How many times has a player scored a hat-trick in a Premier League loss?
Sunderland's Brian Brobbey scored the first hat-trick by a player on a losing side in the Premier League for 19 years - but how many others have done so?
Only five different players in Premier League history have ever scored a hat-trick in a match that ended in defeat for their team. This remarkable feat occurred most recently in September 2026 when Brian Brobbey netted three goals for Sunderland in a 5-3 loss to Manchester City. Prior to Brobbey, Roque Santa Cruz achieved the same milestone on December 15, 2007, while playing for Blackburn Rovers in a 5-3 defeat by Wigan Athletic.
The other three instances of hat-tricks in a loss took place before the year 2000. On September 30, 1996, Dwight Yorke scored a treble for Aston Villa in a 4-3 loss at Newcastle United. Dion Dublin accomplished the same feat for Coventry City against Sheffield Wednesday on December 4, 1995, during a 4-3 defeat. Matt le Tissier, a former Southampton forward, holds the distinction of scoring hat-tricks in two Premier League defeats.
He did so on May 8, 1993, in a 4-3 loss to Oldham Athletic, and again on August 19, 1995, in a 4-3 home loss to Nottingham Forest.
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