This is a list of players with the most goals in a
football game. The list only includes players who have scored the most multiple goals in first class or fully professional matches for country or club.
The current world record for an international is held by
Archie Thompson
Archie Gerald Thompson (born 23 October 1978) is an Australian former professional footballer. He also is serving as a club ambassador for Melbourne Victory FC.
Born in New Zealand, Thompson played youth football at the New South Wales Institu ...
, who scored 13 goals against American Samoa in Australia's
31–0 victory during the
2002 FIFA World Cup
The 2002 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Korea Japan 2002, was the 17th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial football world championship for men's national teams organized by FIFA. It was held from 31 May to 30 June 2002 at sites in South Korea an ...
qualification.
David Zdrilic
David Allen Zdrilic ( hr, Zdrilić; born 13 April 1974) is an Australian association football, soccer coach and former player, who is currently the assistant coach of Serie A club Genoa_C.F.C., Genoa. Zdrilic is also a football presenter on the ...
scored 8 goals.
In November 2022, Shokhan Nooraldin Salihi scored 15 goals in the match of Al-Hilal against Sama in the
2022–23 Saudi Women's Premier League.
الهلال يفوز بـ18 هدفًا والنصر ينتصر برباعية في دوري السيدات السعودي
/ref> In this match, Al-Hilal beat Sama 18-0. She broke the previous record of Hacène Lalmas
Hacène Lalmas (12 March 1943 – 7 July 2018), also known as El Kebch (The Ram), was an Algerian footballer who played as a midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively ...
and Malika-e-Noor
Malika-e-Noor (born 11 July 1994) is a Pakistani footballer who is the vice-captain of the Pakistan women's national football team. She captains and plays as a defender for Pakistan Army, and as a midfielder for the national team. As of 2023 ...
for most goals in any top-flight match with 14 each.
In the most prolific European football leagues, the Premier League
The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Fo ...
(and the Football League First Division before it), La Liga
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known simply as Primera División in Spain, and as La Liga in English-speaking countries and officially as LaLiga Santander for sponsorship reasons, stylized as LaLiga, is the men' ...
, Serie A
The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Cop ...
and the Bundesliga
The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...
, the top scorers per game have much lower tallies: seven in England and Spain and six in Italy and Germany. The last player in these leagues to score seven goals in a match was László Kubala
László Kubala ( sk, Ladislav Kubala, es, Ladislao Kubala, 10 June 1927 – 17 May 2002) was a Hungarian-Slovak professional footballer who also had Spanish citizenship. He played as a forward for Ferencváros, Slovan Bratislava, Barcelona, ...
in 1952 for FC Barcelona
Futbol Club Barcelona (), commonly referred to as Barcelona and colloquially known as Barça (), is a professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football.
Found ...
.
List
The players are listed by number of goals scored in an individual game. Players on equal goals are listed in chronological order.
Continental
World
The most successful scorers per game in a UEFA or CONMEBOL club competition match:
Domestic
Algeria
Australia
The most successful scorers per game in a men's national league match:
The most successful scorers per game in an FFA Cup
The Australia Cup, formerly known as the FFA Cup until the 2021 season, is the national football knockout cup competition in Australia. This annual competition is organised by Football Australia, formerly known as Football Federation Austral ...
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Austria
The most successful scorers per game in an Austrian Bundesliga match:
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Bangladesh
The most successful scorers per game in a domestic championship match:
Belgium
The most successful scorers per game in a Belgian First Division
The Belgian Pro League,(officially the Jupiler Pro League due to sponsorship reasons with Jupiler), is the top league competition for association football clubs in Belgium. Contested by 18 clubs since the 2020–21 season and reduced to 16 te ...
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Brazil
The most successful scorers per game in a domestic championship match:
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Chile
The most successful scorer per game in a Chilean Primera División match:
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Colombia
The most successful scorers per game in a Colombian Categoría Primera A match:
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England
The most successful scorers per game in a Football League match:
The most successful scorers per game in a Premier League
The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Fo ...
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The most successful scorers per game in an FA Cup
The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in men's domestic English football. First played during the 1871–72 season, it is the oldest national football competi ...
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France
The most successful scorers per game in a Ligue 1 match:
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Germany
The most successful scorers per game in a Bundesliga
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The most successful scorers per game in a 2. Bundesliga
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The most successful scorers per game in a DDR-Oberliga match:
The most successful scorers per game in a German Cup
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The most successful scorers per game in a Women's Fußball-Bundesliga match:
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Italy
The most successful scorers per game in a Serie A
The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Cop ...
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Japan
The most successful scorers per game in an J League match:
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Netherlands
The most successful scorers per game in an Eredivisie
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The most successful scorers per game in an Eerste Divisie
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Norway
The most successful scorers per game in a Tippeligaen
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Pakistan
The most successful scorers per game in a Pakistani women's football championship match:
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Portugal
The most successful scorers per game in a Primeira Liga match:
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Qatar
The most successful scorers per game in a Qatar Stars League match:
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Romania
The most successful scorers per game in a Liga I
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The most successful scorers per game in a Liga I Feminin match:
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Scotland
The most successful scorers per game in a top flight match:
The most successful scorers per game in a Scottish Premier League match:
The most successful scorers per game in a Scottish Cup
The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,[Scottish Women's Cup
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The most successful scorers per game in a Scottish Women's Premier League
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Spain
The most successful scorers per game in a La Liga
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known simply as Primera División in Spain, and as La Liga in English-speaking countries and officially as LaLiga Santander for sponsorship reasons, stylized as LaLiga, is the men' ...
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The most successful scorers per game in a Copa del Rey
The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout footb ...
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United States
The most goals scored per game in a Major League Soccer match:
The most goals scored per game in a NWSL match:
See also
* List of world association football records
References
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Goalscorers
Association football records and statistics