Arsenal players Part 1: A to K.

Last update 8 Jan 2019

This is the first half of our A to Z index of every player to have played for Arsenal in a league match, along with some others of note, with links to the main articles on this site about them.

You can Part 2 of the list here. 

Please note that in the index I’m for the most part only including articles that are primarily about the player – there are many others in most cases, in which the player in mentioned in passing.  Just occasionally I vary this where the article has something in it that could be of particular interest about the player.

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ADAMS, Tony

• Tony Adams drops Steve Morrow
• Tony Adams, and the building of the famous back four
• George Graham’s players: Tony Adams
• Tony Adams makes a good start to the season in Azerbaijan
• Tony Adams declares he would love to manage Arsenal

ADDISON, Colin

• Colin Addison: the serial manager

ADEBAYOR, Emmanuel

• 22 September 2007: Adebayor gets a hat trick during run of seven consecutive wins

AKPOM, Chuba

• 2012 Pre season. Nigeria cancelled, Akpom and Bellerin make their mark

ALIADIERE, Jeremie

• Jérémie Aliadière; helped expose the rise of dubious refereeing

ALLINSON, Ian

• Ian Allinson; hero of the league cup, and recipient of administrative cock-ups

ALMUNIA, Manuel

• Almunia forced to retire with a serious heart condition
• Manuel Almunia: first, second and third choice keeper

AMBLER, Charles

AMPADU, Kwame

ANDERSON, Edward

ANDERSON, John

ANDERSON, Terry

• Terry Anderson or Arsenal and Norwich: a tragic story

ANDERSON, Viv

ANDERSON, Walter

ANEKE, Chuks

ANELKA, Nicolas

• Nicolas Anelka: the man who could have played alongside Thierry Henry
• 20 Feb 1999: Anelka’s first hat trick
• After they left Arsenal: Petit, Overmars, Anelka

ANGHA, Martin

ARMSTRONG, George

• George Armstrong: signed by Swindin but came good under Mee

ARNOLD, Tom

ARSHAVIN, Andrey

• Andrey Sergeyevich Arshavin: the artist of Leningrad

ARTETA, Mikel

ASHCROFT, James

• James Ashcroft: our first England player and still a club record holder

ASTON, James

AYLING, Luke

• Winning the youth cup in 2009 and what happened next.

BACUZZI, Dave

• Dave Bacuzzi: Arsenal right back who took an amateur team into the Cup Winners Cup.

BAKER, Alf

• Alf Baker: from the first 1st division match at Highbury to our first Cup Final

BAKER, Joe

• Billy Wright’s players at Arsenal: Joe Baker

BALDWIN, Tommy

• Tommy Baldwin one of the two who played for three of the four

BALL, Alan

• Alan Ball born, 12 May 1945

BANNISTER, William

BAPTISTA, Julio

• Baptista scores four as Arsenal hit six at Anfield

BARAZITE, Nacer

BARBOUR, Humphrey

BARLEY, Charles

BARNES, Walley

• Walley Barnes: football as a series of accidental events

BARNETT, Geoff

• Geoff Barnett understudy to Bob Wilson

BARNWELL, John

• Former Arsenal player John Barnwell talks about his years at Highbury
• John Barnwell, Arsenal league debut 13 April 1957

BARRETT, Graham

BARRON, Paul

• Paul Barron: Arsenal’s reserve keeper in the multiple-cup era

BARTLEY, Kyle

• Winning the youth cup in 2009 and what happened next.

BARTRAM, Vince

• Vince Bartram: 11 games for Arsenal

BASSETT, Spencer

BASTIN, Cliff

• Iconic moments in the history of Arsenal: signing Cliff Bastin

BATES, Morris

BATEUP, Edwin

• Arsenal sign, lose, sign and lose goalkeeper Bateup.

BATSON, Brendon

BEARDSLEY, Fred

BEASLEY, Albert

• Pat Beasley – one of Chapman’s signings – died 27 February 1986

BEE, Edmund

BELL, Charles

BELLAMY, James

BELLERIN, Hector

BENAYOUN, Yossi

BENDTNER, Nicklas

• The June 2014 Arsenal departures, and what they achieved

BENEY, Albert

BENSON, Bob

• Bob Benson, Arsenal player with a great sense of humour, who died playing for the club.

BENTLEY, David

• Whatever happened to David Bentley?
• What happened to David Bentley part 2

BERGKAMP, Dennis

BIGDEN, James

• James Bigden; part of the WHU exodus to Arsenal

BIGGS, Arthur

• Arthur Gilbert Biggs: only three games for Arsenal but a varied football career

BIGGS, Tony

BIRKETT, Ralph

• Ralph Birkett: part of the South West club that Chapman built within Arsenal

BISCHOFF, Amaury

BLACK, Michael

BLACK, Tom

BLACK, Tommy

BLACKWOOD, John

BLAIR, James

• The sad history of Jimmy Blair

BLOCKLEY, Jeff

• Jeff Blockley, derided by fans, but the manager should take more blame.

BLOOMFIELD, Jimmy

• Players from the Dark Era: Jimmy Bloomfield

BLYTH, Billy

• Billy Blyth: Arsenal’s first film star

BOATENG, Daniel

BOOT, Micky

BOOTH, Charles

• Charlie Booth: the final member of our first ever league team

BOREHAM, Reg

• Reg Boreham: the invisible man, another victim of Knighton’s story telling

BOULD, Steve

• Steve Bould, Arsenal’s new number 2

BOULTON, Frank

• Frank Boulton: details are sketchy but he was a league winner

BOWDEN, Ray

• Ray Bowden: the final member of the brilliant forward line of the 1930s.

BOWEN, Dave

• Dave Bowen: the man from the Dark Era who should have been our manager.

BOWEN, Ted

BOYD, Harry

BOYLAN, Patrick

• Meet the ancestors at Arsenal: Patrick Boylan

BOYLE, James

• James (Jimmy) Boyle, played both centre half and in goal for Arsenal

BRADSHAW, Frank

• Frank Bradshaw; from goal scoring to defending, Arsenal after the WWI

BRADSHAW, William

BRADY, Liam

BRAIN, Jimmy

• Jimmy Brain, signed by Knighton, a triumph for Chapman

BREMNER, Gordon

• Gordon Bremner: a tremendous talent whose career was lost to the war

BRIERCLIFFE, Tommy

• Tommy Briercliffe: part of the team that won promotion

BRIGGS, Stanley

• Stanley Briggs; from Tottenham to Arsenal to Tottenham. But is the tale all it seems?

BRIGNALL, Steve

BROCK, James

BROWN, Laurie

BRYAN, Tommy

• Thomas Bryan: he played for Woolwich Arsenal but was there really a Woolwich Ordnance Factory club?

BUCHAN, Charlie

BUCHAN, James

BUCHANAN, Robert

• Robert Buchanan; an Arsenal man for two seasons who died tragically young

BUCKENHAM, William

BUCKLEY, Chris

• Chris Buckley: the Arsenal player who became Villa chairman

BUIST, Bob

BUIST, George

BURDETT, George

BURGESS, Dan

• Dan Burgess (also known as Dick); another of our mystery players

BURNS, Tony

BUTLER, John

• John Butler: WM’s first centre half, and one of the claimants to be Arsenal’s first foreign player

BUSBY, Walter

BURROWS, Lycurgus

• Lycurgus Burrows: played for Tottenham and Arsenal at the same time.

BURRELL, George

• George Burrell and the full team of the final match in Plumstead

CAMPBELL, Sol

CANOVILLE, Lee

CARR, Eddie

• Eddie Carr played 12 games for Arsenal and won us the league!

CARTER, Jimmy

• Jimmy Carter. Arsenal 1991 to 1995

CARTWRIGHT, Sid

• Sidney Cartwright: a member of the 1930s Arsenal team of whom we know so little

CARVER, George

CASSIDY, Hugh

CATON, Tommy

• Tommy Caton 1962-1993

CAZORLA, Santi

CHALMERS, John

CHAMBERS, Brian

CHAMAKH, Marouane

CHAMBERS, Calum

CHAPMAN, Lee

• Lee Chapman – won the league but not with Arsenal.

CHARLES, Mel

• 6 April 1959: First Arsenal game for Mel Charles, (in Southern Floodlight Challenge Cup)

CHARLTON, Stan

• Swindin’s men: the players who entered the dark zone. Stan Charlton

CHARTERIS, James

CHENHALL, John

• On this day in 1949 – Arsenal players start the second half with a fag!

CHISHOLM, Norman

• Why on earth did Arsenal go to Scotland and play nine games in ten days!

CHRISTMAS, Albert

CLAMP, Eddie

CLAPTON, Danny

• DR Clapton: played two games in one day

CLAPTON, Denis

CLARK, Archie

CLARK, James

CLARK, John

CLARKE, Adrian

CLARKE, Fred

CLICHY, Gael

COAKLEY, Tommy

COCK, Donald

COLE, Andy

• Andy Cole; the one who got away

COLE, Ashley

COLEMAN, Ernie

• Ernest Coleman: the one season wonder

COLEMAN, John

• Tim Coleman at Woolwich Arsenal

COLES, Fred

• Fred Coles, Arsenal 1900-1904 before moving to Sweden

COLLETT, Ernie

COMMON, Alf

• Alf Common’s cap goes up for sale.
• Alf Common – an unexpected signing

COMPTON, Denis

• Leslie and Dennis Compton: Brothers at the Arsenal

COMPTON, Leslie

• Leslie and Dennis Compton: Brothers at the Arsenal

CONNOLLY, Matthew

• Matthew Connolly: Arsenal academy man who won the Championship 3 times.

CONNOLLY, Peter

CONNOR, Joe

COOPER, Joseph

• Joseph Cooper: the most mysterious of all the mysterious Arsenal players

COOPLAND, Ernest

COPPING, Wilf

• Wilf Copping, one of the original hard men of football

COQUELIN, Francis

• Winning the youth cup in 2009 and what happened next.

CORK, David

COTTRELL, Ernest

COURT, David

• David Court: the last member of the George Swindin era still at Arsenal

COWNLEY, Frank

COX, Freddie

• Freddie Cox DFC

COX, George

• George Cox: one of the men who got Arsenal fined, but a fine cricketer and good servant of the club

CRAWFORD, Gavin

CRAWFORD, Harold

CRAYSTON, Jack

• Jack Crayston: player, coach, manager
• Jack Crayston: Arsenal player and Arsenal manager

CREEGAN, Walter

CREGG, Patrick

CROPLEY, Alex

CROWE, Alfred

CROSS, Archie

• Archie Cross and Bill Gooing; played over 100 games for WAFC

CROWE, Jason

• Two players with the shortest of appearances for Arsenal, linked on a single day.

CROZIER, James

CRUISE, Thomas

• Winning the youth cup in 2009 and what happened next.

CUMNER, Reg

• Reginald Horace Cumner: the player historians trip over

CURLE, William

CURTIS, George

• George Curtis: the Arsenal player who managed Norway

CYGAN, Pascal

 

DAILLY, Hugh

DANIEL, Ray

• Ray Daniel, the man who left Arsenal for an illegal opportunity

DANILEVICIUS, Tomas

DAVIDSON, Alex

DAVIDSON, Bobby

• Bobby Davidson’s first match for Arsenal 20 February 1935

DAVIDSON, Roger

• Roger Davidson

DAVIE, George

• Exclusive: How Arsenal were at the heart of both the start and end of football’s “retain and transfer” system.
•  Football consumes twice as much as the royal family. The view from 1893.

DAVIES, Paul

DAVIS, Fred

• Frederick William Davis. 150 games for Arsenal and we know so little.

DAVIS, Paul

• Paul Davis. Wonderful wonderful player, talented coach, and one incident

DEBUCHY, Mathieu

DENILSON, –

DEVINE, Archie

• Archibald Devine; 14 transfers; 11 clubs, 1 cap, 1 cup winner’s medal

DEVINE, Daniel

• Daniel Devine: played in our first league game, but then lost to history

DEVINE, John

• John Devine: a lifetime in football

DEVLIN, James

• James Devlin: a tale of wandering and an insight into the early days

DIABY, Abou

DIARRA, Lassana

DIAWARA, Kaba

DICK, John

• John Dick, our first 250 game player who helped develop Sparta Prague

DICKOV, Paul

DICKSON, Bill

DIXON, Lee

• Lee Dixon joins Arsenal, 29 January
• Tony Adams, and the building of the famous back four

DJOUROU, Johan

DOCHERTY, Tommy

• Tommy Docherty; Arsenal player, jobbing manager

DODGIN, Bill

• The dead years of Arsenal: Bill Dodgin

DOUGALL, Peter

• The next Alex James, but not quite

DRAIN, Tom

DRAKE, Ted

DRURY, George

• George Drury: the man who refused to be sent off against Moscow Dynamo

DUCAT, Andy

• The first of the 50 greatest Arsenal players

DUFF, Hugh

DUNCAN, David

DUNN, Stephen

DUNNE, Jimmy

• The curious life of Jimmy Dunne: Herbert Chapman’s last big money signing

DUNSBEE, Charles

DWIGHT, Fred

• Fred Dwight: an echo of a bygone age.

DYER, Frank

EARLE, Stanley

EASTHAM, George

• The Arsenal man who changed the transfer system

EASTMOND, Craig

• Winning the youth cup in 2009 and what happened next.

EBOUE, Emmanuel

EDGAR, John

EDU

EDUARDO

• 2009 pre-season: The disgraceful exhibition of the media and Uefa against Eduardo

EISFELD, Thomas

ELLIOTT, Arthur

• Arthur Elliott: Arsenal’s untraceable record holder

ELVEY, Richard

EMMANUEL-THOMAS, Jay

• Winning the youth cup in 2009 and what happened next.

EVANS, Dennis

• They played for Arsenal during the dark days: Dennis Evans

EVANS, Robert

EVERITT, Mike

FABIANSKI, Lukasz

FABREGAS, Cesc

FAIRCLOUGH, William

• My grandfather played for Arsenal: William Fairclough

FARMER, George

Left Belper Town in May 1896 to join Woolwich Arsenal who were then in the Second Division.  Made his debut on 12 September 1896 in a 1-1 draw at home to Walsall.  He made just one other appearance – an FA Cup 4^th Qualifying Round game against Leyton, scoring one goal in a 5-0 win.  He returned to Belper Town at the start of the 1897/98 season.

FARR, Andrew

FARRELL, Patrick

• Arsenal v Brighton United – and an unexpected glimpse of the class struggle within football
• 25 April 1891 – Arsenal’s First Ever Substitute

FERGUSON, James

FERRY, Gordon

FIDLER, Joe

• Joseph E Fidler: played the last game at Woolwich and first game at Highbury

FIELDS, Alf

FISHER, George

FITCHIE, Tom

• The only player signed five times by Arsenal!

FLAMINI, Mathieu

FLANAGAN, John

• John “Pat” Flanagan: a name besmirched by a false story

FLATTS, Mark

FLETCHER, Alf

FONTE, Rui

FORBES, Alex

• Alexander Rooney Forbes

FORD, George

FOSTER, R.

FOTHERINGHAM, Jim

• James Gibb Fotheringham: an Arsenal man of whom we’d like to know more

FOXALL, Abe

FREEMAN, Bert

FRIMPONG, Emmanuel

FURNELL, Jim

• Jim Furnell; the bridge between Kelsey and Wilson

FYFE, James

GALLAS, William

GARBUTT, Billy

GARDE, Remi

GARRY, Ryan

• Ryan Garry: what it’s like to have your career taken away from you

GARTON, John

GATTING, Steve

• Steve Gatting; player and now coach at Arsenal

GAUDIE, Ralph

GEMMELL, Duncan

• Duncan Gemmell: three games for Wednesday, five games for Arsenal

GEORGE, Charlie

GIBBS, Kieran

GILBERT, Kerrea

GILMER, William

GIROUD, Olivier

• Giroud scores his first goal

GLOAK, David

GOOING, Bill

• Archie Cross and Bill Gooing; played over 100 games for WAFC

GORDON, Bob

GORING, Peter

• Peter Goring: one of the XI in Arsenal’s 1953 championship

GORMAN, Paul

GOULD, Bobby

• Bobby Gould at Arsenal (and elsewhere)

GOULDEN, Roy

GOY, Peter

GRAHAM, Alex

GRAHAM, George

• George Graham: the centre forward who became a stroller
• George Graham
• George Graham: Arsenal’s second most successful manager for trophies
• George Graham relieved of his duties; 21 February 1995

GRAHAM, Jack

GRAHAM, Tom

GRANT, Cyril

• Cyril Grant: part of the Arsenal at Gravesend

GRANT, George

• George M Grant: played for Woolwich, The Arsenal and Arsenal and against Arsenal!

GRANT, John

GRAY, Archie

• Archibald Colin Gray: another forgotten Gunners hero

GRAY, Julian

GREENAWAY, David

• The players who began the season 100 years ago: David Greenaway

GRICE, Neville

GRIEVE, Tom

GRIFFITHS, Arfon

GRIFFITHS, Mal

GRIMANDI, Gilles

GRONDIN, David

GROVES, Fred

GROVES, Perry

GROVES, Vic

GUDMUNDSSON, Albert

• The Arsenal player who became Minister of Finance and stood for President

GUTHRIE, Ralph

• Ralph Guthrie: he played twice in goal for Arsenal in 1954

HADEN, Sammy

• Sammy Haden: the winger who crossed for Buchan’s first goal

HALLIDAY, David

• David Halliday: top scoring centre forward who couldn’t make it at Arsenal

HALLS, John

HAMILTON, Thomas

HANKIN, Ray

HANKS, Ernest

HANNAH, David

HANNIGAN, Richard

HAPGOOD, Eddie

HARDING, Edwin

HARDINGE, Wally

• Wally Hardinge, played in Arsenal’s first Highbury game, and a top cricketer too.

HARE, Charlie

HARPER, Bill

• Bill Harper, an Arsenal man in the USA

HARPER, Lee

• Lee Harper – the Arsenal keeper who never let in a goal

HARTLEY, Abe

HARTSON, John

• 13 February 1995 John Hartson signed for Arsenal

HARVEY, Jimmy

HATFIELD, Thomas

HAVERTY, Joe

• Joe Haverty: a beacon of light in an era of Darkness

HAWLEY, John

• John Hawley: a life saver who played for Arsenal at a most difficult time

HAYES, Martin

HAYNES, Alf

• Alf Haynes

HAYWOOD, Adam

HEANEY, Neil

HEATH, Joseph

• Joseph Frederick (“Billy”) Heath; the man who scored the very first penalty

HEELEY, Mark

HELDER, Glenn

HENDERSON, Conor

HENDERSON, Jackie

• Jackie Henderson: the Arsenal man who moved to my village

HENDERSON, James

• James Henderson: Rifle Volunteer, Champions medal, Arsenal, then…

HENDERSON, William

HENLEY, Les

HENRY, Thierry

• Arsenal Anniversaries: Thierry Henry signs for Arsenal, 3 August 1999

HEPPINSTALL, Frank

HERD, David

HILL, Colin

• Colin Hill: one big season, and the stadium of kicking a ball in any direction

HILL, Frank

• Frank “Tiger” Hill; a forgotten hero of the Chapman era

HILLIER, David

HLEB, Alexander

• Alex Hleb; part of the Flamini effect

HOAR, Sid

• Syd Hoar: the player whose transfer helped expose the false history of Arsenal before Chapman

HOARE, Gordon

HODGES, Cyril

HOLLINS, John

• John Hollins MBE – squad man who became a regular

HOLTON, Cliff

• Cliff Holton, born 29 April 1929.

HOPKINS, James

HORNSBY, Brian

• Brian Hornsby; beset by injury, but the boy done good

HORSINGTON, Richard

• 8th March 1890 – Royal Arsenal Players: Richard Horsington, the injury prone businessman

HOWARD, Pat

• Pat Howard: Terry Neill’s second purchase and a one season man

HOWAT, David

• David Howat, the mystery man

HOWE, Don

• Don Howe: player, coach, manager

HOYTE, Gavin

• The Brothers Hoyte: such promise, but then…

HOYTE, Justin

• The Brothers Hoyte: such promise, but then…

HUDSON, Alan

• Alan Hudson, born 21 June 1951

HUGHES, Joseph

HUGHES, Stephen

HULME, Joe

• Joseph Hulme: Chapman’s brilliance with wingers

HUMPISH, Albert

• Albert Edward Humpish: Herbert Chapman’s mystery signing for Arsenal in 1929.

HUNT, Fergus

• Fergus Hunt, an Arsenal man with a missing history

HUNT, George

• George Hunt: the first ever player to move from Tottenham Hotspur to Arsenal

HUTCHINS, Arthur

• Arthur Hutchins: a post-1919 regular

INAMOTO, Junichi

ITONGA, Carlin

JACK, David

• David Jack: sublime genius

JACKSON, Jimmy

• McNichol and Jackson. The original Arsenal regular back two

JAMES, Alex

• Alex James: great player and fantastic (but forgotten) captain

JAQUES, George

• George H Jaques: the last of the 28 men who represented Arsenal in their first league campaign.

JEFFERS, Francis

• The 2003 Community Shield, Francis Jeffers and his 12 clubs

JEFFREY, William

JENKINS, David

JENKINSON, Carl

JENKYNS, Caesar

• 21 March 1896: Arsenal’s “Victorian Souness” plays for Wales

JENNINGS, Pat

• The men that Terry Neill signed: Pat Jennings

JENSEN, John

JOBEY, George

• George Jobey, the real story of the man who scored the first Arsenal goal at Highbury

JOHN, Bob

• Bob John; our top performer before World War II

JOHNSTON, George

JOHNSTONE, Bill

• Bill Johnstone: a goalscorer but in a team awash with goalscorers

JONES, Bryn

JONES, Charlie

JONES, Fred

JONES, Leslie

• Les Jones – the career alongside Reg Cumner

JONSSON, Siggi

JOY, Bernard

• Bernard Joy – captain of the GB Olympics football team 1936

JUAN

JULIAN, Bill

JULIANS, Len

• Len Julians of Arsenal: a lost history re-found

KANE, Edward

 

KANE, Peter

 

KANU, Nwankwo

 

KARBASSIYOON, Danny

 

KAY, John

• John Kay, championship reserve who had success with Sunderland

KELLY, Eddie

• Eddie Kelly: from Europe and the Double to Torquay

KELLY, Noel

 

KELSEY, Jack

 

KEMP, Fred

 

KEMPTON, Arthur

 

KENNEDY, Andy

• 12 January: Chapman sells Andy Kennedy

KENNEDY, Ray

• Ray Kennedy

KEOWN, Martin

• Martin Keown, Twice signed, Two Doubles

KEYSER, Gerry

• The players who won the league for Arsenal for the first time: Keyser

KIDD, Brian

 

KING, Edward

 

KING, Harry

 

KINGTON, Edward

 

KIRCHEN, Alf

• Alf Kirchen: scored on his debut for Arsenal against Tottenham

KIRK, Frank

• Frank Kirk: a man who moved from Woolwich Arsenal to Royal Ordnance Factories

KIWOMYA, Chris

 

KOSCIELNY, Laurent

 

KOSMINA, John

 

KYLE, Peter

 

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