List Of AFC Asian Cup Hat-tricks

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Here is the list of AFC Asian Cup Hat-tricks

The first player to take a hat trick in the AFC Asian Cup is Hossein Kalani, who scored the first hat trick in the Asia Cup in 1972. He played for Iran.

The team with the most number of hat tricks in the Asia Cup is Iran, which has so far scored 6 hat tricks.

Check out the full list below

Hat-tick by players

Sequence	Player	Time of goals	Representing	Final score	Opponent	Tournament	Round	Date
1.	Hossein Kalani	34', 70', 78'	Iran	3–0	Iraq	1972	Group stage	9 May 1972
2.	Ali Jabbari	80', 86', 88'	Iran	3–2	Thailand	1972	Group stage	13 May 1972
3.	Gholam Hossein Mazloumi	63', 74', 80'	Iran	8–0	South Yemen	1976	Group stage	8 June 1976
4.	Behtash Fariba4	11', 34', 80', 82'	Iran	7–0	Bangladesh	1980	Group stage	22 September 1980
5.	Choi Soon-ho	26', 53', 78' (pen.)	South Korea	4–1	United Arab Emirates	1980	Group stage	24 September 1980
6.	Shen Xiangfu	1', 5', 72'	China	6–0	Bangladesh	1980	Group stage	25 September 1980
7.	Xu Yonglai	16', 79', 89'	China	6–0	Bangladesh	1980	Group stage	25 September 1980
8.	Ali Daei4	66', 76', 83', 89' (pen.)	Iran	6–2	South Korea	1996	Quarter-finals	16 December 1996
9.	Akinori Nishizawa	14', 25', 49'	Japan	8–1	Uzbekistan	2000	Group stage	17 October 2000
10.	Naohiro Takahara	18', 20', 57'	Japan	8–1	Uzbekistan	2000	Group stage	17 October 2000
11.	Lee Dong-gook	30', 76', 90+1'	South Korea	3–0	Indonesia	2000	Group stage	19 October 2000
12.	Mohammad Al-Shalhoub	35', 78', 86'	Saudi Arabia	5–0	Uzbekistan	2000	Group stage	20 October 2000
13.	Ali Karimi	10', 20', 77'	Iran	4–3	South Korea	2004	Quarter-finals	31 July 2004
14.	Ismail Abdullatif4	16', 19', 35', 77'	Bahrain	5–2	India	2011	Group stage	14 January 2011
15.	Shinji Okazaki	8', 13', 80'	Japan	5–0	Saudi Arabia	2011	Group stage	17 January 2011
16.	Hamza Al-Dardour4	35', 45+2', 75', 80'	Jordan	5–1	Palestine	2015	Group stage	16 January 2015
17.	Almoez Ali4	9', 11', 55', 60'	Qatar	6–0	North Korea	2019	Group stage	13 January 2019
18.	Vitalij Lux	24', 51', 77'	Kyrgyzstan	3–1	Philippines	2019	Group stage	16 January 2019

Hat-ticks by country

Nation	Hat-tricks for	Hat-tricks against
Iran	6	0
Japan	3	0
South Korea	2	2
China	2	0
Saudi Arabia	1	1
Bahrain	1	0
Jordan	1	0
Qatar	1	0
Kyrgyzstan	1	0
Bangladesh	0	3
Uzbekistan	0	3
Iraq	0	1
Thailand	0	1
South Yemen	0	1
United Arab Emirates	0	1
Indonesia	0	1
India	0	1
Palestine	0	1
North Korea	0	1
Philippines	0	1