Fulham Football Club Fulham Football Club is a professional football club based in Fulham, West London, England. The club competes in the , the top tier of English football. They have played home games at Craven Cottage since 1896, other than a two-year period spe ...

is an English professional football team based in

Fulham Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies in a loop on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea, London, Chelsea ...

in the

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. The club was formed in

West Kensington West Kensington, formerly North End, is an area in the ancient parish of Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, England, 3.4 miles (5.5 km) west of Charing Cross. It covers most of the London postal area of W14, includ ...

in 1879 as Fulham St Andrew's Church Sunday School F.C., shortened to Fulham F.C. in 1888. They initially played at Fulham Fields before a move to

Craven Cottage Craven Cottage is a football stadium in Fulham, West London, England, which has been the home of Fulham F.C. since 1896.According to the club'official website The ground's capacity is 29,589; the record attendance is 49,335, for a game agains ...

in 1896; the club played their first professional match in December 1898 and made their

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debut in the 1902–03 season. The club competed in the

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between 1898 and 1907, when they were accepted into the

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. Having spent much of their history outside the top division, the

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gained promotion to the

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in 2001. They spent more than ten seasons in the top flight, and reached the

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of the

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2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

. In 2014 they were relegated to the

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. They have since spent one further season back in the Premier League in 2018–19 but suffered an immediate return to the Championship. Since the club's first competitive match, 966 players have made an appearance in a competitive match, of which 186 have made at least 100 appearances (including substitute appearances); all players who have reached this milestone are listed below. The record number of appearances is held by

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, who played 658 matches in all competitions, scoring 158 goals, in a career spent entirely at Craven Cottage. Eddie Lowe is the only other player to have played more than 500 matches, although Les Barrett came close with 491 appearances. Gordon Davies is the club's record goalscorer, with 179 goals in 450 matches. Five other players have scored more than 100 goals for Fulham.

Ryan Sessegnon Kouassi Ryan Sessegnon (born 18 May 2000) is an English professional association football, footballer who plays as a left-back, left midfielder, or left winger for club Fulham F.C., Fulham. Sessegnon made his breakthrough in the Fulham F.C., ...

Tom Cairney Thomas Cairney (born 20 January 1991) is a professional association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder for and Captain (association football), captains club Fulham F.C., Fulham. Cairney has previously played for Hull City A.F.C. ...

, Harrison Reed,

Antonee Robinson Antonee Robinson (born August 8, 1997) is a professional football player who plays as a left-back for club Fulham. Born in England, he represents the United States national team. Nicknamed Jedi, he is known for his pace, work rate, and offensi ...

, and Harry Wilson are the current squad members who have played over 100 matches for Fulham.

Players

This list contains the 187 players, including five current squad members, as of 22 December 2024, who have made more than 100 appearances for Fulham, ordered by the years in which they played for the club and then alphabetically by surname. The figure for league appearances and goals comprise those in the

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and the

. Total appearances and goals comprise those in the Southern Football League, Football League (including

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), Premier League,

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and UEFA Cup/Europa League. Wartime matches are regarded as unofficial and are excluded, as are matches from the abandoned 1939–40 season. Statistics for the

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and

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are not included in the table. International appearances and goals are given for the senior national team only. Figures are mostly taken from ''Fulham: The Complete Record'' by Dennis Turner (published in 2007).

and UEFA Cup/Europa League appearance statistics for the 2002–03 and 2009–10 seasons are taken from Soccerbase, along with all other statistics from the 2007–08 season onwards. ''Statistics are correct as of 22 December 2024. International statistics correct as of 19 November 2024.''

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External links

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