page_title: List of Tranmere Rovers F.C. players
section_title: Players
hierarchical_section_title: List of Tranmere Rovers F.C. players / Players
caption_attribution_description: 30/01/10 Cardiff V Doncaster, Championship, Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff, Wales
context_page_description: Tranmere Rovers Football Club is an English association football club based in Birkenhead, Wirral. Founded in 1884, they played their first games under the name Belmont F.C.; in 1885, before the start of their second season, they adopted the name Tranmere Rovers. In 1889, Tranmere entered the West Lancashire League, and progressed through the Combination, the Lancashire Combination and the Central League. On 27 August 1921, as founder members of Division Three North, they won their first Football League match 4–1 against Crewe Alexandra at Prenton Park. Tranmere played in the Football League ever since then, with the exception of the war years 1939-1946, and right up until 2015 at which time they were relegated from the Football League down to the National League. Their highest league finish was fourth in the First Division which, at the time, was the second tier of the league pyramid, in the 1992–93 season.
  Ray Mathias spent his entire playing career from 1964 to 1984 at Tranmere, making a record 637 appearances in all competitions. Mathias went on to manage the team in 2002. Harold Bell made a record 595 league appearances for Tranmere.
context_section_description: This list contains players who have made 100 or more appearances in nationally organised first-team competition for Tranmere. It includes first-team appearances and goals in the Football League and play-offs, the FA Cup, the Football League Cup, the Third Division North Cup, the Football League Trophy, the Full Members Cup and the Anglo-Italian Cup. Appearances and goals in other competitions or non-competitive matches are not included. Statistics from the three games in the 1939–40 Football League season abandoned because of the Second World War, and the two games against Accrington Stanley in 1961–62, prior to Accrington's resignation from the Football League, have been expunged from the records and are not included. Between 1939 and 1946, Tranmere played 277 games in wartime regional league and cup competitions, but these results are considered friendly matches and are also omitted. Statistics for current players are correct to the end of the 2011–12 season.
caption: Gareth Roberts represented Tranmere in the 2000 Football League Cup Final.[23]
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