How many Premier League hat-tricks did Wayne Rooney score?
When fans consider which players sit on the Mount Rushmore of Premier League strikers, Wayne Rooney must be in and around the top of that list. This is reflected in the number of Premier League hat-tricks he scored at Manchester United, which stands at six, currently more than any other player to have represented the Red Devils since the Premier League's birth.
Man Utd's Premier League hat-tricks
PLAYER | HAT-TRICKS |
|---|---|
Wayne Rooney | 6 |
Ruud van Nistelrooy | 5 |
Dimitar Berbatov | 4 |
Cristiano Ronaldo | 3 |
Dwight Yorke | 3 |
Ole Gunnar Solskjær | 3 |
Andy Cole | 3 |
Paul Scholes | 2 |
Robin van Persie | 2 |
Anthony Martial | 1 |
Andrei Kanchelskis | 1 |
Bruno Fernandes | 1 |
Amad Diallo | 1 |
Shinji Kagawa | 1 |
Teddy Sheringham | 1 |
Of Rooney's six Premier League hat-tricks for Man Utd, one of them saw him accumulate four goals, against Hull City in the 2009-10 campaign, the second Premier League hat-trick scored by the former England international that season, the first coming vs Portsmouth. But you have to go back to the 2006-07 season for Rooney's first Man Utd hat-trick in the Premier League against Bolton Wanderers.
All of Wayne Rooney's Premier League hat-tricks for Man Utd
# | PLAYER | SEASON | OPPONENT | GOALS SCORED |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Wayne Rooney | 2006/07 | Bolton Wanderers | 3 |
2 | Wayne Rooney | 2009/10 | Portsmouth | 3 |
3 | Wayne Rooney | 2009/10 | Hull City | 4 |
4 | Wayne Rooney | 2010/11 | West Ham United | 3 |
5 | Wayne Rooney | 2011/12 | Arsenal | 3 |
6 | Wayne Rooney | 2011/12 | Bolton Wanderers | 3 |
Ironically, Rooney's final Man Utd Premier League hat-trick also came against Bolton, the same club who were victims of that first top flight hat-trick just under five years earlier. But Rooney's most memorable hat-trick in the Premier League came against Arsenal on August 28th 2011, as Sir Alex Ferguson's side thrashed Arsene Wenger's Gunners 8-2 at Old Trafford, a notorious scoreline between two great Premier League rivals.
But Rooney registered more than just six hat-tricks across his Premier League career, he added a seventh in 2017 whilst playing for boyhood club Everton in his second spell with the Toffees, the team who brought him through and gave him his Premier League debut. Those three goals came in a 4-0 win over West Ham at Goodison Park.
