Sheffield Wednesday squad – Football Research Archive

Squad 1996/97

Season statistics: Wikipedia. The archive holds no team sheets for 1996/97, so these are Sheffield Wednesday's league figures according to the club-season article on English Wikipedia, in the article's order. Players link to their page where the archive holds them, matched through Wikidata.

Sheffield Wednesday 1996/97: league appearances and goals per player, according to Wikipedia
Player	Pos.	Apps	Starts	Sub	Goals	All apps	All goals
Kevin Pressman	GK	38	38	0	0	44	0
Matt Clarke	GK	1	0	1	0	1	0
Peter Atherton	DF	37	37	0	2	43	2
Ian Nolan	DF	38	38	0	1	44	1
Jon Newsome	DF	10	10	0	1	14	1
Des Walker	DF	36	36	0	0	41	0
Steve Nicol	DF	23	19	4	0	28	0
Lee Briscoe	DF	6	5	1	0	6	0
Dejan Stefanović	DF	29	27	2	2	31	2
Mark Pembridge	MF	34	33	1	6	39	7
Regi Blinker	MF	33	15	18	1	36	1
Graham Hyde	MF	19	15	4	2	24	3
Scott Oakes	MF	18	7	11	1	19	1
Wayne Collins	MF	12	8	4	1	13	1
Ritchie Humphreys	MF	29	14	15	3	35	6
Orlando Trustfull	MF	19	9	10	3	22	3
Guy Whittingham	FW	32	29	3	3	37	5
Benito Carbone	FW	25	24	1	6	27	6
David Hirst	FW	25	20	5	6	28	6
Andy Booth	FW	35	32	3	10	41	13
O'Neill Donaldson	FW	5	2	3	2	5	2
Mike Williams	FW	1	0	1	0	2	0
Mark Bright	FW	1	0	1	0	1	0
John Sheridan	MF	2	0	2	0	2	0
Total		508			50

Sheffield Wednesday scored 50 league goals that season by the archive's results. A dash means the article gives no figure, not zero.

Includes data from Wikipedia (“1996–97 Sheffield Wednesday F.C. season”, revision 1376687106, read 16 Oct 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikipedia is edited by volunteers; the archive treats it as a secondary source and checks it against its own records where it can.

Transfers 1996/97

Sheffield Wednesday 1996/97: players joining, according to Wikipedia
Date	Player	From	Move
8 Jul 1996	Andy Booth	Huddersfield Town	Transfer
11 Jul 1996	Matt Clarke	Rotherham United	Transfer
7 Aug 1996	Scott Oakes	Luton Town	Transfer
9 Aug 1996	Wayne Collins	Crewe Alexandra	Transfer
20 Aug 1996	Orlando Trustfull	Feyenoord	Transfer
1 Sept 1996	Dave Hercock	Cambridge City	Transfer
14 Oct 1996	Benito Carbone	Inter Milan	Transfer
3 Apr 1997	David Billington	Peterborough United	Transfer
15 Apr 1997	Mark McKeever	Peterborough United	Transfer

Sheffield Wednesday 1996/97: players leaving, according to Wikipedia
Date	Player	To	Move
1 Jun 1996	Chris Woods	Colorado Rapids	Transfer
17 Jun 1996	Simon Stewart	Fulham	Transfer
1 Jul 1996	Darko Kovačević	Real Sociedad	Transfer
26 Jul 1996	Lance Key	Dundee United	Transfer
1 Aug 1996	Marc Degryse	PSV Eindhoven	Transfer
15 Aug 1996	David Faulkner	Darlington	Transfer
12 Sept 1996	Chris Waddle	Falkirk	Transfer
19 Dec 1996	John Sheridan	Bolton Wanderers	Transfer
1 Jan 1997	Mark Bright	FC Sion	Transfer

According to Wikipedia: the transfer tables of the club-season article. Fees are held but not shown.

Former players

People in this archive whose Wikidata career includes a senior spell at Sheffield Wednesday that has ended
Player	Years	Matches	Goals
Emiliano Martínez	2013–2014	11	0
Ross Barkley	2012	13	4
Paul Heckingbottom	2004–2006	42	4
Dean Smith	2003–2004	55	1
Nigel Pearson	1987–1994	180	14

Not limited to the season above, and not the club's full list: only people who appear elsewhere in this archive are listed. Years and figures are the spells' own, across all competitions, as Wikidata records them.