The term 'hat-trick' is used to define when a player achieves the feat of scoring three goals in a game, and is one of the most impressive individual feats a player can accomplish during a match.
Hat-trick scorers earn the right to take the match ball home after full-time.
But who has scored the most hat-tricks in the Premier League era? GOAL takes a look.
Who has scored the most Premier League hat-tricks?
Shearer was the previous holder of the title, with the former England international remaining both Newcastle's and the Premier League's record goalscorer across 14 years.
Former Liverpool and England striker Robbie Fowler is third on the list with his nine hat-tricks, followed by Thierry Henry, Harry Kane, Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney who are all on eight apiece.
RankPlayerHat-tricksDate of last hat-trick1Sergio Aguero12January 12, 20202Alan Shearer11September 19, 19993Robbie Fowler9December 26, 2001=4Thierry Henry8May 7, 2006=4Harry Kane8December 26, 2017=4Michael Owen8December 17, 20057Wayne Rooney7November 29, 20178Luis Suarez6March 22, 2014=9Dimitar Berbatov5December 26, 2011=9Andy Cole5August 30, 1999=9Ruud van Nistelrooy5September 27, 2003=9Raheem Sterling5February 12, 2022=9Robin van Persie5April 22, 2013=9Ian Wright5September 13, 1997
*Last updated February 2022.
What is the Dubious Goals Committee?
The Dubious Goals Committee is a committee within the Premier League which decides, collectively, on whether or not the identity of a goalscorer should be argued.
The group meets only when it is required of them, or whenever a disputed goal is brought to their attention. The Committee has been responsible for deciding, post-match, if a player did not score a hat-trick because one or more of the goals was incorrectly attributed to them.
Former Southampton player Egil Ostenstad thought he had scored a hat-trick against Manchester United in 1996, but had one of his goals ruled out as they decided it was an own goal scored by Red Devils defender Phil Neville.
Javier Hernandez was stripped of a hat-trick against Aston Villa in November 2011 after the Committee ruled out his second goal, stating it was actually an own goal by opposition player Ron Vlaar.
Who scored the fastest Premier League hat-trick?
Liverpool forward Sadio Mane currently holds the record of fastest Premier League hat-trick ever scored when he netted three times for Southampton against Aston Villa in 2015.
Mane scored his three goals in two minutes and 56 seconds, which beat the previous record held by Fowler for Liverpool against Arsenal in 1994 – four minutes and 33 seconds – by one minute and 37 seconds.
In 1999, former Manchester United player and manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scored four goals in 12 minutes as a substitute against Nottingham Forest, which led him to become the fastest scorer of a four-goal haul on record in England.
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Ole Gunnar's record will be very very difficult to break, especially as a substitute coming in the second half to score 4 GOALS in 12 minutes. I doubt if anyone has ever achieve that in the history of the game. Nobody talks about Ole's RECORD anyway.