The likes of Sergio Aguero and Alan Shearer have scored the most hat-tricks in Premier League history — but who has netted the most outright?
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.
Sergio Aguero currently holds the record for most Premier League hat-tricks scored with 12, surpassing Alan Shearer's tally of 11 against Aston Villa in January 2020.
The goals also meant that Aguero moved past Arsenal legend Thierry Henry as the leading foreign goalscorer in Premier League history after netting his 175th, 176th and 177th goals in the competition.
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.
There are a number of active players with multiple hat-tricks just outside the top five.
Manchester City's Norwegian goliath Erling Haaland, who looks dangerously capable of breaking every single goal-record that has been set before him, already has six Premier League hat-tricks to his name, with an eye-popping five trios of them coming in his debut 2022-23 Premier League season. His latest hat-trick arrived against Fulham at the Etihad Stadium on September 2, 2023.
Chelsea's mercurial winger Raheem Sterling is the
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