Exceptional one\u2011game goal tallies have punctuated football history across competitions and eras. The professional record belongs to Stefan Dembicki, who scored 16 times for RC Lens in their 32\u20130 win over Auby Asturies in the 1942 Coupe de France.<\/p>\n
Other extraordinary individual hauls include Hac\u00e8ne Lalmas and Malika-e-Noor, who each scored 14 in single matches in Algeria and Pakistan respectively. Yanick Djouzi Manzizila once netted 21 goals for Congo United, an achievement noted outside the professional ranks.<\/p>\n
In the women\u2019s game Shokhan Salihi holds the record for the most goals scored in a women\u2019s football match, bagging 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
The Premier League era has seen five players score five goals in a game. Andy Cole was first, scoring five of Manchester United\u2019s nine goals in their win over Ipswich Town in 1995. Alan Shearer followed four years later. Jermain Defoe scored five for Tottenham against Wigan in 2009 and Dimitar Berbatov matched that total against Blackburn in November 2010. Sergio Ag\u00fcero is the most recent to score five in the competition, with Manchester City\u2019s 6\u20131 victory over Newcastle in 2015.<\/p>\n
Five is also the Champions League benchmark. Lionel Messi was the first to reach it in March 2012 as Barcelona beat Bayer Leverkusen 7-1 in the round of 16. Luiz Adriano scored five for Shakhtar Donetsk in October 2014 against BATE Borisov. Erling Haaland scored five against RB Leipzig in March 2023, all within an hour before being given an early rest.<\/p>\n
On the continent, Gerd M\u00fcller scored five in a European Cup game in 1972, joining Paul Van Himst, Claudio Sulser and S\u00f8ren Lerby as five\u2011goal scorers in the competition\u2019s earlier era. Aritz Aduriz holds the Europa League single\u2011game mark with five in a 5\u20133 win over Genk in 2016. La Liga\u2019s single\u2011game record is seven, shared by Agust\u00edn Sauto Arana and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Kubala. Serie A\u2019s top mark is six, shared by Silvio Piola and Omar S\u00edvori, while Dieter M\u00fcller\u2019s six in the Bundesliga remains the league record. Rewinding to the 1930s, remarkably the only two seven\u2011goal hauls in Ligue 1 history were recorded within three years of each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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