The first player to achieve the feat was Sasmita Malik of India who scored three times for Rising Student's Club in a 6–1 victory over Aizawl.
She achieved the feat again while scoring 6 goals for Manipur Police in a 10−0 victory over Bangalore United.
She scored her first three goals at the 3rd, 15th and 16th minutes of the match, thus making her the fastest hat-trick scorer of IWL.
The first non-Indian player to have scored a hat-trick in the IWL was Fazila Ikwaput of Uganda.
The following table lists the number of hat-tricks scored by players from a single nation.