{"id":391779,"date":"2026-01-06T13:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/391779\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T13:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:15:08","slug":"the-most-goals-scored-by-a-single-player-in-a-soccer-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/391779\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Goals Scored by a Single Player in a Soccer Match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goals make the soccer<\/a> world spin, and the modern era has delivered some truly remarkable performances from elite goalscorers.<\/p>\n

Yet, despite the brilliance of players like Lionel Messi and Erling Haaland, many of the sport\u2019s most astonishing goalscoring records\u2014set decades ago\u2014still stand untouched.<\/p>\n

Here are the records for the most goals scored in a single game by one player.<\/p>\n

\"Stefan<\/p>\n

Stefan Dembicki. \/ Creative Commons<\/p>\n

Stefan Dembicki currently holds the record for the most goals scored by a single player in a professional match\u2014netting an astonishing 16 times for RC Lens during their 32\u20130 victory over Auby Asturies in the 1942 Coupe de France.<\/p>\n

Honourable mentions also go to Hac\u00e8ne Lalmas and Malika-e-Noor, who both scored 14 times in a single game in Algeria and Pakistan respectively, as well as Yanick Djouzi Manzizila, who once scored 21 goals in a single match for Congo United\u2014an impressive feat even if not in a professional game.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Shokhan Salihi holds the record for the most goals scored in a women\u2019s football match\u2014bagging 15 of Al Hilal\u2019s 18 unanswered goals in the Saudi Women\u2019s Premier League. Sama were the club on the wrong end of that 2022\u201323 demolition.<\/p>\n

\"Manchester<\/p>\n

Sergio Ag\u00fcero once scored five goals in a single game for Man City. \/ Laurence Griffiths\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Five players have scored five goals in a single game during the Premier League<\/a> era, with Andy Cole the first to do so after rattling in five of Manchester United\u2019s <\/a>nine goals in their legendary thumping of Ipswich Town in 1995.<\/p>\n

Alan Shearer followed four years later, leading Newcastle United to an 8\u20130 rout of Sheffield Wednesday, but it took just over a decade for the next striker to bag a quintuple.<\/p>\n

Jermain Defoe ran the show with five goals for <\/a>Tottenham<\/a> against Wigan in 2009 before Dimitar Berbatov smashed Blackburn for five of his own in November 2010.<\/p>\n

Sergio Ag\u00fcero is the most recent entry\u2014tonking Newcastle<\/a> almost single-handedly as Manchester City<\/a> beat the Magpies 6\u20131 in 2015.<\/p>\n

\"Luiz<\/p>\n

Luiz Adriano is an unlikely Champions League record holder. \/ Getty<\/p>\n

Five is the magic number again in the Champions League<\/a>, with three players sharing the record for most goals scored in a single game.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, Lionel Messi is one of them\u2014becoming the first player to reach the feat in March 2012 when Barcelona <\/a>hammered Bayer Leverkusen 7-1 in the competition\u2019s round of 16.<\/p>\n

In October 2014, the lesser-known Luiz Adriano became the second player to score five goals in a single UCL game when his Shakhtar Donetsk side smashed BATE Borisov 7-0.<\/p>\n

Inevitably, Erling Haaland got himself in on the five-goal fun in March 2023 against RB Leipzig, scoring all his goals inside an hour before being given an early rest\u2014not a bad night\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

Four players also netted five goals during the era of the old European Cup, most notably sharpshooter Gerd M\u00fcller for Bayern Munich in 1972. Paul Van Himst, Claudio Sulser and S\u00f8ren Lerby also achieved the feat on the continent.<\/p>\n

\"Aduriz\"<\/p>\n

Aduriz is a Bilbao icon. \/ Getty\/Juan Manuel Serrano Arce<\/p>\n

Athletic Club legend Aritz Aduriz is the record holder for most goals scored in a Europa League game, netting all five of his side\u2019s goals in a 5\u20133 victory over Genk in 2016.<\/p>\n

In its previous format as the UEFA Cup, eight players bagged five in a single game, including the likes of Fabrizio Ravanelli and Marco van Basten.<\/p>\n

\"L\u00e1szl\u00f3<\/p>\n

L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Kubala. \/ Creative Commons<\/p>\n

The record for most goals scored by a single player in a La Liga<\/a> game is held jointly by legends of yesteryear Agust\u00edn Sauto Arana (best known as \u201cBata\u201d) and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Kubala, who each scored seven.<\/p>\n

Arana hit the landmark first as his Athletic Club outfit smashed Barcelona 12\u20131 in 1931 before Kubala joined the party 21 years later, this time as Barcelona put Sporting Gijon to the sword with a 9\u20130 victory.<\/p>\n

\"Omar<\/p>\n

Omar Sivori was a world-class striker. \/ Buzzi\/IMAGO<\/p>\n

The record for the most goals by a single player in a Serie A match is also shared, with Silvio Piola and Omar S\u00edvori of Vercelli and Juventus respectively both notching six goals in a single game.<\/p>\n

In addition, 13 players in Italy\u2019s top flight have scored five goals in a single match, the most recent being Miroslav Klose in 2013\u2014his strikes coming in the space of just 40 minutes.<\/p>\n

\"Dieter<\/p>\n

Dieter M\u00fcller is the only player to score six goals in one Bundesliga game. \/ IMAGO\/Werner Otto<\/p>\n

When it comes to the most goals by a single player in a Bundesliga match, your mind probably immediately jumps to Robert Lewandowski and his ridiculous substitute appearance against Wolfsburg\u2014coming off the bench to score five goals in just nine minutes.<\/p>\n

However, that haul still fell one short of Dieter M\u00fcller\u2019s Bundesliga record, who netted six goals in a single game when K\u00f6ln thrashed Werder Bremen 7\u20132 in 1977.<\/p>\n

Bayern Munich<\/a> legend Gerd M\u00fcller, meanwhile, scored five goals in a single game on four separate occasions.<\/p>\n

\"Andre<\/p>\n

Andre Abegglen. \/ Creative Commons<\/p>\n

Rewinding to the 1930s, remarkably the only two seven-goal hauls in Ligue 1 history were recorded within three years of each other.<\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9 Abegglen got the ball rolling, netting seven of Sochaux\u2019s 12 goals against Valenciennes, while the same opposition felt the sting of Jean Nicolas three years later when he scored seven times in Rouen\u2019s 9\u20131 victory.<\/p>\n

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