Twelve of the players have each scored hat-tricks for two or more different clubs: Inzaghi ( Juventus and Milan), Owen ( Liverpool and Manchester United), Eto'o ( Barcelona and Inter Milan), Simone (Milan and Monaco), Van Nistelrooy (PSV Eindhoven and Manchester United), Makaay ( Deportivo La CoruГ±a and Bayern Munich), Shevchenko ( Dynamo Kyiv and Milan), Drogba ( Marseille and Chelsea), Lewandowski ( Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich), Neymar (Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain), Ronaldo ( Real Madrid and Juventus), and Giroud ( Arsenal and Chelsea). Only Ronaldo (four times), Messi, Lewandowski and Benzema (twice each) have scored three or more goals on more than a single occasion in the knockout stage. Messi and Ronaldo have scored three or more goals in a match eight times each in the Champions League, more than any other players, followed by Lewandowski, who has scored a hat-trick on five occasions, and Karim Benzema, who has done so on four. The other thirteen players to score four goals in a game are Marco van Basten, Simone Inzaghi, Dado PrЕЎo, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Andriy Shevchenko, BafГ©timbi Gomis, Mario GГіmez, Zlatan IbrahimoviД‡, Cristiano Ronaldo, Serge Gnabry, Josip IliДЌiД‡, Olivier Giroud and SГ©bastien Haller. Only Messi (on 8 March 2012 against Bayer Leverkusen) and Luiz Adriano (on 21 October 2014 against BATE Borisov) have scored five goals in a single match.

The first player to achieve the feat was Juul Ellerman, who scored three times for PSV Eindhoven in a 6вЂ“0 victory over ЕЅalgiris on 16 September 1992.ДЇifteen players have scored four or more goals in a match of these, only Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski have achieved this more than once. Since the rebranding of the European Champion Clubs' Cup as the UEFA Champions League in 1992, 91 players from 36 countries have scored three goals (a hat-trick) or more in a single match on a total of 144 occasions for 51 different clubs from 17 different leagues. He is the only player to score three hat-tricks in a single season. Also, many regular season opponents have met again in the playoffs, and the result of a regular season game can affect where the playoff game will be played.Cristiano Ronaldo is the joint record holder for the most Champions League hat-tricks. Conference games are often important, as a team's record in common games, as well as its overall record against its conference, are sometimes used as tiebreakers for playoff seeding at the end of the regular season. The total interdivisional games an NBA team plays is 36. A team plays against each team from the other two divisions in its conference either three or four times. Interdivisional rivalries comprise games between opponents in different divisions but within the same conference.

Each team plays each division opponent 4 times during the regular season (twice at home, twice away) for a total of 16 games out of 82 total regular season games. Since the 2004вЂ“05 NBA season, there are 30 teams in six divisions of 5 teams each. Intradivisional rivalries comprise games between opponents in the same division. A team plays each opponent from the other conference in one home game and one away game. Interconference rivalries comprise games between opponents in different conferences. Rivalries are classified into three primary groups intradivisional, interdivisional, and interconference. This article lists some of the famous rivalries in the NBA. Throughout more than 75 seasons, the National Basketball Association (NBA) has had many intense rivalries.

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