When Bournemouth's striker, James Hayter (below), scored three goals in two minutes/20 seconds against Wrexham in February 2004, the hat trick was reported to be the fastest in British Football history. His record however, remained barely two months. Publicity surrounding Hayter's hat trick energised action from over the border in Scotland!
The World's Fastest Footballing Hat Trick was produced on November 28th in 1964 by Ross County striker, Tommy Ross who scored a hat trick in 90 seconds during his teams' 8-1 win over Nairn County in the Scottish Highland League. Ross scored 7 goals for his club in that match. At the time Ross assumed that his claim to any record would be invalid as only the referee had a tight hold on his watch but it was believed that there had to be two time keepers in attendance, so the record was deemed unofficial. As it became clear in the wake of Hayter's treble, that wasn't the case.
The retrospective claim to the "Guinness Book of Records" was lodged and verified and in April 2004 the publication replaced Ross's hat trick officially replaced Hayter's British record.
It also replaced both the official and unofficial World Records, respectively, James O'Connor's hat trick of 2mins and 14 seconds scored for Shelbourne against Bohemnians in 1967 and Magnus Arvidsson's 1min 35 secs score for Hassleholm against Landskrona in 1995. It's a record unlikely to be beaten," said Ross. " When you scored in those you just ran back to the half way line and got on with it..clebrations these days take minutes!" Remarkably in November 28, 1964 wasn't the only time that the date went down in hat trick history for on the very same day 35 years later, Jose Luis Chilavert became the first goalkeeper to score three goals in a game converting THREE penalties for Velez Sarsfield against Ferro Carril Oeste in a 1999 League match in Argentina!!
https://www.planetfootball.com/lists-and-rankings/fastest-hat-tricks-football-history
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