Premier League opening day hat-tricks. They don’t occur that usually, however after they do, they’re particular. We glance again at all the events that they’ve been scored within the competitors.
1993-94: Mick Quinn (Arsenal 0-3 Coventry Metropolis)
Arsenal had an underwhelming inaugural Premier League marketing campaign. Whereas they excelled in cup competitors as the primary staff to ever win each the League Cup and FA Cup in the identical season, they completed tenth within the league and had been the division’s lowest scorers with 40 objectives in 42 video games. Additionally they completed behind north-London rivals, Tottenham. And their 1993-94 marketing campaign bought off to a horrific begin, as Mick Quinn scored all three objectives at Highbury within the season opener.
Having scored 17 objectives in 26 video games in 1992-93, you’ll have been forgiven for considering that with this hat-trick Quinn could be an early contender for a golden boot. Nonetheless, the striker netted simply 5 extra objectives in 31 extra video games in 1993-94. Quinn does, nevertheless, stay the final participant to have scored an away hat-trick towards Arsenal in any competitors.
1995-96: Matthew Le Tissier (Southampton 3-4 Nottingham Forest)
Matthew Le Tissier – the one ‘loser’ on this listing. There have been 5 events of a participant being on the dropping aspect when scoring a Premier League hat-trick, with the Guernsey-born creator chargeable for two of these.
His opening day hat-trick towards Nottingham Forest in 1995-96 was the second time he had been on the dropping aspect regardless of a treble, additionally doing so on the ultimate day of the 1992-93 season towards Oldham.
This hat-trick was the primary Premier League treble to be scored completely from set-pieces, with Le Tissier changing two penalties and a direct free-kick. The three objectives had been additionally vital as being his ninth and closing hat-trick for Saints, whereas it was additionally the final ever hat-trick scored by a Southampton participant at The Dell.
Gamers to Rating a Premier League Hat-Trick and Finish on Dropping Facet
Matt Le Tissier – 8 Could 1993 in Southampton 3-4 Oldham Athletic
Matt Le Tissier – 19 August 1995 in Southampton 3-4 Nottingham Forest
Dion Dublin – 4 December 1995 in Coventry Metropolis 3-4 Sheffield Wednesday
Dwight Yorke – 30 September 1996 in Aston Villa 3-4 Newcastle United
Roque Santa Cruz – 15 December 2007 in Blackburn Rovers 3-5 Wigan Athletic
1996-97: Fabrizio Ravanelli (Middlesbrough 3-3 Liverpool) and Kevin Campbell (Coventry Metropolis 0-3 Nottingham Forest)
1996-97 is the one Premier League top-flight marketing campaign to see a couple of hat-trick scored within the opening spherical of fixtures. Sadly for the golf equipment concerned, they had been each relegated on the finish of the marketing campaign.
Fabrizio Ravanelli is famously the one participant to have ever scored a hat-trick on his Premier League debut, whereas he additionally grew to become the primary ever Italian participant to attain within the competitors.
Kevin Campbell in the meantime netted his third Premier League hat-trick, having scored two with Arsenal within the 1993-94 marketing campaign. In 1999, Campbell would turn into the primary participant to attain a Premier League hat-trick with three completely different golf equipment, when he scored three for Everton towards West Ham throughout their ‘nice escape’.
1997-98: Dion Dublin (Coventry Metropolis 3-2 Chelsea)
One other season, one other opening day hat-trick involving Coventry.
Having simply survived relegation on the closing day of the 1996-97 marketing campaign, Coventry bought their 1997-98 marketing campaign off to a terrific begin, twice coming from behind to ultimately beat Chelsea due to Dion Dublin’s hat-trick.
Dublin grew to become – and stays – the one participant to have scored a hat-trick on the opening matchday of a Premier League season and go on to win the golden boot. His three objectives towards the Blues accounted for 17% of his whole for the marketing campaign as he shared the award with each Chris Sutton and Michael Owen.
With this treble, Dublin was additionally the primary participant to seize the match ball towards Chelsea in virtually 10 years, since Gary Bannister scored 3 times for QPR towards them in September 1987.
2008-09: Gabriel Agbonlahor (Aston Villa 4-2 Manchester Metropolis)
Following a barren interval of opening weekend hat-tricks, Gabby Agbonlahor stepped up in 2008-09.
Not solely is he the youngest participant on this specific listing at 21 years and 308 days outdated, his hat-trick was additionally ‘good’ (proper foot, left foot, header) – to not point out that it was fairly quick, with simply seven minutes and 10 seconds separating the Villa man’s first and third objectives.
Villa had been in the midst of a interval of consistency underneath Martin O’Neill, whereas this defeat noticed 12 objectives conceded in two video games for Metropolis, having misplaced their closing recreation of the earlier season 8-1 towards Middlesbrough. Not lengthy after this, nevertheless, Metropolis would come into some wealth, laying the foundations for a decade of dominance within the 2010s. Agbonlahor’s 12 objectives in 36 league video games that season weren’t fairly sufficient to propel Villa into the Champions League spots, however they did find yourself sixth.
2010-11: Didier Drogba (Chelsea 6-0 West Bromwich Albion)
2019-20: Raheem Sterling (West Ham United 0-5 Manchester Metropolis)
2020-21: Mohamed Salah (Liverpool 4-3 Leeds United)
Earlier than 2021-22, the final three opening day hat-tricks within the Premier League had all been netted for reigning champions. Didier Drogba’s in 2010-11 helped Chelsea file the most important ever opening-day victory in Premier League historical past as they beat West Brom 6-0. Drogba had received the golden boot in 2009-10 and had additionally scored a hat-trick on the ultimate day of the season making him the fourth participant to attain a treble in consecutive Premier League appearances – although Erling Haaland grew to become the fifth in 2022-23 – and the primary to take action throughout completely different campaigns.
Raheem Sterling’s treble kick-started his most profitable goalscoring season in Premier League historical past (20 objectives in 2019-20), whereas Mohamed Salah’s treble at Anfield was Liverpool’s first opening match hat-trick since John Aldridge in 1988-89.
Sadly for all golf equipment concerned, no participant who has scored a gap weekend hat-trick has gone on to win the league on the finish of the season, with Manchester United profitable the title in 2010-11, Liverpool in 2019-20 and Manchester Metropolis in 2020-21.
2021-22: Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United 5-1 Leeds United)
Bruno Fernandes grew to become simply the tenth participant in Premier League historical past to attain a hat-trick on the opening matchday together with his treble towards Leeds United in 2021-22 and the primary Manchester United participant to attain a treble on the opening day of a league season since Lou Macari versus Birmingham in 1977-78.
Fernandes grew to become the fourth Portuguese participant to attain a Premier League hat-trick, following within the footsteps of Cristiano Ronaldo, Diogo Jota and Bernardo Silva. It was additionally his first league treble since Could 2019, when he netted three in Sporting CP’s 8-1 rout of Belenenses at Estádio do Jamor.
Total, Sergio Aguero has scored extra Premier League hat-tricks than another participant, together with his 12 for Manchester Metropolis being another than Alan Shearer’s 11 general throughout spells at Blackburn and Newcastle:
Sergio Aguero (Manchester Metropolis): 12
Alan Shearer (Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United): 11
Robbie Fowler (Liverpool, Leeds United): 9
Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur): 8
Michael Owen (Liverpool, Newcastle United): 8
Thierry Henry (Arsenal): 8
Wayne Rooney (Manchester United, Everton): 7
Whereas Sadio Mane holds the file for the quickest ever Premier League hat-trick, when he scored three for Southampton vs Aston Villa within the area of simply two minutes and 56 seconds.
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