Since the inception of the Italian football league competition, the Serie A, in 1929, more than 250 players have scored three goals or more in a single match. Swedish striker Gunnar Nordahl holds the record for most Serie A hat-tricks, having scored seventeen from 1949 to 1955. He scored all his hat-tricks while representing Milan, making him the player with most hat-tricks for a single club. He is followed by Italian striker Giuseppe Meazza who scored fifteen hat-tricks, all of them with Internazionale. Kurt Hamrin and István Nyers are in third place, with twelve hat-tricks each.