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#3 Luis Suarez - 21 hat-tricks
Luis Suarez is one of the best strikers of the 21st century. The Uruguayan international has the rare distinction of outscoring both Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in their prime and beating them to the European Golden Shoe.
He did it in the 2015-16 season. Suarez scored 40 goals in 35 La Liga appearances that term. He formed one of the deadliest attacking trios of all time at Barcelona alongside Lionel Messi and Neymar Jr.
Suarez is one of the most complete strikers of all time. He has pace, strength, great dribbling ability and he is also very intelligent with his runs. The Uruguayan is also excellent at link-up play which made him a perfect fit at Barcelona during his peak years.
Suarez has scored 21 hat-tricks without penalties in his professional career.
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#2 Cristiano Ronaldo - 27 hat-tricks
Cristiano Ronaldo is the player who has scored the most hat-tricks in the history of the sport. The Portuguese international is one of the greatest footballers of all time and is easily one of the best goalscorers to have ever graced the game.
Ronaldo has scored a whopping 58 hat-tricks in his career. The talismanic forward has also mastered the art of slotting penalties home. He has been the primary penalty taker for both club and country for the majority of his career.
Ronaldo has thus scored plenty of goals from penalties. What's interesting to note is that 31 of his hat-tricks have featured a goal from the spot. Excluding penalties, Ronaldo has only 27 hat-tricks in his professional career.
#1 Lionel Messi - 41 hat-tricks
Lionel Messi recently picked up a record seventh Ballon d'Or. He is arguably the greatest footballer of all time. We have not seen any players with as much natural flair for the game as Messi does.
The Argentina international is phenomenal with the ball at his feet, flitting past defenders with ease and scoring incredible goals from wherever he likes. When Messi was in his best goalscoring form, there was no keeping up with him.
He scored 91 goals in 2012 which is the most number of goals ever scored over the course of a single calendar year. Messi has 55 professional hat-tricks. 41 of those have come without penalties and it goes to show just how deadly a forward he is.
