A Tasmanian soccer player has smashed the record for Australia's fastest hat-trick.

Kostas Kanakaris from the South Hobart club banged in three goals in just two minutes and 51 seconds in the statewide Victory League two weeks ago.

Officials have been on a frenetic search through the record books since and Football Federation Australia statistician Andrew Howe has declared the hat-trick the fastest in semi-professional or national league football.

"We've been scouring the records and can't find any evidence of a faster hat-trick in Australian national or state league history," Howe said.

"While national league luminaries such as Damian Mori, Shane Smeltz and Con Boutsianis have each scored hat-tricks in under 10 minutes, it looks like no one has ever done it in less than three minutes before."