Below is a list of players to have played for Burnley Football Club. Please note that this list currently shows only those players to have played league football for the club in the post war period since 1946 - it is intended to extend this list to include pre-war football and also those players to have played in cup matches only.
| Player | Apps | Goals | | . | . | . | | Derek Adams | 0(2) | 0 | | Jimmy Adamson | 426 | 17 | | Dele Adebola | 0(3) | 1 | | Jock Aird | 132 | 0 | | Ade Akinbiyi | 68(41) | 26 | | Graham Alexander | 126 | 18 | | Mark Allen | 0(2) | 1 | | Colin Anderson | 3(3) | 0 | | Russell Anderson | 4 | 0 | | John Angus | 438(1) | 4 | | Jim Appleby | 1 | 0 | | Tony Arins | 29 | 2 | | Craig Armstrong | 4 | 0 | | Gordon Armstrong | 88(17) | 4 | | Paul Atkinson | 18(4) | 1 | | Reg Attwell | 244 | 9 | | Steve Baker | 10 | 0 | | Kevin Ball | 77(5) | 2 | | Phil Bardsley | 6 | 0 | | Paul Barnes | 63(2) | 30 | | Arthur Bellamy | 204(13) | 29 | | Junior Bent | 7(2) | 3 | | Marlon Beresford | 286(1) | 0 | | Karl Bermingham | 1(3) | 0 | | Wayne Biggins | 78 | 30 | | Andre Bikey | 30(2) | 1 | | Jack Billingham | 79 | 29 | | Eric Binns | 15 | 0 | | Charlie Bishop | 9 | 0 | | Adam Blacklaw | 318 | 0 | | Robbie Blake | 198(44) | 61 | | Colin Blant | 46(7) | 7 | | Steve Blatherwick | 16(8) | 0 | | John Borland | 1 | 0 | | Dean Bowditch | 8(2) | 1 | | Paul Bradshaw | 11(2) | 2 | | Graham Branch | 208(56) | 17 | | Chris Brass | 120(14) | 1 | | George Bray | 207 | 8 | | Ian Bray | 15(2) | 0 | | Ian Brennan | 173(2) | 11 | | Lee Briscoe | 100(6) | 7 | | Ian Britton | 102(6) | 10 | | Alan Brown | 88 | 0 | | Joe Brown | 6 | 0 | | Willie Brown | 0(1) | 0 | | Neil Buckley | 5 | 0 | | Bobby Burke | 19 | 5 | | Marshall Burke | 22(2) | 5 | | Martyn Busby | 4 | 1 | | Jack Butterfield | 3 | 0 | | Mick Buxton | 16(16) | 0 | | Gary Cahill | 27 | 1 | | Steven Caldwell | 99(5) | 5 | | Mo Camara | 90 | 0 | | David Campbell | 7(1) | 0 | | David Cargill | 5 | 0 | | Clarke Carlisle | 98(2) | 5 | | Colin Carr-Lawton | 2(3) | 0 | | Frank Casper | 230(7) | 74 | | Tommy Cassidy | 70(2) | 4 | | Mark Caughey | 8 | 0 | | Phil Cavener | 55(14) | 4 | | Luke Chadwick | 23(13) | 5 | | Richard Chaplow | 48(17) | 7 | | Albert Cheesebrough | 142 | 35 | | Jack Chew | 225 | 39 | | Tony Chilton | 1 | 0 | | Brian Chippendale | 6(2) | 0 | | Alf Clarke | 24 | 6 | | John Clayton | 3 | 1 | | Eddie Cliff | 21 | 0 | | Ralph Coates | 214(2) | 26 | | Terry Cochrane | 62(5) | 13 | | Andrew Cole | 8(5) | 6 | | Doug Collins | 172(15) | 18 | | Paul Comstive | 81(1) | 17 | | John Connelly | 215 | 86 | | Mike Conroy | 76(1) | 30 | | Paul Cook | 140(7) | 12 | | Andy Cooke | 134(37) | 51 | | Jack Cork | 8(5) | 1 | | Pat Corr | 1 | 0 | | Leon Cort | 15 | 0 | | Graham Coughlan | 1(1) | 0 | | Duane Courtney | 1(6) | 0 | | Tom Cowan | 17(3) | 1 | | Gordon Cowans | 5(1) | 0 | | Ian Cox | 107(8) | 5 | | Danny Coyne | 39(1) | 0 | | Gerry Creaney | 9(1) | 8 | | Paul Crichton | 82(1) | 0 | | Tommy Cummings | 434 | 3 | | Steve Daley | 20(3) | 4 | | Peter Daniel | 40(1) | 0 | | Steve M Davis | 321(6) | 42 | | Steve P Davis | 147 | 11 | | Ray Deakin | 212(1) | 6 | | John Deary | 209(6) | 23 | | Phil Devaney | 8(5) | 1 | | Peter Devine | 46(10) | 4 | | Drissa Diallo | 14 | 1 | | Richard Dixey | 3 | 0 | | Lee Dixon | 4 | 0 | | Paul Dixon | 23(1) | 1 | | Eric Djemba-Djemba | 13(2) | 0 | | Martin Dobson | 406(4) | 63 | | Mick Docherty | 149(4) | 0 | | Willie Donachie | 60 | 3 | | Terry Donovan | 13(2) | 6 | | Louie Donowa | 4 | 0 | | Wayne Dowell | 6 | 0 | | Ian Duerden | 1 | 0 | | Michael Duff | 159(15) | 5 | | Richard Duffy | 3(4) | 1 | | Nathan Dyer | 4(1) | 2 | | Chris Eagles | 50(30) | 10 | | Phil Eastwood | 7(9) | 1 | | David Edgar | 3(2) | 0 | | Neil Edwards | 0(1) | 0 | | Alex Elder | 271 | 15 | | Roger Eli | 70(29) | 20 | | Billy Elliott | 74 | 14 | | Wade Elliott | 187(21) | 17 | | Tony Ellis | 0(11) | 1 | | Wayne Entwistle | 6(2) | 2 | | David Eyres | 171(4) | 37 | | Delroy Facey | 12(2) | 5 | | Andy Farrell | 237(20) | 19 | | Gareth Farrelly | 9(3) | 0 | | Ronnie Fenton | 11 | 1 | | Micky Finn | 4 | 0 | | Paul Fletcher | 291(2) | 71 | | Steven Fletcher | 35 | 8 | | Brian Flynn | 193(9) | 19 | | Mark Ford | 43(5) | 1 | | Stephen Foster | 7(10) | 0 | | Danny Fox | 17(1) | 1 | | Garry France | 1(2) | 0 | | Paul France | 7(1) | 0 | | John Francis | 143(34) | 37 | | Jim Furnell | 2 | 0 | | Ron Futcher | 52(5) | 25 | | Joe Gallagher | 46(1) | 3 | | Steve Gardner | 93(2) | 0 | | Paul Gascoigne | 3(3) | 0 | | John Gayle | 7(7) | 3 | | Nigel Gleghorn | 33(1) | 4 | | Kevin Glendon | 4 | 0 | | Arthur Gnohere | 74(7) | 6 | | Gerry Gow | 8(1) | 0 | | Lee Grant | 1 | 0 | | Tony Grant | 121(20) | 3 | | Andy Gray | 68(1) | 28 | | Billy Gray | 120 | 30 | | Phil Gray | 5 | 1 | | Neil Grewcock | 180(22) | 27 | | Joey Gudjonsson | 43(45) | 7 | | Fernando Guerrero | 0(7) | 0 | | Steve Guinan | 0(6) | 0 | | Peter Haddock | 7 | 0 | | Gordon Haigh | 18 | 3 | | Brian Hall | 39(4) | 3 | | Billy Hamilton | 200 | 58 | | David Hamilton | 11(4) | 0 | | Peter Hampton | 116(2) | 2 | | Tony Hancock | 9(8) | 0 | | Ray Hankin | 110(2) | 37 | | Roger Hansbury | 83 | 0 | | Tony Hapgood | 7 | 2 | | Jason Hardy | 38(6) | 1 | | Jon Harley | 116(3) | 3 | | Alan Harper | 30(1) | 0 | | Steve Harper | 64(5) | 8 | | Phil Harrington | 2 | 0 | | Gordon Harris | 258 | 69 | | Jason Harris | 4 | 0 | | Mark Harris | 4 | 0 | | Gerry Harrison | 116(8) | 3 | | Ray Harrison | 60 | 19 | | Billy Hayes | 12 | 0 | | Jack Hays | 146 | 12 | | Adrian Heath | 110(10) | 29 | | Darren Heesom | 36(2) | 1 | | Jim Heggarty | 33(1) | 1 | | Ian Helliwell | 3(1) | 0 | | Kevin Henderson | 0(14) | 1 | | Tommy Henderson | 2 | 0 | | Matt Hewlett | 2 | 0 | | Matt Heywood | 11(2) | 0 | | Rob Higgins | 3 | 0 | | Kevin Hird | 83 | 23 | | Doug Hodgson | 1 | 0 | | Bill Holden | 187 | 75 | | Rick Holden | 0(1) | 0 | | David Holt | 84 | 1 | | Stewart Hooper | 0(1) | 0 | | Ron Hornby | 5 | 1 | | Ashley Hoskin | 72(16) | 11 | | Neil Howarth | 0(1) | 0 | | Lee Howey | 24(2) | 0 | | Jamie Hoyland | 77(10) | 4 | | Tommy Hutchison | 92 | 4 | | Richard Huxford | 6(7) | 0 | | Micah Hyde | 95(7) | 1 | | Billy Ingham | 181(30) | 22 | | Willie Irvine | 124(2) | 78 | | Chris Iwelumo | 4 | 2 | | Joe Jakub | 203(2) | 8 | | Leighton James | 331(5) | 66 | | Brian Jensen | 246(3) | 0 | | Ronnie Jepson | 4(55) | 3 | | Lenny Johnrose | 55(30) | 4 | | Bob Johnson | 9 | 0 | | David Johnson | 8 | 5 | | David Jones | 4 | 0 | | Peter Jones | 2 | 0 | | Rodney Jones | 9 | 0 | | Steve Jones | 39(19) | 6 | | Stephen Jordan | 69(4) | 0 | | Walter Joyce | 70 | 3 | | Warren Joyce | 65(5) | 9 | | Christian Kalvenes | 24(3) | 1 | | Danny Karbassiyoon | 0(5) | 0 | | Mark Kendall | 2 | 0 | | Steve Kennedy | 18 | 0 | | Kevin Kennerley | 6 | 1 | | Andy Kilner | 2(3) | 0 | | Steve Kindon | 175(10) | 46 | | Len Kinsella | 7(6) | 0 | | Peter Kippax | 32 | 6 | | Gabor Kiraly | 27 | 0 | | Reg Kirkham | 13 | 1 | | Andy Kiwomya | 1(2) | 0 | | George Knight | 1 | 0 | | Jack Knight | 26 | 5 | | Kyle Lafferty | 52(31) | 10 | | Graham Lancashire | 11(20) | 8 | | Des Lancaster | 1 | 0 | | Les Latcham | 149(4) | 10 | | Les Lawrence | 22(9) | 8 | | Brian Laws | 125 | 12 | | Ian Lawson | 23 | 7 | | Alan Lee | 2(13) | 0 | | Peter Leebrook | 52 | 0 | | Glen Little | 211(35) | 32 | | Andy Lochhead | 225(1) | 101 | | David Loggie | 6(1) | 0 | | Joe Loughran | 65 | 0 | | Keith Lowe | 10(6) | 0 | | Terry Lyons | 12 | 3 | | Alan Mahon | 30(37) | 4 | | Paul Mahorn | 3(5) | 1 | | Phil Malley | 91(4) | 5 | | Dean Marney | 4 | 0 | | Andy Marriott | 15 | 0 | | Billy Marshall | 6 | 0 | | Jack Marshall | 1 | 0 | | Len Martindale | 21 | 0 | | Harold Mather | 301 | 0 | | Damian Matthew | 50(9) | 7 | | David May | 34(1) | 4 | | Brad Maylett | 3(42) | 0 | | Steve McAdam | 5 | 0 | | Chris McCann | 124(23) | 18 | | Alex MacDonald | 0(5) | 0 | | Colin McDonald | 186 | 0 | | Kevin McDonald | 24(27) | 2 | | Paul McDonald | 8(1) | 1 | | Jay McEveley | 0(4) | 0 | | Paul McGee | 33(1) | 9 | | John McGreal | 92(4) | 1 | | Mark McGregor | 46(8) | 2 | | Shaun McGrory | 34(12) | 2 | | Jimmy McIlroy | 439 | 116 | | Paul McKay | 8(4) | 0 | | Peter McKay | 60 | 36 | | Paul McKenzie | 1(3) | 0 | | Andy McLaren | 3 | 1 | | Ted McMinn | 38(8) | 3 | | Joe McNulty | 8 | 0 | | Paul McVeigh | 6(2) | 3 | | Tyrone Mears | 41 | 0 | | Ian Measham | 181(1) | 2 | | Micky Mellon | 72(12) | 5 | | Peter Mellor | 69 | 0 | | Trevor Meredith | 37 | 8 | | Dave Merrington | 96(2) | 1 | | Nik Michopoulos | 85 | 0 | | Brian Miller | 379 | 29 | | David Miller | 31(5) | 3 | | Jim Milner | 1 | 0 | | Mark Monington | 65(19) | 5 | | Brian Mooney | 6 | 0 | | Alan Moore | 42(27) | 4 | | Ian Moore | 170(22) | 37 | | Neil Moore | 48(4) | 3 | | Steve Morgan | 17 | 0 | | Willie Morgan | 195(1) | 19 | | Tony Morley | 83(13) | 5 | | Billy Morris | 199 | 47 | | Colin Morris | 9(1) | 0 | | Ian Muir | 1(1) | 1 | | John Mullin | 51(50) | 10 | | Peter Mumby | 36(10) | 9 | | Phil Murphy | 12(3) | 5 | | John Murray | 20(2) | 6 | | Joe Neenan | 90 | 0 | | Doug Newlands | 98 | 21 | | Keith Newton | 209 | 5 | | Frédéric Nimani | 0(2) | 0 | | Peter Noble | 241(2) | 63 | | Gifton Noel-Williams | 36(16) | 7 | | Kurt Nogan | 87(5) | 33 | | David Nugent | 20(10) | 6 | | Geoff Nulty | 123(7) | 20 | | Brendan O'Connell | 62(2) | 17 | | Garreth O'Connor | 26(12) | 7 | | James O'Connor | 129(10) | 11 | | George Oghani | 73(1) | 21 | | John O'Kane | 8 | 0 | | Brian O'Neil | 231(4) | 22 | | Liam O'Neill | 1 | 1 | | Matt O'Neill | 2(11) | 0 | | Billy O'Rourke | 14 | 0 | | Bradley Orr | 1(3) | 0 | | John Oster | 12(3) | 1 | | Richard Overson | 5(1) | 0 | | Vince Overson | 213(6) | 6 | | Robbie Painter | 16(10) | 2 | | Leigh Palin | 1 | 0 | | Geoff Palmer | 34 | 0 | | Dimitri Papadopoulos | 7(33) | 3 | | Derrick Parker | 48(1) | 12 | | Gary Parkinson | 134(1) | 4 | | Jeff Parton | 3 | 0 | | Terry Pashley | 16(2) | 0 | | Martin Paterson | 60(10) | 16 | | Ian Patterson | 0(1) | 0 | | Andy Payton | 115(41) | 69 | | Dennis Peacock | 8 | 0 | | Chris Pearce | 181 | 0 | | Nathan Peel | 4(12) | 2 | | John Pender | 171 | 8 | | Steve Penney | 10(1) | 3 | | Diego Penny | 1(1) | 0 | | Gerry Peyton | 30 | 0 | | Micky Phelan | 166(2) | 9 | | Tony Philliskirk | 33(7) | 9 | | Ally Pickering | 21 | 1 | | Nick Pickering | 4 | 0 | | Brian Pilkington | 300 | 67 | | Joel Pilkington | 0(2) | 0 | | Ray Pointer | 223 | 118 | | Mike Pollitt | 4 | 0 | | Eric Potts | 48(8) | 5 | | Harry Potts | 165 | 47 | | Barry Powell | 9(2) | 0 | | John Price | 21 | 2 | | Eric Probert | 62(5) | 11 | | Adrian Randall | 105(20) | 8 | | Mark Randall | 2(8) | 0 | | Mark Rasmussen | 0(2) | 0 | | Phil Ray | 1 | 0 | | David Reeves | 16 | 8 | | Kevin Reeves | 20(1) | 12 | | Rob Regis | 3(1) | 1 | | Brian Reid | 30(1) | 3 | | Michael Ricketts | 12(1) | 2 | | Mark Rhodes | 12(1) | 0 | | Mark Robertson | 27(9) | 1 | | Stuart Robertson | 30(2) | 0 | | Andy Robinson | 5 | 1 | | Liam Robinson | 43(20) | 9 | | Paul Robinson | 0(4) | 0 | | Peter Robinson | 48(7) | 3 | | Jimmy Robson | 202 | 79 | | Lee Roche | 38(16) | 2 | | Billy Rodaway | 245(2) | 3 | | Jay Rodriguez | 2(25) | 2 | | Gary Rowell | 8(11) | 1 | | Harold Rudman | 71 | 0 | | Kevin Russell | 26(2) | 6 | | Wayne Russell | 22(2) | 0 | | Les Samuels | 2 | 0 | | Amadou Sanokho | 0(3) | 0 | | Andy Saville | 3(1) | 1 | | Chris Scott | 9(5) | 0 | | Derek Scott | 277(8) | 24 | | Jimmy Scott | 3 | 0 | | Paul Scott | 0(2) | 0 | | Bobby Seith | 211 | 6 | | Alan Shackleton | 31 | 18 | | Anthony Shandran | 0(1) | 0 | | Les Shannon | 262 | 39 | | Paul Shaw | 8(1) | 4 | | Peter Simpson | 3 | 0 | | Frank Sinclair | 88(4) | 1 | | Steve Slawson | 5 | 2 | | Carl Smith | 5(6) | 0 | | Dave Smith | 99 | 1 | | Fred Smith | 84 | 1 | | Malcolm Smith | 82(3) | 17 | | Nigel Smith | 6(6) | 0 | | Paul Smith | 79(33) | 5 | | Danny Sonner | 1(5) | 0 | | Harold Spencer | 4 | 1 | | Jack Spencer | 37 | 8 | | John Spicer | 31(37) | 4 | | Roy Stephenson | 78 | 27 | | Trevor Steven | 74(2) | 11 | | Alan Stevenson | 438 | 0 | | Paul Stewart | 6 | 0 | | Jimmy Strong | 264 | 0 | | Mike Summerbee | 51 | 0 | | Peter Swan | 58(10) | 7 | | John Talbut | 138 | 0 | | Jeff Tate | 5 | 1 | | Alan Taylor | 60(4) | 23 | | Fred Taylor | 1 | 0 | | Gareth Taylor | 88(7) | 36 | | Steve Taylor | 118(13) | 43 | | Ray Ternent | 13 | 0 | | Stan Ternent | 5 | 0 | | Dave Thomas | 153(4) | 19 | | Mitchell Thomas | 95(4) | 0 | | Wayne Thomas | 46(4) | 1 | | Des Thompson | 62 | 0 | | Les Thompson | 38(1) | 0 | | Steve Thompson | 44(5) | 1 | | Steven Thompson | 24(34) | 11 | | Harry Thomson | 117 | 0 | | Jim Thomson | 294(3) | 3 | | Andy Todd | 7 | 0 | | Sammy Todd | 108(8) | 1 | | Ian Towers | 43(1) | 12 | | Ryan Townsend | 0(1) | 0 | | Dennis Tueart | 8(7) | 5 | | David Unsworth | 26(3) | 1 | | Jean-Louis Valois | 18(12) | 3 | | Remco van der Schaaf | 1 | 0 | | Stanislav Varga | 10 | 0 | | Rune Vindheim | 8 | 2 | | Chris Vinnicombe | 90(5) | 3 | | Chris Waddle | 26(5) | 1 | | Andrew Waine | 0(2) | 0 | | Tony Waiters | 38 | 0 | | Colin Waldron | 308 | 16 | | Malcolm Waldron | 16 | 0 | | David Walker | 38 | 1 | | Nicky Walker | 6 | 0 | | Ross Wallace | 4 | 1 | | Mike Walsh | 3 | 0 | | John Walton | 18 | 2 | | Gavin Ward | 17 | 0 | | Mick Wardrobe | 0(1) | 0 | | Ronnie Welch | 1 | 0 | | Paul Weller | 199(53) | 11 | | Alan West | 41(4) | 3 | | Dean West | 145(13) | 5 | | Andy Wharton | 63(2) | 6 | | Neil Whatmore | 8 | 1 | | Billy White | 9 | 4 | | Winston White | 93(11) | 14 | | Pete Whittingham | 7 | 0 | | David Williams | 24 | 0 | | Michael Williams | 15(1) | 1 | | Rhys Williams | 17 | 0 | | John Williamson | 0(1) | 0 | | Billy Wilson | 2 | 0 | | David Wilson | 10(3) | 0 | | Harry Wilson | 12 | 0 | | Ian Wilson | 19 | 1 | | Paul Wilson | 31 | 0 | | Mark Winstanley | 151(1) | 5 | | Doug Winton | 183 | 1 | | Ian Wood | 14(3) | 0 | | Neil Wood | 8(2) | 1 | | Arthur Woodruff | 176 | 0 | | Chris Woods | 12 | 0 | | Tony Woodworth | 1 | 0 | | Ian Wright | 4(11) | 4 | | Wilf Wrigley | 6 | 1 | | Mark Yates | 9(9) | 1 | | Kevin Young | 114(6) | 11 | | Peter Zelem | 17(2) | 2 |
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