Cristiano Ronaldo has been an icon for many soccer fans around the world. During his career, Ronaldo has registered many magnificent records. One of these records is the number of hat tricks scored by a player during his career.
Ronaldo is only behind the great Pele formally known as Edson Arantes do Nascimento, who has 92 hat tricks to his name. The latest of Cristiano’s hat trick came in the Saudi Pro League club Al-Nassr’s 5-0 win over Al Fateh. The player also registered an assist during the game. Ronaldo has so far scored 63 hat tricks in his career, the second most ever scored by a player.
Ronaldo has scored a total of 841 goals in his career till now. The Portuguese Star made his international debut for Portugal in 2003. In the same year, Ronaldo signed for the Premier League side Manchester United.
The former United star scored his first hat trick for the Red Devils in the Premier League against Newcastle United. It was in a 6-0 win for United. Cristiano has scored 3 hat tricks for his latest club Al-Nassr. The Player has 3 hat tricks for the Seria A club Juventus. The Portuguese scored a total of 44 hat tricks for Real Madrid. For Portugal, CR7 has a total of 10 hat tricks. The Player while playing for Premier League Giants Manchester United, netted a total of 3 hat tricks.
The former Red Devils player scored those hat tricks against the London-based side Tottenham Spurs. The remaining two hat tricks were scored by him against the Toons- Newcastle United and one against Norwich City. Behind Ronaldo there is Lionel Messi with 57 hat tricks and Luis Suarez and Robert Lewandowski have both scored 29 hat tricks each till now.
The quickest hat tricks scored by Cristiano Ronaldo
Ronaldo scored his quickest hat trick for Real Madrid in their 4-0 win against Getafe in a La Liga match held in the first month of the year 2013. The Portuguese completed the hat trick in just a matter of 10 minutes. That season Real Madrid was considered as one of the title contenders along with Barcelona.
The Portugal National player also scored an 11-minute hat trick against Malmo in a 2015 Champions League match for his club Real Madrid. Cristiano’s other fastest hat trick came for Juventus in March 2021. Ronaldo scored the hat trick against the Seria A side Cagliari. It took the player a mere time of 32 minutes to register this hat trick. The player struck a chord with the Juventus fans, after his hat trick.