Arsenal 1980s squad

Name: Arsenal 1980s squad
Creator: Flawless
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Every player who appeared for Arsenal in the 1980s — 87 in all, with their career-at-club league totals.

David O'Leary racked up the most apps of anyone here — 558 in all. Paul Merson leads the scoring with 140. The squad breaks down as 8 goalkeepers, 27 defenders, 35 midfielders and 17 forwards — enough depth to fill any formation in the game.

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Player	Pos	Apps	Goals	Legend
David O'Leary	DF	558	11	89
Paul Merson	MF	289	140	89
Tony Adams	DF	504	32	89
Lee Dixon	DF	458	25	89
Nigel Winterburn	DF	440	8	89
Pat Rice	DF	397	12	88
Liam Brady	MF	235	43	88
Brian Talbot	MF	254	40	88
Graham Rix	MF	351	41	88
Alan Smith	FW	347	115	88
Sammy Nelson	DF	339	12	87
Pat Jennings	GK	327	—	87
Frank Stapleton	FW	225	75	87
Kenny Sansom	DF	314	6	87
Tony Woodcock	FW	131	56	87
Paul Davis	MF	447	37	87
Steve Bould	DF	287	5	86
Michael Thomas	MF	163	24	85
Alan Sunderland	FW	206	55	85
John Lukic	GK	223	—	84
Kevin Campbell	FW	166	46	84
Perry Groves	MF	155	21	84
Martin Hayes	MF	102	34	83
Stewart Robson	MF	150	16	83
David Price	MF	126	16	82
Willie Young	DF	170	11	82
Charlie Nicholas	FW	151	34	81
John Hollins	MF	127	9	79
Ian Allinson	MF	83	16	79
Viv Anderson	DF	120	9	78
John Devine	DF	112	0	77
Raphael Meade	FW	41	14	76
Kevin Richardson	MF	96	5	75
Paul Mariner	FW	60	14	75
Niall Quinn	FW	67	14	75
Brian McDermott	MF	61	12	75
Chris Whyte	DF	90	8	74
Steve Williams	MF	95	4	74
David Hillier	MF	104	2	74
George Wood	GK	60	—	73
Brian Marwood	MF	52	16	73
Tommy Caton	DF	81	2	73
Steve Walford	DF	77	3	72
Steve Morrow	DF	62	1	70
Steve Gatting	DF	58	5	69
Richie Powling	DF	55	3	69
Peter Nicholas	MF	60	1	68
Colin Hill	DF	46	1	67
Gus Caesar	DF	44	0	67
Paul Vaessen	FW	32	6	66
Lee Chapman	FW	23	4	63
Alan Miller	GK	9	—	62
Paul Barron	GK	8	—	62
Rhys Wilmot	GK	8	—	62
John Hawley	FW	20	3	61
Martin Keown	DF	22	0	60
Vladimir Petrović	MF	13	2	58
Mark Heeley	MF	15	1	58
John Kay	DF	14	0	58
Sigurður Jónsson	MF	8	1	56
David Cork	FW	7	1	56
Neil Heaney	MF	8	0	54
Danny O'Shea	MF	6	0	54
Paul Gorman	MF	6	0	54
Brian Sparrow	DF	2	0	52
Andy Marriott	GK	0	—	52
Jim Harvey	MF	3	0	52
David Madden	MF	2	0	51
Kwame Ampadu	MF	2	0	51
Andy Cole	FW	1	0	51
John Bacon	FW	0	0	50
Clive Allen	FW	0	0	50
Ray Hankin	FW	0	0	50
Jim Carstairs	DF	0	0	50
Pat Scully	DF	0	0	50
Chris Evans	DF	0	0	50
Roger Stanislaus	DF	0	0	50
Charlie Hartfield	MF	0	0	49
Dermot Drummy	MF	0	0	49
Gary McKeown	MF	0	0	49
Lawrence Osborne	MF	0	0	49
Russell Milton	MF	0	0	49
Steve Ball	MF	0	0	49
Nick Hammond	GK	—	—	47
Nicky Law	DF	—	—	46
Kenny Dyer	MF	—	—	46
Wes Reid	MF	—	—	46

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