Top-10 Hat-Tricks in Premier League
Most Premier League hat-tricks
Who has scored the most Premier League hat-tricks? Another top-10 list from SillySeason and today we are looking into which Premier League star has the most hat-tricks in top-flight football.
There is nothing better than scoring three goals in one game, but for these guys, they can celebrate the fact they’ve done it on numerous occasions, with the number-one scoring an impressive 11 Premier League hat-tricks.
Saido Mane stole the hat-trick headlines this season as he scored the fastest EVER Premier League hat-trick in just over two minutes, but who has scored the most hat-tricks?
Let’s find out the 10 Players with Most Premier League Hattricks.
10. Robin van Persie – 5 Hat-tricks
The Holland international, Robin Van Persie ranks tenth in our list of 10 Players with Most Premier League Hat-tricks.
Five hat-tricks in Premier League to his name during his time with both Arsenal and Manchester United. Van Persie scored three hat-tricks with his former club Arsenal, and has so far scored two for Manchester United, tallying up to a total of five hat-tricks.
Van Persie scored his first Premier League hat-trick at Arsenal against Wigan Athletic in January 2011 and his most recent came when he scored all the three goals for Manchester United against Aston Villa during their title-winning campaign.
9. Ruud Van Nistelrooy – 5 Hat-tricks
Another Dutchman makes it onto our list and another Manchester United star.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy scored all his five hat-tricks while playing for United. In December 2001, he scored his first Premier League hat-trick against Southampton and his last was against Leicester City two years later in September 2003.
Van Nistelrooy then left United in order to join Spanish giants Real Madrid.
8. Andrew Cole – 5 Hat-tricks
Surprisingly another Manchester United player gets on our list.
Andy Cole scored two hat-tricks for Newcastle United, including his first hat-trick in the Premier League during a 3-0 win against Liverpool F.C.
He then moved to Manchester United, where he scored three hat-tricks, scoring his first for the club in a game Ipswich Town. Not only did he score a hat-trick that day, he went on to score five.
Cole‘s last hat-trick for United and his fifth overall in the Premier League was against his former Club Newcastle, when he scored four goals.
7. Dimitar Berbatov – 5 Hat-tricks
Coming at number 7 is yet another Manchester United player.
Dimitar Berbatov is one of the four Premier League players to have scored five goals in a single match. During his time in England, the striker played for two clubs, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United.
Berbatov scored only one hat-trick for Tottenham Hotspur in a game Spurs won 6-4. He scored four goals in that game. The striker then scored the other four hat-tricks whilst playing for Manchester United.
6. Luis Suarez – 6 Hat-tricks
The first player on our list to NOT have played for Manchester United.
Uruguayan international Luis Suarez scored three of his six hat-tricks for Liverpool within a calendar year. From April 2012, when he scored his first Premier League hat-trick against Norwich City, and then again against the same team in September of that year.
On 4 December 2013 , Suarez became the first player in Premier League history to score three hat-tricks against the same team (Norwich City) .
This was his fifth hat-trick in total and his sixth came during a 6-3 win for Liverpool against Cardiff City.
5. Wayne Rooney – 6 Hat-tricks
Yet another Manchester United star makes the list.
Wayne Rooney is an England international and has played for Everton and Manchester United.
The striker didn’t score any hat-tricks for Everton during his early stages of his career, so all six hat-tricks to his name have come whilst playing for United.
His first hat-trick was against Bolton Wanderers in October 2006.
4. Michael Owen – 8 Hat-tricks
Michael Owen scored seven of his eight Premier League hat-tricks for Liverpool, and also scored the other hat-trick for Newcastle United during the club’s 4-2 win against West Ham United in December 2005.
The former-player scored his first Premier League hat-trick in a 3-3 draw against Sheffield Wednesday.
Owen went on to play for Manchester United and Stoke City before retiring and going into commentary for BT Sport.
3. Thierry Henry – 8 Hat-tricks
Thierry Henry with eight Premier League hat-tricks is currently third in the list.
Henry is one of the best Premier League forwards ever and only ever played for one English club, Arsenal.
Henry is a French forward who scored eight hat-tricks in seven years (2000-07) for The Gunners. He scored his first hat-trick in a 6-1 win against Leicester City and his last was against Wigan Athletic during the final ever game at Highbury.
Henry is now a pundit for Sky Sports after ending his career in America with New York Red Bulls.
2. Robbie Fowler – 9 Hat-tricks
Robbie Fowler scored a total of nine hat-tricks in the Premier League with Merseyside club, Liverpool.
On 30 October 1993, Fowler scored his first hat-trick in a 4-2 win against Southampton.
Fowler did hold the record for the fastest ever hat-trick, when he scored three against Arsenal. However, that record was smashed this season by Southampton’s Saido Mane.
1. Alan Shearer – 11 Hat-tricks
Finally, topping our list of 10 Players with Most Premier League Hat-tricks is Alan Shearer, who scored a record number of eleven hat-tricks for Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United.
Shearer scored his first Premier League hat-trick for Blackburn in a 3-3 draw against Leeds United. He then went on to score nine hat-tricks for Blackburn before his transfer to Newcastle where he only managed to score two.
His last league hat-trick came in September 1999 against Sheffield Wednesday.
The former-striker is still the Premier League’s highest ever goalscorer and now works for the BBC as a pundit.