Fulham Football Club is an English professional football team based in Fulham in the

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. The club was formed in

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in 1879 as Fulham St Andrew's Church Sunday School F.C., shortened to Fulham F.C. in 1888. They initially played at Fulham Fields before a move to

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in 1896; the club played their first professional match in December 1898 and made their

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debut in the

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season. The club competed in the Southern Football League between 1898 and 1907, when they were accepted into the

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. Having spent much of their history outside the top division, the

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gained promotion to the

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in 2001. They spent more than ten seasons in the top flight, and reached the

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of the

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in 2010. In 2014 they were relegated to the

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. They have since spent one further season back in the Premier League in 2018–19 but suffered an immediate return to the Championship. Since the club's first competitive match, 966 players have made an appearance in a competitive match, of which 181 have made at least 100 appearances (including substitute appearances); all players who have reached this milestone are listed below. The record number of appearances is held by

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, who played 658 matches in all competitions, scoring 158 goals, in a career spent entirely at Craven Cottage. Eddie Lowe is the only other player to have played more than 500 matches, although Les Barrett came close with 491 appearances. Gordon Davies is the club's record goalscorer, with 179 goals in 450 matches. Five other players have scored more than 100 goals for Fulham.

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and

Tim Ream Timothy Michael Ream (born October 5, 1987) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a center-back or left-back for club Fulham and the United States national team. Youth and college soccer Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Ream was ...

are the current squad members who have played over 100 matches for Fulham.

Players

This list contains the 182 players, including six current squad members, as of 30 August 2019, who have made more than 100 appearances for Fulham, ordered by the years in which they played for the club and then alphabetically by surname. The figure for league appearances and goals comprise those in the Southern Football League,

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and the

. Total appearances and goals comprise those in the Southern Football League, Football League (including

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), Premier League,

, Football League Cup,

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, UEFA Intertoto Cup and UEFA Cup/Europa League. Wartime matches are regarded as unofficial and are excluded, as are matches from the abandoned 1939–40 season. Statistics for the

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and

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are not included in the table. International appearances and goals are given for the senior national team only. Figures are mostly taken from ''Fulham: The Complete Record'' by Dennis Turner (published in 2007). UEFA Intertoto Cup and UEFA Cup/Europa League appearance statistics for the 2002–03 and 2009–10 seasons are taken from Soccerbase, along with all other statistics from the 2007–08 season onwards. ''Statistics are correct as of 30 August 2019. International statistics correct as of 19 July 2019.''

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References

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External links

Fulham F.C. official website
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