List Of Rugby World Cup Hat-tricks
Hat-tricks are more likely to occur in the pool stages, where higher ranked teams, such as New Zealand, who have scored fourteen World Cup hat-tricks, face lower ranked opposition, such as Namibia, who have conceded hat-tricks on ten occasions. There have only been seven hat-tricks in the World Cup knockout stages: Chester Williams and Jonah Lomu in 1995, de Beer in 1999, Wilkinson in 2003, Julian Savea and Adam Ashley-Cooper in 2015 and Will Jordan in 2023.
Six players have scored two World Cup hat-tricks, Savea being the only one to have scored both in the same tournament. Of the six teams in the Six Nations and four in the Rugby Championship teams, only Italy have failed to score a hat-trick at the World Cup. Fiji, Namibia and Samoa are the only other teams to score a hat-trick, which were scored by Vereniki Goneva, Kotze and Alesana Tuilagi, respectively. Goneva and Kotze's hat-tricks are the only time players on opposing teams have accomplished this feat in the same match at the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
Hat-tricks
Unless noted otherwise, the players listed below scored a hat-trick of tries.
Player scored hat-trick of drop goals | |
Player scored five drop goals | |
Player scored four tries | |
Player scored five tries | |
Player scored six tries |
Multiple hat-tricks
Player | Hat-tricks | Years |
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2 | 1995, 1999 |
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2007, 2011 | |
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2007, 2015 | |
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2015 | |
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2011, 2015 | |
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2019, 2023 |
By national team
Team | Scored | Conceded |
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17 | 0 |
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9 | 0 |
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9 | 0 |
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9 | 2 |
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9 | 2 |
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7 | 0 |
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6 | 0 |
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4 | 3 |
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3 | 1 |
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1 | 3 |
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1 | 7 |
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1 | 7 |
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1 | 10 |
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0 | 1 |
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0 | 1 |
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0 | 2 |
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0 | 2 |
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0 | 3 |
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0 | 3 |
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0 | 4 |
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0 | 5 |
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0 | 5 |
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0 | 6 |
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0 | 10 |