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.
Andy Gray
Goals: -45
Breakdown: -38 League, 3 FA Cup, 3 League Cup, 1 UEFA Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Everton away, League, on September 15, 1979
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Tottenham at home, League, on October 15, 1983
Wolves Hat Tricks: -0
Ultimate Golden Day: -Touching in that beauty from a few feet at Wembley in 1980 after Peter Shilton and Dave Needham had conveniently collided
Andy Thompson
Goals: -45
Breakdown: -43 League, 1 FA Cup, 1 Sherpa Van Trophy
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Exeter at home, League, on December 27, 1986
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Sheffield United at home, League, on September 21, 1996
Wolves Hat Tricks: -0
Ultimate Golden Day: -As a local boy, playing in the winning team at Wembley in the 1988 Sherpa Van Trophy final
Hugh McIlmoyle
Goals: -45
Breakdown: -35 League, 10 FA Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Portsmouth at home, FA Cup, on January 12, 1965
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Derby away, League, on December 26, 1966
Wolves Hat Tricks: -1 (versus Aston Villa)
Ultimate Golden Day: -The above treble at a snow-covered Hawthorns that decided a three-game FA Cup fifth-round deadlock with Aston Villa
Walter Bottrill
Goals: -44
Breakdown: -42 League, 2 FA Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Stoke at home, League, on September 8, 1930
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Huddersfield home, League, on February 4, 1933
Wolves Hat Tricks: -0
Ultimate Golden Day: -Hurting Bristol City with his fifth brace of the club’s 1931-32 title-winning season in the Second Division
Wilf Chadwick
Goals: -44
Breakdown: -44 League
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Middlesbrough at home, League, on September 25, 1926
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Middlesbrough away, League, on February 9, 1929
Wolves Hat Tricks: -1 (versus Barnsley)
Ultimate Golden Day: -Joining Tom Phillipson as a hat-trick hero in a 9-1 demolition of Barnsley in Wolves’ disappointing 1926-27 season
Dave Edwards
Goals: -44
Breakdown: -41 League, 2 FA Cup, 1 League Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Scunthorpe away, League, January 19, 2008
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Fulham away, League, on March 18, 2017
Wolves Hat Tricks: -0
Ultimate Golden Day: -Slotting a Molineux winner past his good mate Joe Hart in a Premier League win over Manchester City in October, 2010
Jack Brodie
Goals: -44
Breakdown: -22 League, 22 FA Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Long Eaton at home, FA Cup, on October 27, 1883
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Derby at home, League, on October 11, 1890
Wolves Hat Tricks: -2 (versus Crosswells Brewery, Stoke)
Ultimate Golden Day: -Scoring five times against Stoke in an 1890 FA Cup tie Wolves that were ordered to replay after a protest.
Ted Farmer
Goals: -44
Breakdown: -44 League
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Manchester United away, League, on September 24, 1960
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Blackburn at home, League, on September 14, 1963
Wolves Hat Tricks: -3 (versus Arsenal, Birmingham, Manchester City)
Ultimate Golden Day: -Despite the hat-tricks, what could beat the explosive two-goal blast on his debut - at Old Trafford no less?
Diogo Jota
Goals: -44
Breakdown: -33 League, 2 FA Cup, 9 Europa League
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Hull away, League, on August 15, 2017
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Everton home, League, on July 12, 2020
Wolves Hat Tricks: -3 (versus Leicester, Besiktas, Espanyol)
Ultimate Golden Day: -Hitting a last-minute decider at home to Leicester in January, 2019, in front of the live TV cameras - and completing his first Wolves hat-trick in the process
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