Matthew William Glennon is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Michael James Coulson is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker or winger for National League North club Scarborough Athletic. He has played in the Football League for Barnsley, Grimsby Town and York City and in the Scottish Premiership for St Johnstone.
Stuart Alan Rimmer is an English former footballer who is Chester City's record goalscorer. He scored 134 Football League goals in two spells for Chester, and also represented seven other clubs during his professional career.
Barry Geoffrey Butler is an English former professional footballer who spent eight years with Chester City from 1985 to 1993. Primarily operating as a midfielder, Butler also had spells playing in defence and attack, and even took over in goal after regular goalkeeper Billy Stewart was sent off against Bradford City in October 1990.
Graham Abel was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League as a central defender for Chester City and Crewe Alexandra. He appeared at Wembley Stadium three times with Northwich Victoria in FA Trophy finals.
Billy Stewart is a former professional footballer who played goal, primarily with Chester City. He currently coaches with West Ham United Ladies first team as their Goalkeeping Coach. He joined West Ham United after spending the previous three seasons with Accrington Stanley FC first team and helped them gain promotion to the EFL league 1 as League 2 Champions in the 2017–8 season. He is a current Goalkeeping Coach Educator for the FA and has coached at international level for England and Northern Ireland at the under-21, under-19 and schoolboy levels, and with the Liverpool County FA disability team on a part-time basis. He also coached the Bolton Wanderers Ladies goalkeepers for 2 seasons. He left Liverpool in July 2009 after 10 seasons as a coach, and is a freelance goalkeeping coach. He also played for the England Non League Team in May 1997, against the Scottish Highland Football League at Cove Rangers FC, the Highland Football League Team whose ground is six miles south of Aberdeen. His side won 5–0 that Saturday afternoon in the North of Scotland, with Barry Hayles, Lee Hughes, and Marcus Bignot in the England team, all three players who subsequently went on to play at high levels in the English Football League.
Brian Graham Alexander Croft is an English retired professional footballer who played as a winger. The majority of his Football League appearances were made for his hometown club Chester City in the 1980s and early 1990s.
John Butcher was a professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played in The Football League for five clubs.
Robert Anthony Coy is an English former footballer who played as a defender in the Football League for three clubs in the 1980s.
Michael John Astbury, also known as Mick Astbury, was a professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for five Football League clubs.
John Cottam was an English professional footballer who played as a defender. He played in The Football League for five clubs and later became a manager in non–league football.
Roger Preece was an English professional footballer who mainly played as a midfielder but could also play as a full back. He played in The Football League for three clubs and has also played and managed in non–league football.
Peter Zelem is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender. He played in The Football League for four clubs during the 1980s.
The Football Conference season of 1986–87 was the eighth season of the Football Conference, the first season under this name, this league having earlier been known as the Alliance Premier League.
David Burns is a former English footballer. He played in The Football League for Chester.
Stewart Albert Mell is an English former professional footballer who scored 30 goals from 145 appearances in the Football League, playing for Doncaster Rovers, Halifax Town and Scarborough. He began his football career as a youngster with Hull City, played non-league football for Appleby Frodingham, Burton Albion, Boston United and Goole Town, and was a member of the Scarborough team that won the 1986–87 Football Conference to become the first club automatically promoted to the Football League. While a Burton Albion player, he was capped for England at semi-professional level.
Peter Houghton is an English former footballer who played as a forward in the Football League for four clubs from 1978 to 1988.
Brynley Jones is a Welsh former professional footballer who played in The Football League for Chester as a midfielder. He was born in St Asaph.
John Colin Askey is an English professional football manager and former player who is the manager of National League club Hartlepool United.
Paul Warnock Evans is an English retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Burton Albion in the 1980s. His time with Neil Warnock at Burton began a more than 10-year relationship with Warnock in football. He would spend time as Assistant Manager at Scarborough, then coach at Notts County and Huddersfield Town. Evans was also known at these clubs as "Warnock's mate" and was seen many times in the dressing room calming Warnock down when he became angry.
