Since Scotland's first international association football match on 30 November 1872, 33 players have scored three goals (a hat-trick) or more in a game. The first player to do so was John McDougall, in a match against England on 2 May 1878. The most goals scored by a single player in a match is five, scored by Joe Harper in a friendly against a Canada Olympic team on 13 June 1967 (this match was retrospectively reclassified as full international in 2021), although some sources credit Hughie Gallacher with a fifth goal in the 1928–29 British Home Championship match against Ireland on 23 February 1929. Denis Law is the only player to have scored four goals in a single match more than once. Robert Smyth McColl, Law and Gallacher are tied for the most hat-tricks for Scotland's international te