Aguero, Shearer, and the most hat-tricks in Premier League history

Martin Macdonald

• Updated: 6 Mar 2026 06:32 CST
• 2 min read

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When Sergio Aguero announced his departure from Manchester City in 2021, he did so as the player with the most Premier League hat-tricks of all time.

Aguero is City’s all-time record goalscorer, having amassed a huge 260 goals during his time at the Etihad, far surpassing Eric Brook in second place on 177.

In the Premier League alone, he scored 184 goals which puts him sixth on the all-time list behind Andy Cole, Wayne Rooney, Harry Kane, Mohamed Salah and Alan Shearer.

Most hat-tricks in Premier League history

In January of 2020, Man City demolished Aston Villa 6-1 and within that fixture Aguero scored his 12th hat-trick for the club which enabled him to leap beyond Shearer into the top spot for the most hat-tricks scored in the history of the competition.

The highest-scoring oversees player in the history of the Premier League is Salah.

Only five players have scored five goals in a match – Aguero, Shearer, Cole, Jermain Defoe, and Dimitar Berbatov.

The quickest hat-trick every scored in the Premier League was by Sadio Mane, scoring three times in two minutes and 56 seconds for Southampton against Aston Villa.

Five players have each scored hat-tricks for three different clubs – Yakubu (Blackburn, Everton, Portsmouth), Nicolas Anelka (Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City), Kevin Campbell (Arsenal, Everton, Nottingham Forest), Les Ferdinand (Newcastle, QPR, Tottenham) and Teddy Sheringham (Manchester United, Portsmouth, Tottenham).

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