A hat-trick in rugby union, the scoring of three tries or three drop goals in a single match, has been achieved 55 times in the history of the Six Nations Championship. The annual competition, established in 1882, was originally known as the Home Nations Championship and contested between England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It was expanded to the Five Nations when France joined in 1910, and then to the Six Nations with the addition of Italy in 2000.
The first player to achieve the feat was Charles Wade, who was an Australian student at Oxford University when he was called up as a travelling reserve for England's match against Wales. When Philip Newton got lost on his way to the match, Wade was instated in his place. He scored three tries in England's 2–0 victory, which was the first match of the championship. At that time, a try by itself was not worth any points but allowed the team to try to kick a goal. George Lindsay scored five tries in Scotland's 4–0 win over Wales in 1887, the most tries scored by a single player in a Championship match.
Besides Lindsay, six players have scored more than three tries in a Championship match; of these Ian Smith is the only player to achieve the feat twice. He scored four tries in successive matches during the 1925 Five Nations Championship. Wales' Jehoida Hodges normally played as a forward, but after an injury to winger Tom Pearson during a match against England, Hodges was moved to the wing. Despite playing out of position, he scored a hat-trick in a 21–5 victory for Wales. As of 2017, the only forwards to score a Championship hat-trick while actually playing in the forwards are Michel Crauste; he scored three tries for France in their 13–0 victory over England in 1962 and CJ Stander; he scored three tries for Ireland in a 63–10 win over Italy in 2017.
Four players have scored a hat-trick of drop goals: Pierre Albaladejo, Jean-Patrick Lescarboura, Diego Dominguez and Neil Jenkins. No Italian has scored a hat-trick of tries in the competition, with Dominguez's hat-trick of drop goals the only one by an Italian player. English players have scored the most hat-tricks with 18, while France, Ireland and Scotland have conceded the most, with 12 each. Three players have scored a hat-trick and been on the losing side; Robert Montgomery in Ireland's 0–1 loss to Wales in 1887, Howard Marshall in England's 11–12 defeat to Wales in 1893, and Émile Ntamack in France's 33–34 loss to Wales in 1999. Lescarboura's hat-trick against England in 1985 and Jenkins' against Scotland in 2001, are the only times the feat has been achieved with the match ending in a draw. The most recent hat-trick was achieved by Huw Jones (Scotland) against Italy on 1 February 2025.
Hat-tricks
All statistics are correct as of 25 November 2024.
Key4Player scored four tries5Player scored five tries
Tries +Six Nations Championship try hat-tricksNo.PlayerForAgainstResultVenueDate 1 St. Helen's, Swansea 2 5 Raeburn Place, Edinburgh 3 Birkenhead Park 4 14–0 Ballynafeigh, Belfast 5 11–12 Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff 6 4 26–3 St. Helen's, Swansea 7 21–5 St. Helen's, Swansea 8 29–0 Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff 9 49–14 St. Helen's, Swansea 10 27–0 Inverleith, Edinburgh 11 19–3 Lansdowne Road, Dublin 12 32–10 Inverleith, Edinburgh 13 21–3 Parc des Princes, Paris 14 20–0 Twickenham, London 15 4 29–14 Inverleith, Edinburgh 16 24–0 Mardyke, Cork 17 16–15 Inverleith, Edinburgh 18 39–13 Stade Olympique de Colombes 19 4 39–13 Stade Olympique de Colombes 20 28–4 Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff 21 35–10 Inverleith, Edinburgh 22 19–7 Twickenham, London 23 4 25–4 Inverleith, Edinburgh 24 4 24–14 St. Helen's, Swansea 25 20–6 Stade Olympique de Colombes 26 14–11 Murrayfield, Edinburgh 27 26–8 Murrayfield, Edinburgh 28 13–0 Stade Olympique de Colombes 29 24–5 Lansdowne Road, Dublin 30 4 30–9 Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff 31 30–18 Murrayfield, Edinburgh 32 28–22 Parc des Princes, Paris 33 35–3 Twickenham, London 34 37–21 Murrayfield, Edinburgh 35 32–15 Lansdowne Road, Dublin 36 33–34 Stade de France, Saint-Denis 37 59–12 Stadio Flaminio, Rome 38 27–25 Stade de France, Saint-Denis 39 41–22 Stadio Flaminio, Rome 40 44–15 Millennium Stadium, Cardiff 41 43–22 Lansdowne Road, Dublin 42 50–9 Stadio Flaminio, Rome 43 39–7 Twickenham, London 44 43–22 Twickenham, London 45 26–21 Stade de France, Saint-Denis 46 4 59–13 Twickenham, London 47 61–20 Stadio Olimpico, Rome 48 40–9 Stadio Olimpico, Rome 49 63–10 Stadio Olimpico, Rome 50 63–10 Stadio Olimpico, Rome 51 61–21 Twickenham, London 52 33–20 Murrayfield, Edinburgh 53 44–8 Twickenham, London 54 42–0 Millennium Stadium, Cardiff 55 37–10 Stade de France, Saint-Denis 56 26–14 Murrayfield, Edinburgh 57 30–21 Murrayfield, Edinburgh 25 February 2024 58 31–19 Murrayfield, Edinburgh 1 February 2025 59 48–7 Twickenham, London 7 February 2026 604 48–46 Stade de France, Saint-Denis
Multiple hat-tricks +Multiple hat-tricksPlayerNo.Years 3 1924, 1925 2 1907, 1910 21910, 1911 21913 21914 22000, 2002 22016, 2017 22019, 2023
Drop goals +Six Nations Championship drop goal hat-tricksNo.PlayerForAgainstResultVenueDate 1 23–6 Stade Olympique de Colombes 2 Twickenham, London 3 34–20 Stadio Flaminio, Rome 4 28–28 Murrayfield, Edinburgh Player hat-tricks by their national team +Player's hat-tricks by their national teamTeamTries forTries againstDrop goals forDrop goals againstTotal forTotal against1940119513902131110910119910019117122091201410115
See also List of Rugby World Cup hat-tricks List of Six Nations Championship Player of the Championship winners List of Six Nations Championship records
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