Martin dotted down for his 27th try of the season – beating Tom Lineham’s previous Hull FC record.
12:48, 12 Aug 2025Updated 22:23, 14 Aug 2025
Hull FC’s Lewis Martin took his season tally to 27 against Salford.
Lewis Martin broke a Hull FC record on Sunday afternoon – at least in the club’s Super League era. The young Black and Whites winger scored four tries in the 80-6 victory over Salford Red Devils, taking his season tally to 27 and counting – and remarkably from just 24 games.
In fact, it’s the best return from a Hull player since Tevita Vaikona’s 40 tries in the 1997 Division One promotion season – a post-war club record – and as far as top-flight seasons go, the best since Garry Schofield’s debut season of 37 tries in 1983/84.
Of course, it’s a way off the all-time club record of 52 tries scored by Jack Harrison in the 1914/15 season, but it’s still some return from Martin, and it came on his 50th appearance for the club, with his total try tally to date standing at 37.
With 20 coming in Super League, the best return in the competition so far, and seven in the Challenge Cup, his four tries on the weekend were also the first quartet of his career and his fourth hat-trick of the season, adding to earlier efforts against York Acorn, Wigan Warriors, and Huddersfield Giants. And for anyone who saw the 20-year-old’s Super League debut effort at St Helens in the final game of the 2023 season, it comes as no surprise.
In fact, Martin’s rise at Hull had begun long before then. Signed to the academy after a stint at Hull City AFC, the Hull-born flyer quickly adapted to rugby league and hasn’t looked back. He rose through the system, bided his time, and now with fellow young talent Harvey Barron, holds the club’s two wing spots – and potentially for years to come.
But it’s just not his try scoring, emphasised after the game by head coach John Cartwright; it’s the hard work that stands out, the tough backfield carries and the takes under the high ball, and the like. Those attributes earn the respect of his teammates and suggest as much as another why the young Hull gun is tipped for future scope in the game.
This, you expect, is the first of many records to be broken, with the player signing a new three-year contract earlier this season and expected to go from strength to strength.
Hull’s top try scorers in each of their 28 Super League seasons to date
1998, Fili Seru & Alan Hunte: 131999, Gary Lester: 102000, Steve Collins: 182001, Tony Smith : 192002, Graham Mackay: 192003, Colin Best: 212004, Shaun Briscoe: 252005, Nathan Blacklock: 222006, Kirk Yeaman: 232007, Gareth Raynor: 142008, Kirk Yeaman: 192009, Kirk Yeaman: 112010, Tom Briscoe: 162011, Tom Briscoe & Kirk Yeaman: 212012, Tom Briscoe: 222013, Ben Crooks: 202014, Jamie Shaul: 182015, Tom Lineham: 262016, Fetuli Talanoa: 172017, Jamie Shaul: 212018, Bureta Faraimo: 192019, Ratu Naulago: 152020, Carlos Tuimavave & Ratu Naulago: 82021, Adam Swift: 142022, Darnell McIntosh: 132023, Adam Swift, 222024, Lewis Martin: 92025, Lewis Martin: 27