Talk:List of footballers with 500 or more Premier League appearances

message: The statistics for appearances include those before the Premier League was created (ie prior to 1992), hence the article actually ought to refer to top flight appearances. If this is the case then surely many more players like Gordon Banks, etc need to be added. If the article is only referring to Premier League appearances then the whole table needs to be updated and correct figures added; ie Gary Speed has not played 640 games for the Premier League as many of those were for Leeds United in the old First Division. In fact, David James currently holds the record .
Unless anyone disagrees I will start to change it to the latter format of Premier League appearances only. Feudonym (talk) 10:18, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Completely inaccurate statistics 

message: Should the list of clubs played for, only include those that were in the Premier League when the player played for them?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.208.218.180 (talk) 07:00, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes.   – HonorTheKing (talk) 08:28, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clubs 

message: Do you need to cite sources for each of these? Surely the link back to the player's page does the trick. I am struggling to find an easy to use source for all the players, especially those who are no longer active.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.25.14.223 (talk) 00:32, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Necessity of Sources 

message: I clicked on the article, expecting a comprehensive list (or even a current list) of EPL players. But this article is limited in scope and should be re-named, e.g. "List of Premier League players with 300 or more appearances". There is already a list of 500+ players, so may be this article isn't even necessary. The title defi itely doesn't reflect the scope of the article. There is a need for an ABC list of players in the current season.Darorcilmir (talk) 20:30, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Misleading title

message: The years mentioned on the right of the table are not clearly defined- What is the intention with them? Should it be year of first PL appearance until year of last PL appearance? Some players have their start year several years before they even made their first PL appearance just because they were on the club's books for a while (Theo Walcott for example) TheRealGutripper (talk) 13:31, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Should be First Appearance / Last Apperance, with "—" for the "last apperance" for the currently active players, something like this.
Name                   	Nationality	Position	Apps	Goals	Club(s)                                                    	    	
align="left"           	England    	MF      	653 	53   	Aston Villa, Manchester City, Everton, West Bromwich Albion	1997	2018
Currently active player	Wales      	MF      	100 	100  	                                                           	2018	—
 Snowflake91 (talk) 13:43, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

text: TM has user-generated data and is therefore not reliable, use Soccerbase.com player profiles for easy checking the 1st appearance. Snowflake91 (talk) 14:44, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

text: Yeah that would make sense, use 2018 or 2019 for all active players instead of "–" Snowflake91 (talk) 14:11, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Years Active

message: I'm wondering what statistical relevance goals has for this article as it's only related to appearances and nothing else - is there any good reason why this shouldn't be removed? Otherwise there's similarly a case to have clean sheets and other statistics on this page, and there are already other Wiki pages covering PL players with 100 goals or 100 clean sheets etc. Just starting a discussion to see other's opinion of this.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheRealGutripper (talk • contribs) 18:33, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Goals 

message: Steven Gerrard as mentioned in total premier league appearances has 504 for Liverpool. Yet he is missing in the appearances at a single club table. 81.77.204.109 (talk) 17:45, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the list gives only players with most appearances for given club. Red Devil (talk) 18:28, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Steven Gerrard missing  

message: Given there is a finite number of teams to have played in the Premier League and we've already got 80% of them listed, what is the logic for only including clubs where a player has made a century of appearances? Would the readers curious as to who's made the most Premier League appearances for Wimbledon not be equally curious to see who had made the most for Brentford, for example? OGBC1992 (talk) 12:01, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most appearances by club