List of Newport County A.F.C. players

This is a list of notable players of Newport County Football Club .

For a list of all Newport County players with a Wikipedia article, see Category:Newport County A.F.C. players. For the current Newport County first-team squad, see Newport County A.F.C. § Current squad. For top goal scorers and transfer records, see List of Newport County A.F.C. records and statistics.

Newport County Hall of Fame

The Newport County Hall of Fame was launched on 3 April 2009 by Andrew Taylor, club programme columnist and author of Look Back in Amber: Memories of Newport County. Fans can nominate players to be considered by a committee. To date there have been five sets of inductions with further inductions planned regularly. ^[1]

Player	Inducted	Newport County career	League Appearances	League Goals	Notes
Tommy Tynan	3 Apr 2009	1978–1983	183	66
Albert Derrick (Senior)	18 Sep 2009	1935–1945	145	57	Posthumous
Roddy Jones	18 Sep 2009	1969–1979	323	71
Chris Lilygreen	18 Sep 2009	1983–1993	211	98
Ken Morgans	18 Sep 2009	1964–1967	141	46
Kevin Moore	18 Sep 2009	1978–1983	148	14
Dave Williams	18 Sep 2009	1960–1973	306	2
John Relish	18 Sep 2009	1974–1987	338	9
Keith Oakes	27 Oct 2012	1978–1984	232	27
Mark Price	27 Oct 2012	1990–1996	275	46
Nathan Davies	27 Oct 2012	1998–2010	383	16
Len Weare	27 Oct 2012	1955–1970	525	0	Posthumous
Craig Reid	27 Oct 2012	2008–2011	112	66
Tony Gilbert	27 Oct 2012	1970–2013	N/A	N/A	Kit Manager
David Pipe	2 Apr 2015	2011–2014	100	0
Gary Plumley	2 Apr 2015	1976–1982, 1984–1985, 1987	187	0
Graham Coldrick	2 Apr 2015	1970–1975	157	10
Richard Walden	2 Apr 2015	1978–1982	151	2	Posthumous
Christian Jolley	2 Apr 2015	2012–2015	61	15
Steve Lowndes	2 Apr 2015	1977–1983, 1992–1996	358	51
Norman Parselle	2 Apr 2015	1986–1988, 1989–1991, mid 90s	N/A	N/A
David Hando	2 Apr 2015	N/A	N/A	N/A	Honorary President
Andrew Taylor	17 Oct 2015	N/A	N/A	N/A	Club Historian, Secretary of Former Players' Association
Justin Edinburgh	29 Dec 2019	2011–2015 (manager)	N/A	N/A	Posthumous

International honours

Full internationals

The following players received the following full international caps while playing for Newport County:

Ron Hugh (1 cap) Tudor Martin (1 cap) Jack Nicholls (2 caps) Fred Cook (2 caps) Harold Williams (2 caps) Alf Sherwood (2 caps) Steve Lowndes (2 caps)

Nigel Vaughan (3 caps) Calaum Jahraldo-Martin (1 cap) Keanu Marsh-Brown (1 caps) Josh Sheehan (2 caps) Luke Gambin (1 cap) Nick Townsend (8 caps) Nathan Moriah-Welsh (1 cap)

Semi-pro internationals

The following players have received semi-pro international caps while playing for Newport County:

Paul Bignot Nathan Davies Lee Evans Charlie Henry Andrew Hughes Craig Hughes

Christian Jolley Ian Hillier Danny Rose Garry Shephard Ben Swallow Andrew Thomas

Youth internationals

The following players have received schoolboy, under 17, under 19 or under 21 international caps while playing for Newport County:

Gethin Jones Andrew Hughes Keiron Blackburn Ryan Newman Jamie Davies Lee Evans Regan Poole Aaron Collins Liam Angel Josh Sheehan

Jay Foulston Momodou Touray Mark Harris Danny McNamara Lewis Collins Brandon Cooper Lewys Twamley Sonny Lewis Matt Baker

PFA Team of the Year

The following players were selected for the PFA Team of the Year whilst playing for Newport County:

• 1973–74 Brian Godfrey (Fourth Division)
• 1979–80 Keith Oakes (Fourth Division)
• 1985–86 Terry Boyle (Third Division)
• 2020–21 Josh Sheehan (League Two)
• 2021–22 Dom Telford (League Two)

Newport County Player of the Year

The following players were selected by the Supporters Club as the official Newport County player of the year at the club's annual end of season awards presentation evening:

• 2010 Gary Warren
• 2011 Paul Bignot
• 2012 David Pipe
• 2013 Tony James
• 2014 Chris Zebroski
• 2015 Darren Jones
• 2016 Mark Byrne
• 2017 Dan Butler
• 2018 Dan Butler
• 2019 Pádraig Amond
• 2020 Scot Bennett
• 2021 Matty Dolan
• 2022 Cameron Norman
• 2023 Cameron Norman
• 2024 Nick Townsend

Football League appearances for Newport County

Over 200 football league appearances since 1989

Scot Bennett 288 Joe Day 266

Mickey Demetriou 258 Robbie Willmott 223

Over 100 football league appearances since 1989 (as at 8 February 2025)

Matty Dolan 175 Pádraig Amond 162 Nick Townsend 152 Josh Sheehan 142 Dan Butler 129

Joss Labadie 122 David Pipe 110 Ryan Haynes 103 Mark O'Brien 103

Over 200 football league appearances before 1989

Len Weare 525 Ray Wilcox 488 John Rowland 463 Len Hill 366 John Relish 337 Dave Williams 306 Roddy Jones 288 John Bird 276 Billy Shergold 274 Mark Kendall 272 Doug Hayward 260

Andy White 253 Granville Smith 241 Danny Newall 233 Keith Oakes 232 Ken Hollyman 231 Nigel Vaughan* 224 Jeff Thomas 209 Steve Lowndes* 208 Alf Sherwood* 205 Reg Parker 201

Over 100 football league appearances before 1989

Steve Aizlewood John Aldridge* Neil Bailey George Beattie Gary Bell Cliff Birch Stan Bowsher* Terry Boyle* Gordon Brown Willie Brown Roy Carter Graham Coldrick Grant Davies Albert Derrick (Senior) Cecil Dixon Tom Docherty Harry Duggan* Ernie Edwards Karl Elsey Harry Fearnley Howard Goddard Dave Gwyther Bobby Harper Wynne Hooper Harry Harris

Linden Jones John Lewis Norman Low John Macey Ken McPherson John McSeveney Beriah Moore Kevin Moore Ken Morgans Peter Passey Dudley Peake Gary Plumley Graham Rathbone Les Riggs Guido Roffi Alan Smith Martyn Sprague Len Staples George Thomas Tommy Tynan Richard Walden Allen Wood Eddie Woods George Young

Other notable former players

Note: Inclusion criteria should be stated

Paul Bignot Dave Bruton Darren Campbell Jeff Eckhardt Lee Evans Sam Foley Trevor Ford# Brian Harris Dean Holdsworth Andrew Hughes Christian Jolley Joe Ledley Lee Minshull Aaron O'Connor

Darren Peacock Lenny Pidgeley Bob Pugh Tony Pulis Ronnie Radford Craig Reid Danny Rose Andy Sandell Albert Scanlon Dom Telford Glyn Thompson Gary Warren Conor Washington Ismail Yakubu

# On the list of Football League 100 Legends, a list of "100 legendary football players" produced by The Football League in 1998, to celebrate the 100th season of League football.

References

1. Tangerine Tommy. "Newport County Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on 30 August 2011. Retrieved 24 March 2010.