page_title: Burnley F.C.
section_title: Records and statistics
hierarchical_section_title: Burnley F.C. / Records and statistics
caption_attribution_description: English: Football goalkeeper Jerry Dawson (1888-1970). Image found in the Burnley Express and in The Clarets Chronicles (ISBN&#160;978-0-9557468-0-2). Both give no details of the author's and photographer's identity, so it must be presumed to be unknown. This, and the age of the image mean it is in the PD per the template shown.
context_page_description: Burnley Football Club is an English association football club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Founded on 18 May 1882, it was one of the first to become professional, and subsequently put pressure on the Football Association to permit payments to players. The club entered the FA Cup for the first time in 1885–86 and was one of the 12 founder members of the Football League in 1888–89. The team currently competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football.
  Burnley have been champions of England twice, in 1920–21 and 1959–60, have won the FA Cup once, in 1913–14, and have won the FA Charity Shield twice, in 1960 and 1973. They have been runners-up in the First Division twice, in 1919–20 and 1961–62, and FA Cup runners-up twice, in 1946–47 and 1961–62. The team also reached the quarter-finals of the 1960–61 European Cup. Burnley are one of only five sides to have won all four professional divisions of English football, along with Wolverhampton Wanderers, Preston North End, Sheffield United and Portsmouth.
  The team have played home games at Turf Moor since 1883, after they had moved from their original premises at Calder Vale.
context_section_description: The record for the most first team appearances in all competitions for Burnley is held by goalkeeper and one-club man Jerry Dawson, who played 569 games between 1907 and 1929. The club's top goal scorer is George Beel, who scored 188 goals from 1923 to 1932. He also holds the record for the most league goals scored in a season, when he netted 35 times in the 1927–28 First Division. Jimmy Robson and Willie Irvine have both scored the most goals (37) in competitive matches in a single season. In 1960–61, Robson netted 25 goals in the Football League, five in the FA Cup, four in the League Cup and three in the European Cup. Irvine scored 29 First Division goals, five in the FA Cup and three in the League Cup in 1965–66. Jimmy McIlroy is the most capped player while at the club, as he made 51 appearances for Northern Ireland between 1951 and 1962. The first Burnley player to play in a full international match was John Yates, who took to the field for England against Ireland in March 1889. He scored a hat-trick but was never called up again. In January 1957, 17-year-old Ian Lawson netted a record four goals on his debut against Chesterfield in the FA Cup third round.
  The club's largest win in league football was a 9–0 victory against Darwen in the 1891–92 Football League. Burnley's largest victories in the FA Cup have been 9–0 wins over Crystal Palace (1908–09), New Brighton (1956–57) and Penrith (1984–85). The largest defeat is an 11–0 loss to Darwen Old Wanderers in the 1885–86 FA Cup first round, when Burnley fielded their reserve side, as most professionals were prohibited entry due to rules of the FA that year.
  The club's highest home attendances are 54,775 against Huddersfield Town in an FA Cup third round match on 23 February 1924 and 52,869 against Blackpool in the First Division on 11 October 1947. The team's longest unbeaten run in the league was between 6 September 1920 and 25 March 1921, to which they remained unbeaten for 30 games on their way to the First Division title. It stood as the longest stretch without defeat in a single English professional league season until Arsenal bettered it in 2003–04.
  The highest transfer fee received is £25 million from Everton for defender Michael Keane in 2017, while the highest transfer fee paid by the club was both for forward Chris Wood from Leeds United in 2017 and for defender Ben Gibson from Middlesbrough in 2018. The pair were bought for a fee of £15 million each. Bob Kelly broke the world transfer record in 1925, when he moved from Burnley to Sunderland for £6,500—equivalent to £370,000 in 2020.
caption: Jerry Dawson holds the record for most Burnley appearances, with 569.
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