Anthony Gordon made history on Wednesday evening as the Newcastle United attacker scored four times in his side’s 6-1 thrashing of Qarabag in the UEFA Champions League.
The 24-year-old’s first-half quadruple makes him just the second player to score four times before the break in a Champions League match, after Luiz Adriano did so for Shakhtar Donetsk against BATE Borisov in October 2014.
Gordon is also just the second Englishman to reach double figures for goals in a single Champions League campaign, after Harry Kane who scored 11 in 2024-25. And he is now the Magpies’ all-time scorer in the competition, overtaking club legend Alan Shearer.
The winger is the 21st player to score four goals in a Champions League game, joining some of the game’s greatest luminaries in the process.
Only Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski have scored four goals in a game on more than one occasion, while three players – Messi, Luiz Adriano and Erling Haaland – have netted five times in a single Champions League fixture.
Every player to score four goals in a Champions League game
- Marco van Basten, AC Milan 4-0 IFK Göteborg – 25 February 1992
- Simone Inzaghi, Lazio 5-1 Marseille – 14 March 2000
- Dado Prso, AS Monaco 8-3 Deportivo de La Coruña – 5 November 2003
- Ruud van Nistelrooy, Manchester United 4-1 Sparta Prague – 3 November 2004
- Andriy Shevchenko, Fenerbahçe 0-4 AC Milan – 23 November 2005
- Lionel Messi, Barcelona 4-1 Arsenal – 6 April 2010
- Bafétimbi Gomis, Dinamo Zagreb 1-7 Lyon – 7 December 2011
- Lionel Messi, Barcelona 7-1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen – 7 March 2012 (5)
- Mario Gomez, Bayern Munich 7-0 Basel – 13 March 2012
- Robert Lewandowski, Borussia Dortmund 4-1 Real Madrid – 24 April 2013
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Anderlecht 0-5 Paris Saint-Germain – 23 October 2013
- Luiz Adriano, BATE Borisov 0-7 Shakhtar Donetsk – 21 October 2014 (5)
- Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid 8-0 Malmö FF – 8 December 2015
- Serge Gnabry, Tottenham Hotspur 2-7 Bayern Munich – 1 October 2019
- Robert Lewandowski, Crvena Zvezda 0-6 Bayern Munich – 26 November 2019
- Josip Ilicic, Valencia 3-4 Atalanta – 10 March 2020
- Olivier Giroud, Sevilla 0-4 Chelsea – 2 December 2020
- Sébastien Haller, Sporting CP 1-5 Ajax – 15 September 2021
- Erling Haaland, Manchester City 7-0 RB Leipzig – 14 March 2023
- Harry Kane, Bayern Munich 9-2 Dinamo Zagreb – 17 September 2024
- Kylian Mbappe, Olympiacos 3-4 Real Madrid – 26 November 2025
- Anthony Gordon, Qarabag 1-6 Newcastle United – 18 February 2026
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