Michel Platini en 1978, 'Argentina 78', Panini figurina n°90

This is a list of all hat-tricks scored during UEFA European Championships; that is, the occasions when a footballer has scored three or more

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s in a single football European Championship match (not including

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matches). Scoring 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 wic ...

in a European Championship is a relatively rare event: only eight hat-tricks have been scored in the 15 editions of the European Championships. As

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is the governing body of European

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, official hat-tricks are only noted when UEFA recognises that at least three goals were scored by one player in one match. The tournament was first held in

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, but there were no hat-tricks in any of the first four editions. In the semi-finals of the 1976 competition,

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scored the first hat-trick in his first international game, as

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came from behind to defeat

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4–2 after extra time. Four years later, his compatriot

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scored the second hat-trick, in a 3–2 group stage win over the

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. The first tournament to see more than one hat-trick was in

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, both by

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captain

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, who is the only player to score more than one European Championship hat-trick; his first against Yugoslavia is the quickest hat-trick in the history of the competition, with all three goals coming in the space of 18 minutes. After Marco van Basten's three goals for the

in a 3–1 group stage win over

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, there were no hat-tricks in 1992 or 1996. At

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, there were a joint-record two hat-tricks:

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scored all of the goals in Portugal's group stage victory over Germany, and

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recorded three goals in the Netherlands' 6–1 win over Yugoslavia in the quarter-finals. The most recent hat-trick to be scored at the European Championship finals was by Spain's

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, who scored three times in a 4–1 win over

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in the group stage of the 2008 tournament. Every player who has scored a hat-trick in the European Championship has ended on the winning team in that match. On all but four occasions they have ended up winning the tournament. No player has scored in a European Championship final, nor has any recorded more than three goals in the same game.

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Hat-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 wi ...

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