Champions League stats: Top 10 players to score the most goals in a single match

It is not a secret that the UEFA Champions League is one of the most glorified tournaments in world football at the moment and players have always been judged by the kind of performance they put up on a Champions League night. There have been a lot of brilliant individual performances over the years that have been written in history books with letters of gold.

This competition has a lot of importance in judging the Player of Year trophies and players who has single-handedly settled a tie in the past will never be forgotten. There has been only thrice that a player has managed to score 5 goals and a handful has scored 4 goals.

Here’s a list of players who have scored the most goals in a single UCL game:

Where scoring 3 or more goals for a team is considered a success on a Champions League night, there have been times when an individual player has taken the job into his own hands and turned the tie for his team. Those nights will haunt the opposition forever and very few doubt whether those performances will ever be repeated in the future.

Here is the list ranking the top 10 individual performances: