Just Fontaine holds the record for the most hat-tricks scored by a French player, with five between 1953 and 1959. Two of these came at the 1958 World Cup finals, when France finished in third place. Fontaine remains the only French player to have scored a hat-trick at the World Cup finals. In the 1984 European Championships, Michel Platini scored hat-tricks in consecutive first-round matches, against Belgium and Yugoslavia. The last French player to score a hat-trick was Olivier Giroud, who scored three times against Paraguay in a friendly match in 2017.