Alan Shearer
English footballer (Wikidata description)
- Nationality
- England
- Born
- 13 August 1970
- Position
- Forward
- Preferred foot
- Not verified
- Senior career
- 1988–2006
Clubs Southampton F.C. · Blackburn Rovers F.C. · Newcastle United F.C.
Career statistics
Club figures here are senior domestic-league matches unless marked otherwise; international figures are full senior caps. Youth, reserve, Olympic, friendly and unofficial matches are excluded from totals. Totals are summed from the individual sourced records below. Where a record is missing, the figure is shown as unavailable — never as zero.
Club league apps
559
Club league goals
283
International caps
63
International goals
30
League goals / match
0.51
International goals / cap
0.48
All official apps
Unavailable
All-competition totals not yet sourced
Goals per 90
Unavailable
Requires minutes for every match
Assists: Unavailable — assists were not recorded consistently before the modern data era.
Club-by-club and international breakdown
| Team | Years | Counts | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southampton F.C.Club | 1988–1992 | League | 118 | 23 |
| Blackburn Rovers F.C.Club | 1992–1996 | League | 138 | 112 |
| England men's national association football teamNational team | 1992–2000 | Full caps | 63 | 30 |
| Newcastle United F.C.Club | 1996–2006 | League | 303 | 148 |
Season by season
Season-level records are unavailable for this player in the current sources. They will appear here when a licensed season-by-season source is imported.
Team accolades
- ×1
Premier League
Domestic
- 1994–95 · Blackburn Rovers F.C.
Sourced stated or derived from referenced statementsProvisional inferred from club stint dates — squad membership not individually verifiedVerified checked by an editor
Individual accolades
No dated individual awards from the catalog are recorded for this player in the current sources. This may reflect incomplete source data rather than an absence of awards; editors can add sourced entries.
Career timeline
1988
- Joins Southampton F.C. — Until 1992
1992
- Senior international debut: England men's national association football team — Until 2000
- Joins Blackburn Rovers F.C. — Until 1996
1995
- Premier League winner — 1994–95 · Blackburn Rovers F.C.(provisional)
1996
- Joins Newcastle United F.C. — Until 2006
Statistical score explained
Snapshot v2, methodology v1.0.0, published 27 October 2026. Each category is scored 0–100, multiplied by its weight, and summed. Full methodology →
Overall score
23.3
Rank #139
Partially verified5/5 categories with full evidence · 0% of inputs directly sourced
Coverage describes how complete the evidence is. It is not a probability and is separate from the score.
Peak performanceFull evidence3.5+1.05 points
- Best window
- 1991–1995
- Individual award points in window
- 0
- Award availability in window
- 0.794
- Team honor points in window
- 3
- Peak index
- 1.5
v1 measures peak through documented recognition (awards and titles) in the best rolling window, because season-level performance data is not available consistently across eras.
Career performanceFull evidence65.7+16.42 points
- League goals per match
- 0.506 → 54
- International goals per cap
- 0.476 → 57.19
- International caps per year
- 7 → 85
Individual accoladesFull evidence0.0+0.00 points
- Contemporary award points
- 0
- Award availability coverage
- 0.869
- Era-adjusted contemporary points
- 0
- Retrospective all-time honors
- 0
Team accomplishmentsFull evidence7.0+1.05 points
- Team honor points
- 3
- Club-league catalog coverage
- 1
- Premier League (1994–95)
- 3
Some club titles are inferred from stint dates overlapping a title-winning season (squad membership not individually verified).
LongevityFull evidence47.8+4.78 points
- Senior career length (years)
- 19 → 92.5
- Documented elite seasons
- 1 → 9
- International career length (years)
- 9 → 57
Appearance totals are deliberately not used, so accumulating matches alone does not raise this score.
Editorial biography
No editorial biography has been written yet. Biographies are written by hand with sources; none are generated automatically.
Sources
- Wikidata: Alan Shearer (Q483583)CC0 1.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026
- Wikimedia Commons: Alan Shearer 2008.jpgCC BY-SA 2.0 · retrieved 27 October 2026