Most goals in a single Premier League match: Players who scored 5 times

Last Updated on 24 December 2025

Scoring a hat-trick is special. Four goals is rare. Five in one Premier League match? That’s footballing folklore.

In over three decades of the competition, only five players have ever reached that number in a single game. Different eras, different styles, same outcome: total devastation.

From ruthless efficiency to second-half avalanches, this is the most exclusive club in Premier League history.

5 – Dimitar Berbatov (Manchester United vs Blackburn Rovers, 2010)

The elegant assassin.

Dimitar Berbatov didn’t sprint, didn’t press, and didn’t panic. He simply dismantled Blackburn with pure technique and timing. Scoring after just 72 seconds, Berbatov ghosted into space again and again, finishing with that trademark nonchalance.

By the time he rolled home his fifth in the 70th minute, he had become the first non-British player to score five in a Premier League match, proof that football can be devastating without ever looking hurried.

4 – Jermain Defoe (Tottenham vs Wigan, 2009)

One half. Five goals. Absolute chaos.

Jermain Defoe didn’t score until the 51st minute, and then simply didn’t stop. Five goals in 36 minutes, including three in seven, turning a controlled Spurs performance into a demolition. Wigan had no answers on how to stop that Spurs attack and particularly, Defoe.

It remains one of the greatest second-half individual displays the league has ever seen, a reminder that when Defoe got hot, goalkeepers had nowhere to hide.

3 – Alan Shearer (Newcastle vs Sheffield Wednesday, 1999)

A captain dragging a club off the floor. The all-time leading scorer simply had to be on this list.

Bottom of the table. New manager. Pressure everywhere. Enter Alan Shearer. Fittingly, some might say.

In Sir Bobby Robson’s first home game, Shearer delivered the ultimate No.9 performance: a first-half hat-trick, two more later, and St James’ Park erupting. Penalties, power, positioning, the complete striker’s masterclass when Newcastle needed it most.

2 – Andy Cole (Manchester United vs Ipswich, 1995)

The trailblazer.

Before it was fashionable, before it was imaginable, Andy Cole proved five goals in a Premier League match was possible.

United’s 9–0 demolition of Ipswich remains iconic, as the joint-biggest win in Premier League history. But, without Andy Cole’s madness, it would not have been possible.

He set the benchmark, fresh from a British-record transfer, Cole delivered a statement performance that echoed across the league for decades.

1 – Sergio Aguero (Manchester City vs Newcastle, 2015)

The gold standard.

No performance comes close. And it also remains the latest entry on this list. However, it’s been a decade since someone managed to score five goals and join this exclusive club.

Sergio Aguero, though, scored his five goals in 20 minutes. Not in a rout from kickoff, but after City had fallen behind. From the 49th to the 62nd minute, Newcastle were completely overwhelmed.

The most astonishing part? Aguero was subbed off in the 66th minute. Had The Argentine stayed on, six, or more, felt inevitable. Efficiency, brutality, perfection. This wasn’t just five goals. It was history rewritten.