page_title: Burnley F.C.
section_title: Players
hierarchical_section_title: Burnley F.C. / Notable players and managers / Players
caption_attribution_description: English: Footballer Tommy Boyle (1888-1940). Image found on The Football Network and in the Barnsley Chronicle. 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 club has been represented by numerous high-profile players, most notably Jimmy McIlroy and Jimmy Adamson. The latter won the FWA Footballer of the Year award in 1962, the first and to date only time a Burnley player achieved this. Four years later, Willie Irvine became top goal scorer in the first tier, also a unique feat in the club's history. Welshman Leighton James is the only Burnley player to have been included in the PFA Team of the Year while in the top tier, when he was selected as a member of the 1974–75 squad. In total, 29 players have won full England caps during their time at the club; Bob Kelly won the most caps (11) and scored the most goals (six).
  The English Football Hall of Fame contains five former Burnley players: Tommy Lawton, Jimmy McIlroy, Mike Summerbee, Ian Wright and Paul Gascoigne. The latter three had short spells, however, and were at the end of their playing careers. Two of these five players, Lawton and McIlroy, also featured in a list entitled "The Football League 100 Legends", as Burnley's only representatives. The list was released by the Football League in 1998 to celebrate the 100th season of league football. McIlroy was voted as the club's PFA Fans' Favourite in 2007.
  In 2017, images of more than 30 "Clarets' legends" from different eras were hung outside the stands of Turf Moor. The players were picked by fans via an online vote. It was a cooperation between Burnley and members of its supporters' clubs, to "improve the appearance of the ground and provide a vivid history of some of the greatest players to wear a claret and blue shirt". Burnley's first international, John Yates, was omitted as no suitable image could be found; he was replaced by George Halley. Including Yates, the following 32 players were chosen:
  
  
   
   Jimmy Adamson
   Graham Alexander
   George Beel
   Robbie Blake
   Tommy Boyle
   Ian Britton
   Frank Casper
   Ralph Coates
   John Connelly
   Jerry Dawson
   Martin Dobson
   
   Michael Duff
   Wade Elliott
   David Eyres
   Bert Freeman
   George Halley ( John Yates)
   Billy Hamilton
   Willie Irvine
   Leighton James
   Bob Kelly
   Glen Little
   
   Jimmy McIlroy
   Brian Miller
   Peter Noble
   Gary Parkinson
   Andy Payton
   Ray Pointer
   Harry Potts
   Jay Rodriguez
   Trevor Steven
   Kieran Trippier
caption: Tommy Boyle was chosen as one of the "Clarets' legends" by the club's supporters in 2017.
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