After Eberechi Eze tore through Tottenham at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday, we dive into the numbers, quirks and milestones behind the Premier League’s long history of hat-tricks.
Eberechi Eze enjoyed a special afternoon at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday, scoring a hat-trick for Arsenal in their north London derby win over Tottenham Hotspur.
It was just the fourth hat-trick scored in a competitive men’s north London derby, but most importantly for the purpose of this article, it was the 400th scored by a player in the Premier League. With 400 being a nice round number, what better time to delve into the facts and stats of Premier League hat-tricks?
Players With the Most Premier League Hat-Tricks
Eze’s treble against Spurs was his first in the Premier League, with the England midfielder becoming the 209th different player to score a hat-trick in the competition.
He joins a selection of 136 players to score just one Premier League hat-trick, all of whom are a long way off Sergio Agüero’s sensational record of 12. Agüero scored all of his for Manchester City, the final one in January 2020 against Aston Villa breaking a long-standing record held by Alan Shearer.
Shearer scored 11 Premier League hat-tricks, nine for Blackburn Rovers and two for Newcastle United. The former England striker still holds the record for most hat-tricks scored in a single Premier League season, with his five for Blackburn in 1995-96.
Most Premier League Hat-Tricks
Erling Haaland (4 in 2022-23) and Harry Kane (4 in 2016-17) came close to equalling that feat, with the former arguably the likeliest to ultimately break Agüero’s overall record now the latter plays in the Bundesliga for Bayern Munich.
Man City’s Norwegian striker has eight Premier League hat-tricks, ranking joint fourth in the all-time standings alongside Kane, Michael Owen and Thierry Henry but one behind Robbie Fowler (9).
Luis Suárez deserves a mention here, too. The Uruguayan scored six Premier League hat-tricks at Liverpool; half of them came against Norwich City (3), which is the most hat-tricks scored by a player against a single opponent in Premier League history.
Teams to Have the Most Hat-Trick Scorers
With his hat-trick against Spurs, Eberechi Eze became the 23rd different player to score a hat-trick in the Premier League for Arsenal. That’s a joint record in the competition alongside Chelsea.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering Sergio Agüero tops the individual rankings for hat-tricks, it is Manchester City (44) who have benefited from the most hat-tricks in the Premier League, just ahead of Arsenal (42), Liverpool (42) and Manchester United (37).
On the flip side, Derby County and Swansea City (266 games) have played the most Premier League matches without any player scoring a hat-trick. It’s also worth mentioning that, despite Bolton Wanderers playing 494 games in the competition, Fredi Bobic is the only player to score a Premier League hat-trick for them (vs Ipswich Town in April 2002).
Both Newcastle and Southampton have conceded the most Premier League hat-tricks to opposition players (22), while Luton Town have played the most games in the competition without conceding a hat-trick (38).
Three Goals Just Wasn’t Enough
There have been 42 occasions of a player scoring more than three goals in a Premier League game, with just five of those seeing a player net five times.
Andrew Cole (March 1995), Alan Shearer (September 1999), Jermain Defoe (November 2009), Dimitar Berbatov (November 2010) and Sergio Agüero (October 2015) all managed to achieve that feat.
Only seven players have scored 4+ goals in a Premier League game on more than one occasion: Cole Palmer, Frank Lampard, Michael Owen, Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Robbie Fowler, Yakubu and Agüero.
A special mention must go to both Palmer (2024) and Solskjær (1999) as the only two of those to do so twice in the same calendar year.
Hat-Tricks in Vain
Spare a thought for Matt Le Tissier, who twice scored a Premier League hat-trick for Southampton but still ended up on the losing team.
On the final day of the 1992-93 season, he scored all three of Southampton’s goals against Oldham Athletic but never once put his side into the lead, as they went down 4-3.
Then, on the opening weekend of the 1995-96 season, he did the same against Nottingham Forest, with Saints losing 4-3 once more. Again, none of his goals that day put Southampton into a winning position.
Dion Dublin suffered the same fate later that season when scoring a hat-trick for Coventry City against Sheffield Wednesday in December 1995. He put his side into the lead on three separate occasions but still ended on the losing team in a 4-3 defeat.
The following September, Aston Villa striker Dwight Yorke scored a sensational hat-trick against Newcastle only to end up on the losing side in a 4-3 loss at St. James’ Park.
The last player to score a hat-trick and end on the losing team in a Premier League game was Blackburn Rovers’ Roque Santa Cruz in December 2007. The Paraguayan striker scored his hat-trick goal to put Blackburn 3-2 ahead, but Marcus Bent added two more goals to his first-half strike to complete a hat-trick of his own for Wigan and secure a 5-3 victory.
Premier League Hat-Trick Losing Team
Multiple Hat-Tricks in Games
Well, we’ve already given you one of the answers to this… That aforementioned 5-3 win for Wigan Athletic over Blackburn in December 2007 saw Marcus Bent and Roque Santa Cruz score hat-tricks. It remains the only game in Premier League history to see a player from both teams score three times.
There have been three other occasions of two players scoring a hat-trick for the same team in a match, though.
In May 2003, Jermaine Pennant and Robert Pirès scored three goals each in Arsenal’s 6-1 win over Southampton at Highbury, a feat that was repeated in October 2019 by Leicester City pair Jamie Vardy and Ayoze Pérez in their record 9-0 away win over the same opponents at St. Mary’s.
Phil Foden and Erling Haaland both scored hat-tricks for Manchester City in their derby rout of Manchester United at the Etihad Stadium in October 2022. Haaland’s hat-trick that day was his third in succession at the stadium in league competition.
Fewest Days Between Two Hat-Tricks by a Player
Take a bow, Les Ferdinand. The Queens Park Rangers striker scored a hat-trick on 10 April 1993 vs Nottingham Forest before adding another two days later against Everton on 12 April 1993. That gap of two days is the smallest between a player scoring two hat-tricks in Premier League history.
Harry Kane twice came close to equalling that record, managing to score two hat-tricks just three days apart on two occasions. First, his four goals against Leicester City on 18 May 2017 were followed by a hat-trick three days later versus Hull City (21 May); he then scored two hat-tricks either side of Christmas against Burnley and Southampton on 23 December and Boxing Day 2017.
Erling Haaland is another player with two quickfire hat-tricks in the Premier League, scoring two just four days apart in August 2022, first against Crystal Palace and then against Nottingham Forest, both at the Etihad Stadium.
The Fastest Premier League Hat-Trick
Sadio Mané scored three goals in the space of just two minutes and 56 seconds for Southampton against Aston Villa on 16 May 2015. After scoring his first goal on 12:22, he added two further strikes on 13:46 and 15:18 to set a new Premier League record for the fastest hat-trick.
Fastest Premier League Hat-trick
That effort broke the previous record set in August 1994 by Robbie Fowler, when he scored a hat-trick for Liverpool against Arsenal in the space of four minutes and 33 seconds.
Youngest and Oldest
Michael Owen is the youngest player to score a Premier League hat-trick, netting three for Liverpool against Sheffield Wednesday on 14 February 1998 aged just 18 years and 62 days old. In fact, of the nine instances that a teenager has scored a hat-trick in the Premier League, three were scored by Owen before his 19th birthday.
The other teenagers to score a Premier League hat-trick are Robbie Fowler (2), Nicolas Anelka, Chris Bart-Williams, Luke Moore and Evan Ferguson.
The oldest Premier League hat-trick scorer is Teddy Sheringham, who got a treble for Portsmouth vs Bolton Wanderers in August 2003 aged 37 years and 146 days old. Cristiano Ronaldo is the only other 37-year-old hat-trick scorer in the Premier League, netting two in the 2021-22 season for Manchester United.
Other Facts Around Premier League Hat-Tricks
There have only been seven Premier League hat-tricks scored by substitutes, the last coming in September 2022 by Son Heung-min for Tottenham vs Leicester City.
There have been 10 hat-tricks scored on the opening matchday of a Premier League season. Bruno Fernandes is the last player to do this, scoring three in Manchester United’s 5-1 win over Leeds United in 2021-22.
At the time of writing, 5,069 players have played in the Premier League but only one has scored a hat-trick on their debut. Fabrizio Ravanelli netted all three of Middlesbrough’s goals in their opening-day 3-3 draw with Liverpool in August 1996 on his Premier League bow.
We’ve not come close to a player scoring a hat-trick on every day of the week, but Thierry Henry (Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday), Andrew Cole (Monday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday) and Harry Kane (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday) share the record of scoring a treble on four different days of the week.
Just two players have scored a hat-trick of headers in a Premier League match. Duncan Ferguson did so for Everton against Bolton in December 1997 before West Brom striker Salomón Rondón replicated the feat against Swansea City in December 2016.
Justin Kluivert is the only player to score a hat-trick of penalties in a Premier League game, doing so in Bournemouth’s 4-2 away win at Wolves on 30 November 2024.
The only player to score a hat-trick against a single team both home and away in the same Premier League season is Emmanuel Adebayor for Arsenal against Derby County in 2007-08.
Outside of English players, more Premier League hat-tricks have been scored by players from the Netherlands than any other nation. Twenty have been scored from eight different Dutch players: Robin van Persie (5), Ruud van Nistelrooy (5), Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (4), Justin Kluivert (2), Dennis Bergkamp, Marc Overmars, Dirk Kuyt and Georginio Wijnaldum.
More Premier League hat-tricks have been scored at the Etihad Stadium (32) than any other ground, with Anfield (29) and Old Trafford (28) seeing the next most.
Anthony Martial is the only player to score a Premier League hat-trick in the month of June, netting three goals against Sheffield United for Manchester United in 2020.
Amad Diallo holds the Premier League record for the latest first goal in a hat-trick. Against Southampton for Man Utd in January 2025, his first strike arrived on 81:02, adding further goals on 89:09 and 93:09 to complete his hat-trick.
Only nine hat-tricks have been scored by a player for a team starting the day bottom of the Premier League table. The last player to do so was Georginio Wijnaldum for Newcastle vs Norwich City in October 2015.
Just three players have scored hat-tricks against opponents who started the day top of the table: Romelu Lukaku for West Brom versus Man Utd in May 2013, Dirk Kuyt for Liverpool vs Man Utd in March 2011 and Robbie Fowler for Liverpool against Aston Villa in November 1998.
No goalkeeper has conceded more Premier League hat-tricks than former Southampton, Liverpool and Wolves player Paul Jones (10), with Tim Krul conceding just one fewer (9).
Luis Suárez is the only player to score a hat-trick of goals from outside the box in a Premier League game, doing so for Liverpool against Norwich City in September 2012.
Premier League Stats Opta
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