List of Major League Soccer hat-tricks

The first hat-trick, a player scoring three goals in a game, in Major League Soccer, was scored by Steve Rammel of D.C. United in their 5–2 win at the Columbus Crew on May 15, 1996.^[1]

Clint Mathis scored an MLS record five goals in a game in 2000.

Josef Martínez has scored an MLS record seven hat-tricks.

The league's fastest hat-trick was scored in under five minutes by Harut Karapetyan of the LA Galaxy on June 4, 1998, in an 8–1 win at the Dallas Burn.^[2] The fastest hat-trick from the start of a game was scored by Hany Mukhtar of Nashville SC, who recorded three goals in the opening 16 minutes of a 5–1 victory against Chicago Fire FC on July 18, 2021 (the goals all came in a six-minute window). Clint Mathis scored the most goals in a game, when he scored five, on August 26, 2000, in a 6–4 MetroStars win over the Burn.^[3]

Roy Lassiter scored hat-tricks for the Tampa Bay Mutiny^[1] and D.C. United.^[4] Dante Washington scored hat-tricks for the Burn^[5] and the Crew.^[6] Mamadou Diallo scored three hat-tricks for the Mutiny^[7][8][9] and another for the MetroStars,^[10] twice scoring four goals in a game.

Hat-tricks

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

1990s

Note: The results column shows the scorer's team score first

Player[11]	Nationality	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref.
Steve Rammel	United States	D.C. United	Columbus Crew*	5–2	May 15, 1996	[1]
Giovanni Savarese	Venezuela	NY/NJ MetroStars*	Colorado Rapids	3–0	May 16, 1996	[1]
Eduardo Hurtado	Ecuador	LA Galaxy	NY/NJ MetroStars*	4–0	June 9, 1996	[1]
Eduardo Hurtado	Ecuador	LA Galaxy	Colorado Rapids*	3–1	June 26, 1996	[1]
Raúl Díaz Arce4	El Salvador	D.C. United	Dallas Burn*	6–1	July 7, 1996	[1]
Cobi Jones	United States	LA Galaxy*	Tampa Bay Mutiny	3–4	July 27, 1996	[1]
Roy Lassiter	United States	Tampa Bay Mutiny	Colorado Rapids*	3–1	August 3, 1996	[1]
Brian Maisonneuve	United States	Columbus Crew*	Kansas City Wiz	5–1	September 7, 1996	[1]
Raúl Díaz Arce4	El Salvador	D.C. United	Colorado Rapids*	5–2	April 12, 1997	[12]
Alberto Naveda	Argentina	New England Revolution*	NY/NJ MetroStars	3–1	May 30, 1997	[13]
Dante Washington	United States	Dallas Burn*	San Jose Clash	3–1	July 18, 1997	[5]
Eduardo Hurtado	Ecuador	LA Galaxy*	Tampa Bay Mutiny	6–1	September 7, 1997	[14]
Jose Vasquez	United States	LA Galaxy	San Jose Clash*	3–2	September 21, 1997	[15]
Stern John	Trinidad and Tobago	Columbus Crew*	Miami Fusion	5–1	April 18, 1998	[16]
Cobi Jones	United States	LA Galaxy*	Colorado Rapids	7–4	May 6, 1998	[17]
Musa Shannon	United States	Tampa Bay Mutiny	New England Revolution*	3–4	May 10, 1998	[18]
Vitalis Takawira	Zimbabwe	Kansas City Wizards	New England Revolution*	3–1	May 16, 1998	[19]
Martín Machón	Guatemala	LA Galaxy	Columbus Crew*	3–1	May 17, 1998	[20]
Stern John	Trinidad and Tobago	Columbus Crew	Chicago Fire*	5–1	May 30, 1998	[21]
Harut Karapetyan†	Armenia	LA Galaxy*	Dallas Burn	8–1	June 4, 1998	[2]
Roy Lassiter	United States	D.C. United*	Chicago Fire	4–1	July 18, 1998	[4]
Cobi Jones	United States	LA Galaxy*	Colorado Rapids	6–1	August 5, 1998
Stern John	Trinidad and Tobago	Columbus Crew*	Kansas City Wizards	5–3	August 16, 1998	[22]
Cobi Jones	United States	LA Galaxy	New England Revolution*	5–1	August 22, 1998	[23]
Diego Serna	Colombia	Miami Fusion*	New England Revolution	3–2	August 30, 1998	[24]
Preki	United States	Kansas City Wizards*	San Jose Clash	5–1	September 5, 1998	[19]
Jason Kreis	United States	Dallas Burn*	New England Revolution	4–0	March 20, 1999	[25]
Stern John	Trinidad and Tobago	Columbus Crew*	Miami Fusion	4–0	August 1, 1999	[26]
Stern John	Trinidad and Tobago	Columbus Crew	MetroStars*	4–2	August 18, 1999	[27]

2000s

Player[11]	Nationality	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref.
Ante Razov	United States	Chicago Fire	Miami Fusion*	3–0	May 6, 2000	[28]
Jaime Moreno	Bolivia	D.C. United	Colorado Rapids*	5–2		[29]
Diego Serna	Colombia	Miami Fusion	Tampa Bay Mutiny*	4–1	June 21, 2000	[30]
Mamadou Diallo	Senegal	Tampa Bay Mutiny*	MetroStars	4–3	August 16, 2000	[7]
Clint Mathis5	United States	MetroStars	Dallas Burn*	6–4	August 26, 2000	[3]
Mamadou Diallo	Senegal	Tampa Bay Mutiny	Columbus Crew*	4–3	August 30, 2000	[8]
Diego Serna4	Colombia	Miami Fusion*	MetroStars	4–1	September 2, 2000	[31]
Diego Serna	Colombia	Miami Fusion	D.C. United*	6–2	September 9, 2000	[32]
Alex Comas	Colombia	MetroStars	New England Revolution*	3–4		[33]
Clint Mathis	United States	MetroStars*	Kansas City Wizards	4–1	May 2, 2001	[34]
Abdul Thompson Conteh4	Sierra Leone	D.C. United*	New England Revolution	5–0	May 9, 2001	[9]
Mamadou Diallo4	Senegal	Tampa Bay Mutiny*	LA Galaxy	4–1		[9]
Diego Serna	Colombia	Miami Fusion	Dallas Burn	6–2	June 2, 2001	[35]
Dante Washington	United States	Columbus Crew*	Tampa Bay Mutiny	6–1	June 16, 2001	[6]
John Spencer	Scotland	Colorado Rapids*	D.C. United	3–1	July 4, 2001	[36]
Alex Pineda Chacón	Honduras	Miami Fusion*	D.C. United	3–1	September 8, 2001	[37]
Ante Razov	United States	Chicago Fire	New England Revolution*	3–1	May 19, 2002	[38]
Bobby Rhine	United States	Dallas Burn*	Colorado Rapids	4–1	June 8, 2002	[39]
Mamadou Diallo4	Senegal	MetroStars*	LA Galaxy	5–0	June 15, 2002	[10]
Chris Carrieri	United States	Colorado Rapids*	Chicago Fire	3–2	July 4, 2002	[40]
Carlos Ruiz	Guatemala	LA Galaxy*	MetroStars	3–0	August 31, 2002	[41]
Taylor Twellman	United States	New England Revolution*	D.C. United	3–0	September 7, 2002	[42]
Chris Brown	United States	New England Revolution*	Chicago Fire	5–1	August 30, 2003	[43]
Landon Donovan	United States	San Jose Earthquakes	Kansas City Wizards*	4–1	September 20, 2003	[44]
Dwayne De Rosario	Canada	San Jose Earthquakes*	Dallas Burn	5–2	September 27, 2003	[45]
Pat Noonan	United States	New England Revolution*	MetroStars	5–1	October 25, 2003	[46]
Alejandro Moreno	Venezuela	LA Galaxy	D.C. United*	4–2	May 19, 2004	[47]
Pat Noonan	United States	New England Revolution	Kansas City Wizards*	3–2	June 2, 2004	[48]
Damani Ralph	Jamaica	Chicago Fire*	LA Galaxy	3–0	June 5, 2004	[49]
Davy Arnaud	United States	Kansas City Wizards*	Dallas Burn	5–1	July 3, 2004	[50]
Ross Paule	United States	Columbus Crew*	LA Galaxy	3–1	September 4, 2004	[51]
Edson Buddle4	United States	Columbus Crew*	MetroStars	4–2	September 18, 2004	[52]
Amado Guevara	Honduras	MetroStars	Colorado Rapids*	3–1	April 30, 2005	[53]
Nate Jaqua	United States	Chicago Fire*	Chivas USA	5–2	June 4, 2005	[54]
Jeff Cunningham	United States	Colorado Rapids	Chivas USA*	3–1	June 18, 2005	[55]
Taylor Twellman	United States	New England Revolution*	FC Dallas	3–2	July 16, 2005	[56]
Amado Guevara	Honduras	MetroStars*	Chivas USA	3–3	August 21, 2005	[57]
Taylor Twellman	United States	New England Revolution*	Columbus Crew	3–1	September 10, 2005	[56]
Brian Ching4	United States	Houston Dynamo*	Colorado Rapids	5–2	April 2, 2006	[58]
Peguero Jean Philippe	Haiti	New York Red Bulls*	Chivas USA	5–4	May 20, 2006	[59]
Edson Buddle†	United States	New York Red Bulls*	Real Salt Lake	6–0	August 26, 2006	[60]
Amado Guevara	Honduras	New York Red Bulls*	Kansas City Wizards	3–2	October 14, 2006	[61]
Eddie Johnson	United States	Kansas City Wizards	New England Revolution*	4–3	May 26, 2007
Eddie Johnson	United States	Kansas City Wizards*	New York Red Bulls	3–2	June 2, 2007	[62]
Ben Olsen	United States	D.C. United*	New York Red Bulls	4–2	June 9, 2007	[63]
Brad Davis	United States	Houston Dynamo*	Chivas USA	4–0	June 21, 2007	[64]
Nate Jaqua	United States	Houston Dynamo*	Real Salt Lake	4–3	September 8, 2007	[65]
Landon Donovan	United States	LA Galaxy*	Chivas USA	5–2	April 26, 2008	[66]
Edson Buddle	United States	LA Galaxy	FC Dallas*	5–1	May 18, 2008	[67]
Edson Buddle	United States	LA Galaxy*	San Jose Earthquakes	3–0	June 15, 2008	[68]
Luciano Emílio	Brazil	D.C. United*	New York Red Bulls	4–1		[69]
Landon Donovan	United States	LA Galaxy*	D.C. United	5–2	September 20, 2008	[70]
Conor Casey	United States	Colorado Rapids	New York Red Bulls*	5–4	September 27, 2008	[71]
Chris Rolfe	United States	Chicago Fire*	New York Red Bulls	5–2	October 23, 2008	[72]
Robbie Findley	United States	Real Salt Lake*	Columbus Crew SC	4–1	April 3, 2009	[73]
Conor Casey	United States	Colorado Rapids	LA Galaxy*	3–2	April 5, 2009	[74]
Jeff Cunningham4	United States	FC Dallas*	Kansas City Wizards	6–0	August 1, 2009	[75]
Conor Casey	United States	Colorado Rapids*	Chivas USA	4–0	August 8, 2009	[76]
Kheli Dube	Zimbabwe	New England Revolution*	Real Salt Lake	3–1	August 23, 2009	[77]

2010s

Player[11]	Nationality	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref.
Sébastien Le Toux	France	Philadelphia Union*	D.C. United	3–2	April 10, 2010	[78]
Zack Schilawski	United States	New England Revolution*	Toronto FC	4–1		[79]
Chris Pontius	United States	D.C. United	Seattle Sounders FC*	3–2	June 11, 2010	[80]
Brian Ching	United States	Houston Dynamo*	Chicago Fire	4–3	August 21, 2010	[81]
Blaise Nkufo	Switzerland	Seattle Sounders FC	Columbus Crew SC*	4–0	September 18, 2010	[82]
Chris Wondolowski	United States	San Jose Earthquakes	Toronto FC*	3–2	September 25, 2010	[83]
Chris Wondolowski†	United States	San Jose Earthquakes*	Chivas USA	3–0	October 20, 2010	[84]
Birahim Diop	Senegal	Kansas City Wizards*	San Jose Earthquakes	4–1	October 23, 2010	[85]
Will Bruin	United States	Houston Dynamo*	D.C. United	4–1	April 29, 2011	[86]
Justin Braun	United States	Chivas USA	New York Red Bulls*	3–2	May 15, 2011	[87]
Steven Lenhart	United States	San Jose Earthquakes	D.C. United*	4–2	June 11, 2011	[88]
Sanna Nyassi	Gambia	Colorado Rapids*	New York Red Bulls	4–1	July 20, 2011	[89]
Justin Braun	United States	Chivas USA*	Houston Dynamo	3–0	July 23, 2011	[90]
Dwayne De Rosario	Canada	D.C. United*	Toronto FC	3–3	August 6, 2011	[91]
Lamar Neagle	United States	Seattle Sounders FC*	Columbus Crew SC	6–2	August 27, 2011	[92]
Charlie Davies	United States	D.C. United	Chivas USA*	3–0	September 11, 2011	[93]
Dwayne De Rosario	Canada	D.C. United*	Real Salt Lake	4–1	September 24, 2011	[94]
Marco Pappa	Guatemala	Chicago Fire	Real Salt Lake*	3–0	September 28, 2011	[95]
David Estrada	Mexico	Seattle Sounders FC*	Toronto FC	3–1	March 17, 2012	[96]
Thierry Henry	France	New York Red Bulls*	Montreal Impact	5–2	March 31, 2012	[97]
Chris Pontius	United States	D.C. United*	New York Red Bulls	4–1	April 22, 2012	[98]
Álvaro Saborío	Costa Rica	Real Salt Lake*	Portland Timbers	3–0	July 7, 2012	[99]
Chris Wondolowski	United States	San Jose Earthquakes*	Real Salt Lake	5–0	July 14, 2012	[100]
Fredy Montero	Colombia	Seattle Sounders FC	Chivas USA*	6–2	August 25, 2012	[101]
Álvaro Saborío	Costa Rica	Real Salt Lake	Chivas USA*	4–0	September 29, 2012	[102]
Chris Wondolowski	United States	San Jose Earthquakes	Colorado Rapids*	4–1	October 6, 2012	[103]
Mike Magee	United States	LA Galaxy*	Chicago Fire	4–0	March 2, 2013	[70]
Marco Di Vaio	Italy	Montreal Impact*	Philadelphia Union	5–3	May 25, 2013	[104]
Robbie Keane	Republic of Ireland	LA Galaxy*	Seattle Sounders FC	4–0	May 26, 2013	[105]
Álvaro Saborío	Costa Rica	Real Salt Lake	New York Red Bulls*	3–4	July 27, 2013	[106]
Landon Donovan	United States	LA Galaxy	FC Dallas*	3–3	August 12, 2013	[107]
Robbie Keane	Republic of Ireland	LA Galaxy*	Real Salt Lake	4–2	August 17, 2013	[108]
Kekuta Manneh	Gambia	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Seattle Sounders FC*	4–1	October 10, 2013	[109]
Camilo	Brazil	Vancouver Whitecaps FC*	Colorado Rapids	3–0	October 27, 2013	[110]
Clint Dempsey	United States	Seattle Sounders FC	Portland Timbers*	4–4	April 5, 2014	[111]
Bradley Wright-Phillips	England	New York Red Bulls*	Houston Dynamo	4–0	April 23, 2014	[112]
Harry Shipp	United States	Chicago Fire	New York Red Bulls*	5–4	May 11, 2014	[113]
Bradley Wright-Phillips	England	New York Red Bulls*	Chicago Fire	4–5		[113]
Javier Morales	Argentina	Real Salt Lake	Houston Dynamo*	5–2		[114]
Luis Silva	United States	D.C. United	Montreal Impact*	4–2	June 11, 2014	[115]
Tesho Akindele	Canada	FC Dallas	San Jose Earthquakes*	5–0	August 16, 2014	[116]
Bradley Wright-Phillips	England	New York Red Bulls*	Seattle Sounders FC	4–1	September 21, 2014	[117]
Robbie Keane	Republic of Ireland	LA Galaxy*	Toronto FC	4–0	July 5, 2015	[118]
Sebastian Giovinco	Italy	Toronto FC	New York City FC*	4–4	July 12, 2015	[119]
Robbie Keane	Republic of Ireland	LA Galaxy*	San Jose Earthquakes	5–2	July 18, 2015	[120]
Cyle Larin	Canada	Orlando City SC	New York City FC*	3–5	July 26, 2015	[121]
Sebastian Giovinco	Italy	Toronto FC*	Orlando City SC	4–1	August 5, 2015	[122]
Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	Montreal Impact*	Chicago Fire	4–3	September 6, 2015	[123]
Cyle Larin	Canada	Orlando City SC	New York Red Bulls*	5–2	September 25, 2015	[124]
Ola Kamara	Norway	Columbus Crew SC*	Real Salt Lake	4–3	May 28, 2016	[125]
Bradley Wright-Phillips	England	New York Red Bulls*	Toronto FC	3–0		[126]
Roland Alberg	Netherlands	Philadelphia Union*	Chicago Fire	4–3	June 22, 2016	[127]
Didier Drogba	Ivory Coast	Montreal Impact*	Philadelphia Union	5–1	July 23, 2016	[128]
Sebastian Giovinco	Italy	Toronto FC*	D.C. United	4–1		[129]
Frank Lampard	England	New York City FC*	Colorado Rapids	5–1	July 30, 2016	[130]
Sebastian Giovinco	Italy	Toronto FC*	New England Revolution	4–1	August 6, 2016	[131]
Clint Dempsey	United States	Seattle Sounders FC	Orlando City SC*	3–1	August 7, 2016	[132]
Patrick Mullins	United States	D.C. United*	Chicago Fire	6–2	August 27, 2016	[133]
Mauro Manotas	Colombia	Houston Dynamo*	Portland Timbers	3–1	September 24, 2016	[134]
Josef Martínez	Venezuela	Atlanta United FC	Minnesota United FC*	6–1	March 11, 2017	[135]
Erick Torres	Mexico	Houston Dynamo*	New York Red Bulls	4–1	April 2, 2017	[136]
C. J. Sapong	United States	Philadelphia Union*	New York Red Bulls	3–0	May 6, 2017	[137]
Justin Meram	Iraq	Columbus Crew SC	Montreal Impact*	3–2	May 13, 2017	[138]
Gerso Fernandes	Guinea-Bissau	Sporting Kansas City*	Seattle Sounders FC	3–0	May 17, 2017	[139]
Miguel Almirón	Paraguay	Atlanta United FC*	Houston Dynamo	4–1	May 20, 2017	[140]
Roland Lamah	Belgium	FC Dallas*	Real Salt Lake	6–2	June 3, 2017	[141]
David Accam	Ghana	Chicago Fire*	Orlando City SC	4–0	June 25, 2017	[142]
David Villa	Spain	New York City FC*	New York Red Bulls	3–2	August 6, 2017	[143]
Kei Kamara	Sierra Leone	New England Revolution*	Orlando City SC	4–0	September 2, 2017	[144]
Josef Martínez	Venezuela	Atlanta United FC*	New England Revolution	7–0	September 13, 2017	[145]
Josef Martínez	Venezuela	Atlanta United FC*	Orlando City SC	3–3	September 16, 2017	[146]
Patrick Mullins4	United States	D.C. United*	San Jose Earthquakes	4–0	September 23, 2017	[147]
Justin Morrow	United States	Toronto FC*	New York Red Bulls	4–2	September 30, 2017	[148]
Nemanja Nikolić	Hungary	Chicago Fire*	Philadelphia Union	3–2	October 15, 2017	[149]
Josef Martínez	Venezuela	Atlanta United FC*	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	4–1	March 17, 2018	[150]
Dominique Badji	Senegal	Colorado Rapids*	Philadelphia Union	3–0	March 31, 2018	[151]
Johnny Russell	Scotland	Sporting Kansas City*	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	6–0	April 20, 2018	[152]
Ignacio Piatti	Argentina	Montreal Impact*	Los Angeles FC	3–5	April 21, 2018	[153]
Cristian Techera	Uruguay	Vancouver Whitecaps FC*	New England Revolution	3–3	May 26, 2018	[154]
Josef Martínez	Venezuela	Atlanta United FC*	Philadelphia Union	3–1	June 2, 2018	[155]
Adama Diomande	Norway	Los Angeles FC*	Philadelphia Union	4–1	June 30, 2018	[156]
Darwin Quintero	Colombia	Minnesota United FC*	Toronto FC	4–3	July 4, 2018	[157]
Josef Martínez	Venezuela	Atlanta United FC*	D.C. United	3–1	July 21, 2018	[158]
Michael Barrios	Colombia	FC Dallas	Sporting Kansas City*	3–2	July 28, 2018	[159]
Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	LA Galaxy*	Orlando City SC	4–3	July 29, 2018	[160]
Luciano Acosta	Argentina	D.C. United*	Orlando City SC	3–2	August 12, 2018	[161]
Damir Kreilach	Croatia	Real Salt Lake*	LA Galaxy	6–2	September 1, 2018	[162]
Bradley Wright-Phillips	England	New York Red Bulls	D.C. United*	3–3	September 16, 2018	[163]
Gyasi Zardes	United States	Columbus Crew SC*	Minnesota United FC	3–2	October 28, 2018	[164]
Wayne Rooney	England	D.C. United*	Real Salt Lake	5–0	March 16, 2019	[165]
Krisztián Németh	Hungary	Sporting Kansas City*	Montreal Impact	7–1	March 30, 2019	[166]
Carlos Vela	Mexico	Los Angeles FC	San Jose Earthquakes*	5–0		[167]
Diego Rossi	Uruguay	Los Angeles FC	D.C. United*	4–0	April 6, 2019	[168]
Chris Wondolowski4	United States	San Jose Earthquakes*	Chicago Fire	4–1	May 18, 2019	[169]
Johnny Russell	Scotland	Sporting Kansas City*	Seattle Sounders FC	3–2	May 26, 2019	[170]
Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	LA Galaxy*	Los Angeles FC	3–2	July 19, 2019	[171]
Kei Kamara	Sierra Leone	Colorado Rapids*	Montreal Impact	6–3	August 3, 2019	[172]
Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	LA Galaxy*	Sporting Kansas City	7–2	September 15, 2019	[173]
Alexandru Mitriță	Romania	New York City FC*	Atlanta United FC	4–1	September 25, 2019	[174]
Carlos Vela	Mexico	Los Angeles FC*	Colorado Rapids	3–1	October 6, 2019	[175]

2020s

Player[11]	Nationality	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref.
Ayo Akinola	Canada	Toronto FC	Montreal Impact	4–3	July 16, 2020	[176]
Diego Rossi4	Uruguay	Los Angeles FC	LA Galaxy	6–2	July 18, 2020	[177]
Santiago Mosquera	Colombia	FC Dallas*	Colorado Rapids	4–1	September 16, 2020	[178]
Sergio Santos	Brazil	Philadelphia Union*	Toronto FC	5–0	October 24, 2020	[179]
Taty Castellanos	Argentina	New York City FC*	New York Red Bulls	5–2	November 1, 2020	[180]
Javier Hernández	Mexico	LA Galaxy*	New York Red Bulls	3–2	April 25, 2021	[181]
Hany Mukhtar	Germany	Nashville SC*	Chicago Fire FC	5–1	July 17, 2021	[182]
Ricardo Pepi	United States	FC Dallas*	LA Galaxy	4–0	July 24, 2021	[183]
Ola Kamara	Norway	D.C. United*	Chicago Fire FC	3–0	September 15, 2021	[184]
Javier Eduardo López	Mexico	San Jose Earthquakes*	Real Salt Lake	3–4		[185]
Brian White	United States	Vancouver Whitecaps FC*	San Jose Earthquakes	3–0	October 2, 2021	[186]
Cristian Arango	Colombia	Los Angeles FC	FC Dallas*	3−2	October 20, 2021	[187]
Carlos Vela	Mexico	Los Angeles FC*	Colorado Rapids	3−0	February 26, 2022	[188]
Lewis Morgan	Scotland	New York Red Bulls	Toronto FC*	4−1	March 5, 2022	[189]
Jesús Ferreira	United States	FC Dallas*	Portland Timbers	4−1	March 19, 2022	[190]
Leonardo Campana	Ecuador	Inter Miami CF*	New England Revolution	3−2	April 9, 2022	[191]
Taty Castellanos4	Argentina	New York City FC*	Real Salt Lake	6−0	April 17, 2022	[192]
Cristian Espinoza	Argentina	San Jose Earthquakes*	Seattle Sounders FC	4−3	April 23, 2022	[193]
Ronaldo Cisneros	Mexico	Atlanta United FC*	Chicago Fire FC	4–1	May 7, 2022	[194]
Brenner	Brazil	FC Cincinnati*	New York City FC	4–4	June 29, 2022	[195]
Taxiarchis Fountas	Greece	D.C. United	Orlando City SC*	5–3	July 4, 2022	[196]
Julián Carranza	Argentina	Philadelphia Union*	D.C. United	7–0	July 8, 2022	[197]
Gonzalo Higuaín	Argentina	Inter Miami CF*	FC Cincinnati	4–4	July 30, 2022	[198]
Gyasi Zardes	United States	Colorado Rapids*	Minnesota United FC	4–3	August 6, 2022	[199]
Julián Carranza	Argentina	Philadelphia Union	D.C. United*	6–0	August 20, 2022	[200]
Dániel Gazdag	Hungary	Philadelphia Union*	Colorado Rapids	6–0	August 27, 2022	[201]
Hany Mukhtar	Germany	Nashville SC*	Colorado Rapids	4–1	August 31, 2022	[202]
Juanjo Purata	Mexico	Atlanta United FC*	Toronto FC	4–2	September 10, 2022	[203]
Brenner	Brazil	FC Cincinnati*	San Jose Earthquakes	6–0		[204]
Moussa Djitté†	Senegal	Austin FC*	Real Salt Lake	3–0	September 14, 2022	[205]
Daniel Ríos4	Mexico	Charlotte FC*	Philadelphia Union	4–0	October 1, 2022	[206]
Brenner	Brazil	FC Cincinnati	D.C. United*	5–2	October 9, 2022	[207]
Dániel Gazdag	Hungary	Philadelphia Union*	Toronto FC	4–0		[208]
Jordan Morris4	United States	Seattle Sounders FC	Sporting Kansas City*	4–1	March 25, 2023	[209]
Denis Bouanga	Gabon	Los Angeles FC*	Austin FC	3–0	April 8, 2023	[210]
Mikael Uhre	Denmark	Philadelphia Union*	Toronto FC	4–2	April 22, 2023	[211]
Hany Mukhtar	Germany	Nashville SC*	Chicago Fire FC	3–0	May 6, 2023	[212]
Hany Mukhtar	Germany	Nashville SC*	St. Louis City SC	3–1	June 17, 2023	[213]
Cucho Hernández	Colombia	Columbus Crew	CF Montréal*	4–2	September 2, 2023	[214]
Cucho Hernández	Colombia	Columbus Crew*	Chicago Fire FC	3–0	September 20, 2023	[215]
Billy Sharp	England	LA Galaxy*	Minnesota United FC	4–3
Christian Benteke	Belgium	D.C. United*	New York Red Bulls	3–5	September 23, 2023
Denis Bouanga	Gabon	Los Angeles FC*	Minnesota United FC	5–1	October 4, 2023
Teemu Pukki4	Finland	Minnesota United FC*	LA Galaxy	5–2	October 7, 2023	[216]
Christian Benteke	Belgium	D.C. United*	New England Revolution	3–1	February 24, 2024	[217]
Giorgos Giakoumakis	Greece	Atlanta United FC*	New England Revolution	4–1	March 9, 2024	[218]
Lewis Morgan	Scotland	New York Red Bulls*	Inter Miami CF	4–0	March 23, 2024	[219]
Cristian Arango	Colombia	Real Salt Lake*	St. Louis City SC	3−1	March 30, 2024	[220]
Luis Suárez	Uruguay	Inter Miami CF*	New York Red Bulls	6–2	May 4, 2024	[221]
Sam Surridge	England	Nashville SC*	CF Montréal	4–1		[222]
Christian Benteke	Belgium	D.C. United	Atlanta United FC*	3–2	May 11, 2024	[223]
Federico Bernardeschi	Italy	Toronto FC*	CF Montréal	5–1	May 18, 2024	[224]
Alonso Martínez†	Costa Rica	New York City FC*	San Jose Earthquakes	5–1	May 31, 2024	[225]
Cristian Arango	Colombia	Real Salt Lake*	Austin FC	5−1	June 1, 2024	[226]
Yuya Kubo†	Japan	FC Cincinnati	San Jose Earthquakes*	4–2	June 15, 2024	[227]
Petar Musa	Croatia	FC Dallas*	Minnesota United FC	5–3	June 19, 2024	[228]
Djordje Mihailovic	United States	Colorado Rapids	St. Louis City SC*	3–0		[229]
Cucho Hernández	Colombia	Columbus Crew*	Sporting Kansas City	4–0	June 22, 2024	[230]
Sebastián Ferreira	Paraguay	Houston Dynamo FC	D.C. United*	4–1		[231]
Mateusz Bogusz	Poland	Los Angeles FC*	Colorado Rapids	3–0	June 29, 2024	[232]
Brian White	United States	Vancouver Whitecaps FC*	St. Louis City SC	4–3		[233]
Tai Baribo	Israel	Philadelphia Union*	New England Revolution	5–1	July 17, 2024	[234]
Dániel Gazdag	Hungary	Philadelphia Union*	Nashville SC	3–0	July 20, 2024	[235]
Albert Rusnák	Slovakia	Seattle Sounders FC	Columbus Crew*	4–0	September 7, 2024	[236]
Alexandru Mățan	Romania	Columbus Crew*	New England Revolution	4–0	October 12, 2024	[237]
Lionel Messi†	Argentina	Inter Miami CF*	New England Revolution	6–2	October 19, 2024	[238]
Tai Baribo	Israel	Philadelphia Union*	FC Cincinnati	4–1	March 1, 2025	[239]
Josef Martínez	Venezuela	San Jose Earthquakes*	D.C. United	6–1	April 6, 2025	[240]
Brian White4	United States	Vancouver Whitecaps FC*	Austin FC	5–1	April 12, 2025	[241]
Sam Surridge4	England	Nashville SC*	Chicago Fire FC	7–2	April 26, 2025	[242]
Martín Ojeda	Argentina	Orlando City SC*	New England Revolution	3–3	May 10, 2025	[243]
Tom Barlow	United States	Chicago Fire FC	D.C. United*	7–1	June 7, 2025	[244]
João Klauss	Brazil	St. Louis City SC*	LA Galaxy	3–3	June 14, 2025	[245]
Sam Surridge	England	Nashville SC	New England Revolution*	3–2	June 25, 2025	[246]
Milan Iloski4	United States	San Diego FC	Vancouver Whitecaps FC*	5–3		[247]
Alonso Martínez	Costa Rica	New York City FC	FC Dallas*	4–3	July 25, 2025	[248]

Multiple hat-tricks

The following table lists the number of hat-tricks scored by players who have scored two or more hat-tricks. This list does not include playoff hat-tricks. Players whose names are in bold are still currently active in Major League Soccer. As of July 25, 2025.

Rank	Player	Hat-tricks
1	Josef Martínez	7
2	Stern John	5
	Diego Serna
	Chris Wondolowski
	Bradley Wright-Phillips
6	Edson Buddle	4
	Mamadou Diallo
	Landon Donovan
	Sebastian Giovinco
	Cobi Jones
	Robbie Keane
	Hany Mukhtar
13	Cristian Arango	3
	Christian Benteke
	Brenner
	Conor Casey
	Dwayne De Rosario
	Dániel Gazdag
	Amado Guevara
	Cucho Hernández
	Eduardo Hurtado
	Zlatan Ibrahimović
	Álvaro Saborío
	Sam Surridge
	Taylor Twellman
	Carlos Vela
	Brian White
28	Tai Baribo	2
	Denis Bouanga
	Justin Braun
	Julián Carranza
	Taty Castellanos
	Brian Ching
	Jeff Cunningham
	Clint Dempsey
	Raúl Díaz Arce
	Didier Drogba
	Nate Jaqua
	Eddie Johnson
	Kei Kamara
	Ola Kamara
	Cyle Larin
	Roy Lassiter
	Alonso Martínez
	Clint Mathis
	Lewis Morgan
	Patrick Mullins
	Pat Noonan
	Chris Pontius
	Ante Razov
	Diego Rossi
	Dante Washington
	Gyasi Zardes

Hat-tricks by nationality

The following table lists the number of hat-tricks scored by players from a single nation. This list does not include playoff hat-tricks. As of July 25, 2025.

Rank	Nation	Hat-tricks
1	United States	85
2	Colombia	17
3	Argentina	12
4	England	11
5	Mexico	10
6	Venezuela	9
7	Brazil	7
	Canada
	Senegal
10	Italy	6
11	Costa Rica	5
	Hungary
	Scotland
	Trinidad and Tobago
15	Belgium	4
	Ecuador
	Germany
	Honduras
	Republic of Ireland
	Uruguay
21	Guatemala	3
	Norway
	Sierra Leone
	Sweden
25	Croatia	2
	El Salvador
	France
	Gabon
	Gambia
	Greece
	Israel
	Ivory Coast
	Paraguay
	Romania
	Zimbabwe
36	Armenia	1
	Bolivia
	Denmark
	Finland
	Ghana
	Guinea-Bissau
	Haiti
	Iraq
	Jamaica
	Japan
	Netherlands
	Poland
	Slovakia
	Spain
	Switzerland

Hat-tricks by team

The following table lists the number of hat-tricks scored by the different MLS teams. This list does not include playoff hat-tricks. As of July 25, 2025.

Rank	Team	Hat-tricks total	Hat-tricks home	Hat-tricks away	Notes
1	LA Galaxy	27	19	8
2	D.C. United	23	14	9
3	New York Red Bulls	18	13	5	7 hat-tricks as MetroStars
4	Columbus Crew	16	12	4
5	Philadelphia Union	12	11	1
6	Colorado Rapids	11	7	4
	FC Dallas		9	2	3 hat-tricks as Dallas Burn
	San Jose Earthquakes		7	4
9	Atlanta United FC	10	9	1
	Chicago Fire FC		5	5
	Los Angeles FC		6	4
	New England Revolution		9	1
	Sporting Kansas City		8	2	6 hat-tricks as Kansas City Wizards
14	Houston Dynamo FC	8	7	1
	Real Salt Lake		5	3
	Seattle Sounders FC		2	6
17	Nashville SC	7	6	1
	New York City FC		6	1
	Toronto FC		5	2
20	† Miami Fusion	6	3	3
	Vancouver Whitecaps FC		5	1
22	† Tampa Bay Mutiny	5	2	3
23	FC Cincinnati	4	2	2
	Inter Miami CF		4	0
	CF Montréal		4	0	4 hat-tricks as Montreal Impact
26	Orlando City SC	3	1	2
27	† Chivas USA	2	1	1
	Minnesota United FC		2	0
29	Austin FC	1	1	0
	Charlotte FC		1	0
	San Diego FC		0	1
	St. Louis City SC		1	0
33	Portland Timbers	0	0	0

† Defunct team

Hat-tricks in MLS Cup playoffs

Key
*	The home team

Player	Nationality	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref.
Raúl Díaz Arce	El Salvador	D.C. United*	Tampa Bay Mutiny	4–1	October 10, 1996	[249]
Stern John	Trinidad and Tobago	Columbus Crew*	D.C. United	5–1	November 7, 1999	[250]
Landon Donovan	United States	LA Galaxy*	Real Salt Lake	5–0	November 9, 2014	[251]
Sebastian Giovinco	Italy	Toronto FC	New York City FC*	5–0	November 5, 2016	[250]
Jordan Morris	United States	Seattle Sounders FC*	FC Dallas	4–3 (a.e.t.)	October 19, 2019	[252]
Elias Manoel	Brazil	New York Red Bulls*	Charlotte FC	5–2	October 25, 2023	[253]
Ryan Gauld	Scotland	Vancouver Whitecaps FC*	Portland Timbers	5–0	October 23, 2024	[254]