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For the current Crystal Palace first-team squad, see Current squad .
This is a list of notable footballers who have played for Crystal Palace F.C. Generally, this means players that have played 100 or more first-class matches for the club . A number of other players who have played an important role have also been included for their contributions – Attilio Lombardo and Don Rogers for example.
This page also lists recipients of the Player of the Year , Young Player of the Year and players who have been named in the PFA Team of the Year while playing for the club. For a list of all Crystal Palace players, major or minor, with a Wikipedia article, see Category:Crystal Palace F.C. players , and for the current squad see the main Crystal Palace F.C. article .
Players are listed according to the date of their first-team debut. Appearances and goals are for first-team competitive matches only; wartime matches are excluded. Substitute appearances are included.
Players
Peter Taylor was the first Palace player to score for England, and the second player to represent England whilst in Division Three.
Ian Wright scored 117 goals in 277 appearances, the club's record post-war goalscorer.
Geoff Thomas won nine caps for England and captained Crystal Palace to the FA Cup final in 1990.
Statistics correct as of match played 26 July 2020
Palace captain Spent time as player-manager
Name
Nationality
Position
Palace career
Apps
Goals
Captaincy
Notes
Archie Needham
Various
1905–1909
112
26
[ nb 1]
Wilf Innerd
CB
1905–1909
133
7
1906–1909
[ nb 2]
George Woodger
OL
1905–1910
166
39
1909–1910
Harry Collyer
RB
1906–1915
281
1
[ nb 3]
Jimmy Bauchop
FW
1907–1909
46
25
[ nb 4]
Billy Davies
OR
1907–1908, 1910–1915
206
24
[ nb 5]
Joshua Johnson
GK
1907–1919
293
0
George Garratt
DF
1908–1913
185
8
Jimmy Williams
FW
1909–1914
148
56
Joe Bulcock
RB
1909–1914
146
2
Harry Hanger
DF
1909–1915
178
8
1910–1915
Bob Spottiswood
MF
1909–1915
188
2
James Hughes
DF
1909–1920
209
15
Charles Hewitt
FW
1910–1919
155
42
Edwin Smith
FW
1911–1922
192
124
John Whibley
OL
1911–1923
150
27
Horace Colclough
LB
1912–1915
88
0
[ nb 6]
Ben Bateman
OR
1913–1924
180
11
John Conner
FW
1919–1923
104
57
[ nb 7]
Jack Alderson
GK
1919–1924
205
0
Jack Little
DF
1919–1926
261
0
Bill Hand
FW
1920–1925
109
16
Robert McCracken
DF
1920–1926
190
2
Albert Harry
MF
1921–1934
440
55
Bob Greener
DF
1921–1932
317
6
George Whitworth
FW
1922–1925
118
50
Cecil Blakemore
FW
1922–1927
141
56
Charles Cross
DF
1922–1928
237
0
Jimmy Hamilton
MF
1922–1931
196
5
Billy Callender
GK
1923–1932
224
0
George Clarke
OL
1925–1933
299
105
Percy Cherrett
FW
1925–1927
75
65
Bill Turner
MF
1925–1936
302
37
Stan Charlton
RB
1928–1932
136
7
1928–1930
Hubert Butler
FW
1928–1932
124
39
Tom Crilly
LB
1928–1933
126
1
Jimmy Wilde
DF
1928–1938
293
6
1930–1936
Peter Simpson
FW
1929–1935
195
165
[ nb 8]
Frank Manders
FW
1931–1935
103
33
Ossie Parry
DF
1931–1936
150
0
Ronnie Dunn
GK
1931–1937
175
0
Albert Dawes
FW
1933–1939
156
92
Bob Bigg
OL
1934–1939
114
41
Ted Owens
DF
1934–1945
172
0
Nick Collins
DF
1934–1946
151
7
Jack Blackman
FW
1935–1946
107
55
[ nb 9]
Fred Dawes
DF
1935–1950
237
2
1936–1937
[ nb 10]
George Walker
CB
1936–1939
111
1
1938–1939
Jack Lewis
MF
1938–1949
126
6
Geoff Chilvers
DF
1942–1954
123
1
Dick Graham
GK
1945–1951
161
0
Fred Kurz
FW
1946–1951
151
48
Ron George
DF
1947–1954
125
2
Harry Briggs
DF
1947–1955
153
4
Ted Broughton
FW
1948–1954
100
6
Wally Hanlon
MF
1949–1955
129
9
Roy Bailey
GK
1949–1956
119
0
Jack Edwards
RB
1949–1959
239
0
1956–1959
Harry McDonald
LB
1950–1955
146
1
Peter Berry
OR
1951–1958
161
27
Albert "Cam" Burgess
FW
1951–1953
50
40
Bob Thomas
FW
1952–1955
102
33
Cecil Andrews
MF
1952–1956
105
11
Len Choules
DF
1952–1962
280
4
Jimmy Belcher
MF
1954–1958
138
22
Roy Greenwood
DF
1954–1959
116
0
Mike Deakin
FW
1954–1960
151
63
Bernard Harrison
MF
1955–1959
100
12
Alf Noakes
LB
1955–1962
209
14
Terry Long
DF
1955–1969
480
16
Johnny Byrne
FW
1956–1962
220
95
Vic Rouse
GK
1956–1963
257
0
Roy Summersby
FW
1958–1963
190
60
Johnny McNichol
Various
1958–1963
205
15
1958–1963
Bert Howe
DF
1958–1967
212
1
George Petchey
MF/DF
1960–1965
153
12
Bill Glazier
GK
1961–1964
113
0
Ronnie Allen
FW/MF
1961–1965
109
37
1963–1964
Brian Wood
DF
1961–1966
152
4
Alan Stephenson
CB
1961–1968
185
13
1966
Cliff Holton
FW
1962–1965
112
49
Peter Burridge
FW
1962–1965
124
50
John Sewell
RB
1963–1971
258
9
1967–1971
Bobby Kellard
MF
1963–1966, 1971–1973
137
10
1971–1973
David Payne
MF/DF
1964–1973
326
12
John Jackson
GK
1964–1974
388
0
Jack Bannister
DF
1965–1969
129
7
John McCormick
CB
1965–1973
194
6
[ 1]
Steve Kember
MF
1965–1971, 1978–1980
295
38
1971
Cliff Jackson
FW
1966–1970
120
30
Bobby Woodruff
MF
1966–1970
139
48
Tony Taylor
LB
1968–1974
195
8
[ 2]
Mel Blyth
CB
1968–1978
254
12
Gerry Queen
FW
1969–1972
127
30
Peter Wall
DF
1970–1977
208
3
Paul Hammond
GK
1971–1977
142
0
Jim Cannon
DF
1972–1988
663
34
1977–1988
[ nb 11] [ 3]
Don Rogers
MF
1972–1975
78
30
Alan Whittle
FW/MF
1972–1976
122
24
Peter Taylor
MF
1973–1976
142
39
[ 4]
Derek Jeffries
DF/MF
1973–1977
122
1
[ 5]
Dave Swindlehurst
FW
1973–1980
276
81
Roy Barry
DF
1973–1975
45
1
1973–1975
Nick Chatterton
MF
1973–1979
181
36
Paul Hinshelwood
RB
1974–1983
319
29
[ 6]
Ian Evans
CB
1974–1979
163
16
1975–1977
Phil Holder
MF
1975–1979
112
6
Kenny Sansom
LB
1975–1980
197
4
[ 7]
Ian Walsh
FW
1975–1982
133
27
Jerry Murphy
MF
1976–1985
268
25
[ 8]
Vince Hilaire
MF
1976–1984
293
36
Peter Nicholas
DF/MF
1976–1981, 1983–1985
174
14
Billy Gilbert
DF
1977–1984
273
4
[ 9]
John Burridge
GK
1978–1980
102
0
Paul Barron
GK
1980–1983
108
0
[ 10]
Gavin Nebbeling
CB
1981–1989
165
8
David Giles
MF
1982–1984
100
6
Henry Hughton
MF/DF
1982–1986
130
6
Gary Locke
DF
1982–1986
100
1
George Wood
GK
1983–1988
218
0
[ 11]
Gary Stebbing
MF
1983–1988
116
3
Phil Barber
MF
1983–1991
288
41
Alan Irvine
MF
1984–1987
125
14
Andy Gray
MF
1984–1987, 1989–1992
242
51
Tony Finnigan
MF
1985–1988
116
10
Ian Wright
FW
1985–1991
277
117
[ nb 12] [ 12]
John Salako
MF
1986–1995
273
33
Richard Shaw
DF
1986–1995
207
3
[ 13]
Mark Bright
FW
1986–1992
286
114
[ 14]
Alan Pardew
MF
1987–1991
170
12
Geoff Thomas
MF
1987–1993
249
35
1989–1993
[ nb 13] [ 15]
John Pemberton
RB
1988–1990
105
2
Eddie McGoldrick
RW
1988–1993
189
16
[ 16]
Gareth Southgate
DF/MF
1989–1995
152
15
1993–1995
Nigel Martyn
GK
1989–1996
349
0
[ nb 14]
Andy Thorn
DF
1989–1994
128
3
[ 17]
Simon Rodger
MF
1990–2002
328
11
Eric Young
DF
1990–1995
161
15
Chris Coleman
DF
1991–1995
154
13
[ 18]
Chris Armstrong
FW
1992–1995
136
58
George Ndah
FW
1992–1997
101
11
Bruce Dyer
FW
1994–1998
165
44
Dougie Freedman
FW
1995–1997, 2000–2008
368
108
[ 19]
David Hopkin
MF
1995–1997, 2001–2002
112
25
[ 20]
Marc Edworthy
RB
1995–1998
151
1
[ 21]
Andy Roberts
MF
1995–1998
131
4
1995–1997
[ 22]
Steven Thomson
MF
1995–2000
122
4
Neil Shipperley
FW
1996–1998, 2003–2005
117
31
2003–2004
Andy Linighan
DF
1997–2000
128
6
1997–2000
[ 23]
Attilio Lombardo
RM
1997–1999
48
10
[ nb 15]
Clinton Morrison
FW
1997–2002, 2005–2008
312
112
Fan Zhiyi
DF
1998–2001
102
6
[ 24]
Hayden Mullins
DM
1998–2003
257
20
2002–2003
[ 25]
Dean Austin
DF
1998–2002
167
6
2001–2002
Neil Ruddock
DF
2000–2001
26
3
2000–2001
Tommy Black
LM
2000–2007
153
17
Aki Riihilahti
MF
2001–2006
160
14
Tony Popovic
DF
2001–2006
144
8
2004–2006
Wayne Routledge
RM
2001–2005
123
10
Danny Granville
LB
2001–2007
138
10
Andy Johnson
FW
2002–2006, 2014–2015
161
85
[ 26]
Gary Borrowdale
LB
2002–2007
114
0
Danny Butterfield
RB
2002–2010
269
7
Shaun Derry
DM
2002–2005, 2007–2010
226
6
2008–2010
Michael Hughes
MF
2003–2007
141
10
2004–2005
Ben Watson
MF
2003–2009
189
20
Tom Soares
MF
2003–2008
162
12
Mark Hudson
DF
2003–2008
136
7
2007–2008
Gábor Király
GK
2004–2007
111
0
Julián Speroni
GK
2004–2019
405
0
[ 27]
Fitz Hall
DF
2004–2006
75
3
2005–2006
Emmerson Boyce
DF
2004–2006
77
2
[ 28]
Leon Cort
DF
2006–2008
50
7
[ 29]
Carl Fletcher
MF
2006–2009
74
4
2006–2007
Matthew Lawrence
DF
2006–2010
135
1
Clint Hill
DF
2007–2010
127
6
Sean Scannell
MF
2007–2012
141
13
Neil Danns
MF
2008–2011
114
20
Paddy McCarthy
DF
2008–2016
144
6
2010–2012
Darren Ambrose
MF
2009–2012
124
37
Nathaniel Clyne
DF
2008–2012
137
1
[ 30]
Wilfried Zaha
W/FW
2010–2013, 2014–
362
57
[ 31]
Jonathan Parr
DF
2011–2014
101
2
[ 32]
Kagisho Dikgacoi
MF
2011–2014
114
8
Dean Moxey
DF
2011–2014
103
1
Glenn Murray
FW
2011–2015
125
47
Mile Jedinak
MF
2011–2016
178
10
2012–2016
[ 33]
Yannick Bolasie
MF
2012–2016
144
13
Joel Ward
DF
2012–
246
5
Damien Delaney
DF
2012–2018
193
7
Jason Puncheon
MF
2013–2019
168
16
2017–2018
Scott Dann
DF
2014–
166
15
2016–2017
[ 34]
James McArthur
MF
2014–
208
19
Martin Kelly
DF
2014–
145
1
Wayne Hennessey
GK
2014–
131
0
Yohan Cabaye
MF
2015–2018
106
11
[ nb 16]
Christian Benteke
FW
2016–
114
23
[ nb 17]
Andros Townsend
MF
2016–
149
15
James Tomkins
DF
2016–
106
8
Luka Milivojević
MF
2017–
125
27
2018–
Patrick van Aanholt
DF
2017–
111
14
Aaron Wan-Bissaka
DF
2018–2019
46
0
[ 35]
^ Top goal scorer in Crystal Palace's first season 1905/06
^ First player to reach 100 appearances for the club
^ First player to be granted a testimonial match
^ First player to join Crystal Palace with international honours
^ First player to gain international honours while playing for Crystal Palace
^ First player to play for England while on the books of Crystal Palace
^ Top goal scorer in Division Three in the 1920–21 season.
^ Top all time goalscorer for Crystal Palace
^ Not including wartime appearances
^ Not including wartime appearances
^ Most all time appearances for Crystal Palace
^ Top post-wartime Crystal Palace goalscorer
^ Captained Crystal Palace's first FA Cup Final side
^ First goalkeeper to attract a million-pound transfer fee in English football
^ Palace player–manager
^ First player to cost Crystal Palace £10 million or more
^ First player to cost Crystal Palace £20 million or more
Player of the Year
Young Player of the Year
Development Player of the Year
The Young Player of the Year award was renamed Development Player of the Year in 2015.
PFA Team of the Year
The following have been included in the PFA Team of the Year while playing for Crystal Palace:
References
^ Player of the year in 1972
^ Player of the year in 1973
^ Player of the year in 1978, 1985 and 1987
^ Player of the year in 1974 and 1976
^ Player of the year in 1975
^ Player of the year in 1980 and 1981
^ Player of the year in 1977 and 1979
^ Player of the year in 1983
^ Player of the year in 1984
^ Player of the year in 1982
^ Player of the year in 1986
^ Player of the year in 1989
^ Player of the year in 1995
^ Player of the year in 1990
^ Player of the year in 1988 and 1991
^ Player of the year in 1992
^ Player of the year in 1993
^ Player of the year in 1994
^ Player of the year in 2002
^ Player of the year in 1997
^ Player of the year in 1998
^ Player of the year in 1996
^ Player of the year in 2000
^ Player of the year in 2001
^ Player of the year in 1999 and 2003
^ Player of the year in 2004 and 2005
^ Player of the year in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2014
^ Player of the year in 2006
^ Player of the year in 2007
^ Player of the year in 2011
^ Player of the year in 2016, 2017 & 2018
^ Player of the year in 2012
^ Player of the year in 2013
^ Player of the year in 2015
^ Player of the year in 2019
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