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National team hat-tricks list
Sheoo Mewalal , the first hat-trick scorer for India since independence
The first player ever to score a
hat-trick (three or more goals in a match) for
India in an international
football match was
R. Lumsden . He achieved the feat in an
official
friendly match against
Australia on 24 September 1938, at the
Sydney Showground , although India lost the match 4–5. This is the only instance when India have lost a game in which a player scored a hat-trick for the team. Lumsden was the only footballer to score a hat-trick for India before
independence .
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[2] Since independence in 1947, eleven Indian players have scored a hat-trick in an international football match. No Indian player has ever scored more than three goals in a single game. The first player after independence to score a hat-trick for India was
Sheoo Mewalal in a 4–0 victory over
Burma in the 1952
Colombo Quadrangular Tournament .
[4]
K. Appalaraju and
Sunil Chhetri are the only Indian footballers to have scored a hat-trick more than once. Appalaraju achieved the feat twice in the
two-legged tie against
Ceylon during the
1964 Olympic Qualifiers . Chhetri has achieved the feat
four times , the latest of which came in India's 4–0 victory over
Pakistan in the opening match of the
2023 SAFF Championship .
[5]
[6] This is also the most recent instance of an Indian player scoring a hat-trick in an international football match. Chhetri's first hat-trick came in the final of the
2008 AFC Challenge Cup against
Tajikistan , which helped India not only to win the cup but also to qualify directly for the
AFC Asian Cup in
2011 , the first time in 27 years that the team reached the final tournament.
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[8]
[9]
Neville D'Souza was the first Asian to score a hat-trick in the history of
Olympic football . He achieved the feat in a 4–2 victory over Australia at the
1956 Melbourne Olympics .
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[12] With four goals in three matches, he not only finished the tournament as joint top-scorer but also helped India become the first Asian team to reach the semi-finals of the tournament.
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[15]
Shabbir Ali scored the fastest hat-trick for the national team.
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[17] He achieved the feat in a 3−1 victory over
Indonesia on 16 August 1976, at the
1976 Merdeka Tournament . His goals came at the 7th, 33rd and 35th minutes of the match.
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As of 29 March 2021, India have conceded nineteen hat-tricks, the most recent being scored by
Ali Mabkhout in a 0–6 defeat by the
United Arab Emirates in a friendly match.
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[20]
Branko Zebec was the first player to score a hat-trick against India, scoring four times for
Yugoslavia in the
1952 Helsinki Olympics .
[21] Two other players,
Bader Al-Mutawa of
Kuwait in a friendly fixture and
Ismail Abdullatif of
Bahrain in the
2011 AFC Asian Cup , have also scored four goals against India.
[22]
[23]
[24] The only instance of India not losing a game even after conceding a hat-trick occurred against
Yemen in a
2002 FIFA World Cup qualification match on 4 May 2001, which ended in a 3–3 draw.
[25]
Hat-tricks for India
As of 21 June 2023 , eleven players have scored a hat-trick for the national team .
Only
FIFA -recognized international matches by the
India national football team have been considered in the following list.
Result in the table lists India's goal tally first
Neville D'Souza , the first ever Indian and Asian hat-trick scorer at the Olympics
Sunil Chhetri has scored a hat-trick four times, the most by any Indian footballer.
Hat-tricks conceded by India
As of 29 March 2021 , India have conceded fifteen hat-tricks in total.
Result in the table lists India's goal tally first
Branko Zebec of
Yugoslavia was the first player to score a hat-trick against India.
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