Le Tissier, Dublin, Yorke, Santa Cruz and Brobbey: six Premier League hat-tricks that still ended in defeat
Khel Now reported on October 9, 2026 that six Premier League hat-tricks were recorded in matches where the scorer’s team lost, covering fixtures from May 1993’s Oldham v Southampton at Boundary Park to a recent game at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium.
The review found that, out of roughly 200 players who have scored Premier League hat-tricks, five individuals ended up on the losing side; one player, Matt Le Tissier, produced that unwanted outcome twice. The article profiles those occurrences and the matches in which the treble-scoring players could not secure a positive result for their teams.
In May 1993 at Boundary Park, Le Tissier scored three times — from a header, a free kick and a volley — but Southampton were still defeated by Oldham. Le Tissier’s second losing hat-trick came in August 1995 at The Dell against Nottingham Forest, when he converted two penalties and a free kick yet Southampton again failed to avoid defeat.
Dion Dublin’s treble in a December 1995 encounter at Hillsborough for Coventry included a tap-in and two headers, one described as a glancing effort and another a thumping header. Despite Dublin’s three goals, Sheffield Wednesday won the match, with Mark Bright singled out in contemporary match coverage.
In a September fixture detailed in the review, Dwight Yorke netted three times but saw his side beaten by Newcastle United; the report notes that a linesman’s flag denied him a potential fourth goal and a late equaliser. The account describes Yorke as highly active in that game even though his hat-trick did not change the result.
The article also revisits Roque Santa Cruz’s 2007–08 season under Mark Hughes at Blackburn, noting the Paraguayan had 23 goals that campaign, 19 in the Premier League, including a December hat-trick against Wigan. That match finished 5-3 to Wigan after Marcus Bent also scored a hat-trick, leaving Santa Cruz’s three goals insufficient.
Brian Brobbey’s recent treble came in a match at the Etihad where Sunderland conceded five goals and lost; the piece points out it was the first Sunderland Premier League hat-trick since Jermain Defoe in 2016. A data snapshot cited in the article indicated Brobbey generated more expected goals that weekend than every Premier League team except Sunderland, attributed to @xGPhilosophy.
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