Top Goal Aces
Welcome to the area of top goal scorers
Nowhere else, we believe, is there such a concise and easy-to-follow list of the men who have netted more Wolverhampton Wanderers goals than any others down the decades.
Here, we name the top 58 scorers in the club’s history (all those who have reached the 40 mark), complete with the games in which they notched for the first and last times, the number of hat-tricks they thrilled supporters with and what we regard as having been their most special day in gold and black.
So, if ever you wonder where Andy Mutch or Hugh Curran, for example, stand among Wolves’ all-time top marksmen, or what we see as having been Jimmy Murray’s best Wanderers day, you now have the information close to your fingertips. Goals include only those scored for the club in League and cup matches and not those contributed in wartime competition.
Billy Beats
Goals: -73
Breakdown: -67 League, 6 FA Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Burnley at home, League, on September 2, 1895
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Newcastle away, League, on February 28, 1903
Wolves Hat Tricks: -0
Ultimate Golden Day: -Appearing in the 1896 FA Cup final against Sheffield Wednesday, albeit a defeat, at the end of his first season with Wolves
David Wykes
Goals: -69
Breakdown: -57 League, 12 FA Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Blackburn at home, League, on September 29, 1888
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Sunderland away, League, on September 21, 1895
Wolves Hat Tricks: -1 (versus Bolton)
Ultimate Golden Day: -His hat-trick in a 5-1 thumping of Bolton at Molineux in the last game of the 1889-90 season
Charlie Phillips
Goals: -65
Breakdown: -59 League, 6 FA Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Millwall at home, League, on September 1, 1930
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Bolton at home, League, on December 26, 1935
Wolves Hat Tricks: -3 (versus Wrexham, Manchester City, Derby)
Ultimate Golden Day: -Netting against Northern Ireland on his international debut for Wales – the country he captained six times.
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake
Goals: -64
Breakdown: -61 League, 3 League Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Scunthorpe away, League, on January 19, 2008
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Birmingham away, League, on April 1, 2013
Wolves Hat Tricks: -1 (versus Norwich)
Ultimate Golden Day: -Guiding in the winner at home to QPR on the day Mick McCarthy’s Wolves secured promotion to the Premier League
Peter Knowles
Goals: -64
Breakdown: -61 League, 3 FA Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Bolton at home, League, on October 19, 1963
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Sheffield Wednesday away, League, on August 16, 1969
Wolves Hat Tricks: -2 (versus Carlisle, Derby)
Ultimate Golden Day: -Taking his 1965-66 goal tally to eight in three weeks by scoring his second hat-trick in a fortnight
Kenny Miller
Goals: -63
Breakdown: -52 League, 5 FA Cup, 5 League Cup, 1 play-offs
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Gillingham away, League, September 18, 2001
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Brighton at home, April 22, 2006
Wolves Hat Tricks: -1 (versus Crystal Palace)
Ultimate Golden Day: -Stretching to steer in one of the three first-half Wolves goals that created a gold and black dreamland at the 2003 play-off final
Jack Needham
Goals: -61
Breakdown: -57 League, 4 FA Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Manchester City at home, League, on April 30, 1910
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Lincoln at home, League, on January 3, 1920
Wolves Hat Tricks: -2 (versus Hull, Leicester Fosse)
Ultimate Golden Day: -The hat-trick he scored against Hull in November, 1911 – it probably helped earn his move to Humberside after the war
Raul Jimenez
Goals: -57
Breakdown: -40 League, 4 FA Cup, 10 Europa League, 3 League Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Everton home, League, on August 11, 2018
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Nottingham Forest away, League Cup, on January 11, 2023
Wolves Hat Tricks: -0
Ultimate Golden Day: -Scoring at Wembley for the second time in two trips and doubling Wolves' lead in their FA Cup semi-final against Watford - before it all went wrong
Bryn Jones
Goals: -57
Breakdown: -52 League, 5 FA Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Derby away, League, on December 2, 1933
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Leicester away, League, on April 18, 1938
Wolves Hat Tricks: -1 (versus Preston)
Ultimate Golden Day: -Presumably the one in August, 1938, on which his talents took him to Arsenal in Britain’s costliest transfer to that point
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