Romelu Lukaku's 11-minute hat-trick? Good, but WAY short of the best ever in the game

Updated 13/09/2016 at 07:47 GMT

Romelu Lukaku scored a brilliant, and brilliantly fast, hat-trick on Monday night.

"I'll be taking that ball, thanks fellas." - Romelu Lukaku collects the match ball after his hat-trick, Everton v Sunderland, 12/9/2016

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Lukaku completed his hat-trick in just 11 minutes during Everton's win over Sunderland.

[MATCH REPORT: Lukaku grabs 11-minute hat-trick as Everton stroll to win over Sunderland]

And while it's a great haul for less than a dozen minutes, it doesn't come close to challenging the quickest-ever hat tricks in football...

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Fastest Premier League / English top flight hat-trick

The record belongs to Sadio Mane (176 seconds), who on 16th May 2015 beat Robbie Fowler's (273 secs) previous record set when he smashed three goals past Arsenal in four minutes 33 seconds in August 1994.

Robbie Fowler, Liverpool, celebrates with fans after scoring against Arsenal

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Fowler had set a new record for the Premier League era, but not for the English top flight crown: that record belonged to Scotland striker Graham Leggat (180 secs), who scored three in exactly three minutes in Fulham's 10-1 win against Ipswich, before later adding a fourth. It was, quite literally, late December, 1963 - oh what a night!

Yet Mane's effort for Southampton against Aston Villa in May 2015 beat both, wiping Leggat and Fowler off the record books.

Fastest Football League hat-trick

Perhaps the most extraordinary story of the lot, Bournemouth brought James Hayter (140 secs) on as a sub against Wrexham in February 2004 with just six minutes left of the match. Two minutes 20 seconds later he had bagged a treble. Unfortunately, his family missed it: they'd been at the match, but had left with 10 minutes to go assuming that he wouldn't get a run out. Whoops!

Hat-trick hero James Hayter

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Fastest ever hat-trick (unofficial)

Magnus Arvidsson (89 secs) scored three goals in under a minute and a half for Hassleholm against Landskrona in a Swedish second tier match in 1995. "You don't forget that sort of thing in a hurry," Arvidsson who beat the keeper in one-on-ones as he helped his team come from behind to win 5-3 and avoid relegation. "There was hardly time to kick off between the goals!" Arvidsson laughed afterwards.

Official fastest ever hat-trick

Tommy Ross (90 secs) of Ross County scored a quickfire treble in a match against Nairn in November 1964. He was 18 years old at the time, but didn't enter it for inclusion in the Guinness Book of Records for 40 years: the goalkeeper was the only official timekeeper that day so he assumed he was ineligible, but Guinness credit the Scot (rather than Arvidsson) with the feat.

Fastest Champions League hat-trick

Bafetimbi Gomis (7 minutes) scored three for Lyon against Dinamo Zagreb in December 2011.

The goals were either side of half-time, however, so you may prefer to credit Blackburn's Mike Newell (9 minutes), who scored three against Rosenborg at Ewood Park in 1995. Newell's was also a rare 'perfect hat trick': one with the right foot, one with the left and one with the head.

Olympique Lyon's Gomis celebrates with teammates after scoring against Dinamo Zagreb

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Fastest hat-trick for England:

England's Willie Hall (4 minutes) scored five times in a 7-0 demolition of Northern Ireland in November 1938.

Fastest international hat-trick

Abdul Hamid Bassiouny (155 secs) of Egypt set this record against Namibia in a 2002 World Cup qualifier.

Hat-trick of hat-tricks... in one match

Bournemouth's Ted MacDougall put nine goals - yes, nine - past Margate in an 11-0 win in an FA Cup first round match in November 1971. "I was disappointed as I thought I should have got 11," MacDougall later laughed.

Goalkeeper's hat-trick

Scoring three in a match when you've no business being up the other end of the pitch has only been done once (not counting the days of playing rush goalie in the playground). Paraguayan legend Jose Chilavert was the man, who scored all three (disappointingly, all from the penalty spot) for Velez Sarsfield against Ferro Carril Oeste in November 1999.

José Luis Chilavert

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Fastest overseas top flight hat-trick

Eduardo Maglioni scored three goals in one minute 50 seconds for Independiente against Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata in their Argentine top flight clash in March 1973.

Fastest hat-trick ever caught on film

Jimmy O'Connor's stunning hat-trick in two minutes 13 seconds in an Irish league match for Shelbourne against Bohemians in November 1967.

The spoilsports in our rights department won't let us pinch the clip, but if you're lucky you might just find a link to watch it on a certain popular video sharing website.

Fastest Ligue 1 hat-trick

Matt Moussilou scored three goals in four minutes as Lille hammered Istres 8-0 in April 2005.

Fastest Bundesliga hat-trick

Robert Lewandowski of Bayern Munich set the record in September 2015 in the club's 5-1 demolition of VfL Wolfsburg. Amazingly, the Polish striker wasn't even on the field at the start of the game: he came on at half-time, scored three goals in four minutes between the 51st and 55th minutes, and added two more before his night was over.

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Before that the record was held by the unlikely figure of Michael Tonnies, who scored three goals in five minutes for MSV Duisburg against Karlsruher in August 1991. He'd never scored in the German top flight before, ended up with 13 goals that season, and never scored in the Bundesliga again for the rest of his career.