List of A-League Men hat-tricks

The A-League Men is the top and only professional soccer league in Australia. Since its inaugural season in 2005–06, more than thirty individual players have scored hat-tricks in A-League Men matches, including five players who have scored four or more goals in a match.

Jamie Maclaren scored a record eight A-League Men hat-tricks: for Perth Glory (1), Brisbane Roar (2), and Melbourne City (5).

Statistics

• The first hat-trick was scored by Ante Milicic for Newcastle Jets in a win over New Zealand Knights.^[1]
• Jamie Maclaren has scored the most hat-tricks, with eight.^[2]
• In the 2007 A-League Grand Final, Archie Thompson scored five goals in Melbourne Victory's win over Adelaide United.^[3]
• Two hat-tricks have been scored in a single match on two occasions. The first was when Marcos Flores and Sergio van Dijk both scored three goals for Adelaide United against North Queensland Fury in January 2011.^[4] The second was when Jamie Maclaren scored three goals for Melbourne City and Roy O'Donovan scored three goals for Brisbane Roar in November 2019.^[5]
• Shane Smeltz and Bobô are the only players to have scored hat-tricks in consecutive matches.^[6]
• Henrique and Adrian Segecic are the only players to have scored a hat-trick after coming on as a substitute.^[7][8]
• Besart Berisha holds the record for the fastest hat-trick, scoring three goals in six minutes for Brisbane Roar against Adelaide United.^[9]

Hat-tricks

Archie Thompson scored five goals in the 2007 A-League Grand Final.

Sergio van Dijk became the first non-Australian player in the A-League Men to score a hat-trick in January 2009.

Henrique became the first player in the A-League Men to score a hat-trick as a substitute in November 2014.

Key
4	Player scored four goals
5	Player scored five goals
†	Player scored hat-trick as a substitute
*	The home team

Player	Nationality[a]	For	Against	Result[b]	Date	Ref
Ante Milicic	Australia	Newcastle Jets	New Zealand Knights*	2–4	4 November 2005	[1]
Sasho Petrovski	Australia	Sydney FC	Central Coast Mariners*	1–5	5 November 2005	[10]
Damian Mori	Australia	Perth Glory	Adelaide United*	2–4	6 November 2005	[11]
Jamie Harnwell	Australia	Perth Glory*	New Zealand Knights	4–1	26 November 2006	[12]
Nathan Burns	Australia	Adelaide United	Central Coast Mariners*	1–3	21 January 2007	[13]
Archie Thompson5	Australia	Melbourne Victory*	Adelaide United	6–0	18 February 2007	[3]
Billy Celeski	Australia	Perth Glory	Sydney FC*	2–4	15 December 2007	[14]
Matt Thompson	Australia	Newcastle Jets*	Melbourne Victory	4–2	19 December 2008	[15]
Sergio van Dijk	Netherlands	Queensland Roar*	Sydney FC	3–1	17 January 2009	[16]
Shane Smeltz4	New Zealand	Gold Coast United*	North Queensland Fury	5–0	15 August 2009	[17]
Shane Smeltz	New Zealand	Gold Coast United*	Brisbane Roar	5–1	26 December 2009	[18]
Robbie Kruse	Australia	Melbourne Victory*	Perth Glory	6–2	16 January 2010	[19]
Robbie Fowler	England	Perth Glory*	Melbourne Victory	3–1	14 November 2010	[20]
Sergio van Dijk[c]	Netherlands	Adelaide United*	North Queensland Fury	8–1	21 January 2011	[4]
Marcos Flores	Argentina	Adelaide United*	North Queensland Fury	8–1	21 January 2011
Bruce Djite	Australia	Gold Coast United*	Newcastle Jets	5–1	22 January 2011	[22]
Besart Berisha4	Albania	Brisbane Roar*	Adelaide United	7–1	28 October 2011	[9]
Shane Smeltz4	New Zealand	Perth Glory*	Melbourne Victory	4–2	24 March 2012	[23]
Shane Smeltz	New Zealand	Perth Glory*	Melbourne Heart	3–0	1 April 2012	[6]
Daniel McBreen	Australia	Central Coast Mariners*	Sydney FC	7–2	3 November 2012	[24]
Mark Bridge	Australia	Western Sydney Wanderers*	Adelaide United	6–1	21 December 2012	[25]
Alessandro Del Piero4	Italy	Sydney FC*	Wellington Phoenix	7–1	19 January 2013	[26]
Michael McGlinchey	New Zealand	Central Coast Mariners*	Melbourne Victory	6–2	23 February 2013	[27]
Adam Taggart	Australia	Newcastle Jets*	Melbourne Heart	3–1	24 November 2013	[28]
Dimitri Petratos	Australia	Brisbane Roar	Sydney FC*	2–5	26 December 2013	[29]
David Williams	Australia	Melbourne Heart	Wellington Phoenix*	0–5	16 February 2014	[30]
Sergio Cirio	Spain	Adelaide United	Melbourne Victory*	4–3	22 February 2014	[31]
Andy Keogh	Ireland	Perth Glory*	Brisbane Roar	3–2	19 October 2014	[32]
Besart Berisha	Albania	Melbourne Victory*	Melbourne City	5–2	25 October 2014	[33]
Henrique†	Brazil	Brisbane Roar	Newcastle Jets*	0–4	14 November 2014	[7]
Nathan Burns	Australia	Wellington Phoenix*	Melbourne City	5–1	30 November 2014	[34]
Archie Thompson	Australia	Melbourne Victory*	Sydney FC	3–3	13 December 2014	[35]
Robert Koren	Slovenia	Melbourne City	Newcastle Jets*	2–5	30 December 2014	[36]
Marc Janko	Austria	Sydney FC*	Brisbane Roar	5–4	15 March 2015	[37]
Steven Lustica	Australia	Brisbane Roar*	Central Coast Mariners	6–1	2 April 2015	[38]
Jamie Maclaren	Australia	Perth Glory*	Melbourne City	3–1	19 April 2015	[39]
Blake Powell4	Australia	Wellington Phoenix	Western Sydney Wanderers*	2–5	14 February 2016	[40]
Bruno Fornaroli	Uruguay	Melbourne City*	Sydney FC	3–0	5 March 2016	[41]
Jamie Maclaren	Australia	Brisbane Roar*	Melbourne Victory	5–0	12 March 2016	[42]
Romeo Castelen	Netherlands	Western Sydney Wanderers*	Brisbane Roar	5–4	25 April 2016	[43]
Andy Keogh	Ireland	Perth Glory	Melbourne City*	2–3	21 October 2016	[44]
Besart Berisha	Albania	Melbourne Victory*	Wellington Phoenix	6–1	31 October 2016	[45]
Besart Berisha	Albania	Melbourne Victory	Western Sydney Wanderers*	0–3	10 December 2016	[46]
Brendon Santalab	Australia	Western Sydney Wanderers*	Melbourne City	3–1	24 March 2017	[47]
Jamie Maclaren	Australia	Brisbane Roar*	Central Coast Mariners	5–1	2 April 2017	[48]
Roy O'Donovan	Ireland	Newcastle Jets	Central Coast Mariners*	1–5	7 October 2017	[49]
Bobô	Brazil	Sydney FC	Wellington Phoenix*	1–4	23 December 2017	[50]
Bobô	Brazil	Sydney FC*	Perth Glory	6–0	30 December 2017	[51]
Besart Berisha	Kosovo	Melbourne Victory*	Central Coast Mariners	5–2	18 March 2018	[52]
Riley McGree	Australia	Newcastle Jets	Central Coast Mariners*	2–8	14 April 2018	[53]
Alex Brosque	Australia	Sydney FC*	Central Coast Mariners	5–2	4 January 2019	[54]
Kosta Barbarouses	New Zealand	Melbourne Victory	Brisbane Roar*	0–5	15 January 2019	[55]
David Williams	Australia	Wellington Phoenix*	Newcastle Jets	4–1	31 March 2019	[56]
Roy Krishna	Fiji	Wellington Phoenix*	Melbourne City	3–2	21 April 2019	[57]
Jamie Maclaren	Australia	Melbourne City	Brisbane Roar*	4–3	17 November 2019	[5]
Roy O'Donovan	Ireland	Brisbane Roar*	Melbourne City	4–3	17 November 2019
Adam Le Fondre	England	Sydney FC*	Brisbane Roar	5–1	7 December 2019	[58]
Max Burgess	Australia	Western United*	Central Coast Mariners	6–2	1 March 2020	[59]
Jamie Maclaren	Australia	Melbourne City	Central Coast Mariners*	2–4	20 March 2020	[60]
Matt Derbyshire	England	Macarthur FC*	Adelaide United	4–0	12 February 2021	[61]
Tomi Juric	Australia	Adelaide United*	Central Coast Mariners	3–2	19 February 2021	[62]
Jamie Maclaren5	Australia	Melbourne City*	Melbourne Victory	7–0	17 April 2021	[63]
Andy Keogh4	Ireland	Perth Glory*	Western Sydney Wanderers	5–1	16 May 2021	[64]
Adam Le Fondre	England	Sydney FC	Central Coast Mariners*	0–5	9 April 2022	[65]
Beka Mikeltadze	Georgia	Newcastle Jets*	Perth Glory	6–1	10 April 2022	[66]
Lachlan Wales	Australia	Western United*	Perth Glory	6–0	16 April 2022	[67]
Richard van der Venne	Netherlands	Melbourne City*	Macarthur FC	6–1	4 February 2023	[68]
Jamie Maclaren	Australia	Melbourne City	Western United*	1–3	22 April 2023	[69]
Jason Cummings	Australia	Central Coast Mariners	Melbourne City*	1–6	3 June 2023	[70]
Bruno Fornaroli4	Australia	Melbourne Victory*	Newcastle Jets	5–3	29 October 2023	[71]
Oskar Zawada	Poland	Wellington Phoenix*	Brisbane Roar	5–2	4 November 2023	[72]
Bruno Fornaroli4	Australia	Melbourne Victory	Western Sydney Wanderers*	3–4	10 December 2023	[73]
Ángel Torres	Colombia	Central Coast Mariners	Melbourne City*	3–3	17 December 2023	[74]
Jamie Maclaren	Australia	Melbourne City*	Brisbane Roar	8–1	28 December 2023	[75]
Ulises Dávila	Mexico	Macarthur FC*	Western United	3–3	12 January 2024	[76]
Hiroshi Ibusuki	Japan	Adelaide United	Sydney FC*	4–3	13 January 2024	[77]
Valère Germain	France	Macarthur FC*	Western Sydney Wanderers	4–3	4 February 2024	[78]
Nestory Irankunda	Australia	Adelaide United*	Western United	4–1	29 March 2024	[79]
Tolgay Arslan	Germany	Melbourne City*	Perth Glory	8–0	14 April 2024	[80]
Nicolas Milanovic	Australia	Western Sydney Wanderers*	Newcastle Jets	4–1	8 November 2024	[81]
Joe Lolley	England	Sydney FC*	Perth Glory	3–0	8 January 2025	[82]
Adrian Segecic†	Australia	Sydney FC*	Central Coast Mariners	4–1	11 January 2025	[8]
Logan Rogerson	New Zealand	Auckland FC*	Wellington Phoenix	6–1	22 February 2025	[83][84]
Marin Jakoliš	Croatia	Macarthur FC	Brisbane Roar*	1–5	4 April 2025	[85]
Noah Botic	Australia	Western United*	Adelaide United	3–2	9 May 2025	[86]

Multiple hat-tricks

The following table lists the number of hat-tricks scored by players who have scored two or more hat-tricks.

Rank	Player	Hat-tricks
1	Jamie Maclaren	8
2	Besart Berisha	5
3	Shane Smeltz	4
4	Andy Keogh	3
	Bruno Fornaroli
6	Bobô	2
	Nathan Burns
	Adam Le Fondre
	Roy O'Donovan
	Archie Thompson
	Sergio van Dijk[c]
	David Williams

See also

• A-League Golden Boot
• Lists of hat-tricks

Notes

1. As at the time of the hat-trick
2. The result is presented with the home team's score first.
3. Result occurred before van Dijk was naturalized to Indonesian in February 2013.^[21]