List of AFC Asian Cup hat-tricks
This is a list of hat-tricks in the AFC Asian Cup, that being when a player scores three or more goals in a tournament match of the AFC Asian Cup (not including qualification matches). Hat-tricks have occurred 18 times across the 17 editions.
The first tournament was held in 1956, however no hat-tricks were scored in the first four competitions. The first instance was in 1972, where Hossein Kalani scored three goals for Iran against Iraq in the group stage.[1] Later on in the same tournament again for Iran, Ali Jabbari scored three goals inside nine minutes to defeat Thailand 3–2. The first time a player would score four goals in a match would be 1980, where Behtash Fariba achieved the feat in a 7–0 win for Iran over Bangladesh. After 1980, three tournaments went by without a hat-trick before Ali Daei scored four goals for Iran in a 6–2 win over South Korea in 1996, also marking the first time at least three goals were scored in a match in the knockout stage. Two tournaments later in 2004, another knockout stage hat-trick was achieved by Ali Karimi for Iran in a 4–3 win against South Korea, again in the quarter-finals.
Iran have scored the most hat-tricks with six, while Bangladesh and Uzbekistan have conceded the most, with three each. No player has scored multiple hat-tricks in the Asian Cup. Also, every hat-trick scorer has had their side go on to win their match
Hat-tricks
Key | |
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4 | Player scored four goals in the match |
Sequence | Player | Time of goals | Representing | Final score | Opponent | Tournament | Round | Date | Ref |
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1. | Hossein Kalani | 34', 70', 78' | 3–0 | 1972 | Group stage | 9 May 1972 | [1][2] | ||
2. | Ali Jabbari | 80', 86', 88' | 3–2 | 1972 | Group stage | 13 May 1972 | [2] | ||
3. | Gholam Hossein Mazloumi | 63', 74', 80' | 8–0 | 1976 | Group stage | 8 June 1976 | |||
4. | Behtash Fariba4 | 11', 34', 80', 82' | 7–0 | 1980 | Group stage | 22 September 1980 | [3] | ||
5. | Choi Soon-ho | 26', 53', 78' (pen.) | 4–1 | 1980 | Group stage | 24 September 1980 | |||
6. | Shen Xiangfu | 1', 5', 72' | 6–0 | 1980 | Group stage | 25 September 1980 | |||
7. | Xu Yonglai | 16', 79', 89' | 6–0 | 1980 | Group stage | 25 September 1980 | |||
8. | Ali Daei4 | 66', 76', 83', 89' (pen.) | 6–2 | 1996 | Quarter-finals | 16 December 1996 | [4] | ||
9. | Akinori Nishizawa | 14', 25', 49' | 8–1 | 2000 | Group stage | 17 October 2000 | [5] | ||
10. | Naohiro Takahara | 18', 20', 57' | 8–1 | 2000 | Group stage | 17 October 2000 | [5] | ||
11. | Lee Dong-gook | 30', 76', 90+1' | 3–0 | 2000 | Group stage | 19 October 2000 | [6] | ||
12. | Mohammad Al-Shalhoub | 35', 78', 86' | 5–0 | 2000 | Group stage | 20 October 2000 | [7] | ||
13. | Ali Karimi | 10', 20', 77' | 4–3 | 2004 | Quarter-finals | 31 July 2004 | [8] | ||
14. | Ismail Abdullatif4 | 16', 19', 35', 77' | 5–2 | 2011 | Group stage | 14 January 2011 | [9] | ||
15. | Shinji Okazaki | 8', 13', 80' | 5–0 | 2011 | Group stage | 17 January 2011 | [10] | ||
16. | Hamza Al-Dardour4 | 35', 45+2', 75', 80' | 5–1 | 2015 | Group stage | 16 January 2015 | [11] | ||
17. | Almoez Ali4 | 9', 11', 55', 60' | 6–0 | 2019 | Group stage | 13 January 2019 | [12] | ||
18. | Vitalij Lux | 24', 51', 77' | 3–1 | 2019 | Group stage | 16 January 2019 | [13] |
By nation
Nation | Hat-tricks for | Hat-tricks against |
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6 | 0 | |
3 | 0 | |
2 | 2 | |
2 | 0 | |
1 | 0 | |
1 | 0 | |
1 | 0 | |
1 | 0 | |
1 | 0 | |
0 | 3 | |
0 | 3 | |
0 | 1 | |
0 | 1 | |
0 | 1 | |
0 | 1 | |
0 | 1 | |
0 | 1 | |
0 | 1 | |
0 | 1 | |
0 | 1 |
References
- "Asian Cup 1972". Inside World Football. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
- "Asia's greatest national teams: IR Iran (1970s)". Asian Football Confederation. 29 April 2020.
- "Profile: Behtash Fariba". Team Melli. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
Fariba continued to be a star of the team and he was the first Iranian footballer to score four goals in an international match which was against Bangladesh in that championship
- "Magical Moments: Ali Daei vs Korea Republic (1996 AFC Asian Cup)". Asian Football Confederation. 6 June 2020.
- Himmer, Alastair (19 October 2000). "Japan runs riot over Uzbekistan". The Japan Times.
- "Lion King eases South Korea through". BBC Sport. 19 October 2000.
- "World Cup - Squad - Mohammed Al-Shlhoub". BBC Sport. 30 May 2002.
Few can forget his amazing hat-trick against Uzbekistan at Lebanon 2000.
- "Iran wreaks its Asian Cup revenge on S Korea". Independent Online. 31 July 2004.
- "India trail 1-4 at half-time against Bahrain". The Times of India. 14 January 2011.
- "Okazaki hits hat trick as Japan routs Saudis". The Japan Times. 19 January 2011.
- Veo, Valerio (17 January 2015). "Jordan beat Palestine, but how good are they against stronger opposition?". ESPN.
- "Almoez Ali makes history as Qatar thump North Korea to reach Asian Cup knockouts". ESPN. 13 January 2019.
- Caygill, Graham (16 January 2019). "Vitali Lux's hat-trick puts Kyrgyzstan in good position to qualify for Asian Cup last 16". The National.