Liverpool's Greatest Champions League Hat-Tricks
From Michael Owen and Yossi Benayoun to Mohamed Salah and Luis Díaz, these are Liverpool's greatest Champions League hat-tricks.
Liverpool has produced some extraordinary attacking performances in the Champions League, and a number of those nights have been defined by one player scoring three times. From Michael Owen's breakthrough European treble to Mohamed Salah's record-breaking six-minute performance, Liverpool's Champions League history contains some memorable hat-tricks. Eight Liverpool players have now scored a hat-trick in the competition proper, with the latest addition coming in October 2026. Here are some of the most memorable.
Liverpool's Champions League hat-tricks have been scored by Michael Owen, Yossi Benayoun, Philippe Coutinho, Sadio Mané, Diogo Jota, Mohamed Salah, Luis Díaz and Bradley Barcola. Some of the standout performances include Benayoun's hat-trick in Liverpool's 8-0 win over Beşiktaş, Mané's treble in a 5-0 victory at Porto, Salah's record-breaking hat-trick against Rangers and Díaz's three goals against Bayer Leverkusen.
Michael Owen and Yossi Benayoun make history
Michael Owen was the first Liverpool player to score a Champions League hat-trick.
He achieved the feat against Spartak Moscow in October 2002, scoring all three goals in a 3-1 victory in Russia.
It was a significant moment in Owen's European career and made him the first Liverpool player to score a European Cup hat-trick away from home.
Five years later, Yossi Benayoun produced one of the most extraordinary team performances in Liverpool's Champions League history.
Liverpool faced Beşiktaş at Anfield in November 2007 after losing the reverse fixture in Istanbul. They responded with an emphatic 8-0 victory.
Benayoun scored three times.
His first came in the 32nd minute before he added two more shortly after halftime. He also provided two assists as Liverpool produced what was, at the time, the biggest victory in Champions League history.
The result was particularly significant because Liverpool had taken only one point from their opening three group games.
The 8-0 win completely changed the group's outlook and kept Liverpool's hopes of reaching the knockout stages alive.
The hat-trick era of Coutinho, Mané and Jota
Liverpool's next Champions League hat-trick came a decade later.
Philippe Coutinho scored three times against Spartak Moscow at Anfield in December 2017 as Liverpool won 7-0.
He opened the scoring from the penalty spot after just four minutes, doubled the lead in the 15th minute and completed his hat-trick five minutes into the second half.
The result sent Liverpool through to the knockout stages as Group E winners.
Coutinho's performance was part of a remarkable attacking display. Sadio Mané scored twice, while Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah also found the net.
Just two months later, Mané joined the hat-trick club.
His treble came against Porto in the first leg of Liverpool's Champions League round of 16 tie in February 2018.
Liverpool won 5-0 at the Estádio do Dragão, with Mané scoring in the 25th, 53rd and 85th minutes.
Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino scored the other two goals.
It was an exceptional result away from home, and Mané's hat-trick made him only the fourth Liverpool player to score three times in a Champions League match at that point.
Diogo Jota added his name to the list in November 2020.
Liverpool traveled to Italy to face Atalanta in the group stage and produced another five-goal away victory.
Jota scored three times in a 5-0 win, putting Liverpool two goals ahead inside the opening 33 minutes before completing his hat-trick early in the second half.
Salah and Mané scored the other goals.
It was Jota's first Champions League hat-trick for Liverpool and one of the standout performances of his first season at the club.
Salah, Díaz and Liverpool's latest Champions League trebles
Mohamed Salah's hat-trick against Rangers in October 2022 deserves its own place in the conversation.
Liverpool had taken control of the match at Ibrox and were leading 4-1 when Salah came off the bench in the 68th minute.
He needed only six minutes and 12 seconds to score three times.
His first came in the 75th minute. He scored again in the 80th and completed his hat-trick in the 81st.
Liverpool won 7-1.
The six-minute-and-12-second treble became the fastest hat-trick in Champions League history.
Salah's performance also made him the first Liverpool player to score a Champions League hat-trick as a substitute.
Luis Díaz became the next Liverpool player to score three in a Champions League match.
His hat-trick came against Bayer Leverkusen at Anfield in November 2024.
Liverpool won 4-0, with Díaz scoring in the 61st minute, 83rd minute and stoppage time.
It was the first hat-trick of Díaz's career and came against a Leverkusen side that had won the Bundesliga the previous season.
The latest addition to Liverpool's Champions League hat-trick list came in October 2026.
Bradley Barcola scored three times as Liverpool defeated LASK 6-3 in Austria.
Barcola scored twice during the first half before completing his treble in the 66th minute.
The performance made him the eighth Liverpool player to score a Champions League hat-trick and the latest addition to a list that now stretches back more than two decades.
Eight players, some remarkable nights
Liverpool's Champions League hat-tricks have come in very different circumstances.
Owen's treble came away from home in Moscow. Benayoun's helped Liverpool produce an eight-goal record-setting performance against Beşiktaş. Coutinho's helped secure top spot in a group, while Mané and Jota both scored three in emphatic 5-0 away victories.
Salah's stands out for its speed, with three goals arriving in just six minutes and 12 seconds.
Díaz's was his first career hat-trick, while Barcola's came during his first Champions League campaign with Liverpool.
Together, they form a small piece of Liverpool's European history, spanning different generations and some very different teams.
The club has won the European Cup and Champions League six times, and these individual performances have helped create many of the competition's most memorable nights at Anfield and beyond.