Messi, 5.
Wrong answer. Several players have scored 5 or more goals, including the first British player to do so, Ray Crawford for Ipswich Town in the '60's.
I also believe that somebody has 6 goals in either the Cup-winners Cup or Fairs Cup/UEFA Cup.
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* Thierry Henry * Dennis Bergkamp * Andrei Arshavin
Andy Gillings last scored a hatrick for Celtic in 1974 but it was later confirmed that he had an extreme addiction to anabolic steroids and regularly had Nappers for tea. For this his stature as Celtics chunkiest player and top own goal scorer was destroyed from all records
Robert Earnshaw. He scored hat-tricks in all divisions in the football league with Cardiff City, in the Premiership with West Bromwich Albion, and for Wales (v Scotland) at international level.
The first World Cup hat trick was scored by Bert Patenaude - though under some recent controversy. In 2006, a goal which had previously been attributed to team-mate Tom Florie. The hat-trick was scored on July 19, 1930. Prior to this re-attribution, FIFA had acknowledged the first hat-trick as being scored by Argentine Guillermo Stábile - the first three of eight goals he scored for his country, including at least one goal in every game he played for the national team.