Cristiano Ronaldo re-wrote his name with a superb hat-trick against Tottenham Hotspur at the Old Trafford on Saturday, in the record books with 807 goals, as professional football’s all-time leading scorer surpassing Austro-Czech Josef Bican (805).
Ronaldo (37y & 35d) scored the 49th hat-trick of his club career and also became the second-oldest player in Premier League history to net a treble after Teddy Sheringham in August 2003 (37y & 146d).
Ronaldo’s breakdown of 807 goals – 450 for Real Madrid, 136 for Manchester United, 115 for Portugal, 101 for Juventus and 5 for Sporting.
He is now holding the record of scoring most goals in EUROs, Champions League, Real Madrid, Portugal, International Matches and overall football.
His Club hat-trick by calendar years stands like this – 2008 – 1, 2009 – 0, 2010 – 4, 2011 – 9, 2012 – 4, 2013 – 6, 2014 – 4, 2015 – 7, 2016 – 6, 2017 – 2, 2018 – 2, 2019 – 1, 2020 – 1, 2021 – 1 and 2022 – 1.
Overall he has scored 59 hat-tricks – for Real Madrid – 44, Juventus – 3, Manchester United – 2 and Portugal – 10.
After beating Spurs at the Old Trafford, Manchester United has now won exactly 400 Premier League home games, becoming the first team to reach that milestone in the competition.
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