Manchester United star topping chart of players with the most career hat-tricks
Cristiano Ronaldo is ahead of the pack on the list of footballers with the most career hat-tricks, as compiled and released by Transfermrkt on Instagram.
The list covers the numbers gathered by footballers from Europe’s top five leagues between the year 2000 and now, and the Portugal International is in the number one position with a total of 48 hattricks from 887 games.
Ronaldo is tied with Lionel Messi at number one, with 48 hattricks too, although it took the Argentine considerably fewer games (795) to reach the milestone.
Behind Ronaldo and Messi, is Bayern Munich superstar, Robert Lewandowski, who has 23 hattricks from 554 games, while Luis Suarez (18 hattricks in 483 games) and Mario Gomez (17 in 479 games) make up the top five.