Dembélé’s second earliest hat-trick in World Cup
Ousmane Dembélé became in the game vs Norway the second-fastest player (32 minutes) in history to score a World Cup hat-trick, behind Erich Probst who scored 3 goals for Austria vs Czechoslovakia on 19 June 1954 within 24 minutes after kick-off.
*Dembélé’s hat-trick is the 6th first-half hat-trick in the World Cup history.
*His hat-trick if the France’s 4th in World Cup history, after:
Just Fontaine vs Paraguay (3) in 1958
Just Fontaine vs Germany (4) in 1958
Kylian Mbappé vs Argentina (3) in 2022
*Dembélé scored more than one goal in a match for France for the first time in his career.
*The 2026 World Cup has already seen three hat-tricks; the most for an edition since 1986 (four hat-tricks).
| WORLD CUP | EARLIEST | HAT-TRICKS | |||
| Player | Country | Min. | Date | Game | |
| 1 | Erich Probst | Austria | 24 | 19/06/1954 | Czechoslovakia 5-0 |
| 2 | Ousmane Dembélé | France | 32 | 26/06/2026 | Norway 4-1 |
| 3 | Gary Lineker | England | 34 | 11/06/1986 | Poland 3-0 |
| 4 | Gerd Müller | Germany | 39 | 07/06/1970 | Bulgaria 5-2 |
| 5 | Gustav Wetterström | Sweden | 44 | 12/06/1938 | Cuba 8-0 |
| 6 | Oleg Salenko | Russia | 44 | 28/06/1994 | Cameroon 6-1 |