{"id":284819,"date":"2025-11-26T18:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/284819\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T18:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:34:13","slug":"the-premier-leagues-400-hat-tricks-the-records-stats-and-stories-behind-new-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/284819\/","title":{"rendered":"The Premier League\u2019s 400 Hat-Tricks: The Records, Stats and Stories Behind New Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">After Eberechi Eze<br \/>\ntore through Tottenham at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday, we dive<br \/>\ninto the numbers, quirks and milestones behind the Premier League\u2019s<br \/>\nlong history of hat-tricks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/football\/player\/sc-232413\/eberechi-eze\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eberechi<br \/>\nEze<\/a> enjoyed a special afternoon at the Emirates Stadium on<br \/>\nSunday, scoring a hat-trick for Arsenal in their north London derby<br \/>\nwin over Tottenham Hotspur.<\/p>\n<p>It was just the fourth hat-trick scored in a competitive men\u2019s<br \/>\nnorth London derby, but most importantly for the purpose of this<br \/>\narticle, it was the 400th scored by a player in the <a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/competition\/premier-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier<br \/>\nLeague<\/a>. With 400 being a nice round number, what better time to<br \/>\ndelve into the facts and stats of Premier League hat-tricks?<\/p>\n<p>Players With the Most Premier League<br \/>\nHat-Tricks<\/p>\n<p>Eze\u2019s treble against Spurs was his first in the Premier League,<br \/>\nwith the England midfielder becoming the 209th different player to<br \/>\nscore a hat-trick in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>He joins a selection of 136 players to score just one Premier<br \/>\nLeague hat-trick, all of whom are a long way off <a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/articles\/who-has-scored-the-most-premier-league-hat-tricks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nSergio Ag\u00fcero\u2019s sensational record of 12<\/a>. Ag\u00fcero scored all of<br \/>\nhis for Manchester City, the final one in January 2020 against<br \/>\nAston Villa breaking a long-standing record held by Alan<br \/>\nShearer.<\/p>\n<p>Shearer scored 11 Premier League hat-tricks, nine for Blackburn<br \/>\nRovers and two for Newcastle United. The former England striker<br \/>\nstill holds the record for most hat-tricks scored in a single<br \/>\nPremier League season, with his five for Blackburn in 1995-96.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/most-premier-league-hat-tricks-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Most Premier League Hat-Tricks\" class=\"wp-image-221881\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Erling Haaland (4 in 2022-23) and Harry Kane (4 in 2016-17) came<br \/>\nclose to equalling that feat, with the former arguably the<br \/>\nlikeliest to ultimately break Ag\u00fcero\u2019s overall record now the<br \/>\nlatter plays in the Bundesliga for Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<p>Man City\u2019s Norwegian striker has eight Premier League<br \/>\nhat-tricks, ranking joint fourth in the all-time standings<br \/>\nalongside Kane, Michael Owen and Thierry Henry but one behind<br \/>\nRobbie Fowler (9).<\/p>\n<p>Luis Su\u00e1rez deserves a mention here, too. The Uruguayan scored<br \/>\nsix Premier League hat-tricks at Liverpool; half of them came<br \/>\nagainst Norwich City (3), which is the most hat-tricks scored by a<br \/>\nplayer against a single opponent in Premier League history.<\/p>\n<p>Teams to Have the Most Hat-Trick<br \/>\nScorers<\/p>\n<p>With his hat-trick against Spurs, Eberechi Eze became the 23rd<br \/>\ndifferent player to score a hat-trick in the Premier League for<br \/>\nArsenal. That\u2019s a joint record in the competition alongside<br \/>\nChelsea.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering Sergio Ag\u00fcero tops the<br \/>\nindividual rankings for hat-tricks, it is Manchester City (44) who<br \/>\nhave benefited from the most hat-tricks in the Premier League, just<br \/>\nahead of Arsenal (42), Liverpool (42) and Manchester United<br \/>\n(37).<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, Derby County and Swansea City (266 games) have<br \/>\nplayed the most Premier League matches without any player scoring a<br \/>\nhat-trick. It\u2019s also worth mentioning that, despite Bolton<br \/>\nWanderers playing 494 games in the competition, Fredi Bobic is the<br \/>\nonly player to score a Premier League hat-trick for them (vs<br \/>\nIpswich Town in April 2002).<\/p>\n<p>Both Newcastle and Southampton have conceded the most Premier<br \/>\nLeague hat-tricks to opposition players (22), while Luton Town have<br \/>\nplayed the most games in the competition without conceding a<br \/>\nhat-trick (38).<\/p>\n<p>Three Goals Just Wasn\u2019t<br \/>\nEnough<\/p>\n<p>There have been 42 occasions of a player scoring more than three<br \/>\ngoals in a Premier League game, with just five of those seeing a<br \/>\nplayer net five times.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Cole (March 1995), Alan Shearer (September 1999), Jermain<br \/>\nDefoe (November 2009), Dimitar Berbatov (November 2010) and Sergio<br \/>\nAg\u00fcero (October 2015) all managed to achieve that feat.<\/p>\n<p>Only seven players have scored 4+ goals in a Premier League game<br \/>\non more than one occasion: Cole Palmer, Frank Lampard, Michael<br \/>\nOwen, Ole Gunnar Solskj\u00e6r, Robbie Fowler, Yakubu and Ag\u00fcero.<\/p>\n<p>A special mention must go to both Palmer (2024) and Solskj\u00e6r<br \/>\n(1999) as the only two of those to do so twice in the same calendar<br \/>\nyear.<\/p>\n<p>Hat-Tricks in Vain<\/p>\n<p>Spare a thought for Matt Le Tissier, who twice scored a Premier<br \/>\nLeague hat-trick for Southampton but still ended up on the losing<br \/>\nteam.<\/p>\n<p>On the final day of the 1992-93 season, he scored all three of<br \/>\nSouthampton\u2019s goals against Oldham Athletic but never once put his<br \/>\nside into the lead, as they went down 4-3.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on the opening weekend of the 1995-96 season, he did the<br \/>\nsame against Nottingham Forest, with Saints losing 4-3 once more.<br \/>\nAgain, none of his goals that day put Southampton into a winning<br \/>\nposition.<\/p>\n<p>Dion Dublin suffered the same fate later that season when<br \/>\nscoring a hat-trick for Coventry City against Sheffield Wednesday<br \/>\nin December 1995. He put his side into the lead on three separate<br \/>\noccasions but still ended on the losing team in a 4-3 defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The following September, Aston Villa striker Dwight Yorke scored<br \/>\na sensational hat-trick against Newcastle only to end up on the<br \/>\nlosing side in a 4-3 loss at St. James\u2019 Park.<\/p>\n<p>The last player to score a hat-trick and end on the losing team<br \/>\nin a Premier League game was Blackburn Rovers\u2019 Roque Santa Cruz in<br \/>\nDecember 2007. The Paraguayan striker scored his hat-trick goal to<br \/>\nput Blackburn 3-2 ahead, but Marcus Bent added two more goals to<br \/>\nhis first-half strike to complete a hat-trick of his own for Wigan<br \/>\nand secure a 5-3 victory.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/premier-league-hat-trick-losing-team-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Premier League Hat-Trick Losing Team\" class=\"wp-image-221891\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Multiple Hat-Tricks in Games<\/p>\n<p>Well, we\u2019ve already given you one of the answers to this\u2026 That<br \/>\naforementioned 5-3 win for Wigan Athletic over Blackburn in<br \/>\nDecember 2007 saw Marcus Bent and Roque Santa Cruz score<br \/>\nhat-tricks. It remains the only game in Premier League history to<br \/>\nsee a player from both teams score three times.<\/p>\n<p>There have been three other occasions of two players scoring a<br \/>\nhat-trick for the same team in a match, though.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2003, Jermaine Pennant and Robert Pir\u00e8s scored three<br \/>\ngoals each in Arsenal\u2019s 6-1 win over Southampton at Highbury, a<br \/>\nfeat that was repeated in October 2019 by Leicester City pair Jamie<br \/>\nVardy and Ayoze P\u00e9rez in their record 9-0 away win over the same<br \/>\nopponents at St. Mary\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Foden and Erling Haaland both scored hat-tricks for<br \/>\nManchester City in their derby rout of Manchester United at the<br \/>\nEtihad Stadium in October 2022. Haaland\u2019s hat-trick that day was<br \/>\nhis third in succession at the stadium in league competition.<\/p>\n<p>Fewest Days Between Two Hat-Tricks by a<br \/>\nPlayer<\/p>\n<p>Take a bow, Les Ferdinand. The Queens Park Rangers striker<br \/>\nscored a hat-trick on 10 April 1993 vs Nottingham Forest before<br \/>\nadding another two days later against Everton on 12 April 1993.<br \/>\nThat gap of two days is the smallest between a player scoring two<br \/>\nhat-tricks in Premier League history.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Kane twice came close to equalling that record, managing<br \/>\nto score two hat-tricks just three days apart on two occasions.<br \/>\nFirst, his four goals against Leicester City on 18 May 2017 were<br \/>\nfollowed by a hat-trick three days later versus Hull City (21 May);<br \/>\nhe then scored two hat-tricks either side of Christmas against<br \/>\nBurnley and Southampton on 23 December and Boxing Day 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Erling Haaland is another player with two quickfire hat-tricks<br \/>\nin the Premier League, scoring two just four days apart in August<br \/>\n2022, first against Crystal Palace and then against Nottingham<br \/>\nForest, both at the Etihad Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Fastest Premier League<br \/>\nHat-Trick<\/p>\n<p>Sadio Man\u00e9 scored three goals in the space of just two minutes<br \/>\nand 56 seconds for Southampton against Aston Villa on 16 May 2015.<br \/>\nAfter scoring his first goal on 12:22, he added two further strikes<br \/>\non 13:46 and 15:18 to set a new Premier League record for the<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/articles\/fastest-premier-league-hat-trick-in-history\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nfastest hat-trick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fastest-premier-league-hat-trick-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Fastest Premier League Hat-trick\" class=\"wp-image-34982\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>That effort broke the previous record set in August 1994 by<br \/>\nRobbie Fowler, when he scored a hat-trick for Liverpool against<br \/>\nArsenal in the space of four minutes and 33 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Youngest<br \/>\nand Oldest<\/p>\n<p>Michael Owen is the youngest player to score a Premier League<br \/>\nhat-trick, netting three for Liverpool against Sheffield Wednesday<br \/>\non 14 February 1998 aged just 18 years and 62 days old. In fact, of<br \/>\nthe nine instances that a teenager has scored a hat-trick in the<br \/>\nPremier League, three were scored by Owen before his 19th<br \/>\nbirthday.<\/p>\n<p>The other teenagers to score a Premier League hat-trick are<br \/>\nRobbie Fowler (2), Nicolas Anelka, Chris Bart-Williams, Luke Moore<br \/>\nand Evan Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p>The oldest Premier League hat-trick scorer is Teddy Sheringham,<br \/>\nwho got a treble for Portsmouth vs Bolton Wanderers in August 2003<br \/>\naged 37 years and 146 days old. Cristiano Ronaldo is the only other<br \/>\n37-year-old hat-trick scorer in the Premier League, netting two in<br \/>\nthe 2021-22 season for Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>Other Facts Around Premier League<br \/>\nHat-Tricks<\/p>\n<p>There have only been seven <a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/articles\/premier-league-hat-tricks-substitutes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nPremier League hat-tricks scored by substitutes<\/a>, the last<br \/>\ncoming in September 2022 by Son Heung-min for Tottenham vs<br \/>\nLeicester City.<br \/>\nThere have been 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/articles\/premier-league-opening-day-hat-tricks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nhat-tricks scored on the opening matchday of a Premier League<br \/>\nseason<\/a>. Bruno Fernandes is the last player to do this, scoring<br \/>\nthree in Manchester United\u2019s 5-1 win over Leeds United in<br \/>\n2021-22.<br \/>\nAt the time of writing, 5,069 players have played in the<br \/>\nPremier League but only one has scored a hat-trick on their debut.<br \/>\nFabrizio Ravanelli netted all three of Middlesbrough\u2019s goals in<br \/>\ntheir opening-day 3-3 draw with Liverpool in August 1996 on his<br \/>\nPremier League bow.<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve not come close to a player scoring a hat-trick on every<br \/>\nday of the week, but Thierry Henry (Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and<br \/>\nSunday), Andrew Cole (Monday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday) and<br \/>\nHarry Kane (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday) share the<br \/>\nrecord of scoring a treble on four different days of the<br \/>\nweek.<br \/>\nJust two players have scored a hat-trick of headers in a<br \/>\nPremier League match. Duncan Ferguson did so for Everton against<br \/>\nBolton in December 1997 before West Brom striker Salom\u00f3n Rond\u00f3n<br \/>\nreplicated the feat against Swansea City in December 2016.<br \/>\nJustin Kluivert is the only player to score a hat-trick of<br \/>\npenalties in a Premier League game, doing so in Bournemouth\u2019s 4-2<br \/>\naway win at Wolves on 30 November 2024.<br \/>\nThe only player to score a hat-trick against a single team both<br \/>\nhome and away in the same Premier League season is Emmanuel<br \/>\nAdebayor for Arsenal against Derby County in 2007-08.<br \/>\nOutside of English players, more Premier League hat-tricks have<br \/>\nbeen scored by players from the Netherlands than any other nation.<br \/>\nTwenty have been scored from eight different Dutch players: Robin<br \/>\nvan Persie (5), Ruud van Nistelrooy (5), Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink<br \/>\n(4), Justin Kluivert (2), Dennis Bergkamp, Marc Overmars, Dirk Kuyt<br \/>\nand Georginio Wijnaldum.<br \/>\nMore Premier League hat-tricks have been scored at the Etihad<br \/>\nStadium (32) than any other ground, with Anfield (29) and Old<br \/>\nTrafford (28) seeing the next most.<br \/>\nAnthony Martial is the only player to score a Premier League<br \/>\nhat-trick in the month of June, netting three goals against<br \/>\nSheffield United for Manchester United in 2020.<br \/>\nAmad Diallo holds the Premier League record for the latest<br \/>\nfirst goal in a hat-trick. Against Southampton for Man Utd in<br \/>\nJanuary 2025, his first strike arrived on 81:02, adding further<br \/>\ngoals on 89:09 and 93:09 to complete his hat-trick.<br \/>\nOnly nine hat-tricks have been scored by a player for a team<br \/>\nstarting the day bottom of the Premier League table. The last<br \/>\nplayer to do so was Georginio Wijnaldum for Newcastle vs Norwich<br \/>\nCity in October 2015.<br \/>\nJust three players have scored hat-tricks against opponents who<br \/>\nstarted the day top of the table: Romelu Lukaku for West Brom<br \/>\nversus Man Utd in May 2013, Dirk Kuyt for Liverpool vs Man Utd in<br \/>\nMarch 2011 and Robbie Fowler for Liverpool against Aston Villa in<br \/>\nNovember 1998.<br \/>\nNo goalkeeper has conceded more Premier League hat-tricks than<br \/>\nformer Southampton, Liverpool and Wolves player Paul Jones (10),<br \/>\nwith Tim Krul conceding just one fewer (9).<br \/>\nLuis Su\u00e1rez is the only player to score a hat-trick of goals<br \/>\nfrom outside the box in a Premier League game, doing so for<br \/>\nLiverpool against Norwich City in September 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/competition\/premier-league\/stats?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/premier-league-stats-opta.jpg\" alt=\"Premier League Stats Opta\" class=\"wp-image-200617\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Subscribe<br \/>\nto our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/sign-up\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">football<br \/>\nnewsletter<\/a>\u00a0to receive exclusive weekly content. 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