archie thompson has scored the most goals in one football match.
who has scored the most goals in one football match?
archie thompson
on 11 april 2001, the australian and american samoa national association football teams played each other in a qualifying match for the 2002 fifa world cup. the match was played at the international sports stadium in coffs harbour, australia. australia set a world record for the largest victory in an international football match, winning the game 31–0. australia's archie thompson also broke the record for most goals scored by a player in an international match by scoring 13 goals. david zdrilic, the scorer of eight goals in the match, achieved the second highest number of goals in an international match since world war i.
australia 31–0 american samoa
on, 24th september 1938, at sydney showground, indian striker lumsden scored the first hat-trick for india in a friendly match against australia even as india lost the match by 4-5. since independence in 1947, nine indian male footballers have scored three or more goals (a hat-trick) in an international football match. no indian player has ever scored more than three goals in a single game. the first player, after independence, to score a hat-trick for india was sheoo mewalal in a 4-0 victory over burma in the 1952 colombo quadrangular tournament. sunil chhetri is the only indian footballer to have scored a hat-trick more than once; he has achieved this feat as many as three times, the latest of which came in india's 5-0 victory over chinese taipei in the opening match of the 2018 intercontinental cup. this also happens to be the most recent instance of an indian player scoring a hat-trick in an international football match.
list of india national football team hat-tricks