List of Africa Cup of Nations hat-tricks

• Ad-Diba of  Egypt is the first ever player to score a hat-trick in Africa Cup of Nations in 1957; in the inaugural tournament's final.[1] He is the only player to score a hat-trick in an Africa Cup of Nations final.[1][2]
• Mahmoud El-Gohary of  United Arab Republic is the first and only player to score a hat-trick in an opening match of Africa Cup of Nations in a 4–0 victory against  Ethiopia on the 22 May 1959.
• Hassan El-Shazly of  United Arab Republic is the only player to score a hat-trick in two Africa Cup of Nations (1963 and 1970).
• Laurent Pokou of  Ivory Coast is the only player to score a hat-trick of five goals in Africa Cup of Nations (1970).
• The fastest hat-trick was scored by Soufiane Alloudi of  Morocco against  Namibia in 2008, (1', 5', 28) in their 5–1 victory.
• The latest hat-trick without extra time was scored by Francileudo dos Santos of  Tunisia against  Zambia in 2006, (35', 82', 90+3') in their 4–1 victory.
• The latest hat-trick in extra time was scored by Bernard Chanda of  Zambia against  Congo-Brazzaville in the semi-final of 1974, (70', 97', 111') in their 4–2 victory.
• The shortest hat-trick was scored by Benedict McCarthy of  South Africa against  Namibia in 1998, in the span of 14 minutes; (8', 11', 19', 21') in their 4–1 victory.
• The longest hat-trick was scored by Laurent Pokou of  Ivory Coast against  Ethiopia in 1970, in the span of 67 minutes; (21', 60', 71', 80', 87') in their 6–1 victory.
• There is no player who scored a hat-trick in a match that his team drew or lost.
• 1963; 1970; 1998 and 2006 are the only tournaments to have more than one hat-trick, with two each.
• On more than 15 occasions there were no hat-tricks scored in a tournament.
• There has been one occasion when two hat-tricks have been scored in the same match: when  United Arab Republic defeated  Nigeria 6–3 in the group stage match of 1963; Egyptians Mohamed Morsi Hussein and Hassan El-Shazly scored three goals each.
•  Egypt holds the record of most hat-tricks scored with 6.
•  Ethiopia has conceded the most hat-tricks with 3 and conceded the most goals from hat-tricks with 12.

A hat-trick is achieved when the same player scores three or more goals in one match. Listed in chronological order.

Sequence	Player	No. of goals	Time of goals	Representing	Final score	Opponent	Tournament	Round	Date
1.	Ad-Diba	4[3]	2', 7', 68', 89'	Egypt	4–0	Ethiopia	1957	Final	16 February 1957
2.	Mahmoud El-Gohary	3	29', 42', 73'	United Arab Republic	4–0	Ethiopia	1959	Final tournament	22 May 1959
3.	Mohamed Morsi Hussein	3	30', 32', 82'	United Arab Republic	6–3	Nigeria	1963	Group stage	24 November 1963
4.	Hassan El-Shazly	3	42', 44', 81'	United Arab Republic	6–3	Nigeria	1963	Group stage	24 November 1963
5.	Eustache Manglé	3	14', 59', 80'	Ivory Coast	3–0	Congo-Léopoldville	1965	Group stage	14 November 1965
6.	Hacène Lalmas	3[4]	15', 25', 70'	Algeria	4–0	Uganda	1968	Group stage	14 January 1968
7.	Laurent Pokou	5	21', 60', 71', 80', 87'	Ivory Coast	6–1	Ethiopia	1970	Group stage	10 February 1970
8.	Hassan El-Shazly (II)	3	3', 14', 50'	United Arab Republic	3–1	Ivory Coast	1970	Third place	16 February 1970
9.	Bernard Chanda	3	70', 97', 111'	Zambia	4–2	Congo-Brazzaville	1974	Semi-final	9 March 1974
10.	Joël Tiéhi	3	19', 63', 70'	Ivory Coast	4–0	Sierra Leone	1994	Group stage	27 March 1994
11.	Kalusha Bwalya	3	2', 9', 87'	Zambia	4–0	Sierra Leone	1996	Group stage	24 January 1996
12.	Benedict McCarthy	4[5][6]	8', 11', 19', 21'	South Africa	4–1	Namibia	1998	Group stage	16 February 1998
13.	Hossam Hassan	3[7]	34', 57', 71'	Egypt	4–0	Zambia	1998	Group stage	13 February 1998
14.	Patrick Mboma	3	31', 44', 65'	Cameroon	5–3	Zimbabwe	2004	Group stage	29 January 2004
15.	Samuel Eto'o	3[8]	20', 39', 78'	Cameroon	3–1	Angola	2006	Group stage	21 January 2006
16.	Francileudo dos Santos	3	35', 82', 90+3'	Tunisia	4–1	Zambia	2006	Group stage	22 January 2006
17.	Soufiane Alloudi	3	1', 5', 28'	Morocco	5–1	Namibia	2008	Group stage	21 January 2008