List of Scottish Professional Football League hat-tricks

The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) consists of four divisions; Scottish Premiership, Scottish Championship, Scottish League One and Scottish League Two. The league structure was established in 2013 after the merger of the Scottish Premier League (SPL) and the Scottish Football League (SFL).

Scottish Premiership

Leigh Griffiths of Celtic scored a hat-trick in a record Premiership win (8–1 against Hamilton Academical) on 19 January 2016.

Hat-tricks

As of 14:12, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Key
4	Player scored four goals
5	Player scored five goals
*	The home team

#	Player	Nationality	For	Against	Result[e]	Date	Ref
1	Georgios Samaras	Greece	Celtic	Kilmarnock*	2–5	23 September 2013	[1]
2	Stevie May	Scotland	St Johnstone*	Dundee United	3–0	29 December 2013	[2]
3	Stevie May	Scotland	St Johnstone*	Heart of Midltohian	3–3	18 January 2014	[3]
4	Anthony Stokes	Ireland	Celtic*	St Johnstone	3–0	16 February 2014	[4]
5	Leigh Griffiths	Scotland	Celtic*	Inverness CT	5–0	1 March 2014	[5]
6	Kris Commons	Scotland	Celtic	Kilmarnock*	0–3	14 March 2014	[6]
7	Anthony Stokes	Ireland	Celtic*	Inverness CT	6–0	27 April 2014	[7]
8	Ryan Stevenson	Scotland	Heart of Midlothian*	Kilmarnock	5–0	4 May 2014	[8]
9	Scott Vernon	England	Aberdeen	Dundee United*	1–3	6 May 2014	[9]
10	Kris Doolan4	Scotland	Partick Thistle*	Hamilton Academical	5–0	21 January 2015	[10]
11	Liam Boyce	Northern Ireland	Ross County	St Mirren*	0–3	13 April 2015	[11]
12	Leigh Griffiths	Scotland	Celtic*	Kilmarnock	4–1	15 April 2015	[12]
13	Leigh Griffiths	Scotland	Celtic	Dundee United*	0-3	26 April 2015	[13]
14	Steven MacLean	Scotland	St Johnstone*	Hamilton Academical	4–1	12 September 2015	[14]
15	Kane Hemmings	England	Dundee*	Hamilton Academical	4–0	19 December 2015	[15]
16	Liam Boyce	Northern Ireland	Ross County*	Dundee	5–2	26 December 2015	[16]
17	Leigh Griffiths	Scotland	Celtic*	Hamilton Academical	8–1	19 January 2016	[17]
18	Liam Boyce	Northern Ireland	Ross County	Inverness CT*	2–3	13 August 2016	[18]
19	Moussa Dembélé	France	Celtic*	Rangers	5–1	10 September 2016	[19]
20	Louis Moult4	England	Motherwell*	Hamilton Academical	4–2	17 September 2016	[20]
21	Moussa Dembélé	France	Celtic	St Johnstone*	2–5	5 February 2017	[21]
22	Adam Rooney	Ireland	Aberdeen*	Motherwell	7–2	15 February 2017	[22]
23	Andrew Considine	Scotland	Aberdeen	Dundee*	0–7	31 March 2017	[23]
24	Scott Sinclair	England	Celtic	Heart of Midlothian*	0–5	2 April 2017	[24]
25	Liam Boyce4	Northern Ireland	Ross County*	Inverness CT	4–0	28 April 2017	[25]
26	Scott Wright	Scotland	Aberdeen	Partick Thistle*	0–6	21 May 2017	[26]
27	Adam Rooney	Ireland	Aberdeen*	St Johnstone	3–0	30 September 2017	[27]
28	Odsonne Edouard	France	Celtic*	Motherwell	5–1	2 December 2017	[28]
29	Gary Mackay-Steven	Scotland	Aberdeen*	Hibernian	4–1	16 December 2017	[29]
30	Josh Windass	England	Rangers	Hamilton Academical*	3–5	18 February 2018	[30]
31	Alex Schalk	Netherlands	Ross County*	Partick Thistle	4–0	3 April 2018	[31]
32	Florian Kamberi	Switzerland	Hibernian*	Hamilton Academical	3–1	3 April 2018	[32]
33	Steven MacLean	Scotland	St Johnstone	Motherwell*	5–1	5 May 2018	[33]
34	Jamie Maclaren	Australia	Hibernian*	Rangers	5–5	13 May 2018	[34]

Multiple hat-tricks

Rank	Player	Hat-tricks
1st	Liam Boyce	4
	Leigh Griffiths
2nd	Moussa Dembélé	2
	Steven MacLean
	Stevie May
	Adam Rooney
	Anthony Stokes

Scottish Championship

James Keatings became the first player for 43 years to score hat-tricks for both Edinburgh clubs Heart of Midlothian (in 2014) and Hibernian (in 2015).^[35] Género Zeefuik of Heart of Midlothian scored a hat-trick in a 10–0 SPFL record win against Cowdenbeath (who also suffered a joint-club record defeat) on 28 February 2015.^[36] The three-minute Zeefuik hat-trick equalled the fastest ever hat-trick scored by a Heart of Midlothian player (Andy Black in 1938) in this match too.^[37] Kenny Miller became the oldest ever Rangers player to score a hat-trick, with three goals against Dumbarton on 2 January 2016.^[38] Mickaël Antoine-Curier and Tony Andreu both scored hat-tricks for Hamilton Academical in the same match, as the club equalled an 82-year-old club record scoreline by beating Greenock Morton 10–2 on the last day of the 2013–14 season.^[39]

Hat-tricks

As of 19:51, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Key
4	Player scored four goals
5	Player scored five goals
*	The home team

#	Player	Nationality	For	Against	Result[e]	Date	Ref
1	Greig Spence	Scotland	Raith Rovers	Cowdenbeath*	3–4	17 August 2013	[40]
2	Philip Roberts	Ireland	Falkirk	Livingston*	0–3	24 August 2013	[41]
3	Callum Fordyce	Scotland	Livingston*	Cowdenbeath	5–1	28 September 2013	[42]
4	Kane Hemmings	England	Cowdenbeath*	Greenock Morton	5–1	9 October 2013	[43]
5	Mark McNulty	Scotland	Livingston	Greenock Morton*	1–5	23 November 2013	[44]
6	Rory Loy	Scotland	Falkirk*	Cowdenbeath	5–0	5 April 2014	[45]
7	Mickaël Antoine-Curier4	France	Hamilton Academical*	Greenock Morton	10–2	3 May 2014	[46]
8	Tony Andreu	France	Hamilton Academical*	Greenock Morton	10–2	3 May 2014	[46]
9	James Keatings	Scotland	Heart of Midlothian	Raith Rovers*	0–4	23 August 2014	[47]
10	Jordan White	Scotland	Livingston*	Alloa Athletic	4–0	13 September 2014	[48]
11	Dominique Malonga	Republic of the Congo	Hibernian	Dumbarton*	3–6	22 November 2014	[49]
12	Derek Lyle	Scotland	Queen of the South	Cowdenbeath*	0–5	31 January 2015	[50]
13	Género Zeefuik	Netherlands	Heart of Midlothian*	Cowdenbeath	10–0	28 February 2015	[51]
14	Colin Nish	Scotland	Cowdenbeath	Raith Rovers*	1–3	8 April 2015	[52]
15	Martyn Waghorn	England	Rangers	Greenock Morton*	0–4	27 September 2015	[53]
16	John Baird	Scotland	Falkirk	Dumbarton*	0–5	24 October 2015	[54]
17	James Keatings	Scotland	Hibernian	St Mirren*	1–4	7 November 2015	[55]
18	John Baird	Scotland	Falkirk*	Alloa Athletic	5–0	14 November 2015	[56]
19	Kenny Miller	Scotland	Rangers	Dumbarton*	0–6	2 January 2016	[57]
20	Martyn Waghorn	England	Rangers*	Livingston	4–1	16 January 2016	[58]
21	Ryan Hardie	Scotland	Raith Rovers*	St Mirren	4–3	5 March 2016	[59]
22	Christian Nade	France	Dumbarton*	Alloa Athletic	3–1	8 March 2016	[60]
23	Joe Cardle	England	Dunfermline Athletic*	Dumbarton	4–3	6 August 2016	[61]
24	Alan Forrest	Scotland	Ayr United	Dumbarton*	0–3	15 October 2016	[62]
25	Nicky Clark4	Scotland	Dunfermline Athletic*	Dumbarton	5–1	4 March 2017	[63]
26	Stephen Dobbie	Scotland	Queen of the South	Falkirk*	1–4	26 August 2017	[64]
27	Stephen Dobbie	Scotland	Queen of the South	Dunfermline Athletic*	2–5	9 December 2017	[65]
28	Stephen Dobbie	Scotland	Queen of the South*	Brechin City	3–1	27 January 2018	[66]
29	Nicky Clark	Scotland	Dunfermline Athletic	Brechin City*	0–3	20 March 2018	[67]

Multiple hat-tricks

Rank	Player	Hat-tricks
1	Stephen Dobbie	3
1	James Keatings	2
	John Baird
	Kane Hemmings
	Martyn Waghorn
	Nicky Clark

Scottish League One

Hat-tricks

As of 19:58, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Key
4	Player scored four goals
5	Player scored five goals
*	The home team

#	Player	Nationality	For	Against	Result[e]	Date	Ref
1	Lee McCulloch	Scotland	Rangers*	East Fife	5–0	31 August 2013	[68]
2	Lee McCulloch	Scotland	Rangers*	Arbroath	5–1	14 September 2013	[69]
3	Jon Daly	Ireland	Rangers*	Stenhousemuir	8–0	28 September 2013	[70]
4	Jon Daly	Ireland	Rangers	East Fife*	0–4	26 October 2013	[71]
5	Michael Moffat	Scotland	Stranraer	Ayr United*	3–6	12 November 2013	[72]
6	Jamie Longworth	Scotland	Ayr United*	Stranraer	3–6	12 November 2013	[72]
7	Nicky Clark	Scotland	Rangers*	Forfar Athletic	6–1	3 December 2013	[73]
8	Martin Grehan	Scotland	Stranraer	Brechin City*	1–3	22 February 2014	[74]
9	Lee McCulloch	Scotland	Rangers*	Airdrieonians	3–0	12 March 2014	[75]
10	Craig Malcolm	Scotland	Ayr United*	East Fife	4–1	3 May 2014	[76]
11	Gozie Ugwu	England	Dunfermline Athletic*	Stirling Albion	4–0	22 November 2014	[77]
12	Colin McMenamin	Scotland	Stenhousemuir	Ayr United*	2–3	13 December 2014	[78]
13	Stefan McCluskey	Scotland	Greenock Morton*	Stirling Albion	4–0	3 March 2015	[79]
14	Joe Cardle	England	Dunfermline Athletic	Forfar Athletic*	0–4	5 September 2015	[80]
15	Rory McAllister	Scotland	Peterhead	Stenhousemuir*	4–3	31 October 2015	[81]
16	Leighton McIntosh	Scotland	Peterhead*	Cowdenbeath	7–0	21 November 2015	[82]
17	Jordan Preston	Scotland	Ayr United	Albion Rovers*	1–3	23 January 2016	[83]
18	Joe Cardle	England	Dunfermline Athletic*	Stranraer	6–1	27 February 2016	[84]
19	Rory McAllister	Scotland	Peterhead*	Brechin City	4–1	27 February 2016	[85]
20	Faissal El Bakhtaoui	France	Dunfermline Athletic*	Brechin City	3–1	26 March 2016	[86]
21	Robert Thomson	Scotland	Brechin City*	Peterhead	5–1	16 April 2016	[87]
22	Iain Russell	Scotland	Airdrieonians*	Queen's Park	4–1	22 October 2016	[88]
23	Ross Caldwell	Scotland	Brechin City	Peterhead*	1–3	5 November 2016	[89]
24	Andy Ryan	Scotland	Airdrieonians	East Fife*	0–4	29 April 2017	[90]
25	Craig Moore	Scotland	Ayr United	Albion Rovers*	1–5	5 August 2017	[91]
26	Scott Agnew	Scotland	Stranraer	Albion Rovers*	0–4	16 September 2017	[92]
27	Ryan McCord	Scotland	Arbroath	Stranraer*	2–6	23 September 2017	[93]
28	Michael Moffat	Scotland	Ayr United	Forfar Athletic*	0–5	21 October 2017	[94]
29	Ross C. Stewart	Scotland	Alloa Athletic*	Arbroath*	5–3	6 March 2018	[95]
30	Lawrence Shankland	Scotland	Ayr United*	Queen's Park	4–0	24 March 2018	[96]

Multiple hat-tricks

Rank	Player	Hat-tricks
1	Lee McCulloch	3
2	Joe Cardle	2
	Jon Daly
	Rory McAllister
	Michael Moffat

Scottish League Two

Elgin City's Darryl McHardy and Annan Athletic's Peter Weatherson both scored hat-tricks in the same match in a 5–4 win for Annan Athletic at Elgin City on 25 April 2015. It was also the first hat-trick of McHardy's career.^[97]

Hat-tricks

As of 19:35, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Key
4	Player scored four goals
5	Player scored five goals
*	The home team

#	Player	Nationality	For	Against	Result[e]	Date	Ref
1	Scott Dalziel	Scotland	Berwick Rangers	Queen's Park*	0–4	21 December 2013	[98]
2	Rory McAllister	Scotland	Peterhead*	Stirling Albion	3–1	21 December 2013	[99]
3	Jordan White	Scotland	Stirling Albion*	Clyde	4–1	3 May 2014	[100]
4	Simon Murray	Scotland	Arbroath	East Fife*	1–5	27 December 2014	[101]
5	Peter Weatherson	England	Annan Athletic	East Stirlingshire*	1–3	17 January 2015	[102]
6	Nathan Austin4	Scotland	East Fife	Elgin City*	3–5	3 March 2015	[103]
7	Bobby Linn	Scotland	Arbroath*	Clyde	3–1	14 March 2015	[104]
8	Craig Gunn	Scotland	Elgin City*	Berwick Rangers	3–3	31 March 2015	[105]
9	Darryl McHardy	Scotland	Elgin City*	Annan Athletic	4–5	25 April 2015	[106]
10	Peter Weatherson	England	Annan Athletic	Elgin City*	4–5	25 April 2015	[106]
11	Nathan Austin	Scotland	East Fife	Montrose*	1–4	26 September 2015	[107]
12	David Gormley4	Scotland	Clyde	Berwick Rangers*	0–5	21 November 2015	[108]
13	Darren Smith	Scotland	Stirling Albion	Montrose*	1–3	12 December 2015	[109]
14	Nathan Austin	Scotland	East Fife	Stirling Albion*	1–3	26 December 2015	[110]
15	Darren Smith	Scotland	Stirling Albion*	Montrose	7–0	9 February 2016	[111]
16	Bobby Linn	Scotland	Arbroath*	Stirling Albion	5–3	27 August 2016	[112]
17	Shane Sutherland	Scotland	Elgin City*	Berwick Rangers	6–0	10 December 2016	[113]
18	Shane Sutherland	Scotland	Elgin City*	Edinburgh City	3–1	28 January 2017	[114]
19	Steven Thomson	Scotland	Berwick Rangers*	Annan Athletic	4–1	4 February 2017	[115]
20	Steven Doris	Scotland	Arbroath	Annan Athletic*	2–5	1 April 2017	[116]
21	David Goodwillie	Scotland	Clyde*	Elgin City	3–2	15 April 2017	[117]
22	Ryan McCord	Scotland	Arbroath*	Elgin City	3–2	29 April 2017	[118]
23	Blair Henderson	Scotland	Annan Athletic	Stenhousemuir*	1–3	9 December 2017	[119]
24	Russell McLean	Scotland	Peterhead	Annan Athletic*	3–3	20 February 2018	[120]

Multiple hat-tricks

Rank	Player	Hat-tricks
1st	Nathan Austin	3
2nd	Bobby Linn	2
	Darren Smith
	Peter Weatherson
	Shane Sutherland

SPFL Play-offs

Hat-tricks

As of 15:40, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Key
4	Player scored four goals
5	Player scored five goals
*	The home team

#	Player	Nationality	For	Against	Result[e]	Date	Ref	Division
1	Jordan White	Scotland	Stiring Albion	Annan Athletic*	3–5	10 May 2014	[121]	2014 Scottish League One play-offs
2	Greig Spence	Scotland	Alloa Athletic*	Brechin City	4–3	20 May 2017	[122]	2017 Scottish Championship play-offs

Hat-tricks by season

Hat-tricks by club

Notes

References