List of Chelsea F.C. players (1–24 appearances)

Chelsea Football Club are an association football club based in Fulham, West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League. Below is a list of all the players who made fewer than 25 appearances for the club.

Key edit

  • Appearances as a substitute are included. This feature of the game was introduced in the Football League at the start of the 1965–66 season.[1]
Positions key
Pre-1960s 1960s–
GK Goalkeeper
FB Full back DF Defender
HB Half back MF Midfielder
FW Forward
Nationality
The nationality of a player is determined by the country which he has played for during their Chelsea career, or if said person has not played international football, their country of birth.
Position
Playing positions are listed according to the tactical formations that were employed at the time. Thus the change in the names of defensive and midfield positions reflects the tactical evolution that occurred from the 1960s onwards.
Club career
Club career is defined as the first and last calendar years in which the player signed for and left Chelsea.
Total appearances and Total goals
Total appearances and goals comprise those in the Football League, Premier League, FA Cup, Football League Cup, FA Charity/Community Shield, European Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, Full Members Cup, FIFA Club World Cup and European Super Cup. Matches in friendlies and wartime competitions are excluded.

Players edit

  • Bold indicates players currently playing for the club.
As of 2 May 2024
List of Chelsea F.C. players with between 1 and 24 appearances
Player Nationality Pos Club career Starts Subs Total Goals
Appearances
Frank Wolff   England DF 1905–1906 1 0 1 0
Walter Toomer   England HB 1905–1906 1 0 1 0
Francis O'Hara   Scotland FW 1905–1906 3 0 3 0
Charles Harris   England FB 1905–1906 2 0 2 0
Joe Goodwin   England FW 1905–1906 2 0 2 0
Bob McEwan   Scotland FB 1905–1906 20 0 20 0
Michael Byrne   England GK 1905–1907 5 0 5 0
Willie Porter   England FW 1905–1907 2 0 2 0
Charles Donaghy   Scotland FW 1905–1907 3 0 3 1
James Craigie   Scotland HB 1905–1907 2 0 2 0
James Watson   Scotland FW 1906 14 0 14 0
Dave McCartney   Scotland DF 1906–1907 3 0 3 0
Peter Proudfoot   Scotland HB 1906–1907 12 0 12 0
Robert Bush   England FW 1906–1907 4 0 4 0
James Frost   England FW 1906–1907 23 0 23 4
Ronald Brebner   England GK 1906–1907
1912–1913
19 0 19 0
Ben Whitehouse   England FW 1906–1908 13 0 13 2
Augustus Harding   England FB 1906–1913 5 0 5 0
Frank Lyon   England FB 1907–1908 6 0 6 0
George Kennedy   Scotland HB 1908–1909 12 0 12 0
Edward Reilly   England FW 1908–1909 1 0 1 0
Thomas Mair   England FW 1908–1910 9 0 9 1
Nat Robinson   England GK 1908–1910 3 0 3 0
Arthur Holden   England HB 1909–1910 20 0 20 1
Ernest Williams   England HB 1909–1910 8 0 8 1
Joe Bradshaw   England FW 1909–1910 6 0 6 3
James Saunders   England GK 1909–1910 2 0 2 0
Evan Jones   Wales FW 1909–1910 21 0 21 4
Arthur Wileman   England FW 1909–1911 14 0 14 5
Hugh Dolby   England FW 1909–1912 2 0 2 0
George Horn   England HB 1909–1913 2 0 2 0
Philip Smith   England FW 1910 1 0 1 0
English McConnell   Ireland MF 1910–1911 21 0 21 0
Kenneth McKenzie   Scotland FW 1910–1911 1 0 1 0
William Young Brown   Scotland FW 1911–1913 10 0 10 2
William Read   England FW 1911–1913 4 0 4 0
Robert Buchanan   Scotland FB 1911–1913 3 0 3 0
Tom Hewitt   Wales FB 1912–1913 8 0 8 0
Jack Harwood   England FW 1912–1913 4 0 4 0
George Johnson   England FB 1912–1913 6 0 6 0
John Brown   Scotland FW 1912–1913 16 0 16 4
William Steer   England FW 1912–1915 4 0 4 1
Jimmy Turnbull   Scotland FW 1912–1918 22 0 22 8
Edward Tye   England FB 1913–1914 1 0 1 0
Sandy MacFarlane   Scotland FW 1913–1914 4 0 4 0
George Lake   England HB 1913–1914 1 0 1 0
Andy Walker   England DF 1913–1920 24 0 24 2
Harold Brittan   England FW 1913–1920 24 0 24 7
Max Woosnam   England FW 1914 3 0 3 0
Joe Spottiswood   England HB 1919–1920 1 0 1 0
John Browning   Scotland HB 1919–1920 6 0 6 2
James Gallon   England FW 1919–1921 2 0 2 0
Joseph Langton   England MF 1919–1922 3 0 3 0
Thomas Baxter   England HB 1920 1 0 1 0
Joe Ward   Ireland HB 1920–1922 16 0 16 0
Kenneth McKenzie   Scotland DF 1920–1923 22 0 22 0
John Lee   England FW 1920–1924 7 0 7 1
Ted Ferguson   England FB 1920–1924 2 0 2 0
Bill Finlayson   Scotland FW 1920–1924 5 0 5 1
James Ashford   England HB 1920–1925 8 0 8 0
Wilson Marsh   England GK 1921–1922 12 0 12 0
Stephen Smith   England HB 1921–1923 23 0 23 1
Billy Haywood   England FW 1922–1924 22 0 22 0
Walter Bennett   England FB 1922–1924 5 0 5 0
Alfred Bower   England FB 1923–1926 9 0 9 0
Bernard Duffy   Scotland HB 1923–1927 3 0 3 0
Richard Jenkins   England FW 1924–1925 4 0 4 0
William Morrison   Scotland FW 1924–1926 1 0 1 0
Arthur Sales   England HB 1924–1928 7 0 7 0
Billy Williams   England FW 1927–1928 2 0 2 0
George Anderson   England FW 1927–1929 9 0 9 0
Christopher Ferguson   Scotland FW 1927–1930 1 0 1 0
Jack Meredith   England MF 1928–1929 23 0 23 6
Frank Higgs   England GK 1928–1930 2 0 2 0
John Carr   England FB 1928–1931 1 0 1 0
Reg Weaver   England HB 1929–1932 20 0 20 8
Robert Carter   England HB 1929–1933 18 0 18 1
Alec Donald   England FB 1930–1932 24 0 24 0
James Hope   Scotland FW 1930–1932 1 0 1 0
Stan Macintosh   England GK 1930–1936 1 0 1 0
Stan Prout   England FW 1932–1934 17 0 17 3
Samuel Dudley   England FW 1932–1934 1 0 1 0
James Copeland   England FW 1932–1937 2 0 2 1
John Hutcheson   Scotland HB 1934–1937 22 0 22 1
Ernest Reid   Wales DF 1934–1939 1 0 1 0
Albert Tennant   England DF 1934–1953 8 0 8 0
Jack Mayes   England MF 1935–1939 13 0 13 0
David Alexander   Scotland HB 1935–1945 1 0 1 0
Jack Sherborne   England FW 1936–1945 5 0 5 0
Douglas Smale   England HB 1937–1946 9 0 9 0
Sid Bidewell   England FW 1937–1946 4 0 4 2
Alex White   Scotland FB 1937–1948 18 0 18 0
Bobby Russell   Scotland HB 1944–1948 4 0 4 0
Murdoch Dickie   Scotland HB 1946–1947 1 0 1 0
Jimmy Bain   Scotland HB 1946–1947 14 0 14 1
Willi Steffen   Switzerland FB 1946–1947 20 0 20 0
Johnny Paton   Scotland FW 1946–1947 23 0 23 3
Fred Richardson   England FW 1946–1947 2 0 2 0
Alex Davidson   Scotland FW 1946–1948 2 0 2 0
Ray Goddard   England FB 1946–1948 15 0 15 1
Johnny Galloway   Scotland FW 1946–1949 4 0 4 0
Joe Simner   England FW 1947–1949 1 0 1 0
Bob Warren   England DF 1948–1951 1 0 1 0
Thomas Jenkins   England FW 1949–1951 5 0 5 0
Jimmy Leadbetter   Scotland FW 1949–1952 3 0 3 0
Wally Hinshelwood   England FW 1951 14 0 14 1
Ernie Randall   England FW 1950–1953 3 0 3 1
Jack Allister   Scotland FW 1951–1952 4 0 4 1
Harry Hughes   England FW 1951–1952 1 0 1 0
Ralph Oelofse   South Africa DF 1951–1953 8 0 8 0
Peter Tuck   England FW 1951–1954 3 0 3 1
Andy Bowman   Scotland FW 1951–1955 1 0 1 0
Bob Edwards   England FW 1951–1955 13 0 13 2
Jimmy Smith   England FW 1951–1955 23 0 23 3
Mike Collins   England GK 1951–1957 1 0 1 0
Len Kell   England FW 1952–1954 3 0 3 0
Miles Spector   England FW 1952–1954 6 0 6 0
Paul Berry   England FB 1953–1960 3 0 3 0
Seamus O'Connell   England FW 1954–1956 17 0 17 12
Ray Kitchener   England FW 1954–1956 1 0 1 0
Colin Court   Wales HB 1954–1959 1 0 1 0
Cliff Huxford   England HB 1955–1959 7 0 7 0
Bill Livingstone   Scotland DF 1955–1959 22 0 22 0
John Compton   England FB 1955–1960 12 0 12 0
Bobby Laverick   England FW 1956–1958 7 0 7 0
Peter Corthine   England FW 1957–1960 2 0 2 0
David Cliss   England FW 1957–1962 24 0 24 1
Eric McMillan   England MF 1958–1960 5 0 5 0
Pat Holton   England DF 1959–1960 1 0 1 0
Gordon Bolland   England FW 1960–1962 2 0 2 0
Mike Pinner   England GK 1961–1962 1 0 1 0
Tommy Docherty   Scotland MF 1961–1962 4 0 4 0
Dennis Butler   England MF 1961–1963 18 0 18 0
Errol McNally   Northern Ireland GK 1961–1963 9 0 9 0
Colin Shaw   England FW 1961–1963 1 0 1 0
John O'Rourke   England FW 1962–1963 1 0 1 0
Tommy Harmer   England FW 1962–1963 9 0 9 1
Dennis Sorrell   England MF 1962–1964 4 0 4 1
Jimmy Mulholland   Scotland FW 1962–1964 12 0 12 3
Ian Watson   England FB 1962–1965 9 0 9 1
Thomas Knox   Scotland FW 1962–1965 21 0 21 0
John Dunn   England GK 1962–1966 16 0 16 0
Derek Kevan   England FW 1963 7 0 7 2
Dennis Brown   England FW 1963–1964 13 0 13 2
Jim McCalliog   Scotland MF 1963–1965 12 0 12 3
Billy Sinclair   Scotland MF 1964–1966 1 0 1 0
Jimmy Smart   Scotland FW 1965–1966 1 0 1 0
Jim Barron   England GK 1965–1966 1 0 1 0
Tommy Robson   England FW 1966 6 1 7 0
Alex Stepney   England GK 1966 1 0 1 0
Roger Wosahlo   England MF 1966–1967 1 0 1 0
Kingsley Whiffen   Wales GK 1966–1967 1 0 1 0
Ian Hamilton   England FW 1966–1968 3 2 5 2
Barry Lloyd   England MF 1966–1968 8 2 10 0
Tommy Hughes   Scotland GK 1966–1971 11 0 11 0
Colin Waldron   England DF 1967 10 0 10 0
Geoff Butler   England DF 1967 8 1 9 0
Paul McMillan   Scotland FW 1967–1968 1 0 1 0
George Luke   England MF 1967–1968 1 0 1 0
Stewart Houston   Scotland DF 1967–1972 10 4 14 0
Derek Smethurst   South Africa FW 1968–1971 18 1 19 5
Peter Feely   England FW 1970–1973 4 1 5 2
Mike Brolly   England FW 1971–1974 8 1 9 1
Steve Sherwood   England GK 1971–1976 17 0 17 0
Tony Potrac   England FW 1972–1973 1 0 1 0
Tommy Ord   England FW 1972–1973 3 0 3 1
Brian Bason   England FW 1972–1977 20 2 22 1
John Sissons   England FW 1974–1975 12 1 13 0
John Sitton   England DF 1977–1980 12 2 14 0
Gary Johnson   England FW 1977–1980 18 4 22 9
Duncan McKenzie   England FW 1978–1979 16 0 16 4
Lee Frost   England FW 1978–1980 12 3 15 5
Bob Iles   England GK 1978–1983 14 0 14 0
Jim Docherty   Scotland FW 1979 2 1 3 0
Jimmy Clare   England FW 1980–1981 0 1 1 0
Tim Elmes   England FW 1980–1982 2 2 4 0
Colin Viljoen   England MF 1980–1982 22 1 23 0
Mark Falco   England FW 1982 3 0 3 0
Paul Williams   England DF 1982–1983 1 0 1 0
Pop Robson   England FW 1982–1983 12 5 17 5
Tony McAndrew   Scotland DF 1982–1984 23 0 23 4
Dale Jasper   England MF 1982–1986 13 2 15 0
Derek Johnstone   Scotland FW 1983–1985 1 3 4 0
Duncan Shearer   Scotland FW 1983–1986 2 0 2 1
Gordon Davies   Wales FW 1984–1985 13 2 15 6
Terry Howard   England DF 1984–1986 6 0 6 0
Robert Isaac   England FW 1985–1987 13 0 13 0
Les Fridge   Scotland GK 1985–1987 1 0 1 0
Mick Bodley   England FW 1985–1989 8 0 8 0
Colin West   England FW 1985–1990 8 8 16 0
John Millar   Scotland MF 1986–1987 11 0 11 0
John McNaught   Scotland MF 1986–1987 12 1 13 2
John Coady   Republic of Ireland DF 1986–1988 10 9 19 3
Perry Digweed   England GK 1987–1988 3 0 3 0
Billy Dodds   Scotland FW 1986–1989 0 5 5 0
David Mitchell   Australia FW 1988–1991 8 0 8 0
Clive Allen   England FW 1991–1992 22 2 24 9
Joe Allon   England FW 1991–1992 4 14 18 3
Ian Pearce   England DF 1991–1993 0 5 5 0
Michael Gilkes   England MF 1992 0 2 2 0
Anthony Barness   England DF 1992–1996 16 3 19 0
Nick Colgan   England GK 1992–1998 1 0 1 0
Gerry Peyton   England GK 1993 0 1 1 0
Steve Livingstone   England FW 1993 0 1 1 0
Andy Dow   Scotland FW 1993–1996 17 1 18 0
Graham Rix   England DF 1994–1995 1 3 4 0
Paul Hughes   England MF 1994–2000 15 8 23 2
Terry Phelan   Republic of Ireland DF 1995–1997 21 3 24 0
Neil Clement   England DF 1996–2000 1 3 4 0
Joe Sheerin   England FW 1996–2000 0 1 1 0
Craig Forrest   Canada GK 1997 2 1 3 0
Paul Parker   England DF 1997 1 3 4 0
Steven Hampshire   Scotland FW 1997–1998 0 1 1 0
Nick Crittenden   England MF 1997–2000 1 2 3 0
Laurent Charvet   France DF 1998 7 6 13 2
Brian Laudrup   Denmark FW 1998 8 3 11 1
Pierluigi Casiraghi   Italy FW 1998–2000 13 2 15 1
Luca Percassi   Italy DF 1998–2000 0 2 2 0
Robert Wolleaston   England MF 1998–2003 0 2 2 0
Emerson Thome   Brazil DF 1999–2000 20 2 22 0
Jes Høgh   Denmark DF 1999–2001 11 6 17 0
Rati Aleksidze   Georgia FW 1999–2001 0 3 3 0
Gabriele Ambrosetti   Italy FW 1999–2003 11 12 23 1
Leon Knight   England FW 1999–2003 0 1 1 0
George Weah   Liberia FW 2000 13 2 15 5
Christian Panucci   Italy DF 2000–2001 9 1 10 1
Winston Bogarde   Netherlands DF 2000–2004 4 8 12 0
Mark Bosnich   Australia GK 2001–2003 7 0 7 0
Joel Kitamirike   England DF 2001–2004 1 0 1 0
Joe Keenan   England MF 2002–2006 0 3 3 0
Filipe Oliveira   Portugal MF 2002–2006 0 8 8 0
Neil Sullivan   Scotland GK 2003–2004 7 1 8 0
Marco Ambrosio   Italy GK 2003–2004 12 0 12 0
Juan Sebastian Veron   Argentina MF 2003–2006 11 3 14 1
Lenny Pidgeley   England GK 2003–2006 1 1 2 0
Alexis Nicolas   Cyprus MF 2004 2 1 3 0
Nuno Morais   Portugal MF 2004–2007 1 8 9 0
Anthony Grant   England MF 2004–2008 0 1 1 0
Steven Watt   Scotland DF 2005–2006 1 1 2 0
Jiří Jarošík   Czech Republic MF 2005–2006 6 14 20 0
Jimmy Smith   England MF 2005–2009 0 1 1 0
Scott Sinclair   England FW 2005–2010 6 8 14 1
Maniche   Portugal MF 2006 5 6 11 0
Khalid Boulahrouz   Netherlands DF 2006–2008 19 4 23 0
Michael Mancienne   England DF 2006–2011 3 3 6 0
Tal Ben Haim   Israel DF 2007–2008 17 6 23 0
Ben Sahar   Israel FW 2007–2009 0 5 5 0
Michael Woods   England MF 2007–2011 0 2 2 0
Sam Hutchinson   England DF 2007–2012 2 4 6 0
Jacob Mellis   England MF 2007–2012 0 1 1 0
Miroslav Stoch   Slovakia FW 2008–2009 0 5 5 0
Franco Di Santo   Argentina FW 2008–2009 0 16 16 0
Mineiro   Brazil DF 2008–2009 1 1 2 0
Ricardo Quaresma   Portugal MF 2008–2009 1 4 5 0
Fabio Borini   Italy FW 2009–2010 1 7 8 0
Ross Turnbull   England GK 2009–2013 16 3 19 0
Jeffrey Bruma   Netherlands DF 2009–2013 3 7 10 0
Patrick van Aanholt   Netherlands FW 2009–2014 3 5 8 1
Gaël Kakuta   France FW 2009–2015 5 11 16 0
Yossi Benayoun   Israel MF 2010–2013 7 17 24 1
Josh McEachran   England MF 2010–2015 7 15 22 0
Tomáš Kalas   Czech Republic DF 2010–2019 2 2 4 0
Kevin De Bruyne   Belgium MF 2012–2014 5 4 9 0
Marko Marin   Germany MF 2012–2016 5 11 16 1
Nathan Ake   Netherlands DF 2012–2017 9 8 17 0
Nathaniel Chalobah   England MF 2012–2017 5 10 15 0
Lucas Piazon   Brazil FW 2012–2021 2 1 3 0
Mark Schwarzer   Australia GK 2013–2015 11 1 12 0
Marco van Ginkel   Netherlands MF 2013–2021 2 2 4 0
Izzy Brown   England FW 2013–2021 0 1 1 0
John Swift   England MF 2014–2016 0 1 1 0
Mohamed Salah   Egypt FW 2014–2016 10 9 19 2
Bertrand Traoré   Burkina Faso FW 2014–2017 4 12 16 4
Dominic Solanke   England FW 2014–2017 0 1 1 0
Lewis Baker   England MF 2014–2022 0 2 2 0
Radamel Falcao   Colombia FW 2015–2016 2 10 12 1
Papy Djilobodji   Senegal DF 2015–2016 0 1 1 0
Juan Cuadrado   Colombia MF 2015–2017 4 11 15 0
Jérémie Boga   Ivory Coast MF 2015–2018 1 0 1 0
Ola Aina   Nigeria DF 2015–2019 2 4 6 0
Baba Rahman   Ghana DF 2015–2023 19 4 23 0
Alexandre Pato   Brazil FW 2016 1 1 2 1
Charly Musonda Jr.   Belgium FW 2016–2022 2 5 7 1
Jake Clarke-Salter   England DF 2016–2022 0 2 2 0
Matt Miazga   United States DF 2016–2022 2 0 2 0
Danny Drinkwater   England MF 2017–2022 12 11 23 1
Dujon Sterling   England DF 2017–2023 0 2 2 0
Ethan Ampadu   Wales DF 2017–2023 7 5 12 0
Kyle Scott   United States MF 2018–2019 0 1 1 0
Gonzalo Higuaín   Argentina FW 2019 15 3 18 5
Tariq Lamptey   England DF 2019–2020 0 3 3 0
Marc Guéhi   England DF 2019–2021 2 0 2 0
Billy Gilmour   Scotland MF 2019–2022 14 8 22 0
Ian Maatsen   Netherlands DF 2019– 3 13 16 0
Tino Anjorin   England MF 2019– 1 4 5 0
Saúl Ñíguez   Spain MF 2021–2022 12 11 23 1
Jude Soonsup-Bell   England FW 2021–2023 1 0 1 0
Xavier Simons   England MF 2021–2023 1 0 1 0
Marcus Bettinelli   England GK 2021– 1 0 1 0
Malang Sarr   France DF 2021– 16 5 21 0
Harvey Vale   England MF 2021– 1 4 5 0
Denis Zakaria   Switzerland MF 2022–2023 7 4 11 1
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang   Gabon FW 2022–2023 11 10 21 3
Lewis Hall   England MF 2022– 11 1 12 0
Wesley Fofana   France DF 2022– 17 3 20 2
João Félix   Portugal FW 2023 14 6 20 4
Omari Hutchinson   Jamaica MF 2023– 0 2 2 0
Bashir Humphreys   England DF 2023– 2 0 2 0
David Datro Fofana   Ivory Coast FW 2023– 1 3 4 0
Robert Sánchez   Spain GK 2023– 21 0 21 0
Lesley Ugochukwu   France MF 2023– 6 7 13 0
Mason Burstow   England FW 2023– 1 2 3 0
Diego Moreira   Portugal FW 2023– 1 0 1 0
Alex Matos   England FW 2023– 0 2 2 0
Deivid Washington   Brazil FW 2023– 0 3 3 0
Christopher Nkunku   France FW 2023– 2 8 10 2
Roméo Lavia   Belgium MF 2023– 0 1 1 0
Alfie Gilchrist   England DF 2023– 5 11 16 1
Michael Golding   England MF 2024– 0 1 1 0
Leo Castledine   England MF 2024– 0 1 1 0
Cesare Casadei   Italy MF 2024– 0 8 8 0
Jimi Tauriainen   Finland MF 2024– 0 2 2 0
Josh Acheampong   England DF 2024– 0 1 1 0

Notes edit

  1. ^ Watts, Nick. "1963 to 1988". The Football League. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.

See also edit

References edit

  • Glanvill, Rick (2006). Chelsea FC: The Official Biography – The Definitive Story of the First 100 Years. Headline Book Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7553-1466-2.
  • Hockings, Ron. 100 Years of The Blues – A Statistical History of Chelsea FC 1905–2006.

External links edit