Since Portugal's first international association football match in 1921 against Spain, there have been 30 occasions when a Portuguese player has scored three or more goals (a hat-trick) in a game. The first hat-trick was scored by Valdemar Mota against Italy in 1928. The record for the most goals scored in an international game by a Portuguese player is four, which has been achieved on five occasions: by Eusébio against North Korea at the 1966 World Cup, by Nuno Gomes against Andorra in 2002, by Pauleta against Kuwait in 2003, and the other two by Cristiano Ronaldo, the first against Andorra in 2016 and the second against Lithuania in 2019.
In addition to Eusébio, three other players have scored a hat-trick at the World Cup finals for Portugal; Pauleta in 2002 against Poland, Ronaldo in 2018 against Spain, and Gonçalo Ramos in 2022 against Switzerland. Sérgio Conceição is the only Portuguese player to have scored a hat-trick at the European Championship finals, doing so when he scored all three goals against Germany at Euro 2000.
Ronaldo holds the record for the most hat-tricks scored by a Portuguese player, scoring ten between 2013 and 2021, with the next closest to him being Pauleta with three. André Silva was the youngest Portuguese player to score a hat-trick, at the age of 20 years, 11 months and 4 days against the Faroe Islands. On two occasions, two players have scored a hat-trick for Portugal in the same match; the first occurred UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying, when Ricardo Sá Pinto and both scored three against Liechtenstein, the second during a friendly against Kuwait, when Pauleta and Nuno Gomes achieved the feat, and the third during 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers against the Armenia national football team when Bruno Fernandes and Joao Neves scored three.
Hat-tricks for Portugal No.Player OpponentGoalsGoals column is sorted by the time elapsed between the first and third goal.ScorePortugal's score is shown first. Scores are sorted by goal difference and number of goals in the match.VenueCompetitionDateRef(s) 1 3 – (20', 27', 77') 4–1 Campo do Ameal, Porto Friendly match 2 3 – (5', 26', 43') 3–1 Estádio Nacional, Lisbon 3 Yaúca 3 – (53', 66', 83') 6–0 1962 FIFA World Cup qualification 4 Eusébio 3 – (21', 63', 77') 5–1 1966 FIFA World Cup qualification 5 3 – (7, 57, 64) 3–0 Friendly match TOVAR, Rui - "Almanaque da Selecção", Almanaxi, 2004 6 Eusébio (2) 4 – (27' pen., 43', 56', 59' pen.) 5–3 Goodison Park, Liverpool1966 FIFA World Cup quarter-final 7 3 – (67', 73', 90') 7–0 Sportpark Eschen-Mauren, Eschen UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying 8 3 – (29', 45', 52') 8–0 Estádio Municipal, Coimbra UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying 9 3 – (40', 59', 67') 10 3 – (35', 54', 71') 3–0 Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam UEFA Euro 2000 group stage 11 3 – (43' pen., 61' pen., 89') 3–0 Estádio de São Luís, Faro Friendly match 12 4 – (36', 40', 45', 90') 7–1 Camp d'Esports, Lleida 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification 13 Pauleta 3 – (14', 65', 77') 4–0 Jeonju Stadium, Jeonju2002 FIFA World Cup group stage 14 Pauleta (2) 4 – (11', 20', 45', 53') 8–0 Estádio Municipal, Leiria Friendly match 15 (2) 3 – (70', 75', 87') 16 Pauleta (3) 3 – (1', 38', 83') 4–1 Complexo Desportivo, Évora 17 3 – (68', 77', 83') 4–2 Windsor Park, Belfast 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification 18 (2) 3 – (50', 77', 79') 3–2 Friends Arena, Solna 19 (3) 3 – (29' pen., 55', 58') 3–2 Republican Stadium, Yerevan UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying 20 (4) 4 – (2', 4', 47', 68') 6–0 Estádio Municipal de Aveiro, Aveiro 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification 21 3 – (12', 22', 37') 6–0 Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn 22 (5) 3 – (3', 29' pen., 65') 5–1 Estádio do Bessa, Porto 23 (6) 3 – (4' pen., 44', 88') 3–3 Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi2018 FIFA World Cup group stage 24 (7) 3 – (25', 88', 90') 3–1 Estádio do Dragão, Porto 2019 UEFA Nations League Finals 25 (8) 4 – (7' pen., 62', 65', 76') 5–1 LFF Stadium, Vilnius UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying 26 (9) 3 – (7' pen., 22', 65') 6–0 Estádio Algarve, Faro/Loulé 27 (10) 3 – (8' pen., 13' pen., 87') 5–0 Estádio Algarve, Faro/Loulé 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification 28 3 – (17', 51', 67') 6–1 Lusail Iconic Stadium, Lusail 2022 FIFA World Cup knockout stage 29 3 – (45+3' pen., 51', 72' pen.) 9–1 Estádio do Dragão, Porto 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification 30 3 – (30', 41', 81')
Hat-tricks conceded by Portugal +No.PlayerOpponentGoalsScoreVenueCompetitionDateRef(s) 1 3 – (14', 57', 70') 0–3 Campo de la Reina Victoria, Seville Friendly match 2 3 – (2', 9', 20') 0–5 Estadio de la Exposición, Seville 3 5 – (10', 12' pen., 46', 77', 86') 0–9 Estadio Chamartín, Madrid 1934 FIFA World Cup qualification 4 4 – (2', 11', 38', 61') 0–10 Estádio Nacional, Lisbon Friendly match 5 4 – (1', 59', 71', 77') 6 3 – (47', 51', 77') 2–4 7 4 – (4' pen., 28', 55', 75' pen.) 3–5 8 5 – (14', 19', 31', 59', 70') 1–9 Praterstadion, Vienna 1954 FIFA World Cup qualification 9 3 – (3', 54', 58') 3–5 Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes Friendly match 10 3 – (27', 53', 56') 2–4 Stade Municipal, Luxembourg City 1962 FIFA World Cup qualification 11 3 – (21', 57', 88') 3–4 Estádio Nacional, Lisbon Friendly match 12 3 – (6', 18', 30') 1–4 Ramat Gan Stadium, Ramat Gan 1982 FIFA World Cup qualification 13 3 – (15' pen., 20', 73') 2–5 Haskovo Stadium, Haskovo Friendly match 14 3 – (9', 25', 58') 2–6 Bezerrão, Gama 15 3 – (12' pen., 45+1', 78') 0–4 Itaipava Arena Fonte Nova, Salvador 2014 FIFA World Cup group stage
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