Scoring a hat-trick in the Premier League is a special achievement for any player. To do that for three different clubs is even more incredible.
Teddy Sheringham (Tottenham, Manchester United and Portsmouth)
Teddy Sheringham won the Premier League Golden Boot in his first appearance in the tournament, after leaving Nottingham Forest for Tottenham.
Sheringham scored 97 goals in two seasons in north London. When he joined Manchester United, he won the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League and was named PFA Player of the Year in the 2000/2001 season.
Sheringham once scored 4 hat-tricks in the Premier League. At the same time, the former MU striker also holds the record for the oldest player to score three goals in a match (37 years and 146 days).
Les Ferdinand (Queens Park Rangers, Newcastle United and Tottenham)
Les Ferdinand scored 149 goals in his long career in the Premier League. The former England international was one of the tournament’s top scorers during the 1990s. Ferdinand became the first player in the tournament’s history to score two consecutive hat-tricks against Nottingham Forest and Everton in 2019. 1993.
Ferdinand scored 60 goals in three seasons at QPR before joining Newcastle for £6 million. He is considered a suitable replacement for Andy Cole – a player who is about to move to Manchester United.
Les Ferdinand was named PFA Player of the Year after scoring 25 goals in his first season at St James’ Park. However, Ferdinand only spent two seasons with the club before signing with Tottenham Hotspur. He scored a hat-trick in the Premier League with each club and then played for West Ham, Leicester and Bolton for the rest of his career.
Kevin Campbell (Arsenal, Nottingham Forest and Everton)
Kevin Campbell grew up at the Arsenal academy and scored 60 goals for the “Gunners” in all competitions, including a hat-trick in the Premier League against Ipswich in the 1993/94 season.
1993/94 proved to be Campbell’s finest season in north London as Arsenal won the European Cup Winners’ Cup. However, Kevin Campbell left in search of regular football and he went to Nottingham Forest in 1997.
After Nottingham was relegated, the former Arsenal star moved to Trabzonspor (Türkiye), before returning to the Premier League to join Everton in the 1998/99 season. Nine goals in his first eight matches saved the “Toffees” from relegation. Campbell spent seven seasons with the Merseyside club. He is Everton’s fifth highest scorer in the Premier League era.
Nicolas Anelka (Arsenal, Man City and Chelsea)
As a teenager, Anelka won the Premier League and FA Cup double with the Highbury team in the 1997/98 season. After scoring 19 goals in the 1998/99 season, Anelka was named PFA Young Player of the Year.
Anelka moved to Real Madrid with a huge transfer contract at that time and then moved to many other clubs. He played for Paris Saint-Germain, Liverpool, Manchester City, Fenerbahce and Bolton before having a stable playing time at Chelsea.
The former French international scored 59 times in 184 appearances for “The Blues” and won the Premier League Golden Boot in the 2008/09 season.
Yakubu (Blackburn, Everton and Portsmouth)
Yakubu is the fourth highest scoring African football player in Premier League history, with 96 shots on goal.
The Nigerian has impressed after signing for Portsmouth from Maccabi Haifa. Yakubu scored 35 goals in two and a half seasons at the English south coast team, including a “poker” strike against Middlesbrough.
Immediately impressed with the “sorrower”, Middlesbrough recruited Yakubu. Since then, the former Nigerian international has played quite successfully for “Teesiders” (Middlesbrough’s nickname), Everton and Blackburn Rovers.