The Premier League Hall of Fame aims to honour players who have shown exceptional skill at association football, and have had a significant influence on the Premier League.
Alan Shearer and Thierry Henry were the inaugural members of the newly established Hall of Fame, with Eric Cantona, Roy Keane, Frank Lampard and Dennis Bergkamp being added earlier this week. Steven Gerrard and David Beckham deservedly became the 7th & 8th member enrolled into the Hall of Fame today.
Players must have retired before the start of the awarding season and are only judged on their domestic performances in the Premier League and no other competitions considered. Players must have made 250 appearances or if not satisfy one of the following:
Appeared in more than 200 Premier League appearances for one club
Selected to any of the Premier League Team of the Decade or 20-Year Anniversary teams
Won a Premier League Golden Boot or Golden Glove
Been voted as Premier League Player of the Season
Won three Premier League titles
Scored 100 Premier League goals or recorded 100 Premier League clean sheets (GK only)
Frank Lampard was directly involved in 36 goals during the 2009/10 season, the most ever recorded by a centre-midfielder in a single Premier League campaign.
Alan Shearer inaugural player inducted into the PL Hall of Fame.
Games: 441 Goals: 260 Assists: 64 Premier League trophies: Golden Boot: 3 Active: 1992-2006
Nationality: English DOB: 13/08/1970 Position: Forward
If there was a ball and there was a goal, nothing could stop Alan Shearer.
Not defenders, not distance, not great goalkeepers nor even the laws of physics sometimes. That was why he scored a record 260 of them in the Premier League.
The call of home to play for his boyhood club Newcastle United made him a Geordie legend, but meant he lifted the Premier League Trophy just once.
Some are scorers of great goals, some great scorers of goals. Shearer was both. He was the ultimate centre-forward, scoring from all angles, with his left foot, with his right foot and with his head and scoring with pace, power and technique.
“He’s a superb team player and an inspirational captain,” said Bobby Robson, his inspirational manager at Newcastle. “As a player he is up there with the very best.
Games: 156 Goals: 70 Assists: 56 Premier League trophies: Player of the Month Awards: Active: 1992-1997
Nationality: French DOB: 24/05/1966 Position: Forward
Former Manchester United captain Eric Cantona was a catalyst for Manchester United’s dominance of the Premier League in the 1990s after his shock move from defending champions Leeds United early in the competition’s inaugural 1992/93 campaign.
Cantona helped United to end their 26-year title drought that year, and they were Premier League champions four times in five seasons at Old Trafford before his retirement in May 1997.
The Frenchman inspired his team with his approach and his skill that brought plenty of magic moments, such as his sublime lob versus Sunderland in December 1996.
Roy Keane was the fierce heartbeat of Manchester United’s midfield and their domination of the Premier League in the 1990s.
The tough-tackling Irishman joined from Nottingham Forest for a British-record fee in 1993 and was a leader in the United side, before becoming club captain in 1997.
His energy and fighting spirit inspired his team-mates to seven titles during his time at the club.
The Premier League 25 man shortlist for the Hall of Fame is in:
Tony Adams
Sergio Aguero
Sol Campbell
Petr Cech
Andrew Cole
Ashley Cole
Didier Drogba
Patrice Evra
Les Ferdinand
Rio Ferdinand
Robbie Fowler
Vincent Kompany
The Premier League Hall of Fame aims to honour players who have shown exceptional skill at association football, and have had a significant influence on the Premier League.
Alan Shearer and Thierry Henry were the inaugural members of the newly established Hall of Fame, with Eric Cantona, Roy Keane, Frank Lampard and Dennis Bergkamp being added earlier this week. Steven Gerrard and David Beckham deservedly became the 7th & 8th member enrolled into the Hall of Fame today.
36 games
22 goals
14 assists
OFFICIAL: Chelsea’s all-time leading goalscorer Frank Lampard has become the latest player to be inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame:
Games: 609
Gerrard becomes the first former Liverpool player to make the PL Hall of Fame.
Premier League trophies: 
Active: 1992-2006
Nationality: English
French
Games: 156
Goals: 70
Assists: 56
Premier League trophies: 
Active: 1992-1997
Nationality: 
French
Former Manchester United captain Eric Cantona was a catalyst for Manchester United’s dominance of the Premier League in the 1990s after his shock move from defending champions Leeds United early in the competition’s inaugural 1992/93 campaign.
