Since the inception of the FIFA Club World Cup in 2000, four players from four countries have scored three goals (a hat-trick) or more in a single match on four occasions for three clubs from two leagues. The first player to achieve the feat was Luis Suárez, who scored three times for Barcelona in a 3–0 victory over Guangzhou Evergrande on 17 December 2015.
Real Madrid is the only club to have players with more than one hat-trick, with both of them coming against Kashima Antlers, in 2016 and 2018.
Hamdou Elhouni scored his hat-trick for Espérance de Tunis in a 6–2 win against Al Sadd in 2019, becoming the first Arab or African player to score a hat-trick at the tournament, and the first hat-trick scored by a team outside of La Liga.
Kashima Antlers is the only club to concede multiple hat-tricks, both of them to Real Madrid.