Cristiano Ronaldo scored all of Al Nassr's goals in a 4 - 0 Saudi league win over Al Wehda on Thursday, passing the 500 league goal mark in his club career.
The 38-year-old Portuguese star has now scored 503 goals for five different teams in five leagues.
In his early career, he scored three goals for Sporting Lisbon, 103 for Manchester United over two spells, 311 for Real Madrid, and 81 for Juventus.
Ronaldo now has five goals for Al Nassr, the club he joined after his acrimonious divorce from Manchester United.
On Thursday, he reached 500 goals with a left-footed strike in the 21st minute.
He made it 2-0 with his right foot shortly before the halftime break before completing his hat trick from the penalty spot eight minutes later.
It was his 61st hat-trick of the season.
He added a fourth shortly after the hour mark after being the first to a rebound.
Ronaldo made his debut for his new club last Friday, scoring a stoppage-time penalty in a 2-2 away draw against Al Fateh.
According to sources close to Al Nassr, the five-time Ballon d'Or winner, who holds the all-time records for Champions League and international goals, is banking more than 400 million euros for his surprise move to Saudi Arabia.
According to reports, the massive figure includes 200 million euros for promoting Saudi Arabia's planned joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup.
Ronaldo has become a symbol for the conservative kingdom's efforts to rehabilitate its image through sports, a process that has sparked charges of "sportswashing," or attempting to sanitize its human rights record.
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