Goalless Wonders: 8 Players Who Have Played the Most Premier League Games Without Ever Scoring
Some footballers are born to score goals. Most manage to at least find the net every now and again, regardless of their position on the pitch, but some are just not goalscorers at all.
Every player on this list is perhaps unsurprisingly a defender. But, given that John Terry scored 41 Premier League goals during his career and Nicolas Otamendi has already scored four this season, that alone doesn't make goalscoring prohibitive.
Data sourced from Transfermarkt; goalkeepers are not included
8. Danny Simpson - 195 games
Clubs: Manchester United, Blackburn, Newcastle, QPR, Leicester
Years Active: 2007 - present
Danny Simpson has played close to 200 games for five different Premier League clubs and is still yet to find the net for any of them.
The only two league goals the full-back has ever scored came in Belgium while on loan at Royal Antwerp and in the Championship with Newcastle.
7. Lucas Radebe - 197 games
Club: Leeds United
Years Active: 1994 - 2004
Leeds cult hero and former captain Lucas Radebe was not the kind of centre-back that transformed into an attacking threat at set pieces.
The South African did scored three times for Leeds during 11 years with the club, but only in the FA Cup and the Champions League, not the Premier League.
6. Steve Potts - 202 games
Club: West Ham
Years Active: 1992 - 2001
Retired centre-back Steve Potts is a West Ham legend with more than 500 total games for the Hammers under his belt in an Upton Park career that lasted near 20 years.
What he wasn't was a goalscorer. The only league goal that Potts scored in a West Ham shirt came during the 1990/91 season and was therefore before the advent of the Premier League.
5. Stephane Henchoz - 243 games
Clubs: Blackburn, Liverpool, Wigan, Blackburn
Years Active: 1997 - 2004, 2005 - 2008
Stephane Henchoz is best known to English fans for the defensive partnership he forged with Sami Hyypia at Liverpool at the start of the 21st century.
But the towering Swiss international, who never scored a goal in any competition for any of his clubs in England eventually made way for Jamie Carragher, who had initially been a right-back.
4. Richard Shaw - 252 games
Clubs: Crystal Palace, Coventry
Years Active: 1992 - 1993, 1994 - 2001
A long serving hero for both Crystal Palace and Coventry during a 20-year career, Richard Shaw was famously the player on the receiving end of an Eric Cantona kick that resulted in a red card for the Frenchman just moments before he assaulted a Palace fan in 1995.
Shaw scored a small handful of goals for Palace outside the Premier League, while it took him until 2004, after Coventry had been relegated, to finally score his first goal for them.
3. Des Walker - 264 games
Club: Sheffield Wednesday
Years Active: 1993 - 2000
Having missed the first season of the Premier League era as a result of a high profile move to Sampdoria in 1992, Des Walker was a virtual ever present for Sheffield Wednesday when he returned to England after only one season in Italy.
By the time he retired, the only league goal the former England man had ever scored was during the 1991/92 top flight season, a year before the Premier League began.
2. Tony Hibbert - 265 games
Club: Everton
Years Active: 2001 - 2016
One-club man Tony Hibbert famously never scored a goal during his professional career, either in the Premier League or any other competition.
The local home-grown full-back, who first began to establish himself as a first-team regular in 2002/03, played 265 times in the Premier League and 329 times for Everton overall.
1. Kenny Cunningham - 335 games
Clubs: Wimbledon, Birmingham
Years Active: 1994 - 2000, 2002 - 2006
After making his Premier League debut with Wimbledon in 1994 following more humble beginnings lower down the league ladder with Millwall, Irish defender Kenny Cunningham became a top flight stalwart.
But even in well over 300 Premier League appearances, there were no goals.