Appearances, scorers and a thumbnail historical perspective of each season the club has participated in.

This section of the archive is currently being built up from existing records within the club. Those covering appearances prior to 1926/7 were mostly lost following a fire. At some point I will attempt to recreate them as much as a I can from newspaper records. The same approach will also be required for the period covering the last quarter of the 20th century. Some years are missing whilst others have a certain amount of information but are incomplete. Goal scorers are mostly complete.

Individual seasons are listed below with a link to a corresponding record. The incomplete seasons referred to above are marked with an "i".

The format of the records was set up to aid my role as club historian by maintaining a growing record of appearances through each season. This should enable me to identify, for example, key stages or milestones in a player's career with Ware. So you will not find a strict line up of players in their positions for each match just a simple record of who played.

A note on friendly matches. In the earliest years of the club even after leagues had been formed, friendly games continued to be part of the fixture programme. As such they were full games and players' appearances in them counted as much as a competitive game. However, friendly fixtures did reduce in the inter war years as the number of clubs in leagues grew along with the range of cup competitions.

Even so these matches continued to be a part of the season's games and we had not reached the current situation where a multitude of pre-season friendlies take place often with a large number of players being circulated off the substitutes bench. The use of such pre-season friendlies did not start to occur until the 1960s and even then in smaller numbers than currently.

So we have some friendly games that I count towards a player's total and others (more recent) that I don't even if goals scored in pre-season matches are added to a player's total. Determining the difference is not an exact science and I admit to it being a subjective decision in some ways.

Some friendly matches may thus appear with an X against the names of those who played or reference to them may be omitted entirely. These do not count towards appearance totals. A full list of our games and results can be found here.

Abandoned matches. It had been the habit to effectively remove these from the players records. I haven't followed that policy. With substitutes allowed in competitive matches since 1966/7 (it had happened in earlier friendly matches) it is possible for a player to be injured as early as the first minute and have to be replaced. However that player still gets an appearance in the records.

To be consistent all players in abandoned games from whatever season now also get an appearance in the records linked to on this page. One match was abandoned in the 83rd minute, I'm not going to deny the players in that game a record of their appearance.

Similarly goals in games that are later abandoned or expunged from the records for other reasons were still scored in the heat of what at the time was seen as an official fixture. So they are also added to a player's count in these records.

All this means that some of the club's older records for appearances and goals have been amended upwards.

And now here are the individual seasons. Note that substitute appearances are shown against a blue background. Where no number is shown the blue indicates that the player was named as a substitute but I have no record of whether or not he came on.

It's a personal matter but I prefer to view the sheets at a zoom level of 75% or 80%. Unfortunately you have to set this yourself (blame Google, not me) from the field towards the top left of each screen.

Steve King

1892/3i
1893/4i	1894/5i	1895/6i	1896/7i	1897/8i	1898/9i	1899/1900i
1900/1i	1901/2i	1902/3i	1903/4i	1904/5i	1905/6i	1906/7i
1907/8i	1908/9i	1909/10i	1910/1i	1911/2i	1912/3i	1913/4i
1919/20i	1920/1i	1921/2i	1922/3i	1923/4i	1924/5i	1925/6i
1926/7	1927/8	1928/9	1929/30	1930/1	1931/2	1932/3
1933/4	1934/5	1935/6	1936/7	1937/8	1938/9	1939/40
1945/6	1946/7	1947/8	1948/9	1949/50	1950/1	1951/2
1952/3	1953/4	1954/5	1955/6	1956/7	1957/8	1958/9
1959/60	1960/1	1961/2	1962/3	1963/4	1964/5	1965/6
1966/7	1967/8i	1968/9	1969/70	1970/1	1971/2	1972/3i
1973/4i	1974/5i	1975/6i	1976/7i	1977/8i	1978/9i	1979/80i
1980/1i	1981/2i	1982/3i	1983/4i	1984/5i	1985/6i	1986/7i
1987/8i	1988/9i	1989/90i	1990/1i	1991/2i	1992/3i	1993/4i
1994/5i	1995/6i	1996/7i	1997/8i	1998/9i	1999/2000i	2000/1i
2001/2i	2002/3i	2003/4i	2004/5	2005/6	2006/7	2007/8
2008/9	2009/10	2010/1	2011/2	2012/3	2013/4	2014/5
2015/6	2016/7	2017/8	2018/9	2019/20	2020/1	2021/2
2022/3	2023/4	2024/5	2025/6	2026/7	2027/8	2028/9

1. Isthmian League Archive Site