Champions League record holders, featuring Mo Salah’s FASTEST-EVER hattrick

Timed at six minutes and 12 seconds, Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah came off the bench to score the fastest Champions League treble in a 7-1 victory over Rangers.

Liverpool recorded what was their second-most convincing win in what could be regard as a terrible start to the season, with Mohamed Salah scoring the fastest hat-trick in Champions League history as trounced Rangers 7-1 at Ibrox.

The Egyptian who failed to record a single goal when Liverpool scored this much in a single game this season – a 9-0 Premier League win over Bournemouth – came off the bench to score three second-half goals in just six minutes and 12 seconds.

This hattrick makes Salah the player to scored in the shortest possible time in a Champions League game, surpassing Bafetimbi Gomis’ 8 mins hattrick in Lyon’s 7-1 win over Dinamo Zagreb in 2011.

Salah’s treble is timed at six minutes and 12 seconds. So far, Mike Newell still holds the record for quickest ever ‘perfect’ hat-trick, scoring with his left foot, right foot and head in a spell of only nine minutes.

Salah tops fastest Champions League hat-trick chart

1. 7 mins – Mohamed Salah (Rangers 1-7 Liverpool, 12/10/22)
2. 8 mins – Bafetimbi Gomis (Dinamo Zagreb 1-7 Lyon, 07/12/2011)
3. 9 mins – Mike Newell (Blackburn 4-1 Rosenborg, 06/12/1995)
4. 11 mins – Raheem Sterling (Manchester City 5-1 Atalanta, 22/10/2019)
5. 11 mins – Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid 8-0 Malmo, 08/12/2015)
6. 11 mins – Robert Lewandowski (Bayern 7-1 Salzburg, 08/03/22)

Messi and Ronaldo have both scored the most hat-tricks in the Champions League

1. 8 – Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid 7, Juventus 1)
2. 6 Robert Lewandowski (Dortmund 1, Bayern Munich 4, Barcelona 1)
3. 4 – Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)
4. 3 – Filippo Inzaghi (Juventus 2, AC Milan 1), Mario Gomez (Bayern Munich), Luiz Adriano (Shakhtar Donetsk), Neymar (Barcelona 1, Paris Saint-Germain 2)

Ronaldo has scored the most hat-tricks in one Champions League season

• 3 – Cristiano Ronaldo (2015/16)
• 2 – Karim Benzema (2021/22)
• 2 – Robert Lewandowski (2021/22)
• 2 – Cristiano Ronaldo (2016/17)
• 2 – Lionel Messi (2011/12, 2016/17)
• 2 – Luiz Adriano (2014/15)
• 2 – Mario Gomez (2011/12)

At 18 years and 113 days, Raul Gonzalez is the youngest player to score a Champions League hat-trick. He scored a treble in Real Madrid’s 6-1 win over Ferencvaros in October 1995.

Meanwhile, Karim Benzema is the oldest player to score a Champions League hat-trick. At 34 years and 108 days, Benzema scored three for Real Madrid in a 3-1 away victory at Chelsea in April 2022.

Players to have scored a hat-tricks on their Champions League debut

• Marco van Basten (AC Milan 4-0 IFK Goteborg, 25/11/1992)
• Faustino Asprilla (Newcastle United 3-2 Barcelona, 17/09/1997)
• Yakubu Aiyegbeni (Maccabi Haifa 3-0 Olympiacos, 24/09/2002)
• Wayne Rooney (Manchester United 6-2 Fenerbahce, 28/09/2004)
• Vincenzo Iaquinta (Udinese 3-0 Panathinaikos, 14/09/2004)
• Grafite (Wolfsburg 3-1 CSKA Moskva, 15/09/2009)
• Yacine Brahimi (FC Porto 6-0 BATE Borisov, 17/09/2014)
• Erling Haaland (RB Salzburg 6-2 Genk, 17/09/2019)
• Mislav Orsic (Dinamo 4-0 Atalanta, 18/09/2019)
• Sebastien Haller (Sporting Lisbon 1-5 Ajax, 15/9/2021)

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