Player Career Stats

Below are the career stats for the Barnet Squad of 2008/09.

It shows number of appearances (started and came on as sub), and goals scored. Players who have not appeared for the First Team are also shown.

This list is in a state of flux at the moment as we are in the close season. Check the Official website for the latest on transfer news.

They are sorted by career appearances, then career sub appearances. Note that some of the players are shown with (number) - see the notes below for more information.

Players' season stats can be found in the relevant season section, eg season 2007/08.

Past players' stats are also available.

Note that this table can be sorted or filtered using the Firefox TableTools extension. There is more information about this here.

1. No longer with club.
2. Lee Harrison re-signed having previously played for Barnet. His last senior appearance from his first spell was on 08/10/2002 with 262 starts, 0 substitutions and 0 goals. He made his first SA in his second spell on 06/08/2006.
3. Charles and Tabiri have been awarded contracts for the 0809 season. Tabiri had a squad number from the 0708 season.

Sources

Appearances

The appearance details on this page usually come from the the details on the match reports that are published on the BBC. If any of these are disputed then I shall seek clarification from the club.

Still with Club?

Whether or not a player is with the club is taken from the official website. There are sometimes players where there has been no announcement from the club - usually fringe players. I do keep an eye on this and occasionally contact the club to clarify. See notes below for more information about this. Players who leave the club without making an appearance remain on this list until the end of the season but do not subsequently appear on the past players' stats.

Squad Number

Both the Home programmes and official website. This is the squad number allocated to the player for the current season, presently 2007/08.

If two players have the same squad number this is where a player coming into the squad is issued with a number of a player who has already left. I occasionally contact the club to clarify where there seems to be a mistake on either the site or the programme (which is indeed what it has always turned out to be so far!)

Names

I use the names as they appear in the Barnet programmes. Some common errors that appear on other sites and in papers include (and spellings I've yet to confirm):

• Ismail Yakubu is usually spelt Yakabu in other reports. Although I probably have used this spelling on this site elsewhere.
• Joseph Tabiri was originally announced as Joseph Owusu Tabiri at the start of the 2007/08 season.

Any comments?

If you think I may have overlooked something, especially if you have some evidence you can cite (such as a link to an authorative website), then I should be grateful if you contact me on info@bfcsa.co.uk

Thanks, John Snow, Website Editor.

Notes

Play Off Games
Play-off games are treated as League games for the purposes of these stats.

Penalties after Extra Time
Goals scored as penalties after extra time are not counted. (Should they be? I don't think they are generally with these sort of stats? info@bfcsa.co.uk if you have any thoughts on the matter.)

No Squad Number
Players without a squad number (?) have been announced as registered with the club (see below for more information about this) at some point in the present season. For example, Tim Trebes (2007/08 season) was called upon as an emergency sub goalie when one of the regular goalies was out injured. He was registered with Barnet even though he played for a different club in a lower league.

Player Still With Club?
You'd think this was easy. But like most things in life, it's not that simple once you start looking into it. The below is based on my understanding of the situation, but please don't take it as gospel - and if you can clarify anything, or point out any errors, then I'd be pleased to hear from you on info@bfcsa.co.uk

When the squad numbers are announced, usually in July, there is a nice clean list to go by. But as the season progresses various players may be registered without contracts; typically these will be free-agents and Protec players (the under 19s).

The way I understand it, a player has to be registered with the club to play for the club. However, they don't have to be contracted to the club. In theory a player can be registered to the club indefinitely even though neither the player nor the club has any intention of them playing. The player would only need to be de-registered if another club in the same league wanted to register them. It would seem silly to consider such players as 'with the club'.

So, in the above list, a player is considered to still be 'with the club' if:

• They are contracted to the club; or
• They have been given a squad number and the season has yet to finish

A player is not considered to still be with the club if:

• They have been released; or
• They are not contracted to the club, the season has finished and the new squad numbers have not been announced (typically between May and July).
• They never had a squad number (or it wasn't published) and the season has finished (typically between May and July). Usually Protec players.
• Their squad number is being used by a different (more recent) player.

All the above scenarios are caveated with "unless there is reason to believe otherwise".

An example of this is if they have appeared on the squad list on the back of Barnet programmes but no longer do so, although there has otherwise been no official confirmation from the club. Not all players who have been issued squad numbers appear on the programme squad list so their absence does not necessarily mean they are not part of the squad. (I said it was complicated didn't I?)

Many thanks to Kev Mullen (former employee of the club) from whose explanations, and patient answers to my questions, the above has been derived.

This methodology is likely to change!

Career Goals Percentage
This page includes the Goals percentage column that is on the season stats page. The same caveats apply. Namely, for those players who have scored, it is the percentage of goals compared to appearances. So if a player has scored two goals in four appearances then it will be 50%. It is not the percentage of appearances in which they have scored as in the previous example those two goals may have been scored in the same game.

Similarly, it does not discriminate between starts and came on as sub (or replaced by a sub). The excel sheet I use for this is not that sophisticated.

Note that the figure is rounded to the nearest percentage.

First SA
This is the date the player made their first Senior Appearance (ie in the first team). This includes either a start or came on as sub in either a league or cup game, including the Football League (Johnstone's Paint) Trophy but not including the Herts Senior Cup.

This is no indication as to the date the player actually joined the club.

Last SA
This is the date the player made their last Senior Appearance. This is no indication as to the date the player actually left the club.

Lee Harrison's Stats
Note that his first spell's stats have been corrected from 09 September 2007 as it was realised there was a mistake on this site. The previous error was due to an incorrect figure published in (or copied from) a Barnet programme some years ago, which was used for his stats on this site up till that point. Lee's stats have now been checked through the various Football Year Books, past Barnet programmes, and Steve Percy's meticulous records. They also agree with the club's own records.

The Soccerbase website also shows different figures, including a bogus substitute appearance against Stalybridge Celtic in 2001/02. Their figures are wrong.

Other Information
We have all the games played since the 1965/66 season on this site. It would be nice to list all the players that have played for the club. But although I believe the records exist, it could be too high a mountain to climb.

If there are any stats you would like to see, or have any comments on either the above suggestions or the stats already shown, please email me.