Fastest Hat-Trick in Premier League History

Sadio Mane holds the record for the fastest hat-trick in Premier League history, scoring three goals in just 2 minutes and 56 seconds for Southampton against Aston Villa on May 16, 2015. It is one of the most astonishing bursts of finishing the English game has seen, and it obliterated a record that had stood for two decades.

A hat-trick is hard enough on its own; doing it in under three minutes requires chances to fall in rapid succession and a striker cold-blooded enough to bury all three. That combination almost never happens, which is why the top of this list is so exclusive. Here is the full leaderboard of the fastest Premier League hat-tricks, the players behind them, and why Mane’s record looks so hard to beat. All figures are as of the 2025 season.

The record holder: Sadio Mane in 2 minutes 56 seconds

Mane’s treble came in a first-half explosion against Aston Villa, with all three goals arriving in a spell of under three minutes as Southampton raced clear. He finished with pace, composure and a striker’s instinct for arriving in the right place, and the team ran out 6-1 winners. The Premier League officially timed the hat-trick at 2 minutes and 56 seconds, a figure that has become part of football trivia.

What makes it remarkable is the margin. The previous record was 4 minutes 33 seconds, so Mane did not just break the record, he lowered it by more than 90 seconds. For a record counted in seconds, that is an enormous leap.

The full leaderboard of fastest Premier League hat-tricks

The table below ranks the quickest hat-tricks in Premier League history. The top two are precisely timed; the others are recorded to the nearest minute.

Rank	Time	Player	Match	Year
1	2 min 56 sec	Sadio Mane	Southampton v Aston Villa	2015
2	4 min 33 sec	Robbie Fowler	Liverpool v Arsenal	1994
3	~7 min	Gabriel Agbonlahor	Aston Villa v Man City	2008
4	~7 min	Jermain Defoe	Tottenham v Wigan	2009
5	~8 min	Sergio Aguero	Man City v Newcastle	2015
6	~9 min	Dwight Yorke	Man Utd v Arsenal	2001

Mane and Fowler are in a class of their own under five minutes, with the rest of the quick-fire trebles clustered between seven and nine minutes. The list features some of the Premier League’s most lethal finishers.

Fowler’s record and the long wait to beat it

Robbie Fowler set the original benchmark as a teenager, scoring three times in 4 minutes 33 seconds against Arsenal in August 1994. It was a record that seemed almost untouchable, and it survived nearly 21 years before Mane came along. Fowler remains one of the most natural finishers in the league’s history, a reputation reflected in the wider goalscoring charts covered in our leaderboard of the most hat-tricks in Premier League history.

The chasers inside nine minutes

Below the top two, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Jermain Defoe and Sergio Aguero all completed hat-tricks in roughly seven or eight minutes. Defoe’s day against Wigan in 2009 was especially remarkable because he went on to score five goals in the match, one of the biggest single-game hauls in Premier League history. The mechanics of what actually counts as a treble are explained in our guide to what a hat-trick is in football, and the World Cup version of multi-goal games appears in our list of the most goals in a single World Cup match.

Why the record matters

A speed record like this captures football at its most explosive, a few minutes in which a game is turned upside down. Mane’s 2 minutes 56 seconds is the ultimate example, produced by a player who would go on to win the Champions League and star for Liverpool and Senegal. Because it relies on such an unlikely sequence of chances, it may prove to be one of the Premier League’s most durable records.

The short version: Sadio Mane scored the fastest hat-trick in Premier League history in 2 minutes 56 seconds in 2015, smashing Robbie Fowler’s 4 minute 33 second record from 1994. No treble since has come close, and the record has now stood for a decade.