<P> Since the inception of the UEFA Champions League in 1992, 77 players from 32 countries have scored three goals (a hat - trick) or more in a single match on a total of 93 occasions for 42 different clubs in 15 different leagues . The first player to achieve the feat was Juul Ellerman, who scored three times for PSV Eindhoven in a 6--0 victory over FK Vilnius on 16 September 1992 . </P> <P> Twelve players have scored more than three goals in a match; of these, only Lionel Messi has achieved this more than once, and only Messi and Luiz Adriano have scored five . The other ten players to achieve this feat are Marco van Basten, Simone Inzaghi, Dado Pršo, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Andriy Shevchenko, Bafétimbi Gomis, Mario Gómez, Robert Lewandowski, Zlatan Ibrahimović and Cristiano Ronaldo . </P> <P> Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi have scored three or more goals seven times in the Champions League, more than any other player . Filippo Inzaghi, Mario Gómez and Luiz Adriano have done it on three occasions, while Andy Cole, Michael Owen, Samuel Eto'o, Marco Simone, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Roy Makaay, Roberto Soldado, Didier Drogba, Adriano, Andriy Shevchenko and Robert Lewandowski have scored two hat - tricks . Nine of the players have each scored hat - tricks for two or more different clubs: Inzaghi (Juventus and Milan), Owen (Liverpool and Manchester United), Eto'o (Barcelona and Internazionale), Simone (Milan and Monaco), Van Nistelrooy (PSV Eindhoven and Manchester United), Makaay (Deportivo and Bayern Munich), Shevchenko (Dynamo Kyiv and Milan), Drogba (Marseille and Chelsea) and Lewandowski (Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich). </P> <P> Only Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Adriano (Internazionale), Gómez (Bayern Munich), Soldado (Valencia) and Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) have scored hat - tricks in two consecutive seasons . The longest spell between two hat - tricks was achieved by Owen, who scored his first hat - trick on 22 October 2002 for Liverpool and his second over seven years later on 8 December 2009 for Manchester United . </P>

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