<P> Since the inception of international association football matches in 1872, 58 England male footballers have scored three or more goals (a hat - trick) in a game . The first players to score a hat - trick for England were Howard Vaughton and Arthur Alfred Brown, both Aston Villa players; in a friendly match against Ireland in 1882, they scored nine goals between them . Four players, Vaughton, Steve Bloomer, Willie Hall and Malcolm Macdonald, have scored five goals in one match . Jimmy Greaves has scored the greatest number of hat - tricks, with six . Five players, Albert Allen, Frank Bradshaw, Walter Gilliat, John Veitch and John Yates, have scored hat - tricks on their only international appearance . </P> <P> In the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final, Geoff Hurst scored a hat - trick, generally considered one of the most famous of all time . The most recent hat - trick was scored by Harry Kane in England's victory over Panama in their second match of the Russia 2018 finals . </P> <P> England have conceded eleven hat - tricks since 1872, the most recent being scored by Zlatan Ibrahimović who scored four goals in a 4--2 defeat by Sweden in a friendly match in November 2012 . Richard Hofmann was the first player from outside the Home Nations to score a hat - trick against England, scoring three times for Germany in a friendly match in May 1930 . Previously only the Scottish players John McDougall, George Ker, John Smith, Robert Smyth McColl and Alex Jackson had scored hat - tricks against England . </P>

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