List of Scottish Premier League hat-tricks

The Scottish Premier League (SPL) was a football league competition that operated between 1998 and 2013.^[a] During that period, more than 100 players scored three goals (a hat-trick) or more in a single match. The first player to achieve the feat was Craig Burley, who scored three times for Celtic in a 5–0 victory against Dunfermline Athletic on the opening day of the first SPL season.^[1] Eight players scored more than three goals in a match; of these, three players, Kris Boyd (twice), Gary Hooper and Kenny Miller scored five.^[2]

Henrik Larsson scored a record 12 Scottish Premier League hat-tricks, for Celtic.

Three matches featured two hat-tricks in the same game. The first two came in the same week of the 1999–2000 season. Henrik Larsson and Mark Viduka both scored three goals each in Celtic's 7–0 win against Aberdeen on 16 October 1999,^[3] then Aberdeen's Robbie Winters and Motherwell's John Spencer both scored hat-tricks in a 6–5 win for Aberdeen at Fir Park four days later.^[4] Gary Hooper and Anthony Stokes both scored hat-tricks in Celtic's league record 9–0 win against Aberdeen on 6 November 2010.^[5] Larsson and Stokes are the only players who have scored hat-tricks in consecutive matches.^[2]

Henrik Larsson scored three or more goals twelve times in the Scottish Premier League, more than any other player.^[2] Larsson, Boyd, John Hartson, Michael Higdon and Stokes were the only players to have scored more than three hat-tricks in the SPL. Six players scored hat-tricks for two different clubs: Boyd (Kilmarnock and Rangers), Higdon (St Mirren and Motherwell), Gary McSwegan (Heart of Midlothian and Kilmarnock), Colin Nish (Kilmarnock and Hibernian), Stokes (Falkirk and Celtic) and Kyle Lafferty (Rangers and Kilmarnock)

Hat-tricks

Mark Viduka scored a hat-trick for Celtic against Kilmarnock on 30 October 1999.^[6] All three goals were scored in the space of four minutes, making it one of the fastest hat-tricks on record.^[6]

Ivan Sproule scored all three goals in a 3–0 victory for Hibernian against Rangers on 27 August 2005.^[7] He had only came onto the pitch as a substitute during the second half of the match.^[7]

Kris Boyd broke the SPL goalscoring record set by Henrik Larsson when he scored five goals for Rangers against Dundee United on 30 December 2009.^[8]

Kyle Lafferty scored a hat-trick as Rangers clinched the championship on the final day of the 2010–11 Scottish Premier League season.^[9]

Key
4	Player scored four goals
5	Player scored five goals
*	The home team

#	Player	Nationality	For	Against	Result[b]	Date	Ref
1	Craig Burley	Scotland	Celtic*	Dunfermline Athletic	5–0	1 August 1998	[1]
2	Ally McCoist	Scotland	Kilmarnock*	Heart of Midlothian	3–0	30 August 1998	[10]
3	Billy Dodds	Scotland	Dundee United	St Johnstone*	1–3	26 September 1998	[11]
4	Henrik Larsson	Sweden	Celtic*	Dundee	6–1	7 November 1998	[12]
5	Harald Brattbakk	Norway	Celtic*	St Johnstone	5–0	31 January 1999	[13]
6	Henrik Larsson	Sweden	Celtic*	Heart of Midlothian	3–0	6 February 1999	[14]
7	Jorg Albertz	Germany	Rangers*	Dundee	6–1	20 February 1999	[15]
8	Henrik Larsson4	Sweden	Celtic	Motherwell*	1–7	21 February 1999	[16]
9	Rod Wallace	England	Rangers	Kilmarnock*	0–5	28 February 1999	[17]
10	Robbie Winters	Scotland	Aberdeen*	Dunfermline Athletic	3–1	3 April 1999	[18]
11	Gary McSwegan	Scotland	Heart of Midlothian	Aberdeen*	2–5	23 May 1999	[19]
12	Michael Mols4	Netherlands	Rangers*	Motherwell	4–1	15 August 1999	[20]
13	Gary McSwegan	Scotland	Heart of Midlothian*	Aberdeen	3–0	22 August 1999	[20]
14	Henrik Larsson	Sweden	Celtic*	Aberdeen	7–0	16 October 1999	[3]
15	Mark Viduka	Australia	Celtic*	Aberdeen	7–0	16 October 1999	[3]
16	Robbie Winters	Scotland	Aberdeen	Motherwell*	5–6	20 October 1999	[4]
17	John Spencer	Scotland	Motherwell*	Aberdeen	5–6	20 October 1999	[4]
18	Jonatan Johansson	Finland	Rangers	Aberdeen*	1–5	30 October 1999	[21]
19	Mark Viduka	Australia	Celtic*	Kilmarnock	5–1	30 October 1999	[6]
20	Rod Wallace	England	Rangers	Dundee*	1–7	27 February 2000	[22]
21	Tommy Johnson	England	Celtic*	Dundee	6–2	1 March 2000	[23]
22	Rod Wallace	England	Rangers*	Motherwell	6–2	18 March 2000	[24]
23	Tommy Johnson	England	Celtic*	Aberdeen	5–1	6 May 2000	[25]
24	Juan Sara	Argentina	Dundee	Dundee United	3–0	20 September 2000	[26]
25	Robbie Winters	Scotland	Aberdeen	Dundee United*	3–5	23 September 2000	[27]
26	Mixu Paatelainen	Finland	Hibernian*	Heart of Midlothian	6–2	22 October 2000	[28]
27	Kenny Miller5	Scotland	Rangers*	St Mirren	7–1	4 November 2000	[2]
28	Henrik Larsson	Sweden	Celtic*	Aberdeen	6–0	17 December 2000	[29]
29	Paul Wright	Scotland	Kilmarnock	St Mirren*	1–3	26 December 2000	[30]
30	Henrik Larsson4	Sweden	Celtic*	Kilmarnock	6–0	2 January 2001	[31]
31	Henrik Larsson	Sweden	Celtic	Heart of Midlothian*	0–3	4 February 2001	[32]
32	Arild Stavrum	Norway	Aberdeen*	St Mirren	3–0	21 February 2001	[33]
33	Arild Stavrum	Norway	Aberdeen*	Dundee United	4–1	4 April 2001	[34]
34	Tore André Flo	Norway	Rangers	Dundee United*	1–6	22 September 2001	[35]
35	Hicham Zerouali	Morocco	Aberdeen	Dundee*	1–4	29 September 2001	[36]
36	John Hartson	Wales	Celtic*	Dundee United	5–1	20 October 2001	[37]
37	David Ferrere	France	Motherwell*	Hibernian	4–0	9 February 2002	[38]
38	Henrik Larsson	Sweden	Celtic*	Dunfermline Athletic	5–0	9 February 2002	[39]
39	Henrik Larsson	Sweden	Celtic*	Livingston	5–1	6 April 2002	[40]
40	Mark de Vries4	Suriname	Heart of Midlothian*	Hibernian	5–1	11 August 2002	[41]
41	Claudio Caniggia	Argentina	Rangers*	Dunfermline Athletic*	0–6	1 September 2002	[42]
42	Henrik Larsson	Sweden	Celtic*	Kilmarnock	5–0	28 September 2002	[43]
43	John Hartson4	Wales	Celtic*	Aberdeen	7–0	3 November 2002	[44]
44	Alex Burns	Scotland	Partick Thistle*	Kilmarnock	3–0	30 November 2002	[45]
45	Shota Arveladze	Georgia	Rangers*	Livingston	4–3	4 December 2002	[46]
46	Barry Ferguson	Scotland	Rangers*	Dundee United	3–1	14 December 2002	[47]
47	John Hartson	Wales	Celtic*	Heart of Midlothian	4–2	26 December 2002	[48]
48	Gary McSwegan4	Scotland	Kilmarnock*	Hibernian	6–2	5 April 2003	[49]
49	James McFadden	Scotland	Motherwell*	Livingston	6–2	24 May 2003	[50]
50	Henrik Larsson	Sweden	Celtic*	Livingston	5–1	30 August 2003	[51]
51	Henrik Larsson	Sweden	Celtic*	Aberdeen	4–0	25 October 2003	[52]
52	Chris Sutton	England	Celtic	Kilmarnock*	0–5	1 November 2003	[53]
53	Chris Sutton	England	Celtic	Dundee United*	1–5	22 November 2003	[54]
54	David Clarkson	Scotland	Motherwell*	Dundee United	3–1	3 January 2004	[55]
55	Jim McIntyre	Scotland	Dundee United*	Kilmarnock	4–1	20 March 2004	[56]
56	Kris Boyd5	Scotland	Kilmarnock*	Dundee United	5–2	25 September 2004	[2]
57	Andy Tod	Scotland	Dunfermline Athletic*	Dundee	3–1	1 January 2005	[57]
58	Derek Riordan	Scotland	Hibernian*	Kilmarnock	3–0	22 January 2005	[58]
59	Craig Bellamy	Wales	Celtic	Dundee United*	2–3	19 March 2005	[59]
60	John Hartson	Wales	Celtic	Livingston*	0–4	13 April 2005	[60]
61	Derek Young	Scotland	Dunfermline Athletic*	Dundee	5–0	7 May 2005	[61]
62	John Hartson	Wales	Celtic	Motherwell*	4–4	30 July 2005	[62]
63	Colin Nish	Scotland	Kilmarnock*	Livingston	3–0	27 August 2005	[63]
64	Ivan Sproule	Northern Ireland	Hibernian	Rangers*	0–3	27 August 2005	[7]
65	Stiliyan Petrov	Bulgaria	Celtic*	Motherwell	5–0	26 October 2005	[64]
66	Peter Løvenkrands	Denmark	Rangers	Kilmarnock*	2–3	11 December 2005	[65]
67	Maciej Żurawski4	Poland	Celtic	Dunfermline Athletic*	1–8	19 February 2006	[66]
68	Kris Boyd	Scotland	Rangers	Dundee United*	1–4	2 April 2006	[67]
69	Shunsuke Nakamura	Japan	Celtic	Dundee United*	1–4	14 October 2006	[68]
70	Anthony Stokes	Ireland	Falkirk*	Dundee United	5–1	28 October 2006	[69]
71	Anthony Stokes	Ireland	Falkirk	Dunfermline Athletic*	0–3	4 November 2006	[70]
72	Thomas Gravesen	Denmark	Celtic	St Mirren*	1–3	12 November 2006	[71]
73	Anthony Stokes	Ireland	Falkirk*	Inverness CT	3–1	30 December 2006	[72]
74	Alan Gow	Scotland	Falkirk	Dundee United*	1–5	1 January 2007	[73]
75	Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink	Netherlands	Celtic*	St Mirren	5–1	20 January 2007	[74]
76	Kris Boyd	Scotland	Rangers	Kilmarnock*	1–3	11 February 2007	[75]
77	Kris Boyd	Scotland	Rangers*	Aberdeen	3–0	17 March 2007	[76]
78	Barry Robson	Scotland	Dundee United	Heart of Midlothian*	0–4	17 March 2007	[77]
79	Scott McDonald	Australia	Celtic*	Dundee United	3–0	29 September 2007	[78]
80	Clayton Donaldson	England	Hibernian*	Kilmarnock	4–1	29 September 2007	[79]
81	Scott McDonald	Australia	Celtic*	Motherwell	3–0	27 October 2007	[80]
82	Aiden McGeady	Ireland	Celtic*	Falkirk	4–0	11 December 2007	[81]
83	Barry Robson	Scotland	Dundee United*	Heart of Midlothian	4–1	2 January 2008	[82]
84	Steven Fletcher	Scotland	Hibernian*	Gretna	4–2	13 February 2008	[83]
85	Kris Boyd	Scotland	Rangers*	Inverness CT	5–0	1 November 2008	[84]
86	Kris Boyd	Scotland	Rangers*	Hamilton Academical	7–1	6 December 2008	[85]
87	Chris Porter	England	Motherwell*	Inverness CT	3–2	27 December 2008	[86]
88	Shunsuke Nakamura	Japan	Celtic*	St Mirren	7–0	28 February 2009	[87]
89	Kevin Kyle	Scotland	Kilmarnock*	Falkirk	3–0	11 April 2009	[88]
90	Peter MacDonald	Scotland	St Johnstone	Motherwell*	1–3	26 December 2009	[89]
91	Kris Boyd5	Scotland	Rangers*	Dundee United	7–1	30 December 2009	[8]
92	Jon Daly	Ireland	Dundee United	Falkirk*	1–4	24 January 2010	[90]
93	Colin Nish	Scotland	Hibernian	Motherwell*	6–6	5 May 2010	[91]
94	Paul Hartley	Scotland	Aberdeen*	Hamilton Academical	4–0	14 August 2010	[92]
95	Kenny Miller	Scotland	Rangers	Hibernian*	0–3	22 August 2010	[93]
96	Rudi Skacel	Czech Republic	Heart of Midlothian*	St Mirren	3–0	23 October 2010	[94]
97	Gary Hooper	England	Celtic*	Aberdeen	9–0	6 November 2010	[5]
98	Anthony Stokes	Ireland	Celtic*	Aberdeen	9–0	6 November 2010	[5]
99	Nick Blackman	England	Motherwell*	St Johnstone	4–0	10 November 2010	[95]
100	Kenny Miller	Scotland	Rangers	Kilmarnock*	2–3	20 November 2010	[96]
101	Adam Rooney	Ireland	Inverness CT*	Hibernian	4–2	20 November 2010	[97]
102	Nikica Jelavić	Croatia	Rangers*	Motherwell	6–0	12 February 2011	[98]
103	Michael Higdon	England	St Mirren*	Hamilton Academical	3–1	2 April 2011	[99]
104	Jon Daly	Ireland	Dundee United*	Motherwell	4–0	7 May 2011	[100]
105	Kyle Lafferty	Northern Ireland	Rangers	Kilmarnock*	1–5	15 May 2011	[9]
106	Scott Vernon	England	Aberdeen*	Dunfermline Athletic	4–0	30 September 2011	[101]
107	Andrew Shinnie	Scotland	Inverness CT	Kilmarnock*	3–6	5 November 2011	[102]
108	Gary Hooper	England	Celtic*	St Mirren	5–0	26 November 2011	[103]
109	Rudi Skacel	Czech Republic	Heart of Midlothian*	St Mirren	5–2	14 January 2012	[104]
110	Michael Higdon	England	Motherwell*	Hibernian	4–3	22 February 2012	[105]
111	Steven Thompson	Scotland	St Mirren*	Dunfermline Athletic	4–4	21 April 2012	[106]
112	Gary Hooper5	England	Celtic*	Heart of Midlothian	5–0	13 May 2012	[107]
113	Sone Aluko	Nigeria	Rangers	St Johnstone*	0–4	13 May 2012	[108]
114	Michael Higdon	England	Motherwell*	Inverness CT	4–1	2 September 2012	[109]
115	Cillian Sheridan	Ireland	Kilmarnock	Heart of Midlothian*	1–3	29 September 2012	[110]
116	Billy McKay	Northern Ireland	Inverness CT	Dundee United*	4–4	15 December 2012	[111]
117	Niall McGinn	Northern Ireland	Aberdeen	Dundee*	1–3	29 December 2012	[112]
118	Johnny Russell	Scotland	Dundee United	Kilmarnock*	2–3	19 January 2013	[113]
119	Michael Higdon	England	Motherwell*	St Johnstone	3–2	20 January 2013	[114]
120	Paul Heffernan	Ireland	Kilmarnock	Heart of Midlothian*	0–3	16 February 2013	[115]
121	Billy McKay	Northern Ireland	Inverness CT*	Motherwell	4–3	4 May 2013	[116]

Multiple hat-tricks

Rank	Player	Hat-tricks
1st	Henrik Larsson	12
2nd	Kris Boyd	7
3rd	John Hartson	5
4th	Michael Higdon	4
	Anthony Stokes
6th	Gary Hooper	3
	Gary McSwegan
	Kenny Miller
	Rod Wallace
	Robbie Winters
9th	Jon Daly	2
	Tommy Johnson
	Scott McDonald
	Billy McKay
	Shunsuke Nakamura
	Colin Nish
	Barry Robson
	Rudi Skacel
	Arild Stavrum
	Chris Sutton
	Mark Viduka

Notes

^a The Scottish Premier League was the top tier of the Scottish football league system. It was formed in 1998 and was disestablished in 2013.

^b The results column shows the home team score first.