Ronaldo ended 2025 without the traditional hat-trick

Cristiano Ronaldo, the striker and captain of the Saudi football club Al-Nasr, ended 2025 without a hat-trick for the first time in the last 15 years. In total, the player scored 41 goals this year. This was announced on December 30 by the Turkish portal Sporx on the social network X (ex. Twitter.)

It is specified that during his football career, Ronaldo scored 66 hat-tricks, 56 of them for clubs and 10 for the Portuguese national team. According to the portal, the series of annual hat-tricks began with the football player in 2009.

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Kylian Mbappe, the French striker of the Real Madrid football club, announced on December 21 that he considers Ronaldo his friend and idol after repeating his club record for the number of goals in a calendar year. Earlier, the French striker scored his 59th goal this year in the match of the 17th round of the Spanish championship against Sevilla, which allowed him to repeat Ronaldo's record, which was set in 2013.

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