MOST PLAYERS FROM ONE COUNTRY IN A GAME
The most players we've ever had from a country other than England in a single game was way back in the 1893-94 season when, for 11 games, we had 9 players from Scotland in the linuep.
The lineups for those 11 games featured the following players making all 11 appearances:
Adam Scott,
Alec Stewart,
Alex Higgins,
Archibald Ritchie,
James Collins,
John McPherson,
Peter McCracken,
Tom McInnes, while
John Brodie appeared in 7 games and
Neil McCallum made 4 of the lineups.
The lineups for the 11 games were:
Mar 23, 1894 Bolton Wanderers |
Oct 07, 1893 Aston Villa |
Jan 13, 1894 Sunderland |
Mar 15, 1894 Darwen |
Jan 06, 1894 Notts County |
Mar 17, 1894 Sunderland |
Jan 01, 1894 Sheffield United |
Nov 25, 1893 Blackburn Rovers |
Feb 24, 1894 Notts County |
Dec 30, 1893 Derby County |
Nov 18, 1893 Sheffield United |
Allsop | Allsop | Allsop | Brown | Allsop | Allsop | Allsop | Brown | Allsop | Allsop | Brown |
Ritchie | Ritchie | Ritchie | Ritchie | Ritchie | Ritchie | Ritchie | Ritchie | Ritchie | Ritchie | Ritchie |
Scott | Scott | Scott | Scott | Scott | Scott | Scott | Scott | Scott | Scott | Scott |
Stewart | McCracken | Stewart | Stewart | Stewart | Stewart | Stewart | McCracken | Stewart | Stewart | McCracken |
McPherson | McPherson | McPherson | McPherson | McPherson | McPherson | McPherson | McPherson | McPherson | McPherson | McPherson |
McCracken | Stewart | McCracken | McCracken | McCracken | McCracken | McCracken | Stewart | McCracken | McCracken | Stewart |
Pike | Collins | McInnes | McInnes | Shaw | Pike | McInnes | McCallum | Shaw | McInnes | McCallum |
Higgins | McCallum | Higgins | Collins | Higgins | Higgins | Higgins | Smith | Higgins | Higgins | Smith |
Brodie | Higgins | Brodie | Brodie | Brodie | Brodie | McCallum | Higgins | Brodie | Brodie | Higgins |
Collins | Pike | Collins | Higgins | Collins | Collins | Collins | Collins | Collins | Collins | Collins |
McInnes | McInnes | Pike | Pike | McInnes | McInnes | Pike | McInnes | McInnes | Pike | McInnes |
Here's the list of the times that games featured non-English players (and the countries that they're from):