List of AFC Asian Cup hat-tricks

This is a list of hat-tricks in the AFC Asian Cup, that being when a player scores three or more goals in a tournament match of the AFC Asian Cup (not including qualification matches). Hat-tricks have occurred 18 times across the 17 editions.

Hossein Kalani scored the first hat-trick in the tournament's history, in the 1972 addition.

The first tournament was held in 1956, however no hat-tricks were scored in the first four competitions. The first instance was in 1972, where Hossein Kalani scored three goals for Iran against Iraq in the group stage.[1] Later on in the same tournament again for Iran, Ali Jabbari scored three goals inside nine minutes to defeat Thailand 3–2. The first time a player would score four goals in a match would be 1980, where Behtash Fariba achieved the feat in a 7–0 win for Iran over Bangladesh. After 1980, three tournaments went by without a hat-trick before Ali Daei scored four goals for Iran in a 6–2 win over South Korea in 1996, also marking the first time at least three goals were scored in a match in the knockout stage. Two tournaments later in 2004, another knockout stage hat-trick was achieved by Ali Karimi for Iran in a 4–3 win against South Korea, again in the quarter-finals.

Iran have scored the most hat-tricks with six, while Bangladesh and Uzbekistan have conceded the most, with three each. No player has scored multiple hat-tricks in the Asian Cup. Also, every hat-trick scorer has had their side go on to win their match

Hat-tricks
Key
4 Player scored four goals in the match
Sequence Player Time of goals Representing Final score Opponent Tournament Round Date Ref
1. Hossein Kalani 34', 70', 78'  Iran 3–0  Iraq 1972 Group stage 9 May 1972 [1][2]
2. Ali Jabbari 80', 86', 88'  Iran 3–2  Thailand 1972 Group stage 13 May 1972 [2]
3. Gholam Hossein Mazloumi 63', 74', 80'  Iran 8–0  South Yemen 1976 Group stage 8 June 1976
4. Behtash Fariba4 11', 34', 80', 82'  Iran 7–0  Bangladesh 1980 Group stage 22 September 1980 [3]
5. Choi Soon-ho 26', 53', 78' (pen.)  South Korea 4–1  United Arab Emirates 1980 Group stage 24 September 1980
6. Shen Xiangfu 1', 5', 72'  China PR 6–0  Bangladesh 1980 Group stage 25 September 1980
7. Xu Yonglai 16', 79', 89'  China PR 6–0  Bangladesh 1980 Group stage 25 September 1980
8. Ali Daei4 66', 76', 83', 89' (pen.)  Iran 6–2  South Korea 1996 Quarter-finals 16 December 1996 [4]
9. Akinori Nishizawa 14', 25', 49'  Japan 8–1  Uzbekistan 2000 Group stage 17 October 2000 [5]
10. Naohiro Takahara 18', 20', 57'  Japan 8–1  Uzbekistan 2000 Group stage 17 October 2000 [5]
11. Lee Dong-gook 30', 76', 90+1'  South Korea 3–0  Indonesia 2000 Group stage 19 October 2000 [6]
12. Mohammad Al-Shalhoub 35', 78', 86'  Saudi Arabia 5–0  Uzbekistan 2000 Group stage 20 October 2000 [7]
13. Ali Karimi 10', 20', 77'  Iran 4–3  South Korea 2004 Quarter-finals 31 July 2004 [8]
14. Ismail Abdullatif4 16', 19', 35', 77'  Bahrain 5–2  India 2011 Group stage 14 January 2011 [9]
15. Shinji Okazaki 8', 13', 80'  Japan 5–0  Saudi Arabia 2011 Group stage 17 January 2011 [10]
16. Hamza Al-Dardour4 35', 45+2', 75', 80'  Jordan 5–1  Palestine 2015 Group stage 16 January 2015 [11]
17. Almoez Ali4 9', 11', 55', 60'  Qatar 6–0  North Korea 2019 Group stage 13 January 2019 [12]
18. Vitalij Lux 24', 51', 77'  Kyrgyzstan 3–1  Philippines 2019 Group stage 16 January 2019 [13]

By nation
Nation Hat-tricks for Hat-tricks against
 Iran 6 0
 Japan 3 0
 South Korea 2 2
 China PR 2 0
 Saudi Arabia 1 0
 Bahrain 1 0
 Jordan 1 0
 Qatar 1 0
 Kyrgyzstan 1 0
 Bangladesh 0 3
 Uzbekistan 0 3
 Iraq 0 1
 Thailand 0 1
 South Yemen 0 1
 United Arab Emirates 0 1
 Indonesia 0 1
 India 0 1
 Palestine 0 1
 North Korea 0 1
 Philippines 0 1

References
  1. "Asian Cup 1972". Inside World Football. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  2. "Asia's greatest national teams: IR Iran (1970s)". Asian Football Confederation. 29 April 2020.
  3. "Profile: Behtash Fariba". Team Melli. Retrieved 2 August 2020. Fariba continued to be a star of the team and he was the first Iranian footballer to score four goals in an international match which was against Bangladesh in that championship
  4. "Magical Moments: Ali Daei vs Korea Republic (1996 AFC Asian Cup)". Asian Football Confederation. 6 June 2020.
  5. Himmer, Alastair (19 October 2000). "Japan runs riot over Uzbekistan". The Japan Times.
  6. "Lion King eases South Korea through". BBC Sport. 19 October 2000.
  7. "World Cup - Squad - Mohammed Al-Shlhoub". BBC Sport. 30 May 2002. Few can forget his amazing hat-trick against Uzbekistan at Lebanon 2000.
  8. "Iran wreaks its Asian Cup revenge on S Korea". Independent Online. 31 July 2004.
  9. "India trail 1-4 at half-time against Bahrain". The Times of India. 14 January 2011.
  10. "Okazaki hits hat trick as Japan routs Saudis". The Japan Times. 19 January 2011.
  11. Veo, Valerio (17 January 2015). "Jordan beat Palestine, but how good are they against stronger opposition?". ESPN.
  12. "Almoez Ali makes history as Qatar thump North Korea to reach Asian Cup knockouts". ESPN. 13 January 2019.
  13. Caygill, Graham (16 January 2019). "Vitali Lux's hat-trick puts Kyrgyzstan in good position to qualify for Asian Cup last 16". The National.
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