Which player scored five goals in a single World Cup match?

Which player scored five goals in a single World Cup match? Oleg Salenko did so for Russia against Cameroon in 1994.

Salenko scored five times in Russia’s 6–1 group-stage victory on 28 June 1994 at Stanford Stadium in California. His record-breaking fifth goal arrived in the 75th minute, making him the first—and still only—player to score five goals in one men’s World Cup match.

The match also featured Cameroon’s Roger Milla, who scored at age 42 and became the tournament’s oldest goalscorer. Salenko’s five goals helped him finish the tournament with six, sharing the Golden Shoe with Bulgaria’s Hristo Stoichkov.

A common mix-up is confusing a single-match record with the most goals in one tournament. France’s Just Fontaine scored 13 goals across the 1958 tournament, while Salenko’s five remains the single-game record.