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Top Eight Fastest Hat Tricks in the UEFA Champions League
Mp3bullet has chosen to highlight the top eight fastest hat tricks in UEFA Champions League history.
Liverpool’s forward player, Mohamed Salah made competition history by scoring a hat trick in the quickest time possible against the Rangers. In a span of seven minutes, the Egyptian scored three goals for the Reds.
The UEFA Champions League is the most lucrative club tournament in the world, and most football players have a desire to participate in it before hanging up their boots.
- Mohamed Salah: 7 minutes; ( Rangers 1-7 Liverpool), October 12th, 2022).
On match day 4 of the 2022–23 season, the Egyptian came off the bench to score three goals against the Rangers.
- Bafetimbi Gomis: 8 minutes; ( Lyon 7-1 Dinamo Zagreb, December 7th, 2011).
He scored the hat trick while playing for Lyon against Dinamo Zagreb. The player scored three goals in the eight minutes.
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- Mike Newell: 9 minutes; ( Blackburn 4-1 Rosenborg, December 6th, 1995).
In his career, the Englishman played for 13 different clubs, appeared in 530 league games, and scored 120 goals. Following his nine-minute hat trick against Rosenborg during the 1995–96 season, he is third on the list.
- Raheem Sterling: 11 minutes ; ( Manchester City 5-1 Atalanta, October 22nd, 2019).
The Chelsea player has his share of this great achievement in the Champions League. He scored his hat trick against Atalanta during the 2019/20 season.
- Cristiano Ronaldo: 11 minutes; (Real Madrid 8-0 Malmo, December 8th, 2015).
The Manchester United player achieved this feat in the game against Malmo during the 2015/16 season while playing for Real Madrid.
- Robert Lewandowski: 11 minutes; ( Bayern Munich 7-1 Salzburg, March 8th, 2022).
The Polish striker is well-known for the number of goals he scored while a member of Bayern Munich. In the 2021–2022 season, he scored his hat trick in the same number of minutes as Ronaldo.
- Robert Lewandowski: 12 minutes; ( Bayern Munich 6-0 Crvena Zvezda, November 26th, 2019)
He wrote his name in the history book of the competition some seasons earlier when he scored a hat trick in 12 seconds in the game against Crvena Zvezda.
- Luiz Andriano: 12 minutes; ( Shakhtar Donetsk 7-0 Bate, October 21st, 2014)
The Brazilian is the last player on this list and holds the record for the fastest hat trick in competition history. In the game against Bate during the 2021/22 season, he accomplished this.