2000–01 FA Premier League
Player For Against Result Date
Paulo Wanchope Manchester City Sunderland 4-2 ( H ) 23 August 2000
Michael Owen Liverpool Aston Villa 3-1 ( H ) 6 September 2000
Emile Heskey Liverpool Derby County 4-0 ( A ) 15 October 2000
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink Chelsea Coventry City 6-1 ( H ) 21 October 2000
Teddy Sheringham Manchester United Southampton 5-0 ( H ) 28 October 2000
Mark Viduka Leeds United Liverpool 4-3 ( H ) 4 November 2000
Les Ferdinand Tottenham Hotspur Leicester City 3-0 ( H ) 25 November 2000
Ray Parlour Arsenal Newcastle United 5-0 ( H ) 9 December 2000
Thierry Henry Arsenal Leicester City 6-1 ( H ) 26 December 2000
Kevin Phillips Sunderland Bradford City 4-1 ( A ) 26 December 2000
Dwight Yorke Manchester United Arsenal 6-1 ( H ) 25 February 2001
Sylvain Wiltord Arsenal West Ham United 3-0 ( H ) 3 March 2001
Marcus Stewart Ipswich Town Southampton 3-0 ( A ) 2 April 2001
Michael Owen Liverpool Newcastle United 3-0 ( H ) 5 May 2001
Season statistics -- Scoring
Main article : List of Premier League hat-tricks The 2000–01 Premier League season would see Leeds United 's Mark Viduka become the first ( and , so far only ) Australian to score a hat-trick .
The 2000-01 FA Premier League (known as the FA Carling Premiership for sponsorship reasons) was the ninth FA Premier League season and the third season running which ended with Manchester United as champions and Arsenal as runners-up. Sir Alex Ferguson became the first manager to win three successive English league titles with the same club. Liverpool, meanwhile, managed a unique cup treble - winning the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup. They also finished third in the Premier League and qualified for the Champions League. Nike replaced Mitre as manufacturer of the official Premier League match ball, a contract that has since been extended multiple times, with the most recent renewal made in November 2018 to the end of the 2024-25 season. UEFA Cup places went to Leeds United, Chelsea, Ipswich Town, and Aston Villa, who qualified via the Intertoto Cup. None of the top six clubs in the Premier League had an English manager. The most successful English manager in the 2000-01 Premier League campaign was Peter Reid, whose Sunderland side finished seventh, having spent most of the season challenging for a place in Europe, and briefly occupied second place in the Premier League table. Despite the success achieved by Sir Alex Ferguson and Gérard Houllier, the Manager of the Year Award went to George Burley. The Ipswich Town manager was in charge of a newly promoted side who began the season as relegation favourites and on a limited budget, guided his team to fifth place in the Premier League final table -- the team's total of 66 points was, and remains, the highest in Premier League history for a newly promoted side -- and a place in the UEFA Cup for the first time in almost 20 years. 2000-01 was perhaps the best season yet for newly promoted teams in the Premier League. Charlton Athletic finished ninth, their highest finish since the 1950s.