The List: All-Time Premier League appearances for city

[Monkey Boy Blue]

I've posted this in another thread but I feel it deserves its own...

After some hardcore googling I reckon I've identified every player to have made over 100 premier league appearances for City.

This makes interesting reading:

1. Richard Dunne - 253 Premier league appearances
2. Sylvain Distin - 178
3. Ian Brightwell - 150 to 200 ish*
4. Uwe Rosler - 152
5. SWP - 146
6. Keith Curle - 130 to 150 ish*
=7. Sun Jihai(!?) - 130 (Seriously - wtf!?)
=7. Joey Barton - 130
9. Stephen Ireland- 125** (That many?)
10. Niall Quinn 121
11. Garry Flitcroft - 115
12. Micah Richards- 105**
=13. Terry Phelan - 103
=13. Darius Vassell - 103

Notes:
* For Curle and Brightwell, I can't find the stats to determine how many games they played in the old first division and the premier league, so I've guesstimated a bit

** For Richards and Ireland, the stats are slightly out of date, as they are only taken from about 15 games into this season. Richards will have overtaken Flitcroft and be close to Niall Quinn. Ireland should have overtaken Barton and Sun by now.

Players who just missed out on that list (80-plus but less than 100) include:

David James
Steve Lomas
Nicky Summerbee
Kit Symonds.
Nedum Onouha
Tony Coton
Nicolas Anelka
Robbie Fowler
Antoine Sibierski

I'm surprised how many Ireland has played, but Sun Jihai.....I'm in shock!

 

[J.B]

Re: All-Time Premier League appearances for city

hopefully tevez, de jong, johnson and kompany go on to beat them all

 

[Challenger1978]

Sun was never a world beater but he wasn't that bad a player until the boo boys utterly destroyed his confidence.

 

[Monkey Boy Blue]

I'm not knocking him, his effort and versatility were invaluable to us, but it just seems odd that he's so high up. He was never thought of as a mainstay of the squad but, especially under Pearce, it seems he was.

 

[urmston]

Sun was OK. He knew his job and he did it.

If only every City player over the years had done the same.

 

[Corky]

Sun was our longest serving player not to get us relegated when he left.

French Toni must have been close to a ton.

 

[trevorcitytilidie]

Good bit of work, but call me old fashioned and you probably will but I am sick and tired of people who seem to think that football began in 1993. The Premiership/Premier League is just another name for the top division. These records are irrelevant! Perhaps Alan Oakes might agree with me

 

[Cellarite]

saw ian brightwell outside shop against hull in november.let on like i knew him but he was sound and looked pleased to be noticed nbut not made a fuss of. top player.

 

[Monkey Boy Blue]

Sun was our longest serving player not to get us relegated when he left.

French Toni must have been close to a ton.

Two very good points. Sibierski made 92 PL appearances. I'll add him to the 'nearly' list.

 

[Corky]

Good bit of work, but call me old fashioned and you probably will but I am sick and tired of people who seem to think that football began in 1993. The Premiership/Premier League is just another name for the top division. These records are irrelevant! Perhaps Alan Oakes might agree with me

Agree it is bollocks, David White and everyone like himn before shouldbe on.

No one thought it was any different in 1992 when it started, it just gained a myth more recently.

 

[Monkey Boy Blue]

Good bit of work, but call me old fashioned and you probably will but I am sick and tired of people who seem to think that football began in 1993. The Premiership/Premier League is just another name for the top division. These records are irrelevant! Perhaps Alan Oakes might agree with me

Agree it is bollocks, David White and everyone like himn before shouldbe on.

No one thought it was any different in 1992 when it started, it just gained a myth more recently.

I take both of your points, but it's only recently, with the advent of the internet, that such stats are available from your own living room. The restrucuring of the league in 1992 gives a convenient cut-off. I'm not trying to devalue the achievements of our past heroes.

Besides, I was born in 1985. I don't remember football before the premier league...

I thought David White would be well up there, but only about 70 of his City apps were in the PL, most being in the old Div 1.