The players with the most EPL hat-tricks: Aguero 1st, Haaland 4th

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, 208 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.

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 108 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.