Since Brazil's first international association football match in 1914, there have been 52 occasions when a Brazilian player has scored three or more goals (a hat-trick) in a game. The first hat-trick was scored by Arthur Friedenreich against Chile in 1919. The record for the most goals scored in an international by a Brazilian player is five, which has been achieved only by Evaristo de Macedo against Colombia in 1957. [1]
Pelé holds the record for the most hat-tricks scored by a Brazilian player, with seven between 1958 and 1964., [2] one of them in the World Cup finals. Besides Pelé, the only Brazilian players to have scored a hat-trick at the World Cup finals were Leônidas da Silva against Poland in 1938 and Ademir de Menezes against Sweden in 1950. The last Brazilian player to score a hat-trick was Neymar, who scored three times against Peru in a World Cup qualifier in 13 October 2020.
Brazil have conceded at least 11 hat-tricks in their history, 5 of them in matches against Argentina. the most recent, and undoubtedly the most famous, was scored by Paolo Rossi during the 1982 World Cup, which eliminated Brazil in that competition. [3]
Player | Hat-tricks | First hat-trick | Last hat-trick |
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Pelé | 7 | 24 June 1958 | 6 February 1964 |
Zico | 4 | 14 July 1977 | 30 April 1986 |
Romário | 4 | 8 June 1994 | 8 October 2000 |
Neymar | 4 | 10 September 2012 | 13 October 2020 |
Ademir | 3 | 26 February 1945 | 9 July 1950 |
Ronaldo | 3 | 16 October 1996 | 3 June 2004 |
Sylvio Pirillo | 2 | 14 January 1942 | 31 January 1942 |
Evaristo | 2 | 21 March 1957 | 24 March 1957 |
Tostão | 2 | 10 August 1969 | 24 August 1969 |
Ronaldinho | 2 | 1 August 1999 | 18 August 2004 |
Adriano | 2 | 11 July 2004 | 4 September 2005 |