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From Alan Shearer’s relentless precision to Erling Haaland’s record-breaking bursts, the Premier League has had it's fair share of hat-trick heroes - the forwards who can turn a match, or even a season, with a single afternoon’s work. Since the competition’s launch in the 1992/93 season, 210 players have managed to take a match ball home, but only a select few have done it often enough to etch their names into the league’s history books. One player already making strides at the age of 23 is Chelsea's Cole Palmer, who scored his fourth Premier League treble against Wolves on Saturday. But where does that put him in the overall rankings?
Across three decades of evolution - from muddy pitches and 4-4-2s to data-driven pressing machines - the art of the hat-trick has remained the ultimate expression of dominance. And while the names at the top of the list may span generations, they share a simple trait: a ruthless streak in front of goal that turns chances into goals. Transfermarkt looks back at the players with the most Premier League hat-tricks of all time, charting how football’s elite finishers have rewritten scoring records season after season.
Leading the way is Manchester City legend Sergio Agüero. The Argentine scored 12 Premier League hat-tricks in just 175 games for the Sky Blues, including two four-goal hauls and one five-goal outing against Newcastle in 2015. Second place goes to the division's all-time top goalscorer: Alan Shearer. The Englishman managed 11 hat-tricks in 441 matches. In third is former Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler, who scored nine hat-tricks in 379 Premier League games. Remarkably, in fourth place is already Erling Haaland. The Norwegian has played just 122 matches but has scored eight hat-tricks in the English top-flight.
Arsenal icon Thierry Henry takes fifth; the Frenchman managed eight hat-tricks in 258 Premier League games. Over to the other side of North London, and Harry Kane is sixth, having accumulated eight hat-tricks for Tottenham in 320 English top-flight matches. Michael Owen takes seventh with eight hat-tricks in 326 games, and is followed by compatriot Wayne Rooney in eighth with seven trebles in 491 games. Uruguayan Luis Suárez is ninth with six hat-tricks in just 110 matches, with Dutchman Ruud van Nistelrooy completing the top 10 with five hat-tricks in 150 games. Palmer is now 16th with four hat-tricks and one more would already see him make the top 10.
