The Scottish Premier League (SPL) was a football league competition that operated between 1998 and 2013. 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. Eight players scored more than three goals in a match; of these, three players, Kris Boyd (twice), Gary Hooper and Kenny Miller scored five.

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, 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. Gary Hooper and Anthony Stokes both scored hat-tricks in Celtic's league record 9–0 win against Aberdeen on 6 November 2010. Larsson and Stokes are the only players who have scored hat-tricks in consecutive matches.

Henrik Larsson scored three or more goals twelve times in the Scottish Premier League, more than any other player. 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

Key4Player scored four goals5Player scored five goals*The home team # Player Nationality For Against Result Date Ref1 Celtic* Dunfermline Athletic 5–0 2 Kilmarnock* Heart of Midlothian 3–0 3 Dundee United St Johnstone* 1–3 4 Celtic* Dundee 6–1 5 Celtic* St Johnstone 5–0 6 Celtic* Heart of Midlothian 3–0 7 Rangers* Dundee 6–1 8 4 Celtic Motherwell* 1–7 9 Rangers Kilmarnock* 0–5 10 Aberdeen* Dunfermline Athletic 3–1 11 Heart of Midlothian Aberdeen* 2–5 124Rangers*Motherwell4–113 Heart of Midlothian* Aberdeen 3–0 14 Celtic* Aberdeen 7–0 15 Celtic* Aberdeen 7–0 16 Aberdeen Motherwell* 5–6 17 Motherwell* Aberdeen 5–6 18 Rangers Aberdeen* 1–5 19 Celtic* Kilmarnock 5–1 20 Rangers Dundee* 1–7 21 Celtic* Dundee 6–2 22 Rangers* Motherwell 6–2 23 Celtic* Aberdeen 5–1 24 Dundee Dundee United 3–0 25 Aberdeen Dundee United* 3–5 26 Hibernian* Heart of Midlothian 6–2 27 5 Rangers* St Mirren 7–1 28 Celtic* Aberdeen 6–0 29 Kilmarnock St Mirren* 1–3 30 4 Celtic* Kilmarnock 6–0 31 Celtic Heart of Midlothian* 0–3 32 Aberdeen* St Mirren 3–0 33 Aberdeen* Dundee United 4–1 34 Rangers Dundee United* 1–6 35 Aberdeen Dundee* 1–4 36 Celtic* Dundee United 5–1 37 Motherwell* Hibernian 4–0 38 Celtic* Dunfermline Athletic 5–0 39 Celtic* Livingston 5–1 40 4 Heart of Midlothian* Hibernian 5–1 41 Rangers* Dunfermline Athletic* 0–6 42 Celtic* Kilmarnock 5–0 43 4 Celtic* Aberdeen 7–0 44 Partick Thistle* Kilmarnock 3–0 45 Rangers* Livingston 4–3 46 Rangers* Dundee United 3–1 47 Celtic* Heart of Midlothian 4–2 48 4 Kilmarnock* Hibernian 6–2 49 Motherwell* Livingston 6–2 50 Celtic* Livingston 5–1 51 Celtic* Aberdeen 4–0 52 Celtic Kilmarnock* 0–5 53 Celtic Dundee United* 1–5 54 Motherwell* Dundee United 3–1 55 Dundee United* Kilmarnock 4–1 56 5 Kilmarnock* Dundee United 5–2 57 Dunfermline Athletic* Dundee 3–1 58 Hibernian* Kilmarnock 3–0 59 Celtic Dundee United* 2–3 60 Celtic Livingston* 0–4 61 Dunfermline Athletic* Dundee 5–0 62 Celtic Motherwell* 4–4 63 Kilmarnock* Livingston 3–0 64 Hibernian Rangers* 0–3 65 Celtic* Motherwell 5–0 66 Rangers Kilmarnock* 2–3 67 4 Celtic Dunfermline Athletic* 1–8 68 Rangers Dundee United* 1–4 69 Celtic Dundee United* 1–4 70 Falkirk* Dundee United 5–1 71 Falkirk Dunfermline Athletic* 0–3 72 Celtic St Mirren* 1–3 73 Falkirk* Inverness CT 3–1 74 Falkirk Dundee United* 1–5 75 Celtic* St Mirren 5–1 76 Rangers Kilmarnock* 1–3 77 Rangers* Aberdeen 3–0 78 Dundee United Heart of Midlothian* 0–4 79 Celtic* Dundee United 3–0 80 Hibernian* Kilmarnock 4–1 81 Celtic* Motherwell 3–0 82 Celtic* Falkirk 4–0 83 Dundee United* Heart of Midlothian 4–1 84 Hibernian* Gretna 4–2 85 Rangers* Inverness CT 5–0 86 Rangers* Hamilton Academical 7–1 87 Motherwell* Inverness CT 3–2 88 Celtic* St Mirren 7–0 89 Kilmarnock* Falkirk 3–0 90 St Johnstone Motherwell* 1–3 91 5 Rangers* Dundee United 7–1 92 Dundee United Falkirk* 1–4 93 Hibernian Motherwell* 6–6 94 Aberdeen* Hamilton Academical 4–0 95 Rangers Hibernian* 0–3 96 Heart of Midlothian* St Mirren 3–0 97 Celtic* Aberdeen 9–0 98 Celtic* Aberdeen 9–0 99 Motherwell* St Johnstone 4–0 100 Rangers Kilmarnock* 2–3 101 Inverness CT* Hibernian 4–2 102 Rangers* Motherwell 6–0 103 St Mirren* Hamilton Academical 3–1 104 Dundee United* Motherwell 4–0 105 Rangers Kilmarnock* 1–5 106 Aberdeen* Dunfermline Athletic 4–0 107 Inverness CT Kilmarnock* 3–6 108 Celtic* St Mirren 5–0 109 Heart of Midlothian* St Mirren 5–2 110 Motherwell* Hibernian 4–3 111 St Mirren* Dunfermline Athletic 4–4 112 5 Celtic* Heart of Midlothian 5–0 113 Rangers St Johnstone* 0–4 114 Motherwell* Inverness CT 4–1 115 Kilmarnock Heart of Midlothian* 1–3 116 Inverness CT Dundee United* 4–4 117 Aberdeen Dundee* 1–3 118 Dundee United Kilmarnock* 2–3 119 Motherwell* St Johnstone 3–2 120 Kilmarnock Heart of Midlothian* 0–3 121 Inverness CT* Motherwell 4–3

Multiple hat-tricks Rank Player Hat-tricks 1st Henrik Larsson 2nd Kris Boyd 73rd John Hartson 54th Michael Higdon 4 Anthony Stokes6th Gary Hooper 3 Gary McSwegan Kenny Miller Rod Wallace Robbie Winters9th Jon Daly Tommy Johnson Scott McDonald Billy McKay Shunsuke Nakamura Colin Nish Barry Robson Rudi Skacel Arild Stavrum Chris Sutton Mark Viduka

Notes

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

The results column shows the home team score first.

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