SPANISH SUPER CUP
Which players have scored a hat-trick in El Clásico? Messi, Suárez, Benzema...
Real Madrid won the 2024 Spanish Super Cup thanks to Vinícius Júnior’s treble against Barcelona, less than a year after Karim Benzema achieved the feat.
Real Madrid have taken the first trophy of the Spanish domestic season after a 4-1 victory over Barcelona in the Spanish Super Cup final in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Carlo Ancelotti’s ran out convincing winners against their arch rivals, with their triumph made possible by Vinícius Júnior’s first-half hat-trick.
The Brazilian scored twice inside the first 10 minutes as Los Blancos made a whirlwind start to the clash and, after Robert Lewandowski had halved the deficit, restored his team’s two-goal advantage from the penalty spot in the run-up to half time.
Messi, Suárez and Benzema in the club, but no Ronaldo
The winger’s hat-trick was the 28th scored in the history of El Clásico and he joins the likes of Lionel Messi, Luis Súarez and Karim Benzema in achieving a feat that escaped Cristiano Ronaldo during his spell in Spain. Messi is one of four players to have netted two trebles in the fixture after iconic Madrid figure Santiago Bernabéu, who incredibly did it twice in less than two weeks in 1916, Jamie Lazcano and legendary Hungarian striker Ferenc Puskas, also for Los Blancos.
Incredibly, three different players, including Bernabéu, scored hat-tricks in the same match, a 6-6 draw in the Copa del Rey tie in April 1916.
Before Vinícius, Benzema was the most recent player to score three times in the fixture in a 4-0 cup win for Madrid at Camp Nou in April last year.
Hat-tricks in competitive Clásicos between Real Madrid and Barcelona
- Santiago Bernabéu (Real Madrid), 1916 Copa del Rey
- Luis Belaunde (Real Madrid), 1916 Copa del Rey
- Paulino Alcántara (Barcelona), 1916 Copa del Rey
- Santiago Bernabéu (Real Madrid), 1916 Copa del Rey
- Josep Samitier (Barcelona), 1926 Copa del Rey
- Jaime Lazcano (Real Madrid), 1929–30 La Liga
- Juan Ramón (Barcelona), 1930–31 La Liga
- Jaime Lazcano (Real Madrid), 1934–35 La Liga
- Ildefonso Sañudo (Real Madrid), 1934–35 La Liga (four goals)
- Martí Ventolrà (Barcelona), 1934–35 La Liga (four goals)
- Pruden (Real Madrid), 1943 Copa del Generalísimo
- Sabino Barinaga (Real Madrid), 1943 Copa del Generalísimo (four goals)
- Pahiño (Real Madrid), 1949–50 La Liga
- Jesús Narro (Real Madrid), 1950–51 La Liga
- César Rodríguez (Barcelona), 1951–52 La Liga
- Eulogio Martínez (Barcelona), 1957 Copa del Generalísimo (four goals)
- Evaristo (Barcelona), 1958–59 La Liga
- Ferenc Puskás (Real Madrid) 1962–63 La Liga
- Ferenc Puskás (Real Madrid), 1963–64 La Liga
- Amancio (Real Madrid), 1964–65 La Liga
- Gary Lineker (Barcelona), 1986–87 La Liga
- Romário (Barcelona), 1993–94 La Liga
- Iván Zamorano (Real Madrid), 1994–95 La Liga
- Lionel Messi (Barcelona), 2006–07 La Liga
- Lionel Messi (Barcelona), 2013–14 La Liga
- Luis Suárez (Barcelona), 2018–19 La Liga
- Karim Benzema (Real Madrid), 2022–23 Copa del Rey
- Vinícius Júnior (Real Madrid), 2024 Spanish Super Cup
How many hat-tricks has Vinícius Júnior scored in his career?
The treble in Riyadh was the second of Vinícius’ career, with his first coming in a 6-0 league thrashing of Levante in May 2022. The Brazilian winger has endured something of an injury-hit season so far but has now scored nine goals and assisted four more in 16 appearances, and appears to have come into form at just the right time as Los Merengues look to challenge on three fronts (LaLiga, Champions League and Copa del Rey).
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