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Since the inception of the women's
Since the inception of the women's football
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league competition in India, the Indian Women's League
The Indian Women's League (abbreviated as the IWL) is the women's top tier professional football league in India, founded in 2016. Currently, a total of 8 teams from across the country participate in the league.
The competition was planned ...
(IWL) in October 2016, 32 players have scored a hat-trick
A hat-trick or hat trick is the achievement of a generally positive feat three times in a match, or another achievement based on the number three.
Origin
The term first appeared in 1858 in cricket, to describe H. H. Stephenson taking three Wick ...
(3 goals or more in a single match). Till 16 April 2025, 75 hat-tricks were scored in the IWL. The first player to achieve the feat was Sasmita Mallik of India who scored three times for Rising Students in a 6–1 victory over Aizawl
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.
Sabitra Bhandari of Nepal scored the most number of hat-tricks as a foreigner in the history of IWL. She achieved the feat 10 times in three seasons. Bala Devi scored the most number of hat-tricks as an Indian in the history of IWL. She achieved the feat 10 times in five seasons. Bhandari, Devi and Apurna Narzary are the only players to have scored multiple hat-tricks in a single match, with Bala Devi having achieved this rare feat twice. She first achieved it while scoring 7 goals for Manipur Police in a 10−0 victory over SAI-STC Cuttack and then achieved the feat again while scoring 6 goals for Manipur Police in a 10−0 victory over Bangalore United. She scored her first three goals at the 3rd, 15th and 16th minutes of the match, thus making her the fastest hat-trick scorer of IWL.
The first non-Indian player to have scored a hat-trick in the IWL was Fazila Ikwaput of Uganda. She scored the hat-trick for Gokulam Kerala in a 6–1 win against Indira Gandhi AS&E. Sabitra Bhandari, Elshaddai Acheampong and Fazila Ikwaput are the only non-Indian players to have scored multiple hat-tricks in the IWL. Till date, players scored 23 hat-tricks for Gokulam Kerala, the most for a single club, where as East Bengal
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and Mata Rukmani conceded 6 hat-tricks each, the most by any club.
Hat-tricks
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Players in bold are still active in the Indian Women's League.
Hat-tricks by club
Hat-tricks by nationality
The following table lists the number of hat-tricks scored by players from a single nation.See also
* List of Indian Super League hat-tricks * List of I-League hat-tricks * List of India women's national football team hat-tricksReferences
{{Football in IndiaHat-tricks
A hat-trick or hat trick is the achievement of a generally positive feat three times in a match, or another achievement based on the number three.
Origin
The term first appeared in 1858 in cricket, to describe H. H. Stephenson taking three Wick ...
Indian Women's League
The Indian Women's League (abbreviated as the IWL) is the women's top tier professional football league in India, founded in 2016. Currently, a total of 8 teams from across the country participate in the league.
The competition was planned ...
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