# List of India national football team hat-tricks

The first player ever to score a hat-trick (three or more goals in a match) for India in an international football match was R. Lumsden. He achieved the feat in an official friendly match against Australia on 24 September 1938, at the Sydney Showground, although India lost the match 4–5. This is the only instance when India have lost a game in which a player scored a hat-trick for the team. Lumsden was the only footballer to score a hat-trick for India before independence. Since independence in 1947, eleven Indian players have scored a hat-trick in an international football match. No Indian player has ever scored more than three goals in a single game. The first player after independence to score a hat-trick for India was Sheoo Mewalal in a 4–0 victory over Burma in the 1952 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament.
K. Appalaraju and Sunil Chhetri are the only Indian footballers to have scored a hat-trick more than once. Appalaraju achieved the feat twice in the two-legged tie against Ceylon during the 1964 Olympic Qualifiers. Chhetri has achieved the feat four times, the latest of which came in India's 4–0 victory over Pakistan in the opening match of the 2023 SAFF Championship. This is also the most recent instance of an Indian player scoring a hat-trick in an international football match. Chhetri's first hat-trick came in the final of the 2008 AFC Challenge Cup against Tajikistan, which helped India not only to win the cup but also to qualify directly for the AFC Asian Cup in 2011, the first time in 27 years that the team reached the final tournament.
Neville D'Souza was the first Asian to score a hat-trick in the history of Olympic football. He achieved the feat in a 4–2 victory over Australia at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. With four goals in three matches, he not only finished the tournament as joint top-scorer but also helped India become the first Asian team to reach the semi-finals of the tournament. Shabbir Ali scored the fastest hat-trick for the national team. He achieved the feat in a 3−1 victory over Indonesia on 16 August 1976, at the 1976 Merdeka Tournament. His goals came at the 7th, 33rd and 35th minutes of the match.
As of 29 March 2021, India have conceded nineteen hat-tricks, the most recent being scored by Ali Mabkhout in a 0–6 defeat by the United Arab Emirates in a friendly match. Branko Zebec was the first player to score a hat-trick against India, scoring four times for Yugoslavia in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Two other players, Bader Al-Mutawa of Kuwait in a friendly fixture and Ismail Abdullatif of Bahrain in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup, have also scored four goals against India. The only instance of India not losing a game even after conceding a hat-trick occurred against Yemen in a 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification match on 4 May 2001, which ended in a 3–3 draw.

## Hat-tricks for India

    As of 21 June 2023, eleven players have scored a hat-trick for the national team.
    Only FIFA-recognized international matches by the India national football team have been considered in the following list.
    Result in the table lists India's goal tally first
| Date | Goals | Player | Opponent | Venue | Competition | Result |
| 24 September 1938 | 3 | R. Lumsden | Australia | Sydney Showground, Sydney | Friendly | 4–5 |
| 16 March 1952 | 3 | Sheoo Mewalal | Burma | Colombo, Ceylon | 1952 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament | 4–0 |
| 26 December 1954 | 3 | Puran Bahadur Thapa | Pakistan | Eden Gardens, Kolkata | 1954 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament | 3–1 |
| 1 December 1956 | 3 | Neville D'Souza | Australia | Olympic Park Stadium, Melbourne | 1956 Summer Olympics | 4–2 |
| 22 December 1963 | 3 | K. Appalaraju | Ceylon | Sugathadasa Stadium, Colombo | 1964 Olympic Qualifiers | 5–3 |
| 29 December 1963 | 3 | K. Appalaraju | Ceylon | Bangalore | 1964 Olympic Qualifiers | 7–0 |
| 16 August 1967 | 3 | Marto Gracias | Hong Kong | Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur | 1967 Merdeka Tournament | 4–0 |
| 5 August 1971 | 3 | Subhash Bhowmick | Philippines | Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur | 1971 Merdeka Tournament | 5–1 |
| 23 July 1974 | 3 | Magan Singh Rajvi | Thailand | Ipoh, Malaya | 1974 Merdeka Tournament | 4–2 |
| 16 August 1976 | 3 | Shabbir Ali | Indonesia | Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur | 1976 Merdeka Tournament | 3–1 |
| 30 June 1986 | 3 | Krishanu Dey | Thailand | Stadium Jalan Raja Muda, Kuala Lumpur | 1986 Merdeka Tournament | 3–1 |
| 26 September 1999 | 3 | I. M. Vijayan | Pakistan | Kathmandu | 1999 South Asian Games | 5–2 |
| 13 August 2008 | 3 | Sunil Chhetri | Tajikistan | Ambedkar Stadium, New Delhi | 2008 AFC Challenge Cup | 4–1 |
| 8 October 2010 | 3 | Sunil Chhetri | Vietnam | Balewadi Sports Complex, Pune | Friendly | 3–1 |
| 1 June 2018 | 3 | Sunil Chhetri | Chinese Taipei | Mumbai Football Arena, Mumbai | 2018 Intercontinental Cup | 5–0 |
| 21 June 2023 | 3 | Sunil Chhetri | Pakistan | Sree Kanteerava Stadium, Bangalore | 2023 SAFF Championship | 4–0 |

## Hat-tricks conceded by India

    As of 29 March 2021, India have conceded fifteen hat-tricks in total.
    Result in the table lists India's goal tally first
| Date | Goals | Player | Opponent | Venue | Competition | Result |
| 15 July 1952 | 4 | Branko Zebec | Yugoslavia | Helsingen Pallokentta, Helsinki | 1952 Summer Olympics | 1–10 |
| 16 September 1955 | 3 | Eduard Streltsov | Soviet Union | Dinamo Stadium, Moscow | Friendly | 1–11 |
| 16 September 1955 | 3 | Sergei Salnikov | Soviet Union | Dinamo Stadium, Moscow | Friendly | 1–11 |
| 8 December 1959 | 3 | Rafi Levi | Israel | Maharaja College Ground, Kochi | 1960 AFC Asian Cup qualification | 1–3 |
| 2 November 1969 | 3 | Ye Nyunt | Burma | Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur | 1969 Merdeka Tournament | 0–6 |
| 6 August 1971 | 3 | Ye Nyunt | Burma | Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur | 1971 Merdeka Tournament | 1–9 |
| 7 August 1971 | 3 | Kainun Waskito | Indonesia | Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur | 1971 Merdeka Tournament | 1–3 |
| 18 September 1971 | 3 | Viktor Kolotov | Soviet Union | Dynamo Stadium, Moscow | Friendly | 0–5 |
| 10 August 1976 | 3 | Cha Bum-Kun | South Korea | Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur | 1976 Merdeka Tournament | 0–8 |
| 7 September 1977 | 3 | Cherdsak Chaiyabutr | Thailand | Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan | 1977 President's Cup Football Tournament | 0–4 |
| 9 June 1993 | 3 | Lee Gi-bum | South Korea | Seoul, South Korea | 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification | 0–7 |
| 13 January 2001 | 3 | Tryggvi Guðmundsson | Iceland | Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi | Millennium Super Soccer Cup | 0–3 |
| 4 May 2001 | 3 | Adel Al-Salimi | Yemen | Althawra Sports City Stadium, Sana'a | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification | 3–3 |
| 16 August 2006 | 3 | Yasser Al-Qahtani | Saudi Arabia | Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata | 2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification | 0–3 |
| 14 November 2010 | 4 | Bader Al-Mutawa | Kuwait | Al Nahyan Stadium, Abu Dhabi | Friendly | 1–9 |
| 14 January 2011 | 4 | Ismail Abdullatif | Bahrain | Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, Doha | 2011 AFC Asian Cup | 2–5 |
| 29 November 2011 | 3 | Bruce Musakanya | Zambia | Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Margao | Friendly | 0–5 |
| 6 February 2013 | 3 | Ashraf Nu'man | Palestine | Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi | Friendly | 2–4 |
| 29 March 2021 | 3 | Ali Mabkhout | United Arab Emirates | Zabeel Stadium, Dubai | Friendly | 0–6 |