List of Linfield F.C. players

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Linfield F.C. is a professional association football club based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The club plays in the NIFL Premiership, the highest level of the Northern Ireland Football League. They have played at their current home ground, Windsor Park, since 1905. Previous to this they had played at Ulsterville Avenue from 1889 until 1905 and The Meadow from their foundation in 1886 to 1889. They were one of the founding clubs of the league in 1890, and since that time the club has competed in numerous nationally and internationally organised competitions.

Players who have made 100 or more appearances for Linfield are listed below. Players are listed according to the date their first contract was signed with the club.

Forward Tommy Dickson is Linfield's record goal scorer, with 454 goals in 660 appearances between 1948 and 1965. A one-club man and former club captain, defender Noel Bailie holds the record for the most Linfield appearances, playing 1,013 times for the club during a career that spanned 22 years between his debut in 1989 and his retirement in 2011.

Players

As of end of the 2017–18 season.
PlayerPositionYears activeAppearances
(inc. as sub)
GoalsGoals/games
ratio
Saint Patrick's Saltire.svg Joe Bambrick FW 192719351832861.56
Ulster Banner.svg Tommy Dickson FW 194819656604540.69
Ulster Banner.svg Phil Scott FW 19581962
19631973
4002200.55
Ulster Banner.svg Trevor Anderson FW 19791987327960.29
Ulster Banner.svg David Jeffrey DF 19821992269690.26
Ulster Banner.svg Stephen Baxter FW 19871993219 (50)1020.47
Ulster Banner.svg Noel Bailie DF 198920111,013 (24)250.02
Ulster Banner.svg Stephen Beatty MF 19902001455520.11
Flag of Ireland.svg Dessie Gorman FW 19921997166 (15)560.34
Ulster Banner.svg William Murphy DF 19972013639 (12)480.08
Ulster Banner.svg Glenn Ferguson FW 19982009515 (41)2850.55
Ulster Banner.svg Michael Gault MF 19992014480 (50)300.06
Ulster Banner.svg Alan Mannus GK 2000200936610.01
Ulster Banner.svg Peter Thompson FW 20012008
20102015
418 (73)2300.55
Flag of Scotland.svg Steven Douglas DF 20032013266 (29)130.05
Ulster Banner.svg Paul McAreavey MF 20032009180 (33)390.22
Ulster Banner.svg Aidan O'Kane MF 20032011268 (75)310.12
Ulster Banner.svg Jamie Mulgrew MF 2005present389 (53)380.09
Ulster Banner.svg Aaron Burns MF 20082012
20132017
273 (73)910.33