Most goals scored by one player in a match?

Answer 1

Oleg Salenko scored 5 against Cameroon in the Football World Cup in 1994 but there may have been someone who scored more in a non-world Cup match.

Archie Thopmson scored 13 for Australia against American Samoa in 2001 in Australia's 21 - 0 World Cup Qualifier victory. This is the most number of goals scored by a single player in a International 'A' match.

Answer 2

149, all own goals. AS Adema defeated Stade Olymique L'Emyrne (SOE) 149-0 in 2002, without scoring a goal themselves. SOE started scoring own goals in protest of bad refereeing decisions, scoring a goal every 40 seconds while Adema's players could only stand and watch.

Answer 3

I read in a book that Ronaldinho scored 23 goals in a 23-0 win at the age of 13!

NO! IT IS 16 GOALS,SCORED BY STEPHEN STANSIS OF France IN 1942

Answer 4

The quarterfinal match of 1954 between Austria and Switzerland brought a new World Cup record. Austria won 7-5 (12 goals in one match)