sort of accuracy-based headings. I don't know if they've been changed since, but there's also overlap in some of the lists and other issues. You'll see above I previously posted 16 points for improvement, especially in the structuring, that received absolutely no response. I think at this point, someone is going to have to be WP:BOLD to re-structure the article to make it, really, just readable (some lists could certainly be split out!) and see if there's objection and to what parts before having a discussion.
 * Of course, one part that does get objection is about gender. When there are separate competitions (e.g. men's World Cup, women's World Cup) then those are clearly two different lists. But in most other things, obviously no good reason to have separate lists. A gender column in the style of List of multiple Olympic gold medalists is something that IMO is a strong suggestion, something that could be discussed but I wouldn't remove if it was implemented. Presumably you've read, but my objections were to edits that arbitrarily segregated women while not mentioning anything about men, youth, amateur etc. entries. Another previous suggestion of mine, which could be used in conjunction with a gender column, is to improve the notes in the notes column that most or all of the lists already have.
 * This option B, of the generic records (presumably with gender column) and then a men's comp section and women's comp section, could work – I think I prefer the idea of keeping this article as a generic article and then using similar to option B but splitting out separate articles for a list of records in men's tournaments, and an article for lists of records in women's tournaments. This will also help make the article(s) much more readable and navigable, too. There would probably be room for some good prose and illustration, with fewer list tables, so it should be a win all around.
 * As said, someone is probably just going to need to make changes, with the minimal discussion traffic. I would be happy to collaborate and discuss anything you're unsure of. Kingsif (talk) 21:35, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I think it is a good idea to split this article up and create two more articles for men's and women's competitions, not only to make it easier to read, but also to enable a more targeted focus on expanding the main list with most hat tricks. I am also an advocate of keeping this article generic. Even though I understand concerns about a column about gender or sex, the immediate information gain for the reader and the aforementioned sorting idea outweigh this for me.
 * Regarding two new articles, these could then read as follows:
 * Hat-trick records and statistics in men's football competitions
 * Hat-trick records and statistics in women's football competitions
 * and then I would suggest renaming this article, once the relevant sections have been moved to these two separate articles:
 * List of footballers with most hat-tricks
 * For now, I'll do a WP:BOLD edit to illustrate option B (with gender column and trivia section).
 * @Kingsif Your points 16 points for improvement can then be addressed step by step (half of them concern the competitions itself and could then even be better addressed in the new articles). Miria~01 (talk) 11:59, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Regarding two new articles, these could then read as follows:
 * Hat-trick records and statistics in men's football competitions
 * Hat-trick records and statistics in women's football competitions
 * and then I would suggest renaming this article, once the relevant sections have been moved to these two separate articles:
 * List of footballers with most hat-tricks
 * For now, I'll do a WP:BOLD edit to illustrate option B (with gender column and trivia section).
 * @Kingsif Your points 16 points for improvement can then be addressed step by step (half of them concern the competitions itself and could then even be better addressed in the new articles). <b style="color:black">Mir</b><b style="color:#EE3939">ia~01</b> (talk) 11:59, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Edits for readability and non-duplication
In editing the lead (which wasn't explicitly for readability, though the paragraph was hard to chew), I have added a hatnote that points to Lists_of_hat-tricks for non-record lists of football hat-tricks. At that list of lists, many of the competitions included in the lower lists (ping who created the separate sections based on discussion above) do have their own articles. As it was briefly discussed that the sections of competition lists could be split into overarching "men's/women's competition hat-tricks" articles in order to make this one more readable, but this now seems redundant (at least for the men's competitions) with many of the competitions having their own articles, I have removed the following sub-lists from this article. In the spirit of WP:BOLD, I am noting the removals here for fuller edit reasons and in case editors wish to discuss them:
 * 1) Player with most FIFA Confederations Cup hat-tricks - Covered by List_of_FIFA_Confederations_Cup_hat-tricks, and that a 'list' that aims just to name the single player with the absolute most isn't a list... and in this case, extending it beyond the top 1 ('most' can be broad as with the top list of most national team hat-tricks) would just become a list of all.
 * 2) Players with most FIFA World Cup hat-tricks - "-" List of FIFA World Cup hat-tricks
 * 3) Youngest hat-trick scorer in the FIFA World Cup - List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_hat-tricks
 * 4) Oldest hat-trick scorer in the FIFA World Cup - List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_hat-tricks
 * 5) Player with most goals in a single FIFA World Cup match - mentioned in three places at List of FIFA World Cup hat-tricks, besides the fact "lists of most goals" isn't really a list of hat-tricks, but another concept that doesn't quite belong here IMO.
 * 6) Players to score a hat-trick in a FIFA World Cup Final - List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_hat-tricks. I can see the merits to "hat-tricks in finals" being special achievements and worthy of a list at this article regardless of the competition, and would be happy to include this.
 * 7) Player to score a hat-trick of headers in the FIFA World Cup - List_of_FIFA_World_Cup_hat-tricks. Again "hat-tricks of headers" can just be a list of its own, regardless of competition.
 * 8) Players to score a hat-trick in an Intercontinental Cup / FIFA Club World Cup Final - Intercontinental_Cup_(football) and List_of_FIFA_Club_World_Cup_hat-tricks have it covered. Those articles may not explicitly define the scope this list does, but with so few hat-tricks between the competitions altogether, it is not hard to see. And to be honest, this list looks like it was added a while back when this whole article looked more like Pele and CR7 promo than anything. Defining a list scope just to spotlight players is leaning on UNDUE before even just having the discussion of if it's really a list.
 * 9) Player with most hat-tricks in the AFC Asian Cup of Nations - List of AFC Asian Cup hat-tricks, and the fact that this list doesn't mention players, nor (as mentioned above) it would be 'all' be necessity, not 'most' (therefore, no record/nothing exceptional in the scope).
 * 10) Player with most hat-tricks in the Africa Cup of Nations - List of Africa Cup of Nations hat-tricks (and ditto as with Confederations Cup). Doesn't define the 'most' in prose, but does have a note for how many hat-tricks each player has scored.
 * 11) Player with most hat-tricks in the CONCACAF Gold Cup - List of CONCACAF Gold Cup hat-tricks (and dittos)
 * 12) Player with most hat-tricks in the Oceania Cup of Nations - List of OFC Nations Cup records and statistics (also notes how many each player has scored)
 * 13) Player with most hat-tricks in the European Championship - List of UEFA European Championship hat-tricks (mentioned three times)
 * 14) Players with most hat-tricks in the AFC Champions League - Asian_Club_Championship_and_AFC_Champions_League_records_and_statistics (mentioned above table)
 * 15) Players with most hat-tricks in the CAF Champions League - African_Cup_of_Champions_Clubs_and_CAF_Champions_League_records_and_statistics (ditto)
 * 16) Players with most hat-tricks in the CONCACAF Champions League - CONCACAF_Champions_Cup_and_Champions_League_records_and_statistics
 * 17) Players with most hat-tricks in the Copa Libertadores - differently, for WP:V. I can't find sources for the players in this list scoring three hat-tricks, and they are not either stated or listed as such at Copa_Libertadores_records_and_statistics (either in the hat-tricks section or in the various other sections for goalscoring feats and records)
 * 18) Players with most hat-tricks in the OFC Champions League - Covered by Oceania_Club_Championship_and_OFC_Champions_League_records_and_statistics
 * 19) Player with most hat-tricks in the UEFA Europa League - "-" List of UEFA Europa League hat-tricks (various mentions/list of multiple)
 * 20) Players with most hat-tricks in the UEFA Champions League - Mentioned at List of UEFA Champions League hat-tricks
 * 21) Youngest hat-trick scorer in the UEFA Champions League - Mentioned at List of UEFA Champions League hat-tricks
 * 22) Oldest hat-trick scorer in the UEFA Champions League - List of UEFA Champions League hat-tricks
 * 23) Youngest hat-trick scorer in the FIFA Women's World Cup - Covered by List_of_FIFA_Women's_World_Cup_hat-tricks
 * 24) Oldest hat-trick scorer in the FIFA Women's World Cup - List_of_FIFA_Women's_World_Cup_hat-tricks
 * 25) Players with most goals in a single FIFA Women's World Cup match - List_of_FIFA_Women's_World_Cup_hat-tricks
 * 26) Player to score a hat-trick in a FIFA Women's World Cup Final - List_of_FIFA_Women's_World_Cup_hat-tricks, but again, a hat-trick in a final
 * 27) Player with most hat-tricks in the Africa Women Cup of Nations - Women's_Africa_Cup_of_Nations_records_and_statistics notes how many hat-tricks each player has.


 * In all cases of the list being covered elsewhere, the relevant listicle is linked at Lists of hat-tricks, and so available from the top of this article. If there isn't a link at the list of lists, the listicle may exist (?), but the entry hasn't been removed from here.

This is to say, the lists from the competition sections that have been kept are: Oldest hat-trick scorers in the UEFA European Cup (can't see a listicle for UEFA European Cup/not mentioned at UEFA Champions League); Players to score a hat-trick in a continental club final (scope of list includes multiple competitions, some of which don't seem to have lists of statistics - also, hat-tricks in finals seems to exist as not-competition-specific); Youngest players to score a hat-trick in a continental club competition (scope is over all competitions at that level, which would need its own list and doesn't seem to); and Players with most hat-tricks in the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup (can't see a listicle for CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup). Kingsif (talk) 00:17, 10 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Oldest hat-trick scorers in the UEFA European Cup
 * Players with most hat-tricks in the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup
 * can't see a listicle
 * So that the logic in the article is consistent, there should be in general no argument for putting specific competition records here. Of course, this should then be supplemented somewhere else (e.g. for the second in CONCACAF W Championship by creating a new section for records for this competition).
 * Otherwise I would have no objections. <b style="color:black">Mir</b><b style="color:#EE3939">ia~01</b> (talk) 12:25, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I've now noticed the European Cup one was already included at European_Cup_and_UEFA_Champions_League_records_and_statistics. I've added a hat-tricks section to the CONCACAF W Championships awards, and linked it at the list of lists. Removed both of those. Kingsif (talk) 00:22, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

FA Youth Cup hat-tricks
While I am surprised we don't have an article for List of FA Cup hat-tricks, I know there are an awful lot, and I can't compile all of them.

What is easier to make a list of right now, and is related to my #1 and the discussion of youngest players above, is hat-tricks in the FA Youth Cup (and FA Girls' Youth Cup). The 'unified' top-level competition for under-18s in England, I mentioned it as a good base level for including hat-tricks in youth/subsidiary team competition. It could be included at this article if there was a grouping of 'youngest' achievements, perhaps, but there's probably enough for its own list. Kingsif (talk) 14:11, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

If home/away teams are not known, the player's team is listed as home. Includes qualifying/preliminary rounds.

Lewis Koumas || Liverpool 7–1 Arsenal || 2024 || M

Sam Tomlinson || Mickleover Academy 8–0 Leicester Nirvana || 2023 || M

Joe Naylor || Sunderland RCA 1–6 Consett || 2023 || M

Cameron Gardner || South Shields 1–5 Grimsby Town || 2023 || M

Olly Sully || Forest Green Rovers 6–3 Thame United || 2023 || M

Divin Mubama || West Ham 6–1 Southampton || 2023 || M

Elliott Wenham || Maidstone United 5–1 Dartford || 2023 || M

Jack Lyons || Rusthall 5–2 Chatham Town || 2023 || M - First goal scored at 4 seconds -

Phil Croker || Oxford City 5–1 Street F.C. || 2023 || M

Justin Oboavwoduo || Manchester City 5–0 Fleetwood Town || 2023 || M

Patrick Casey || Bury Town 1–4 Charlton Athletic || 2023 || M

Henry Sandat || Billericay Town 1–4 Southend United || 2022 || M

Dom Ballard || Coventry City 2–3 Southampton || 2022 || M

Reuben Wyatt || Peterborough United 2–3 Northampton Town || 2022 || M

Abdul Sbaiti || Sutton Common Rovers 5–0 Loxwood || 2022 || M

Rio Oudnie-Morgan || Ipswich Town 9–0 Aveley || 2022 || M

Macy Settle || Stoke City 1–5 Blackburn Rovers || 2022 || F

Malachi Dotse || Eastleigh 8–3 Yeovil Town || 2022 || M

Balraj Singh || Eastleigh 8–3 Yeovil Town || 2022 || M

Jim Simms || Bradford City ?–? Oldham Athletic || 2021 || M

Abu Kamara || Norwich City 4–2 Wolverhampton Wanderers || 2021 || M

Leo Stone || Rugby Town 3–1 Solihull Moors || 2021 || M

James Balagizi || Leicester City 1–5 Liverpool || 2021 || M

Mateusz Musiałowski || Liverpool 4–0 Fleetwood Town || 2021 || M

James Clark || Holbeach United 8–0 Harborough Town || 2020 || M

Charlie Parks || Holbeach United 8–0 Harborough Town || 2020 || M

Lewis Johnson || MK Dons 8–1 Hertford Town || 2020 || M

Armando Broja || Chelsea 4–0 Huddersfield Town || 2020 || M

Sonny Dutton || Hornchurch 11–0 Dagenham & Redbridge || 2019 || M

Seb Towse || Hornchurch 11–0 Dagenham & Redbridge || 2019 || M

Joe Hugill || Shrewsbury Town 2–5 Sunderland || 2019 || M

Tabish Hussain || Guiseley 11–0 Rossington Main || 2018 || M

Tabish Hussain || Guiseley 12–0 Harrogate Town || 2018 || M - scored 5 -

Jake Young || Guiseley 12–0 Harrogate Town || 2018 || M - scored 5 -

Mason Greenwood || Manchester United ?–? Chelsea || 2018 || M

Mason Mount || Birmingham City 0–5 Chelsea || 2017 || M

Callum Guy || South Shields 10–0 ? F.C. Under-21s and Academy || 2017 || M

Ike Ugbo || Chelsea 7–1 Tottenham Hotspur || 2017 || M

Junior Mpofu || Tamworth 5–3 Hednesford Town || 2016 || M

Jack Snelus || Luton Town 4–3 Dagenham & Redbridge || 2016 || M - 104-minute hat-trick -

Dylan Florence || Luton Town 4–3 Dagenham & Redbridge || 2016 || M

Cameron Horner || F.C. United of Manchester 6–2 Southport || 2015 || M

Tammy Abraham || Chelsea 6–1 Huddersfield Town || 2015 || M

Keira Walsh || Blackburn Rovers 6–0 Sunderland || 2014 || F

Dominic Solanke || Chelsea 4–0 Dartford || 2013 || M

Carla Humphrey || Arsenal 3–1 Blackburn Rovers || 2013 || F - In the final -

Aaron Lennon || Leeds United 4–0 Gillingham || 2002 || M

Michael Owen || Liverpool 4–2 Crystal Palace || 1996 || M

Michael Owen || Liverpool 3–2 Manchester United || 1996 || M

David Sadler || Manchester United ?–? Swindon || 1964 || M

Albert Kinsey || Manchester United 4–1 Manchester City || 1964 || M

Bert Murray || Preston North End 1–4 Chelsea || 1960 || M

Colin Shaw || Chelsea 11–0 Ford United || 1960 || M - scored four -

Gordon Bolland || Chelsea 11–0 Ford United || 1960 || M

Gordon Bolland || Chelsea 9–1 Colchester United || 1960 || M - scored four -

Gordon Bolland || Chelsea 10–0 West Thurrock Athletic || 1960 || M - scored four -

Duncan Edwards || Manchester United ?–? Rotherham United || 1953/54 || M

Duncan Edwards || Manchester United ?–? Bradford Park Avenue || 1953/54 || M


 * I do not support that we allocate lists for tournaments, especially youth teams, as this will increase the amplification and complexity of the article. --Mishary94 (talk) 01:51, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * It's at FA Youth Cup - sorry if that was unclear, just keeping discussion here since not many talkpages get responses! Kingsif (talk) 02:44, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The idea, as mentioned in my list of 16 suggestions above, is that when users want to add to a list, they are more likely to add to a broader list (this one) than start a narrower one. So starting the narrower ones either at their own or more appropriate articles will help keep this one streamlined. Kingsif (talk) 02:47, 11 June 2024 (UTC)