List of Greece national football team hat-tricks
Fanis Gekas holds the record for the most hat-tricks scored by a Greek player with two
This page is a list of the hat-tricks scored for the Greece national football team .[ 1] Since Greece's first international association football match in 1929, there have been 10 occasions when a Greek player has scored three or more goals (a hat-trick) in a game. The first hat-trick was scored by Antonis Tsolinas against Bulgaria on 7 December 1930, at the 1929-31 Balkan Cup . The record for the most goals scored in an international game by a Greek player is five, which has been achieved on just one occasion: by Dimitris Saravakos against Egypt in 1990, and he is closely followed by Antonis Tsolinas and Fanis Gekas who both managed to score 4 goals.
Fanis Gekas holds the record for the most hat-tricks scored by a Greek player with two, the first coming in a UEFA Euro 2008 qualifier against Malta and the second came in a 2010 World Cup qualifier in a 5–2 win over Latvia .
Hat-tricks scored by Greece
No.
Player
Opponent
Goals
Score
Venue
Competition
Date
Ref(s)
1
Antonis Tsolinas
Bulgaria
4 – (4', 50', 51', 60')
6–1
Leoforos Alexandras Stadium , Athens
1929–31 Balkan Cup
7 December 1930
2
Antonis Papantoniou
Syria
3 – (15', 17', 60')
8–0
Friendly
25 November 1949
3
Nikos Lekatsas
Syria
3 – (18', 23', 71')
4–0
Alexandria Stadium , Alexandria
1951 Mediterranean Games
14 October 1951
4
Giorgos Darivas
Turkey
3 – (15', 44', 80')
3–0
Leoforos Alexandras Stadium , Athens
1950–53 Mediterranean Cup
29 February 1952
5
Giorgos Sideris
Austria
3 – (28', 34'(pen .), 62')
4–1
Karaiskakis Stadium , Piraeus
UEFA Euro 1968 qualifying
4 October 1967
6
Nikos Gioutsos
Israel
3 – (8', 23', 48')
3–3
Bloomfield Stadium , Tel Aviv
Friendly
12 March 1969
7
Thomas Mavros
Finland
3 – (38', 44', 78'(pen .))
8–1
Leoforos Alexandras Stadium , Athens
UEFA Euro 1980 qualifying
11 October 1978
8
Dimitris Saravakos
Egypt
5 – (47', 79', 80'(pen .), 88'(pen .), 90')
6–1
Olympic Stadium of Athens , Athens
Friendly
10 October 1990
9
Fanis Gekas
Malta
3 – (33', 72', 74')
5–0
UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying
17 November 2007
10
Fanis Gekas
Latvia
4 – (4', 47'(pen .), 57', 90+2')
5–2
2010 World Cup qualification
10 October 2009
Hat-tricks conceded by Greece
No.
Player
Opponent
Goals
Score
Venue
Competition
Date
Ref(s)
1
Rudolf Wetzer
Romania
5 – (8', 34', 75', 76', 80')
1–8
Stadionul Oficiul Național de Educație Fizică , Bucharest
1929–31 Balkan Cup
25 May 1930
2
Aleksandar Tomašević
Yugoslavia
3 – (38', 75', 83')
1–4
Stadion Beogradski , Belgrade
1929–31 Balkan Cup
15 March 1931
3
Iuliu Bodola
Romania
3 – (13', 18', 84')
2–4
Leoforos Alexandras Stadium , Athens
1929–31 Balkan Cup
29 November 1931
4
Slavko Kodrnja
Yugoslavia
3 – (12', 20', 72')
3–5
Stadionul Oficiul Național de Educație Fizică , Bucharest
1933 Balkan Cup
3 June 1933
5
Lyubomir Angelov
Bulgaria
3 – (26', 28', 63')
2–5
Yunak Stadium , Sofia
1935 Balkan Cup
16 June 1935
6
Luigi Brugola
Italy B
3 – (35', 45', 80')
1–7
Stadio Vomero , Naples
1953–58 Mediterranean Cup
22 April 1956
7
Harald Nielsen
Denmark
3 – (16', 47', 86')
2–7
Københavns Idrætspark , Copenhagen
Friendly
3 July 1960
8
Henning Enoksen
3 – (34', 51', 90')
9
Anatoliy Banishevskiy
Soviet Union
3 – (25', 59', 82')
1–4
Karaiskakis Stadium , Piraeus
1966 FIFA World Cup qualification
3 October 1965
10
Ion Dumitru
Romania
3 – (7', 32', 77')
1–6
Stadionul Steaua , Bucharest
Friendly
21 September 1977
11
Vahid Halilhodžić
Yugoslavia
3 – (12', 20', 72')
1–4
Toše Proeski Arena , Skopje
1977–80 Balkan Cup
15 November 1978
12
Vicky Peretz
Israel
3 – (29', 41', 80')
1–4
Ramat Gan Stadium , Ramat Gan
Friendly
14 February 1979
13
Oleh Protasov
Soviet Union
3 – (2', 49', 57')
0–4
Olympic Stadium , Athens
Friendly
23 March 1988
14
Gabriel Batistuta
Argentina
3 – (2', 44', 90'(pen .))
0–4
Foxboro Stadium , Foxborough
1994 FIFA World Cup
21 June 1994
See also
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