The Woolwich Arsenal Subbuteo team
161: Stephen “Steve” William Theobald
Steve Theobald: a true Arsenal stalwart
Kit from 1908/1909 season
Position: half back
The Woolwich Arsenal Subbuteo team
67: Caesar Augustus Llewellyn Jenkyns
Jenkyns framed
Kit from 1895/1896 season
Position: centre / half back
470: Thomas Henderson Docherty 1928-2020
Tommy Docherty: The Arsenal 1958-61
An irrepressible character, Tommy Docherty joined Arsenal for the highest player fee the club had paid to that point. Quickly becoming a central and highly popular figure in the team he left a few years later to embark on a long nomadic management career for an eye watering list of sides.
John Ollerenshaw 1925-2020
John Ollerenshaw: The Arsenal 1945-1950
John Ollerenshaw was a post-World War Two addition to the club, who made a couple of first team appearances during the transition wartime season, but unfortunately for John these games are not classed as first class matches. Thereafter, he appeared almost exclusively for the ‘A’ team.
Theodore Cornelius Foley 1937-2020
Theo Foley: The Arsenal 1986-1990
The right-hand man of George Graham who played a huge part in the resurgence of Arsenal in the 1980s. Read More →
489: David Reno Bacuzzi 1940 – 2020
Dave Bacuzzi: The Arsenal 1958-1964
The 489th player in the first team, he was a steady full back during the early sixties, though more regularly a reserve he made over 200 appearances for the club at various levels.
Paul James Foley 1971-2020
Paul Foley: The Arsenal 1988
Son of Theo Foley, he made two youth team appearance for Arsenal before becoming a well known figure within the Kent semi-professional game throughout the 1990s and 2000s.
Bill Darby 1926 – 2020
Bill Darby The Arsenal 1969-2003. Photo: Irish Daily Mail
The Dublin based scout for Arsenal for many decades, he was a fixture at Irish football pitches over the years.
Alan Leslie Bass 1929-2020
Alan Bass: The Arsenal 1960-68
The Arsenal medical adviser for much of the 1960s, Alan Bass worked at Arsenal with managers George Swindin, Billy Wright, and Bertie Mee.
Whenever a new Arsenal player makes his debut, the question “how many players have played for Arsenal?” usually gets asked. Well, here is the answer – every player that has played for Arsenal’s first team in a competitive game in chronological order.
Any player that has an asterisk (*) next to his name scored on his Arsenal debut, and any names underlined will show a picture of the the player if you hover your mouse pointer over the name. We’ll add these as and when we can, but bear with us as it’s a time consuming process.
Where two or more players made their debut in the same game, they are given the same chronological number. If two or more players came on as a substitute in the same game, they are given consecutive chronological numbers dependent upon the order in which they came on.
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