List of France national football team hat-tricks

File:Just Fontaine.jpg, scorer of five hat-tricks for France.]]

Since France's first international association football match in 1904, there have been 26 occasions when a French player has scored three or more goals (a hat-trick) in a game. The first hat-trick was scored by Eugène Maës against Italy in 1912. The record for the most goals scored in an international by a French player is five, which has been achieved on two occasions: by Maës against Luxembourg in 1913, and by Thadée Cisowski against Belgium in 1956.{{cite web |url=http://www.fff.fr/equipes-de-france/1/france-a/matchs/770/1956-11-11/france-belgique|title=France–Belgium 11th November 1956|publisher=French Federation website|accessdate=5 September 2014}}

Just Fontaine holds the record for the most hat-tricks scored by a French player, with five between 1953 and 1959.{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/fontaine-intlg.html |title=RSSSF |accessdate=5 September 2014}} Two of these came at the 1958 World Cup finals, when France finished in third place. In the 1984 European Championships, Michel Platini scored hat-tricks in consecutive first-round matches, against Belgium and Yugoslavia.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17984239|title=BBC review of 1984 European Championships |accessdate=5 September 2014}} Kylian Mbappé became the second-ever player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final when he did so in 2022 against Argentina. The last French player to score a hat-trick was Kylian Mbappé, who scored three times against Gibraltar in a UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying match.

France have conceded 41 hat-tricks in their history, 31 of which came before the Second World War. In the post-war period, the only player to have scored two hat-tricks against France is Pelé; the first of these occurred in the 1958 World Cup semi-finals. Pelé is also the only non-European player to have scored a hat-trick against France. The Danish forward Sophus Nielsen holds the record for the most goals scored against France in a match, with ten in a 17–1 win at the 1908 Olympic Games in London. England's Geoff Hurst scored the last hat-trick scored against France, in a friendly in 1969.

Hat-tricks for France

File:RIO-NICOLAS-EDF1934.jpg (left) scored two hat-trick for France in 1934.]]

File:Hervé Revelli (en 1968).jpg scored a hat-trick against Norway in a World Cup qualifier in 1969.]]

File:Michel Platini in Moscow.jpg scored two hat-tricks in the 1984 European Championships.]]

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!scope="col"|Date

!scope="col"|Goals

!scope="col"|Player

!scope="col"|Opponent

!scope="col"|Venue

!scope="col"|Competition

!scope="col" class="align:center"|Result{{ref label|Result|a|a}}

!scope="col" class="unsortable"|Ref

| {{center|3}}

!scope="row"| {{sortname|Eugène|Maës|Eugène Maës}}

| {{sort|Italy|{{flagicon|Italy|1861}} Italy}}

| Campo Piazza d’Armi, Turin

| Friendly

| data-sort-value="04" | {{center|4–3}}

| {{cite web |url=http://www.fff.fr/equipes-de-france/1/france-a/matchs/565/1912-03-17/italie-france|title=Italy–France 17th March 1912|publisher=French Federation website|accessdate=30 August 2014}}

| {{center|5}}

!scope="row"| {{sortname|Eugène|Maës|Eugène Maës}}

| {{sort|Luxembourg|{{flagicon|LUX}} Luxembourg}}

| Stade de Paris, Saint-Ouen

| Friendly

| data-sort-value="08" | {{center|8–0}}

| {{cite web |url=http://www.fff.fr/equipes-de-france/1/france-a/matchs/570/1913-04-20/france-luxembourg|title=France–Luxembourg 20th April 1913|publisher=French Federation website|accessdate=30 August 2014}}

| {{center|3}}

!scope="row"| {{sortname|Édouard|Crut|Édouard Crut}}

| {{sort|Latvia|{{flagicon|LAT}} Latvia}}

| Stade de Paris, Saint-Ouen

| 1924 Summer Olympics

| data-sort-value="07" | {{center|7–0}}

| {{cite web |url=http://www.fff.fr/equipes-de-france/1/france-a/matchs/599/1924-05-27/france-lettonie|title=France–Latvia 27th May 1924|publisher=French Federation website|accessdate=30 August 2014}}

| {{center|3}}

!scope="row"| {{sortname|Paul|Nicolas|Paul Nicolas}}

| {{sort|Yugoslavia|{{flagicon|YUG}} Yugoslavia}}

| Colombes, Paris

| Friendly

| data-sort-value="04" | {{center|4–1}}

| {{cite web |url=http://www.fff.fr/equipes-de-france/1/france-a/matchs/610/1926-06-13/france-yougoslavie|title=France–Yugoslavia 13th June 1926|publisher=French Federation website|accessdate=31 August 2014}}

| {{center|3}}

!scope="row"| {{sortname|Paul|Nicolas|Paul Nicolas}}

| {{sort|Ireland|{{flagicon|Ireland|football}} Ireland}}

| Stade Buffalo, Montrouge

| Friendly

| data-sort-value="04" | {{center|4–0}}

| {{cite web |url=http://www.fff.fr/equipes-de-france/1/france-a/matchs/617/1928-02-21/france-irlande|title=France–Ireland 21st February 1928|publisher=French Federation website|accessdate=31 August 2014}}

|{{center|4}}

!scope="row"| {{sortname|Jean|Sécember|Jean Sécember}}

|{{sort|Bulgaria|{{flagicon|Bulgaria|1878}} Bulgaria}}

List of France national football team hat-tricks

Hat-tricks for France

Hat-tricks conceded by France

References