This is a list of notable footballers who have played for RochdaleRochdale Association Football Club is an English professional football club based in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. They play their home matches at Spotland Stadium. Formed in 1907, they were accepted into the Football League in 1921...
. The aim is for this list to include all players that have played 100 or more senior matches for the club. Other players who are deemed to have played an important role for the club can be included, but the reason for their notability should be included in the 'Notes' column.
For a list of all Rochdale players with a Wikipedia article, see :Category:Rochdale A.F.C. players, and for the current squad see Rochdale A.F.C.#Current squad.
Players should be listed in chronological order according to the year in which they first played for the club, and then by alphabetical order of their surname. Appearances and goals should be for first-team competitive games and include substitute appearances, but exclude wartime matches.
Players
Statistics are up to date as of
11 January 2011.
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| Name | Position | Club career | League
apps | League
goals | Total
apps | Total
goals | Notes |
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
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1922–1928 |
209 |
11 |
219 |
12 |
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FW |
1923–1924 |
21 |
10 |
22 |
10 |
Manager of Rochdale 1923-1930 |
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FW |
1923–1928 |
169 |
117 |
187 |
128 |
Player with most Rochdale goals in one season (1926/27) |
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WHIn association football, the position of wing half or wing half back) was popularly used in the late nineteenth and first half of the 20th centuries...
||1933–1936 ||108||2||112||2||
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WHIn association football, the position of wing half or wing half back) was popularly used in the late nineteenth and first half of the 20th centuries...
||1937–1939 ||67||1||71||2||Manager of Rochdale 1938-1952
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|align=left|||WN ||1946–1954 ||170||25||182||27||
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MFA midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...
||1946–1953 ||243||10||257||12||
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WHIn association football, the position of wing half or wing half back) was popularly used in the late nineteenth and first half of the 20th centuries...
||1946–1956 ||103||2||113||2||
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WHIn association football, the position of wing half or wing half back) was popularly used in the late nineteenth and first half of the 20th centuries...
||1946–1951 ||148||15||160||16||
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IFIn football, the position of inside forward was popularly used in the late nineteenth and first half of the 20th centuries. The inside forwards would support the centre forwards, running and making space in the opposition defence, and, as the passing game developed, supporting him with passes...
||1948–1951 ||113||36||119||37||
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WHIn association football, the position of wing half or wing half back) was popularly used in the late nineteenth and first half of the 20th centuries...
||1952–1953 ||21||0||22||0||Player-manager of Rochdale 1952-1953
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WHIn association football, the position of wing half or wing half back) was popularly used in the late nineteenth and first half of the 20th centuries...
||1954–1956 ||109||0||114||0||
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|align=left|||FW ||1955–1959 ||46||8||47||8||Manager of Rochdale 1976-1977
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|align=left|||WN ||1959?—1960?||47||5||?||?||Manager of Rochdale 1960-1967
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||1959–1965 ||238||26||269||26||
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|align=left|||FW ||1964–1973 ||305||119||332||129||Record Rochdale goalscorer
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WHIn association football, the position of wing half or wing half back) was popularly used in the late nineteenth and first half of the 20th centuries...
||1968–1971 ||132||3||148||4||
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|align=left|||WN ||1968–1972? ||157||36||170||39||
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|align=left|||WN ||1970–1973 ||144||21||155||22||
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|align=left|||FW ||1975–1977 ||98||37||112||41||
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||1975–1977 ||87||4||100||4||
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|align=left|||MF ||1976–1982 ||245||17||269||19||
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|align=left|||MF ||1977–1982? ||180||24||199||27||
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|align=left|||MF ||1977–1980 ||98||9||106||11||
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||1978–1983 ||183||1||204||1||
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||1978–1983? ||154||10||167||10||
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|align=left|||MF ||1981–1982 ||43||1||47||2||Manager of Rochdale 1989-1991
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|align=left|||MF ||1981–1986, 1994–1997 ||265||24||306||24||
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|align=left|||FW ||1983–1984 ||16||0||17||0||Player-manager of Rochdale 1983-1984
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|align=left|||MF ||1983–1988, 1992–1995 ||240||14||291||20||
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|align=left|||GK ||1987–1991 ||205||0||239||0||
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||1988–1989 ||28||2||34||2||Manager of Rochdale 1991-1994
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||1989–1994 ||137||1||172||2||
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|align=left|||MF ||1989–1991 ||84||10||101||11||
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|align=left|||FW ||1990–1994 ||127||25||152||33||
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||1991–1996 ||158||10||188||10||
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||1991–1994 ||121||9||134||8||
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|align=left|||FW ||1991–1997 ||235||74||277||77||
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||1992–1997 ||162||13||191||16||
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|align=left|||MF ||1993–1999 ||202||41||231||45||
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|align=left|||MF ||1994–1996, 1998–2000 ||176||17||208||21||
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|align=left|||MF ||1994–1998 ||103||14||115||15||
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||1995–2001, 2006||189||9||219||9||
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MFA midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...
||1995–1997 ||88||10||103||16||
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|align=left|||MF || 1996–1999 ||97||1||113||1||
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||1996–2001 ||176||6||198||7||Manager of Rochdale 2006-
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|align=left|||FW ||1996–1999 ||112||30||126||31||
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|align=left|||GK ||1997–2005 ||239||0||277||0||
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|align=left|||MF ||1998–2001, 2003– ||403||62||459||67||Record Rochdale appearances
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||1998–2001 ||95||12||111||16||
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
|| 1999–2005 ||259||3||297||4||
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||1999–2003, 2007- ||161||4||190||4||
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MFA midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...
||1999–2002 ||89||6||104||7||
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|align=left|||FW ||1999–2003 ||169||30||194||37||
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|align=left|||FW ||2001–2004 ||94||29||108||32||Highest transfer fee paid (£150,000)
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||2001–2004 ||108||1||126||2||
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|align=left|||GK ||2001–2007 ||176||0||197||0||
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||2001–2006 ||184||14||204||18||
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|align=left|||FW ||2001–2004, 2007–2008, 2008–2009||108||33||118||35||
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|align=left|||MF ||2002–2003 ||42||15||50||17||Player-manager of Rochdale 2002-2003
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MFA midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...
||2004–2007 ||87||8||100||8||
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||2004–2007, 2010– ||123||8||135||8||
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||2005–2010 ||148||5||166||6||
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|align=left|||FW ||2006–2010 ||156||54||176||60||
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||2006–2009 ||112||6||124||6||
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|align=left|||FW ||2006–2010 ||127||17||148||19||
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||2006–2010 ||139||0||154||0||
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DFWithin the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
||2007–2010 ||132||9||151||9||
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|align=left|||FW ||2007–2009 ||98||38||112||42||
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