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.
Harry Lees
Goals: -43
Breakdown: -40 League, 3 FA Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Rotherham County at home, League, on August 27, 1923
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Bradford City away, League, on December 27, 1926
Wolves Hat Tricks: -2 (versus New Brighton, Wrexham)
Ultimate Golden Day: -The hat-trick against Wrexham that took his goal tally to 12 in seven games in Wolves’ Third Division (N) title-winning year.
Sammy Smyth
Goals: -43
Breakdown: -34 League, 9 FA Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Grimsby at home, League, on August 27, 1947
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Blackpool away, League, on September 1, 1951
Wolves Hat Tricks: -0
Ultimate Golden Day: -No contest! The one on which his wonder goal at Wembley helped Wolves win the 1949 FA Cup final
Steve Daley
Goals: -43
Breakdown: -38 League, 3 FA Cup, 2 UEFA Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Southampton at home, League, on October 9, 1971
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Manchester United away, League, on May 7, 1979
Wolves Hat Tricks: -0
Ultimate Golden Day: -Scoring, as a teenager, in the opening seconds against Ferencvaros in the second leg of the 1972 UEFA Cup semi-final
George Edmonds
Goals: -42
Breakdown: -38 League, 4 FA Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Barnsley at home, League, on October 9, 1920
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Hull at home, League, on April 23, 1923
Wolves Hat Tricks: -1 (versus Port Vale)
Ultimate Golden Day: -Emerging as the two-goal hero of the win at home to Stoke in 1921 at the start of Wolves’ run to the FA Cup final
Billy Blunt
Goals: -42
Breakdown: -38 League, 4 FA Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Clapton Orient at home, League, on December 5, 1908
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Glossop at home, League, on October 15, 1910
Wolves Hat Tricks: -4 (versus Leicester Fosse, Reading, Burnley, Bolton)
Ultimate Golden Day: -Hitting all four goals in the home win over Leicester Fosse in Christmas week in 1909-1910 – his first Wolves hat-trick
Ray Crawford
Goals: -41
Breakdown: -39 League, 2 FA Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Blackpool away, League, on September 21, 1963
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Rotherham at home, FA Cup, on January 30, 1965
Wolves Hat Tricks: -1 (versus Bolton)
Ultimate Golden Day: -His debut was a 6-0 defeat at Liverpool, his second game was a win at Blackpool in which he scored both goals – need we say more?
Billy Halligan
Goals: -41
Breakdown: -34 League, 7 FA Cup
First Wolves Goal: -Versus Bristol City away, League, on September 30, 1911
Last Wolves Goal: -Versus Burnley away, League, on April 12, 1913
Wolves Hat Tricks: -3 (versus Hull, Watford, Barnsley)
Ultimate Golden Day: -Subjecting Hull, in November of 1911, to the first of three Wolves hat-tricks he rattled in during the season
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