List of Linfield F.C. players

For a list of all Linfield players, major or minor, with a Wikipedia article, see the Linfield F.C. players category. For the current first-team squad, see the main Linfield F.C. article.

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.

• Notes:
  • Appearances and goals are counted for competitive matches in all first-team competitions. Wartime matches and friendly/pre-season matches are excluded.
  • Substitute appearances are listed in parentheses (if known) and are included in the total.
  • Players listed in bold are still active at the club.

Player	Position	Years active	Appearances (inc. as sub)	Goals	Goals/games ratio
Joe Bambrick	FW	1927–1935	183	286	1.56
Tommy Dickson	FW	1948–1965	660	454	0.69
Phil Scott	FW	1958–1962 1963–1973	400	220	0.55
Trevor Anderson	FW	1979–1987	327	96	0.29
David Jeffrey	DF	1982–1992	269	69	0.26
Stephen Baxter	FW	1987–1993	219 (50)	102	0.47
Noel Bailie	DF	1989–2011	1,013 (24)	25	0.02
Stephen Beatty	MF	1990–2001	455	52	0.11
Dessie Gorman	FW	1992–1997	166 (15)	56	0.34
William Murphy	DF	1997–2013	639 (12)	48	0.08
Glenn Ferguson	FW	1998–2009	515 (41)	285	0.55
Michael Gault	MF	1999–2014	480 (50)	30	0.06
Alan Mannus	GK	2000–2009	366	1	0.01
Peter Thompson	FW	2001–2008 2010–2015	418 (73)	230	0.55
Steven Douglas	DF	2003–2013	266 (29)	13	0.05
Paul McAreavey	MF	2003–2009	180 (33)	39	0.22
Aidan O'Kane	MF	2003–2011	268 (75)	31	0.12
Jamie Mulgrew	MF	2005–present	389 (53)	38	0.09
Aaron Burns	MF	2008–2012 2013–2017	273 (73)	91	0.33