Ousmane Dembélé’s lightning World Cup treble sets records against Norway | OneFootball

Ousmane Dembélé hit the fastest World Cup hat-trick since 1954.

L'Équipe notes the 2025 Ballon d'Or struck on seven, 20 and 32 minutes against Norway in France’s third Group I match on Friday.

He now has 11 goals for France, including four in the past five days, one against Iraq on Monday and three here. It is his first multi-goal match for the national side. His previous goals were against England in 2017, Italy in 2018, Kazakhstan and Wales in 2021, Gibraltar in 2023, Croatia in 2025 and Iraq in 2026.

He netted his treble despite posting just 0.19 expected goals in the first half. The three arrived inside 25 minutes, with only Austria’s Erich Probst quicker at a World Cup, 24 minutes against Czechoslovakia in 1954, a 5-0 win.

Before this, Dembélé had only three career hat-tricks, for Rennes against Nantes in March 2016, 4-1, and for PSG against Stuttgart, 4-1, then Brest, 5-2, in January and February 2025.

He is the third Frenchman with a World Cup hat-trick, after Just Fontaine in 1958 and Kylian Mbappé in the 2022 final against Argentina. He is also the fourth player to score at least three at a World Cup in the year of his Ballon d'Or, after Eusébio, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Cristiano Ronaldo.

All 11 France players selected by Guy Stéphan touched the ball in the move for Dembélé’s third, which lasted 50 seconds.

Source: L'Équipe