Since the Brazil national team's first international association football match in 1914, Brazilian players have scored three or more goals (a hat-trick) on 52 occasions.
The record for the most goals scored in a single international match by a Brazilian player is five, achieved only by Evaristo de Macedo against Colombia in 1957.
[1] Pelé holds the record for the most hat-tricks by a Brazilian player, scoring seven between 1958 and 1964,[2] one of which occurred in the World Cup finals.
Besides Pelé, the only Brazilian players to have scored a hat-trick in a World Cup final tournament are Leônidas da Silva against Poland in 1938 and Ademir de Menezes against Sweden in 1950.
The most recent Brazilian player to score a hat-trick was Neymar, who netted three times against Peru in a World Cup qualifier on 13 October 2020.