List of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. records and statistics
Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club is an English football club based in Wolverhampton. The club was founded as St Luke's in 1877, soon becoming Wolverhampton Wanderers, before being a founder member of the Football League in 1888.[1] Since that time, the club has played in all four professional divisions of the English football pyramid, and been champions of all these levels.[2] They have also been involved in European football, having been one of the first English clubs to enter the European Cup, as well as reaching the final of the first staging of the UEFA Cup.[3]
This list encompasses all honours won by Wolverhampton Wanderers and records set by the club, their managers and their players. The player records section includes details of the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made most appearances in first-team competitions, as well as transfer fee records paid and received by the club. A list of streaks recording all elements of the game (wins, losses, clean sheets, etc.) is also presented.
Honours[]
In the all-time top flight league table since the league's inception in 1888, Wolves sit in the top fifteen, in terms of all-time English first level league position.[4]
Alternatively, they sit in the top four, behind only Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal in terms of all-time league position from points gained at any level of English professional football.[4]
Cumulatively, they are the joint 11th most successful club in domestic English football history, tied with Nottingham Forest. One place behind Blackburn Rovers, with nine major trophy wins, not including super cups. Alternatively they are joint 10th with Nottingham Forrest, in competitive honours with 13 trophy wins, behind Newcastle United.(see here).
Uniquely, they are the only club to have won titles in five different Football League divisions,[2] and, in 1988, became the first team to have been champions of all four professional leagues in English football; although this feat has since been matched by Burnley (in 1992) and Preston (in 1996). They remain the only club to have won all the main domestic cup competitions (FA Cup, League Cup and Football League Trophy) currently contested in English football.[5]
League[]
Second Division/Championship
Third Division/League One
- Champions: (North), , 2013–14
Fourth Division
- Champions:
Cup[]
UEFA Cup
- Runners-up: 1972
Football League Cup
Football League Trophy
- Winners: 1988
- Winners: 1971
Minor honours[]
- Winners: 2019
- Winners: 2018
- Winners: 1942
- Winners: 1958
- Runners-up: 1953, 1954, 1962, 1976
- Champions 1967 – playing as Los Angeles Wolves
- Winners 1969 – playing as Kansas City Spurs
Premier League 2 Division 2
- Winners 2018-19
- Winners 1931–32, 1950–51, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1957–58, 1958–59
- Winners 1891–92, 1892–93, 1893–94, 1899–1900, 1901–02, 1923–24, 1986–87
- Runners-up 1888–89, 1896–97, 1897–98, 1903–04, 1906–07, 1908–09, 1912–13, 1998–99, 2003–04, 2016–17
- Winners 1934–35
- Winners 1892–93, 1897–98, 1898–99, 1900–01, 1953–54, 1957–58, 1958–59
- Winners 1957–58
- Winners 1887–88, 1893–94, 1966–67
- Runners Up 1884–85
- Winners 2001
- Runners Up 1885–86
- Winners 1884 (First ever trophy)
Daily Express National Five-a-Sides
- Winners 1975, 1976
- Winners 2009
Players[]
Appearances[]
- Most appearances[1]
Note: Competitive first-team games only; substitute appearances are included in total.
Rank | Player | Years | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Other[C] | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() |
1968–1982 | 501 | 46 | 35 | 27 | 609 |
2 | ![]() |
1968–1984 | 466 | 47 | 36 | 25 | 574 |
3 | ![]() |
1986–1999 | 474 | 20 | 33 | 34 | 561 |
4 | ![]() |
1939–1959 | 490 | 48 | 0 | 3 | 541 |
5 | ![]() |
1952–1967 | 467 | 31 | 0 | 14 | 512 |
6 | ![]() |
1967–1981 | 406 | 44 | 27 | 31 | 508 |
7 | ![]() |
1951–1965 | 452 | 31 | 0 | 14 | 497 |
8 | ![]() |
1971–1984 | 416 | 38 | 33 | 8 | 495 |
9 | ![]() |
1937–1960 | 445 | 38 | 0 | 3 | 486 |
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1969–1983 | 385 | 44 | 33 | 24 |
- Most League appearances: 501 – Derek Parkin (1968–1982)[1]
- Most FA Cup appearances: 48 – Harry Wood (1885–1898) and Billy Wright (1939–1959)[1]
- Most League Cup appearances: 36 – Kenny Hibbitt (1968–1984)[1]
- Most European appearances: 18 – Derek Dougan (1967–1975)[1]
- Most consecutive appearances: 171 – Phil Parkes (127 league), September 1970 to September 1973[1]
- Youngest player: Jimmy Mullen, 16 years 43 days (vs Leeds United, 18 February 1939)[1]
- Oldest player: Archie Goodall, 41 years 116 days (vs Everton, Division 1; 2 December 1905)[1]
Goalscorers[]
- Highest goalscorers[1]
Note: Goals scored in competitive first-team games only
Rank | Player | Years | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Europe | Other[C] | Total |
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1 | ![]() |
1986–1999 | 250 | 7 | 18 | 0 | 31 | 306 |
2 | ![]() |
1969–1983 | 144 | 24 | 18 | 4 | 4 | 194 |
3 | ![]() |
1928–1935 | 162 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170 |
4 | ![]() |
1946–1957 | 157 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 167 |
5 | ![]() |
1955–1963 | 155 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 166 |
6 | ![]() |
1951–1965 | 127 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 145 |
7 | ![]() |
1887–1898 | 110 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 126 |
8 | ![]() |
1937–1948 | 105 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 124 |
9 | ![]() |
1967–1975 | 95 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 123 |
10 | ![]() |
1945–1957 | 107 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 114 |
- Most goals in a season in all competitions: 52 – Steve Bull (1987–88, Division 4)[1]
- Most League goals in a season: 38 – Dennis Westcott (1946–47, Division 1)[1]
- Most top flight goals scored: 158 – Johnny Hancocks (1946–57)[1]
- Most Premier League goals scored: 36 – Raúl Jiménez (as of November 3, 2021)
- Most goals in European competition: 12 – Derek Dougan (1967–75)[1]
- Most hat-tricks scored: 18 – Steve Bull (1986–99)[1]
- Most goals scored in a match: 5[1]
- Joe Butcher vs Accrington, 19 November 1892 (Division 1)
- Tom Phillipson vs Bradford City, 25 December 1926 (Division 2)
- Billy Hartill vs Notts County, 12 October 1929 (Division 2)
- Billy Hartill vs Aston Villa, 3 September 1934 (Division 1)
- Fastest recorded goal: 15 seconds – John Richards vs Burnley, 15 November 1975[1]
Internationals[]
- First international: Charlie Mason for England vs Ireland, 17 March 1884[6]
- Most international caps received whilst signed to Wolves: Billy Wright – 105 for England (1939–59)[6]
- Most international goals scored whilst signed to Wolves: 10 – Ron Flowers and Dennis Wilshaw (both England)[6]
- Most World Cup Finals appearances whilst signed to Wolves: 10 – Billy Wright (England, 1950–58)[6]
Award winners[]
- Football Writers' Footballer of the Year
Billy Wright – 1952[6]
Bill Slater – 1960[6]
Transfers[]
- Highest fee paid: £35 million to Porto for Fábio Silva, September 2020.[7][8]
- Highest fee received: £41 million from Liverpool for Diogo Jota, September 2020.[9]
- Progression of record fee paid[6]
Date | Player | Bought from | Fee |
---|---|---|---|
September 1963 | ![]() |
Ipswich Town | £55,000 |
February 1968 | ![]() |
Huddersfield Town | £80,000 |
July 1972 | ![]() |
Burnley | £100,000 |
September 1977 | ![]() |
Blackburn Rovers | £150,000 |
September 1979 | ![]() |
Aston Villa | £1,500,000 |
March 1995 | ![]() |
Bradford City | £1,850,000 |
September 1999 | ![]() |
Bristol City | £3,500,000 |
June 2009 | ![]() |
Reading | £6,500,000 |
June 2010 | ![]() |
Burnley | £6,500,000 |
August 2016 | ![]() |
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£7,000,000 |
January 2017 | ![]() |
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£13,000,000 |
July 2017 | ![]() |
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£15,800,000 |
August 2018 | ![]() |
Middlesbrough | £18,000,000 |
July 2019 | ![]() |
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£32,000,000 |
September 2020 | ![]() |
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£35,000,000 |
- Progression of record fee sold
Date | Player | Sold to | Fee |
---|---|---|---|
November 1961 | ![]() |
Arsenal | £45,000 |
September 1967 | ![]() |
Everton | £81,000 |
March 1974 | ![]() |
Manchester United | £81,000 |
March 1975 | ![]() |
Swindon Town | £88,000 |
November 1977 | ![]() |
Arsenal | £248,000 |
September 1979 | ![]() |
Manchester City | £1,440,000 |
July 1997 | ![]() |
Crystal Palace | £2,250,000 |
August 1999 | ![]() |
Coventry City | £8,100,000 |
August 2012 | ![]() |
West Ham United | £10,750,000 |
August 2012 | ![]() |
Sunderland | £14,000,000 |
July 2020 | ![]() |
Leeds United | £16,000,000 |
August 2020 | ![]() |
Tottenham Hotspur | £16,000,000 |
September 2020 | ![]() |
Liverpool | £42,000,000 |
Managers[]
- Longest-serving manager: Jack Addenbrooke – 36 years, 10 months
- Shortest-serving manager: Bill McGarry (second spell) – 61 days
- Youngest manager when appointed: Jack Addenbrooke – 20 years old
- Oldest manager when appointed: Bill McGarry (second spell) – 58 years old
Team records[]
Matches[]
- Firsts[1]
- First known match: St Luke's 0–8 Stafford Road, 13 January 1877
- First FA Cup match: Wolves 4–1 Long Eaton Rangers, 1st round, 27 October 1883
- First Football League match: Wolves 1–1 Aston Villa, 8 September 1888
- First match at Molineux: Wolves 1–0 Aston Villa, friendly, 2 September 1889
- First European match: Wolves 2–2 Schalke, European Cup 2nd round 1st leg, 12 November 1958
- First League Cup match: Wolves 2–1 Mansfield Town, 2nd round, 13 September 1966
- Record wins[10]
- Record win: 14–0 vs Crosswell's Brewery, FA Cup 2nd round, 13 November 1886
- Record League win: 10–1 vs Leicester City, Division 1, 15 April 1938
- Record FA Cup win: 14–0 vs Crosswell's Brewery, FA Cup 2nd round, 13 November 1886
- Record League Cup win: 6–1 vs Shrewsbury Town, 2nd round 1st leg, 24 September 1991
- Record European win: 5–0 vs Austria Vienna, European Cup Winners' Cup quarter-final 2nd leg, 30 November 1960
- Record home win (league): 10–1 vs Leicester City, Division 1, 15 April 1938
- Record home win (cup): 14–0 vs Crosswell's Brewery, FA Cup 2nd round, 13 November 1886
- Record away win (league): 9–1 vs Cardiff City, Division 1, 3 September 1955
- Record away win (cup): 5–0 vs Grimsby Town, FA Cup semi-final, 25 March 1939 (neutral venue)
- Record defeats[10]
- Record defeat: 1–10 vs Newton Heath, Division 1, 15 October 1892
- Record League defeat: 1–10 vs Newton Heath, Division 1, 15 October 1892
- Record FA Cup defeat: 0–6 vs Rotherham United, 1st round, 16 November 1985
- Record League Cup defeat: 0–6 vs Chelsea, 3rd round, 25 September 2012
- Record European defeat: 0–4 vs Barcelona, European Cup 2nd round first leg, 10 February 1960
- Record home defeat (league): 0–8 vs West Bromwich Albion, Division 1, 27 December 1897
- Record home defeat (cup): 3–6 vs Derby County, FA Cup 3rd round, 14 January 1933
- Record away defeat (league): 1–10 vs Newton Heath, Division 1, 15 October 1892
- Record away defeat (cup): 0–6 vs Rotherham United, FA Cup 1st round, 16 November 1985; and vs Chelsea, League Cup 3rd round, 25 September 2012
- Streaks[10]
Note: Applies to League games only
- Longest run of consecutive full seasons playing in Tier 1 of English football: 26 (1932 - 1965) [n.b. 1939-40 season was abandoned due to outbreak of World War II and there was no full league football between 1940 and 1946 due to the conflict]
- Longest run of consecutive full seasons playing in Tier 2 of English football: 14 (1989 - 2003)
- Longest unbeaten run: 21 games (January – August 2005)
- Longest unbeaten run in home games: 27 games (March 1923 – September 1924)
- Longest unbeaten run in away games: 11 games (September 1953 – January 1954)
- Longest winning run: 9 games (January – March 2014)
- Longest winning run in home games: 14 games (March – December 1953)
- Longest winning run in away games: 5 games (during 1938, 1962, 1980, 2001, 2013)
- Longest winless run: 19 games (December 1984 – April 1985)
- Longest winless run in home games: 13 games (November 1984 – May 1985)
- Longest winless run in away games: 32 games (March 1922 – October 1923)
- Longest scoring run: 41 games (December 1958 – December 1959)
- Longest scoreless run: 7 games (February – March 1985)
- Longest run of clean sheets: 8 games (August – October 1982)
- Longest run without a clean sheet: 30 games (September 2011 – April 2012)
Goals[]
- Most league goals scored in a season: 115 (Division 2; 1931–32)
- Fewest league goals scored in a season: 27 (Division 1; 1983–84)
- Most league goals conceded in a season: 99 (Division 1; 1905–06)
- Fewest league goals conceded in a season: 27 (Division 3; 1923–24)
- Most goals scored in a game (league): 10 (vs Leicester City, Division 1, 15 April 1938)
- Most goals scored in a game (cup): 14 (vs Crosswell's Brewery, FA Cup 2nd round, 13 November 1886)
Points[]
- Most points in a season:[1]
- Two points for a win: 64 (Division 1, 1957–58)
- Three points for a win: 103 (League One, 2013–14)
- Fewest points in a season:[1]
- Two points for a win: 21 (Division 1, 1895–96)
- Three points for a win: 25 (Premier League, 2011–12)
Attendances[]
- Highest home attendance: 61,315 vs Liverpool, FA Cup 4th Round, 11 February 1939[1]
- Highest league attendance: 58,661 vs West Bromwich Albion, Division 1, 15 October 1949[1]
- Highest average league attendance: 45,346 (1949–50 season)[1]
Season-by-season performance[]
Miscellaneous feats[]
- Wolves were awarded, and scored from, the Football League's first ever penalty kick on 14 September 1891.[11]
- Wolves were the first (and as of 2014 only) English league team to pass the 100-goal mark for four seasons in succession, in the 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60 and 1960-61 seasons.
- In 2005 Wolves became the first team to have scored 7,000 league goals[12] and currently trail only Manchester United and Liverpool in terms of total league goals (as of the end of the 2016–17 season).[4]
References[]
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- ^ a b c "a) England — First Level All-Time Tables". -—-—."b) England — Professional Football All-Time Tables". RSSSF.
- ^ "Wolves completed the set when they won the (then) Sherpa Van Trophy in 1988. Apart from four FA Cups (1893, 1908, 1949, 1960), three First Division championships (1953–54, 1957–58, 1958–59) and two League Cups (1974, 1980), the Wolves set also includes the Charity Shield (beating Forest in 1959), the FA Youth Cup (1958) and the Anglo-Scottish Cup (1971). Having also won the Second Division (1931–32, 1976–77), the Third Division (1988–89), the Third Division North (1923–24) and the Fourth Division (1987–88)", only the renamed Championship remained and was duly completed (2008–09). Bryant, Tom; Roopanarine, Les; Chesterton, George; "KNOWLEDGE ARCHIVE" Guardian.co.uk, 3 October 2007
- ^ a b c d e f g Matthews, Tony (2001). The Wolves Who's Who. West Midlands: Britespot. ISBN 1-904103-01-4.
- ^ "Record-breaking teenage striker Silva joins Wolves". Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. 5 September 2020.
- ^ "Wolves signing teenager Fabio Silva for £35m club record fee". Express & Star. 5 September 2020.
- ^ "Liverpool sign Diogo Jota for £41m from Wolves as Ki-Jana Hoever moves to Molineux". BBC Sport. 19 September 2020.
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