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Revision as of 23:45, 24 February 2009
A one-club man is a term used to describe a football player who has played his entire professional career with only one club. In the strictest definition, one-club men are rare in football, due to the tendency of (mostly younger) players to move for financial reasons or (mostly older) players to play at a lower level (if the club is relegated, which is the norm in most countries) in order to prolong their careers. One-club men often become club captain at some point in their career.
Players (past or present) must have been at their club for a minimum of ten years in order to be included here. Loan spells at other teams disqualify players from being counted in the list.
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Playing careers
* The figure does not include years spent in the youth/B teams. Only years in the senior first team are counted.
Playing and post-playing careers
In addition to those who spent their entire playing career with a single club, there are several examples of players remaining with a single club throughout their entire career within the club game — playing, coaching, management, etc. Notable examples are listed below.
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- Franco Baresi for Milan
- Bruno Conti for A.S. Roma
- Bob Paisley — for Liverpool, as a player between 1939 and 1954, as physiotherapist and coach 1954–1974, as manager 1974–1983, and as director of football 1983–1992.
- Lev Yashin — for Dynamo Moscow, playing 1949–1971, administration 1971–1990
- Trevor Brooking — for West Ham United, as a player 1967–1984, as non-executive director 2001–2003, caretaker manager in 2003.
- Santiago Bernabéu Yeste — for Real Madrid C.F., as a player 1912–1927, as director/assistant manager and manager 1927–1936, as club president 1943–1978.
- Bill Nicholson for Tottenham Hotspur.
- Per Nielsen for Brondby IF
- Kim Daugaard for Brondby IF
- John Trollope for Swindon Town
References and footnotes
- ^ Angus listed at Neil Brown's statistical website
- ^ Herbin first ended his career in 1972, after 15 seasons, and became coach of AS Saint-Étienne. He did not take part in the 1972-73 or 1973-74 seasons, but played the last match of the 1974-75 season as player-coach to celebrate AS Saint-Étienne's Division 1 title
- ^ McAllister's profile at Neil Brown's statistical website