5 active footballers who have scored the most hat-tricks in top-five European leagues
Finding the back of the net is arguably the toughest task in football. Some players, however, manage to make the job look absurdly easy.
Devoid of nerves, they drift into dangerous areas and apply the finishing touch without a worry in the world. Today’s list is all about acknowledging the masters of goalscoring.
Below, we will take a look at five players who have netted hat-tricks in arguably the toughest leagues in the world, over and over again.
Here are five active goalscorers who have bagged the most hat-tricks in the top-five European leagues:
#5 Edinson Cavani – 12 hat-tricks
Edinson Cavani, 35, has enjoyed quite an eventful career. The Manchester United striker has played in three of the top-five European leagues, scoring a whopping 360 goals and winning six league titles.
Having enjoyed successful spells at Italian clubs Palermo and Napoli, he joined Paris Saint-Germain in the 2013-14 campaign. He arguably played the best football of his career at the French club. Alongside Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Cavani spearheaded PSG’s attack, helping the Parisians bag six Ligue 1 titles in seven seasons.
Paris Saint-Germain’s all-time top-scorer is yet to score a hat-trick in the Premier League but has enjoyed astounding success in Serie A and Ligue 1. In Serie A, he scored seven hat-tricks, with all of them coming for Napoli. The Uruguayan sharpshooter scored the remaining five hat-tricks for Paris Saint-Germain in Ligue 1.
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His most memorable hat-trick in PSG colors came on matchday five of the 2016-17 campaign. He scored four goals to help the French giants to an emphatic 6-0 win over SM Caen.
#4 Luis Suarez – 16 hat-tricks
Over the last one-and-a-half decades, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have dominated headlines around the world. Scoring goals and smashing records has been a walk in the park for them, making it almost impossible for other footballers to hog the limelight.
Former Barcelona ace Luis Suarez is arguably the only goalscorer to have outshone the duo with his sheer ability to find the back of the net. In the 2015-16 campaign, Suarez scored 40 goals in 35 La Liga appearances, winning the Pichichi as well the European Golden Boot.
34 games
12 goals
4 assists
18-year-old Luis Suárez for Nacional during the 2005/2006 season:
✅34 games
⚽️12 goals
🅰️4 assists
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Over the course of his career, Suarez has plied his trade in two top-five European leagues - the Premier League and La Liga. He scored 69 league goals for Liverpool, netting six hat-tricks in the process. Norwich City were his favorite team in the Premier League, with the Uruguayan scoring three hat-tricks against the Canaries.
His 10 remaining league hat-tricks came in La Liga during his six-year stay at Barcelona. Suarez’s most memorable three-goal haul came in the 2018-19 season when he helped Barca to a 5-1 win over their arch-rivals Real Madrid.