The UEFA Champions League is regarded as the strongest and certainly most lucrative club competition in the world.
However, its expansion in the 21st century has undeniably diluted its quality, with the gulf between Europe’s best and those who claw their way onto the big stage far greater than it ever was.
Thus, the modern-day sharpshooter has chances aplenty to rack up outstanding scoring tallies in this competition, with rapid hat-tricks far from a eclipse-like phenomenon.
It should come as no surprise that seven of the eight fastest hat-tricks (meaning time between first and third goals, in this case) in Champions League history have been scored since 2011. Only one, meanwhile, has arrived in the knockout stages, when the competition stiffens.
Here are the Champions League’s fastest-ever hat-tricks.






