page_title: List of Premier League hat-tricks
section_title: Hat-tricks
hierarchical_section_title: List of Premier League hat-tricks / Hat-tricks
caption_attribution_description: Roque Santa Cruz of Blackburn Rovers
context_page_description: Since the inception of the English football league competition, the Premier League, in 1992, more than 100 players have scored three goals or more in a single match. The first player to achieve the feat was Frenchman Eric Cantona, who scored three times for Leeds United in a 5–0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur. Twenty-one players have scored more than three goals in a match; of these, five players, Andy Cole, Alan Shearer, Jermain Defoe, Dimitar Berbatov and Sergio Agüero have scored five. Sadio Mané holds the record for the quickest Premier League hat-trick, netting three times for Southampton against Aston Villa in 2 minutes 56 seconds, breaking Robbie Fowler's record, while in 1999, Manchester United player Ole Gunnar Solskjær scored four goals in twelve minutes as a substitute against Nottingham Forest, "the fastest scorer of a four-goal haul on record in England".
  The fixture between Arsenal and Southampton at Highbury in 2003 saw both Jermaine Pennant and Robert Pires score a hat-trick for the home team. In 2007, Blackburn's Roque Santa Cruz and Wigan's Marcus Bent both scored hat-tricks in a match that Wigan won 5–3.
caption: Roque Santa Cruz scored a hat-trick for Blackburn Rovers in a 5–3 defeat against Wigan Athletic.
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