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The original was posted on /r/soccer by /u/MERTENS_GOAT on 2025-07-29 10:25:37+00:00.

I went through the Most Goals Per Match section of a lot of competitions in transfermarkt, this way I was able to pick out players who scored 4 or more goals in a game often in their career. I filtered by 1974/75 onwards (for competitions for which the data goes further back than that) to give myself a reduced load to work through. So it will only include players who have scored 4 goals in a game 1974/75 or later.

Here is a table ranking the more known players I have found who scored 4 goals in at least 4 different games in their career.

# Tetra-Packs Player # 7 Goals #6 Goals # 5 Goals # 4 Goals
25 Gerd Müller 8 17
12 Hans Krankl 1 2 3 6
11 Marco van Basten 1 4 6
11 Cristiano Ronaldo 2 9
9 Luis Suárez 1 8
9 Dieter Müller 1 1 7
8 Lionel Messi 2 6
8 Willy van der Kuijlen 1 7
7 Krzysztof Warzycha 1 6
6 Erik Sorga 2 1 3
6 Carlos Bianchi 1 1 4
6 Greg Draper 3 3
6 Ruud Geels 2 2
6 Neymar, John Bosman, Páll Klettskard 1 5
6 Hakan Şükür, Romário 6
5 Baghdad Bounedjah 1 1 3
5 Tanju Çolak 1 2 2
5 Erling Haaland Frank Mill, Demis Nikolaidis, Manfred Burgsmüller 2 3
5 Ian Rush, Marcus Berg, Ali Daei, Robert Lewandowski 1 4
5 Roberto Boninsegna 5
4 Jardel 1 2 1
4 Michael Mifsud 1 1 2
4 Claudiu Keșerü, Peter Pacult 1 3
4 Lukas Podolski, Jürgen Klinsmann, Michel Platini, Jupp Heynckes, Adriano Michael Jackson 1 3

4x 4 goals: Abderrazak Hamdallah, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Erich Beer, Kodjo Fo Doh Laba, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Sigurd Rushfeldt, Giovane Élber, Gustavo (Brazilian in South Korea), Washington (Ponte Preta), Serkan Aykut, Klaus Fischer, Rudi Völler, Bafétimbi Gomis, Mario Gómez, Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Other highlights:

Michael Olunga and Andrej Kramaric both had 3: 1x 8 goals, 1x 5 goals, 1x 4 goals

Dieter Hoeneß: 1x 7 goals, 1x 5 goals, 1x 4 goals

David Lafata, Kris Boyd, Alex (Fenerbahçe), Sven Schipplock have no game with exactly 4 goals in the transfermarkt database, but all four of them scored 5 goals in 2 games!

The probably lesser known Wilfried Klinge even beats this with 3 5-goal-games and no game with 4 goals.

Archie Thompson also never scored 4 in a game, but once 5 and another time 13 in the historic 31-0 thrashing of American Samoa.

Karim Bagheri scored 7 and 6 goals each in similar thrashings executed by Iran in the WC Qualifiers, he never scored 4 or 5 goals in a game.

The most goals I have found a player score in a game after Archie Thompson’s 13 was 11. Around 10 years ago the 38-year-old Spaniard, Pedro Carrión scored 11 for Europa FC in the highest Gibraltan Division in a 16-1 away win.

In the 1st Czech Cup round 2023/24 a 26-0 away win included 11 Jan Silny goals.

David Grant bagged 9 goals in a 12-0 away win in the Scottish FA Cup 2022.

Just 3 months ago the 17-year-old Bogdan Musteata scored 8 goals in a league game of the Moldovan 1.5th(?) division. The game finished 19-0.

Johan Voskamp scored 8 goals when Sparta Rotterdam defeated Almere City 12-1 in the 2nd Dutch Division 2010. He never scored.

David Zdrilic scored 8 goals in the 31-0 win by Australia.

Sander Post scored 8 for Flora in the Estonian Cup in an 18:0 away win.

Michael Olunga scored 8 in the J2 League 2019 (13:1)

Andrej Kramaric scored 8 in the Croatian Cup for Rijeka in an 11:0 win.

Carrión, Mustaeta, Grant and Voskamp haven’t scored more than 3 goals in another game in the tm database.

7 goals in a game and not mentioned yet: Marco Richter, Afonso Alves, Gholamreza Enayati, Gary Cole, Lee Harmon, Zaguinho, Mediop Ndiaye, Wayne McIntosh, Zurab Museliani, Andelko Savic, Esala Masi

Players who scored 4 goals in a game for 4 different clubs including the National Team:

  • Hans Krankl for Rapid Wien, Barça, Wiener Sport-Club (Austria)

  • Luis Suárez for Ajax, Liverpool, Barça (Uruguay)

  • Romário for PSV, Flamengo, Vasco da Gama (Brazil)

  • Neymar for Santos, Barça, PSG (Brazil)

  • Marcus Berg for Groningen, Panathinaikos, Al-Ain (Sweden)

  • Claudiu Keșerü for Angers SCO, FCSB, Al Gharafa, Ludogorets

  • Jürgen Klinsmann for Stuttgart, AS Monaco, Bayern, Tottenham

  • John Bosman is the only one who reached 5: Ajax, Mechelen, Anderlecht, Twente (The Netherlands)

Marcus Berg never scored exactly 2 or 3 goals for Sweden, but he once scored 4. His other 20 goals for the NT came in 20 different games.

Longest Time between 1st and last Tetra-Pack:

  • 14 Years Gerd Müller and Jupp Heynckes both 1964-1978.

  • 13 Years Hans Krankl 74-87, Hakan Sükür 93-06, Lukas Podolski 04-17.

  • 12 Years Klinsmann 86-98, Burgsmüller 72-84, Willy van der Kuijlen 66-78, Romário 89-01, Serkan Aykut 95-07, Zlatan 04-16, Lionel Messi 10-22.

Abderrazak Hamdallah somehow scored all his 4 tetra-packs within 3 months and 2 days. He finished that season with 52 goals and 11 assists in 36 games for Al Nassr.

Some players with no 4-goal-game in their (transfermarkt-tracked) career: Benzema, Filippo Inzaghi, Rubén Castro, Aspas, Vardy, Batistuta, Drogba, Jonas, Dirk Kuyt, Luuk de Jong, A. Mitrovic, Akinfenwa, J. P. Guerrero, Sterling, Memphis, Crouch, Sheringham, Les Ferdinand, Quagliarella, Ben Yedder, Totti, Burak Yilmaz.

I didn’t count youth competitions except for the Olympic Games which can be seen as youth games but I counted them anyway.