The number's up for Clarets

Last updated : 30 June 2008 By Tony Scholes
Alex MacDonald
Alex MacDonald - gets squad number 27
The list was sort of drip fed out to us last week with each of the four signings being allocated a number. Martin Paterson got the number 10 shirt worn last season by both Andy Gray and Mark Randall and the following day we confirmed the Kevin McDonald signing and allocated him number 7, the number worn by James O'Connor ever since he arrived at Burnley pm a permanent deal.

Christian Kalvenes took the number 3 shirt vacated by Jon Harley but on Friday new goalkeeper Diego Penny was given the number 1 that had previously been worn by Gabor Kiraly and he will now wear the number 17 which had previously been Kyle Lafferty's squad number.

The only other player to change number is Alex MacDonald. He was allocated number 28 at the end of last season but for the new season will wear the number 27.

Numbers 13, 15, 21, 24 and 26 are now vacant. Number 13 hasn't been used by Burnley since the end of the promotion season in 1999/2000 whilst the other four numbers were worn last season by John Spicer, Garreth O'Connor, Stanislav Varga and David Unsworth.

The full list of numbers for the 2008/09 season are:

1: Diego Penny
2: Graham Alexander
3: Christian Kalvanes
4: Michael Duff
5: Clarke Carlisle
6: Steven Caldwell
7: Kevin McDonald
8: Joey Gudjonsson
9: Ade Akinbiyi
10: Martin Paterson
11: Wade Elliott
12: Brian Jensen
14: Steve Jones
16: Chris McCann
17: Gabor Kiraly
18: Alan Mahon
19: Jay Rodriguez
20: Robbie Blake
22: Besart Berisha
23: Stephen Jordan
25: Adam Kay
27: Alex MacDonald