XXI CENTURY WORLD RECORD
Picture: Vaclav Jurecka's World Record.
Jurečka’s 2 pokers in a month: world record of XXI Century
The Czech forward Václav Jurečka had a sensational month of May with 12 goals scored for Slavia Prague in the championship group of the national league. In two games of this period, he scored 4 goals (vs Bohemians 6-0 and vs Slovacko 4-0).
The last one who made such feat (2 pokers during a calendar month) in the Czech league was the greatest goal-scorer Josef Bican who scored for Slavia 7 goals vs Zidenice (9-1) on 19 April 1942 and then 4 goals vs Sokol Olomouc (4-1) on 26 April 1942.
Bican was also the last who made 2 pokers in the same league season (1948).
To look globally, Václav Jurečka has repeated the best goal-scoring achievement of XXI Century. 7 players in the world football before him managed to produce 2 pokers within a calendar month (no one made more so far).
These feats are gathered in the table. Only top level games are in consideration.
In 4 occasions (Parsemain, Ashfaq, Suarez, Hamdallah), a player scored the pokers in his two consecutive games.
| TWO POKERS IN | A CALENDAR | MONTH | IN XXI CENTURY | |||
| Player | Team | Date | Game | Comp. | Goals | |
| Marc Lloyd Williams | Bangor City | 15/03/2002 | Flexsys Cefn Druids (7-3) | NL | 5 | |
| Wales | 30/03/2002 | Cwmbran Town (6-3) | NL | 4 | ||
| Joaquín Botero | Bolívar | 16/10/2002 | Guabira (5-0) | NL | 4 | |
| Bolivia | 27/10/2002 | Blooming (10-1) | NL | 4 | ||
| Kevin Parsemain | NT | 05/09/2012 | British Virgin Islands 16-0 | CCQ | 6 | |
| Martinique | 07/09/2012 | Montserrat 5-0 | CCQ | 4 | ||
| Ali Ashfaq | NT | 02/09/2013 | Sri Lanka (10-0) | SCC | 6 | |
| Maldives | 04/09/2013 | Bhutan (8-2) | SCC | 4 | ||
| Luis Suárez | Barcelona (Spain) | 20/04/2016 | Deportivo (8-0) | NL | 4 | |
| Uruguay | 23/04/2016 | Sporting Gijón (6-0) | NL | 4 | ||
| Pablo Escobar | The Strongest | 08/12/2018 | Sport Boys (6-0) | NL | 4 | |
| Bolivia | 19/12/2018 | Blooming (8-0) | NL | 4 | ||
| Abderrazak Hamdallah | Al Nassr (Saudi Arabia) | 15/01/2019 | Al-Ansar (5-0) | NC | 4 | |
| Morocco | 21/01/2019 | Al Feiha (6-0) | NC | 4 | ||
| Václav Jurečka | Slavia Prague | 07/05/2023 | Bohemians (6-0) | NL | 4 | |
| Czech Republic | 27/05/2023 | Slovacko (4-0) | NL | 4 |
NL = National League, NC = National Cup, NT = National Team, SCC = Sub-Continental Championship