Which stars have scored a FIFA Club World Cup hat-trick?

The 2025 FIFA Club World Cup gets underway today, as MLS heavyweights Inter Miami face off with Egyptian Premier League favourites Al Ahly at Hard Rock Stadium.

Thirty-two teams will play 63 games across the course of a month, with the last one standing set to be crowned champion in a revamped tournament crammed with big name stars.

But even for those who do not go all the way through to July's final at MetLife Stadium, there's still a chance to write themselves into the history books by scoring a hat-trick.

In the history of the FIFA Club World Cup since Brazil 2000 hosted the very first edition, only four players have bagged three goals in a single game throughout tournament history.

So which names sit on the honour roll with a match ball for their success in the competition? DAZN News profiles the players who have a FIFA Club World Cup hat-trick.

Luis Suarez (Barcelona vs Guangzhou, Semi-Finals, Japan 2015)

The Uruguay folk hero and famed forward is no stranger to being in the history books for the wrong reasons - but he achieved a major first a decade ago in Yokohama.

Suarez bagged a hat-trick - the first in FIFA Club World Cup history - with a 39th minute finish, followed by a 50th minute second goal and a 67th minute penalty in a 3-0 win.

He would bag a double in the final one game later two, as Lionel Messi opened the scoring to help Barcelona defeat River Plate and win the 2015 FIFA Club World Cup.

Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid vs Kashima Antlers, Final, Japan 2016)

One year later, it was the turn of Barcelona's great rivals to hoist the trophy - and they did so thanks to another major helping hand from their resident GOAT contender.

Ronaldo was already a two-time tournament winner, with both Manchester Untied and Madrid, but he turned in a performance for the ages to outclass the home favourites.

His 60th minute penalty tied the game at 2-2, and he then bagged a brace in extra time to help Madrid survive an almighty scare and emerge as 4-2 victors with the trophy.

Gareth Bale (Real Madrid vs Kashima Antlers, Semi-Finals, UAE 2018)

Two years later, Los Blancos got the better of the J.League 1 favourites again, this time halfway around the world in the United Arab Emirates, aided by their Welsh wizard.

Bale remains a curious face in the modern football lexicon, still arguably underappreciated despite his resolute success in Spain, and here was one of his finest performances.

With the game evenly poised, the star scored an 11-minute hat-trick either side of the interval to secure a final berth against Al Ain, where Madrid ran out tournament victors.

Hamdou Elhouni (ES Tunis vs Al Saad, Fifth-Place Match, Qatar 2019)

You don't have to be a global superstar to write yourself into the history books, as the Libya winger proved in 2019 when he delivered a moment of glory in the fifth-place game.

The Tunisian heavyweights lost their first game at the tournament to Al Hilal, but bounced back to deliver a 6-2 drubbing of the host nation representative in emphatic style.

Their success was spearheaded by Elhouni, recently arrived after a spell in Portugal, with his hat-trick goals coming in the fourth, 42nd and 74th minutes of the contest.

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