This article concerns football records in England. Unless otherwise stated, records are taken from the Football League or Premier League. Where a different record exists for the top flight, this is also given. This article includes clubs based in Wales that compete in English leagues.
Kolo Abib Touré is an Ivorian professional football coach and former player. He most recently managed Championship side Wigan Athletic. He previously served as a first team coach at Leicester City and is currently an assistant coach for the Ivory Coast national team.
Edward Joseph Drake was an English football player and manager. As a player, he first played for Southampton but made his name playing for Arsenal in the 1930s, winning two league titles and an FA Cup, as well as five caps for England. Drake is Arsenal's joint fifth highest goalscorer of all time. He also holds the record for the most goals scored in a top flight game in English football, with seven against Aston Villa in December 1935. A former centre forward, Drake has been described as a "classic number 9" and as a "strong, powerful, brave and almost entirely unthinking" player who "typified the English view."
David George Herd was a Scottish international footballer who played for Arsenal, Manchester United, Stockport County, and Stoke City. His regular position was as a forward where he was a consistent goal scorer.
Alan Martin Smith is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is a co-commentator, and sometimes studio pundit for Sky Sports.
Clifford Sydney Bastin was an English footballer who played as a winger for Exeter City and Arsenal. He also played for the England national team. Bastin is Arsenal's third-highest goalscorer of all time.
Alfred John Kirchen was an English footballer.
James Dunne was an Irish footballer who played for, among others, Shamrock Rovers, Sheffield United, Arsenal and Southampton. Dunne was also a dual internationalist and played for both Ireland teams: the FAI XI and the IFA XI.
David Halliday was a Scottish association football player and manager. He achieved numerous distinctions and high rankings as a prolific goal-scoring forward with six senior clubs; St Mirren, Dundee, Sunderland, Arsenal, Manchester City and Clapton Orient. He bookended his senior career playing at then non-league Queen of the South and Yeovil and Petters United. Halliday's three goals in the FA Cup proper for Yeovil give him a career total of 368 senior goals. From being player-manager at Yeovil, he went on to win trophies managing Aberdeen and Leicester City.
Andrew Philip King is a professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for EFL Championship club Bristol City.
Aaron James Ramsey is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Nice and captains the Wales national team. Ramsey mainly plays as a box-to-box midfielder, but has also been deployed on the left and right wings.
Kenneth Leek was a Welsh footballer, who played as a centre forward or inside forward for several different clubs and for the Wales national side in a professional career which spanned from 1952 until 1968. He scored 145 goals in the Football League from 396 appearances with five clubs. Internationally he won 13 caps and scored five goals, and was a member of the Welsh squad for the 1958 FIFA World Cup in Sweden although he did not play during the tournament.
James Alfred Blair was a Scottish professional footballer. A forward, he was the son of Scottish international Jimmy Blair, Sr. and brother of Doug Blair.
John Griffith Roberts was a Welsh footballer who made nearly 400 appearances in the Football League and won 22 caps for Wales.
Leslie Jenkin Jones was a Welsh professional footballer.
John William Anslow Bowers was an English footballer, who was twice the top scorer in the Football League and made three appearances for England.
Jamie Richard Vardy is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for EFL Championship club Leicester City.
Ehud Rogers, commonly known as Tim Rogers, was a Welsh footballer who scored 17 goals from 84 appearances in the Football League playing for Wrexham, Arsenal and Newcastle United in the 1930s and 1940s. An outside right, Rogers appeared for Swansea Town in the abandoned 1939–40 Football League season, and played non-league football for Weston Rhyn, Llanerch Celts, Chirk, and Oswestry Town. Internationally, Rogers was capped for the Wales Amateur XI and played twice for his country in wartime internationals.
