ALI MABKHOUT - THE KING OF HAT TRICKS 2021 !
Ali Mabkhout – Number 1 of Hat-Tricks 2021!
Ali Mabkhout and Robert Lewandowski have made most hat-tricks in the top-level world football in 2021. Each of them has scored 3 and more goals in 5 games.
The striker from UAE is awarded as the winner of category “King of hat-tricks” due to main tie-breaker: number of hat-tricks in international games. Mabkhout scored 2 hat-tricks for his country (in addition to other 3 made for the club Al Jazira). In the meantime, Lewandowski has only one international hat-trick (for Bayern in Champions’ League); 4 others were produced in Bundesliga.
Curiously, Mabkhout scored all 5 his hat-tricks in the first 5 months of the year, since January to May.
In total, 15 players worldwide have finished 2021 with 3 and more hat-tricks in top-level games. In the ranking below, they are sorted by following tie-breakers: 1) hat-tricks in international games (ICC+NT), 2) in national team (NT), 3) in national league (NL), 4) number of total goals scored in the hat-trick games, 5) strength of the league (according IFFHS league ranking).
The right columns indicate the “size” of hat-tricks: number of games with 3, 4 and 5+ goals. Michael Olunga had a game with 5 goals, Henri Anier with 8 goals.
| PLAYERS WITH MOST | HAT-TRICKS IN 2021 | ||||||||||
| Player | Club | Country | HT | Total | Goals | ||||||
| NL | NC | ICC | NT | 3 | 4 | 5+ | |||||
| 1 | Ali Mabkhout | Al Jazira | UAE | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | ||||
| 2 | Robert Lewandowski | Bayern (Germany) | Poland | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | ||||
| 3 | Imre Badalassi | Tre Penne (San Marino) | Italy | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| 4 | Henri Anier | Paide | Estonia | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | |||
| 5 | Harry Kane | Tottenham | England | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||
| 6 | Cyle Larin | Beşiktaş (Turkey) | Canada | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 7 | Patson Daka | Salzburg (Austria), Leicester (England) | Zambia | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||
| 8 | Gonzalo Bergessio | Nacional (Uruguay) | Argentina | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 9 | Michael Olunga | Al Duhail (Qatar) | Kenya | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 10 | Mohamed Abdel Rahman | Al-Hilal Omdurman | Sudan | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| 11 | Mikkel Dahl | HB Tórshavn (Faroe Islands) | Denmark | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| 12 | Lucas dos Santos | Managua (Nicaragua) | Brazil | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| 13 | Zachary Hadji | Fola (Luxembourg) | France | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| 14 | Dejan Damjanović | Kitchee (Hongkong) | Montenegro | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| 15 | Shayne Lavery | Linfield | Northern Ireland | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
NL - National League
NC - National Cup
ICC - International Club Competition
NT - National Team