Since the inception of the Italian football league competition, the Serie A,[a] in 1929, more than 250 players have scored three goals (a hat-trick) or more in a single match.
Swedish striker Gunnar Nordahl holds the record for most Serie A hat-tricks, having scored seventeen from 1949 to 1955.
[2] Over fifty players have scored more than three goals in a single match; of these, eleven players, Carlo Galli, Kurt Hamrin, Miroslav Klose, Roberto Pruzzo, Bruno Ispiro, István Mike Mayer, Antonio Angelillo, Giuseppe Meazza, Cesare Fasanelli, Emanuele Del Vecchio and Giovanni Vecchina have scored five.
Gunnar Nordahl, Giuseppe Meazza and Kurt Hamrin have scored four or more goals three times in Serie A, more than any other player.
Serie A all-time top goalscorer Silvio Piola holds the record as the youngest player to score a hat-trick (17 years and 132 days),[3] and the youngest to score more than three goals in one match (18 years and 54 days).
Gunnar Nordahl
scored a record seventeen Serie A hat-tricks, all of them for Milan.
Giuseppe Meazza
scored fifteen Serie A hat-tricks, all of them for Internazionale.
István Nyers
, also known as "Stefano Nyers", scored twelve hat-tricks, including eleven for Internazionale.
Kurt Hamrin
scored twelve hat-tricks, including nine for Fiorentina.
Silvio Piola
, the highest scorer of Serie A history, has scored ten hat-tricks.
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Filippo Inzaghi
scored ten hat-tricks with three different clubs.
