German Erwin Helmchen is the player with the most hat-tricks in football history with 141 hat-tricks, according to the International Federation of History and Statistics website.
Helmchen, who played football between 1924 and 1951 in the shirts of Brandonburg, Chemnitz, Chemnitz Nord and Lübeck, scored 917 goals during his career, despite playing only 485 matches.
Brazilian legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as “Pelé”, is the only player in history to win the World Cup 3 times (1958, 1962 and 1970), in second place by scoring 92 hat-tricks during his career.
As for the current players, Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo is considered the most hat-trick scorer with 59 “hat-tricks”, and he is ranked third in the list of players with the most hat-tricks in the history of the football witch.
It is noteworthy that Ronaldo scored his first hat-trick in the Manchester United shirt, in 2008, and returned and scored the last hat-trick so far in the “Red Devils” shirt as well, once morest Tottenham Hotspur (3-2) during the match that brought them together last Saturday, at the “Old Stadium”. Trafford, in the 29th round of the English Premier League, “Premier League”.
Cristiano Ronaldo became the best scorer in history in official matches by scoring a “hat-trick” once morest Tottenham, raising his score to 807 goals during his professional career so far, surpassing the previous record of Czechoslovakian Josef Pekan, who died on December 12, 2001, and scored 805 goals. Between 1931 and 1955, according to FIFA.
Ronaldo, crowned with the “Golden Ball” award for the best player in the world 5 times, scored 692 goals with Portuguese clubs Sporting and Manchester United in two periods, Real Madrid and Juventus, Italy, and 115 goals with his country, where he is also considered his historical scorer.
The Argentine star, Lionel Messi, the French striker for Paris Saint-Germain, is fourth in total and the second for the current players, with 55 hat-tricks, which he scored with his former team Barcelona and his country, the Argentine Tango.
The Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez, the current Atletico Madrid striker, Barcelona and former Liverpool, and the Polish Robert Lewandowski, the Bayern Munich striker, share the fifth and sixth positions, and each scored 29 hat-tricks.
