List Of Scotland National Football Team Hat-tricks

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Since Scotland national football team, Scotland's first international association football match on 1872 Scotland v England football match, 30 November 1872, 33 players have scored three goals (a hat-trick) or more in a game. The first player to do so was John McDougall, in a match against England on 2 May 1878. The most goals scored by a single player in a match is five, scored by Joe Harper in a friendly against a Canada Olympic team on 13 June 1967Nap-Hand Harper
Evening Times, 14 June 1967, scan via London Hearts Supporters Club (this match was retrospectively classified as full international in 2021) although some sources credit Hughie Gallacher with a fifth goal in the 1928–29 British Home Championship match against Ireland on 23 February 1929. Denis Law is the only player to have scored four goals in a single match more than once. Robert Smyth McColl, Law and Gallacher are tied for the most hat-tricks for Scotland's international team, with three hat-tricks each.

The most recent player to score a hat-trick for Scotland was John McGinn, in a UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying match against San Marino on 13 October 2019. Steven Fletcher (twice), Robert Snodgrass, James Forrest and McGinn all scored hat-tricks for Scotland between 2015 and 2019, ending a long wait dating back to 17 May 1969, when Colin Stein scored four goals in the 8–0 1970 FIFA World Cup qualifying win over Cyprus.

Scotland have conceded eight hat-tricks in total, with the first scored by England's Fred Spiksley in 1893 – this does not appear in all records, with the last goal of a 5–2 scoreline being mistakenly attributed to Jack Reynolds for some time. The second instance 62 years later, featuring four goals by Dennis Wilshaw of England on 2 April 1955 in a 1954–55 British Home Championship match, remains the highest individual player total for either team in the fixture and the only occasion an opposing player has scored four times in a match.

Nico Claesen of Belgium was the first player from outside the Home Nations to score a hat-trick against Scotland, in the UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying match on 1 April 1987. Scotland had only conceded five hat-tricks until the 2003–04 season when the feat was achieved against them in successive matches, first by Ruud van Nistelrooy for the Netherlands in a UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying playoff match against the, and then by Robert Earnshaw for Wales in a friendly. The most recent hat-trick conceded by Scotland was in May 2012, when Landon Donovan scored three times in a 5–1 win for the United States in a friendly.

Hat-tricks for Scotland

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Wartime internationals, not regarded as official matches, are not included in the list.
The result is presented with Scotland's score first.

Hat-tricks conceded by Scotland

Wartime internationals, not regarded as official matches, are not included in the list. The result is presented with Scotland's score first.

Scotland have conceded eight hat-tricks, five of which have been scored by players from the Home Nations.

Notes

A full list of Scotland results fo
1872–1880
are listed on the RSSSF website. Retrieved 30 March 2023.

Some sources attribute another goal in this match, elsewhere credited to Robert Calderwood, to William Anderson – this would make a hat-trick for Anderson, completed earlier chronologically than that of Joseph Lindsay.

Hughie Gallacher is credited with Scotland's sixth goal (his fifth) in some sources, although RSSSF credit it to Alex James.

This is Scotland's only hat-trick in a game that they lost.
One of the goals is credited to Jack Reynolds in some sources.

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