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| Bobby Mimms | 3780' | 42 | 42 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Colin Hendry | 3690' | 41 | 41 | - | - | 1 | 6 | - | - |
| Mike Newell | 3526' | 40 | 40 | - | 1 | 14 | 2 | - | 1 |
| Stuart Ripley | 3310' | 40 | 38 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 1 | - | - |
| Tim Sherwood | 3372' | 39 | 38 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | - | 1 |
| Kevin Moran | 3109' | 36 | 36 | - | 6 | 4 | 4 | - | - |
| David May | 3040' | 34 | 34 | - | 1 | 1 | 6 | - | - |
| Jason Wilcox | 2744' | 33 | 31 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| Mark Atkins | 2323' | 31 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | - | - |
| Gordon Cowans | 2003' | 24 | 23 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Alan Wright | 2036' | 24 | 24 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - |
| Roy Wegerle | 1179' | 22 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | - |
| Alan Shearer | 1833' | 21 | 21 | - | 3 | 16 | 2 | - | - |
| Anthony Dobson | 1326' | 19 | 15 | 4 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Nicky Marker | 1062' | 15 | 12 | 3 | 3 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Patrik Andersson | 600' | 11 | 6 | 5 | 3 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Kevin Gallacher | 810' | 9 | 9 | - | - | 5 | 1 | - | - |
| Graeme Le Saux | 810' | 9 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Christopher Price | 287' | 6 | 2 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Henning Berg | 211' | 4 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Richard Brown | 180' | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Steve Livingstone | 105' | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Keith Hill | 46' | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Simon Ireland | 9' | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lee Makel | 90' | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wayne Burnett | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Frank Talia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Peter Thorne | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
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