After Aaron Ramsey’s treble at the weekend more Arsenal players have scored a Premier League hat-trick than any other club in the competition’s history.
According to BarriesView.com, Ramsey is the 20th Arsenal player to score a hat-trick for the Gunners.
The full list of players, along with the opposition and date of their first hat-trick, is as follows:
1. Kevin Campbell
– Ipswich Town, 11 September 1993.
3. Dennis Bergkamp
– Leicester City, 27 August 1997.
4. Nicolas Anelka
– Leicester City, 20 February 1999.
5. Kanu
– Chelsea, 23 October 1999.
6. Marc Overmars
– Middlesbrough, 21 November 1999.
7. Ray Parlour
– Newcastle United, 10 December 2000.
8. Thierry Henry
– Leicester City, 26 December 2000.
9. Sylvain Wiltord
– West Ham United, 03 March 2001.
10. Jermaine Pennant
– Southampton, 07 May 2003.
11. Robert Pires
– Southampton, 07 May 2003.
12. Freddie Ljungberg
– Sunderland, 11 May 2003.
13. Emmanuel Adebayor
– Derby County, 28 April 2008.
14. Andrei Arshavin
– Liverpool, 21 April 2009.
15. Theo Walcott
– Blackpool, 21 August 2010.
16. Robin van Persie
– Wigan Athletic, 22 January 2011.
17. Santi Cazorla
– Reading, 17 December 2012.
18. Alexis Sanchez
– Leicester City, 26 September 2015.
19. Olivier Giroud
– Aston Villa, 15 May 2016.
20. Aaron Ramsey
– Everton, 03 February 2018.
Interestingly, there are quite a large number of players who scored their first hat-trick against Leicester City.
Dennis Bergkamp, Nicolas Anelka, Thierry Henry and Alexis Sanchez all achieved the same feat.
The largest gap between new hat-trickers was almost five years, between 2003 and 2008.
As well as having the largest number of hat-trick scorers, Arsenal players have also scored the most hat-tricks.
The Gunners are top with 39 in the Premier League. Liverpool are their closest competitors with 36.
Ramsey was also the sixth Welsh player to score a Premier League hat-trick, and the first for Arsenal.
Hopefully the likes of Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang can add their names to the Gunners’ hat-trick list before long.