Strikers love scoring targets and are often blissful after they hit a hat-trick.
Some forwards have big collections of match balls by the tip of their careers and in Madeira, Cristiano Ronaldo has his on present at his very personal museum.
A choose group of gamers have even managed to hit trebles in back-to-back video games.
From the Premier League to the Champions League and worldwide fixtures, a have a look at the lads’s gamers who scored consecutive hat-tricks…
John Utaka
John Utaka scores for Rennes towards Lens in February 2006. (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Earlier than becoming a member of Portsmouth in 2007, former Nigeria striker John Utaka spent 5 years in Ligue 1 with Lens and Rennes.
Throughout his time with the latter, Utaka hit back-to-back hat-tricks in early 2006, scoring three in a 4-1 win at house to his former aspect Lens after which one other treble in a powerful victory by the identical scoreline at Lyon seven days later.
Ian Wright
Ian Wright celebrates a aim for Arsenal towards Crystal Palace in October 1994. (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Ian Wright was a hero at Arsenal within the early years of the Premier League and the previous England striker was the Gunners’ all-time prime scorer till he was overtaken by Thierry Henry.
In March 1994, Wright hit back-to-back hat-tricks for Arsenal, each on the highway because the Gunners gained 5-1 at Ipswich City after which 4-0 away to Southampton.
Dries Mertens
Dries Mertens celebrates after scoring for Napoli towards Torino in December 2016. (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
In December 2016, Dries Mertens grew to become the primary participant to attain back-to-back hat-tricks in Serie A in over 40 years.
The Belgian ahead hit three in a 5-0 win away to Cagliari after which scored 4 in a 5-3 victory at house to Torino seven days later. Napoli went on to complete third in Serie A and Mertens netted a career-best 34 targets in all competitions.
Antoine Griezmann
Antoine Griezmann celebrates after scoring for Atletico Madrid towards Leganes in February 2018. (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Antoine Griezmann grew to become the primary participant in Atlético Madrid’s historical past to attain back-to-back hat-tricks, hitting two trebles in early 2018.
The French ahead netted three in a 5-2 win at Sevilla in late February after which bagged all 4 in a 4-0 victory at house to Leganés three days later.
Roy Makaay
Roy Makaay celebrates after scoring for Bayern Munich towards Kaiserslautern within the Bundesliga in April 2005. (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Roy Makaay scored over 100 targets for Bayern Munich in 4 seasons on the Bavarian giants and gained the Bundesliga twice in that point.
The previous Netherlands striker scored back-to-back hat-tricks away from house in direction of the tip of the 2004/05 season, hitting three in a 4-0 win at Kaiserslautern in late April after which one other hat-trick in a 4-2 victory at Mainz in early Might. Michael Ballack scored the opposite aim for Bayern in each video games.
Didier Drogba
Didier Drogba celebrates with Chelsea team-mates after scoring towards West Brom in August 2010. (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Didier Drogba scored back-to-back hat-tricks for Chelsea in 2010 – however the two trebles came to visit three months aside.
The Ivorian hit three in an 8-0 win at house to Wigan Athletic on the ultimate weekend of the 2009/10 season in Might as Chelsea gained the title and added one other treble on the opening day of the 2010/11 marketing campaign because the Blues thrashed West Brom 6-0 at Stamford Bridge in August.
Luiz Adriano
Luiz Adriano celebrates after scoring for Shakhtar Donetsk towards BATE Borisov within the Champions League in November 2014. (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Enjoying for Shakhtar Donetsk towards BATE Borisov in October 2014, Luiz Adriano grew to become solely the second participant, after Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, to attain 5 targets in a Champions League match.
The Brazilian ahead hit 5 in a 7-0 win away from house and added one other three within the return fixture in Ukraine a few weeks later as Shakhtar gained 5-0 within the second match. Erling Haaland additionally scored 5 for Manchester Metropolis in a 7-0 win over RB Leipzig in March 2023.
Jimmy Greaves
Jimmy Greaves (centre) in motion for Tottenham towards Liverpool in 1965. (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
The best goalscorer in English soccer historical past, Jimmy Greaves netted 44 instances in simply 57 appearances for England, together with six hat-tricks.
Greaves completed his profession as the very best scorer in English top-flight historical past and hit 15 hat-tricks for Tottenham alone. Two of these got here in back-to-back matches within the FA Cup in January 1965 as Spurs beat Torquay United 5-1 at house in a replay within the third spherical after which thrashed Ipswich City 5-0 at White Hart Lane of their subsequent tie.
Les Ferdinand
Les Ferdinand of Queens Park Rangers. (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Les Ferdinand scored 4 Premier League hat-tricks and the primary two of these got here again within the competitors’s inaugural season.
Ferdinand hit three targets in a 4-3 win for Queens Park Rangers over Nottingham Forest at Loftus Street in April 1993 and adopted that up with one other treble as QPR beat Everton 5-3 at Goodison Park simply two days later.
Michel Platini
Michel Platini in motion for France towards Portugal at Euro 1984. (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Michel Platini was instrumental in France’s victory at Euro 1984, scoring 9 targets as Les Bleus claimed a first-ever main trophy in males’s soccer.
The previous Juventus ahead scored a hat-trick in a 5-0 win over Belgium and added one other treble as France beat Yugoslavia 3-2 of their ultimate group sport. He went on to internet the winner towards Portugal in additional time within the final 4 and the opener as Les Bleus beat Spain 2-0 within the ultimate.
Wayne Rooney
Wayne Rooney celebrates after scoring for Manchester United towards Arsenal in August 2011. (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Manchester United thrashed Arsenal 8-2 within the Premier League in August 2011 and Wayne Rooney scored three of the targets at Outdated Trafford.
Two weeks later, the previous England striker hit one other three in United’s subsequent Premier League sport as Sir Alex Ferguson’s aspect thrashed Bolton Wanderers 5-0 away from house.
Karim Benzema
Karim Benzema celebrates after scoring for Actual Madrid towards Chelsea within the Champions League in April 2022. (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Karim Benzema gained the Champions League 5 instances as a Actual Madrid participant and the French ahead is among the competitors’s all-time prime scorers.
A foil for Cristiano Ronaldo for a lot of his Madrid profession, Benzema assumed a higher responsibiity in entrance of aim after the Portuguese left in 2018 and the Frenchman was instrumental as Los Blancos took the Champions Leaue title in 2022, hitting back-to-back hat-tricks towards Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea within the knockout phases.
Erling Haaland
Erling Haaland celebrates after scoring a hat-trick for Manchester Metropolis towards Nottingham Forest in August 2022. (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Erling Haaland signed for Manchester Metropolis in the summertime of 2022 from Borussia Dortmund and the Norwegian made an instantaneous impression with the Sky Blues.
Haaland hit back-to-back hat-tricks in Premier League wins over Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest in August 2022 and repeated the feat two years later with consecutive trebles towards West Ham and Ipswich City.
Harry Kane
Harry Kane celebrates after scoring a hat-trick for Tottenham towards Southampton in December 2017. (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Harry Kane hit back-to-back hat-tricks for Tottenham in September 2017, with 4 targets in a 6-1 win at Leicester after which three extra in a 7-1 victory at Hull.
Three months later, Kane repeated the ahievement, with consecutive trebles in a 3-0 win at Burnley and a 5-2 success at house to Southampton. The England striker has additionally scored back-to-back hat-tricks for Bayern Munich, with three targets in an 8-0 win over Darmstadt in late October 2023 and one other treble in a 4-0 victory towards Borussia Dortmund the next weekend.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after scoring for Actual Madrid towards Bayern Munich in April 2017. (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Cristiano Ronaldo is the Champions League’s all-time prime scorer and the Portuguese celebrity netted eight hat-tricks within the continental competitors.
Three of these got here within the 2016/17 season and two in back-to-back video games within the knockout phases: three targets as Actual Madrid beat Bayern Munich 4-2 in additional time within the quarter-finals in April and one other treble in a 3-0 win over Atlético Madrid within the final 4 first leg in early Might. In whole, Ronaldo has over 60 profession hat-tricks and has scored consecutive trebles on six events. In Might and June 2015, Cristiano scored hat-tricks in three successive video games: two for Actual Madrid and one for Portugal.
Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring for Barcelona towards Manchester Metropolis within the Champions League in October 2016. (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Lionel Messi hit a hat-trick for Barcelona in a 7-0 win over Celtic in September 2016 and, after lacking the journey to Borussia Mönchengladbach in matchday two, the Argentine attacker bagged one other treble in his subsequent Champions League match, a 4-0 victory over Manchester Metropolis as Pep Guardiola returned to the Camp Nou.
In October 2024, Messi scored a powerful 11-minute hat-trick for Inter Miami in a 6-2 win over New England Revolution, having additionally hit a treble in a 6-0 victory for Argentina in a World Cup qualifier towards Bolivia days earlier. In whole, Messi has hit hat-tricks in consecutive video games on six events all through his profession.
