FOUR GOALS IN A MATCH
Frank Lampard is the 14th Chelsea player to score four goals in a match and our first midfielder ever to have achieved it. He is the ninth player to score four in a top flight league match.
The full list of players is as follows:
George Hilsdon
Sep 1906 (5) Glossop (h) W 9-2 Div 2
Nov 1907 Bristol City (h) W 4-1 Div 1
Jan 1908 (6) Worksop (h) W 9-1 FA Cup
Bob Whittingham
Jan 1913 Southend (h) W 5-2 FA Cup
William Whitton
Sep 1924 Leicester (h) W 4-0 Div 2
Jimmy Thompson
Dec 1927 South Shields (h) W 6-0 Div 2
Dick Spence
Dec 1934 Liverpool (h) W 4-1 Div 1
Joe Bambrick
Mar 1935 Leeds Utd (h) W 7-1 Div 1
Apr 1935 Man City (h) W 4-2 Div 1
Jimmy Greaves
Dec 1957 Portsmouth (h) W 7-4 Div 1
Aug 1958 (5) Wolves (h) W 6-2 Div 1
Dec 1959 (5) Preston (a) W 5-4 Div 1
Dec 1960 (5) West Brom (h) W 7-1 Div 1
Mar 1961 Newcastle (a) W 6-1 Div 1
Apr 1961 Nottingham Forest (h) W 4-3 Div 1
Bobby Tambling
Dec 1962 Charlton (a) W 4-1 Div 2
May 1963 Portsmouth (h) W 7-0 Div 2
Mar 1964 Arsenal (a) W 4-2 Div 1
Sep 1966 (5) Aston Villa (a) W 6-2 Div 1
Feb 1969 Sunderland (h) W 5-1 Div 1
Peter Osgood
Dec 1969 C Palace (a) W 5-1 Div 1
Sep 1971 (5) Jeunesse Hautcharage (h) W 13-0 ECWC
Kerry Dixon
Sep 1983 Gillingham (h) W 4-0 Lge Cup
Jan 1985 Wigan (a) W 5-0 FA Cup
Apr 1989 Barnsley (h) W 5-3 Div 2
Gordon Durie
Feb 1989 Walsall (a) W 7-0 Div 2
Gianluca Vialli
Aug 1997 Barnsley (a) W 6-0 FAPL
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
Oct 2000 Coventry (h) W 6-1 FAPL
Frank Lampard
Mar 2008 Derby (h) W 6-1 FAPL
Statistics by Paul Dutton.
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