By Tadeniawo Collins
Former Super Eagles striker and two-time African Footballer of the Year, Kanu Nwankwo has been ranked Arsenal’s 13th best player of all time out of a total of 50 players.
Kanu was selected in a recent poll by fans of the football club, which was conducted on the club’s official website. The Nigerian football legend appeared 198 times for the Gunners and scored 48 goals during his stay at the London club from 1999 to 2004. He won the FA Cup and Premier League title at the club coached by Arsene Wenger.
In the polls voted for by the club’s core fans across the globe, Kanu ranks far above the likes of Nicholas Anelka, Sol Campbell, Ashley Cole, Emmanuel Petit and several others in the poll measuring the club’s all time greatest players.
See full list of players below…
Arsenal Football Club’s All-Time 50 Greatest Players:
- Thierry Henry
- Dennis Bergkamp
- Tony Adams
- Ian Wright
- Patrick Vieira
- Robert Pires
- David Seaman
- Liam Brady
- Charlie George
- Pat Jennings
- Freddie Ljungberg
- Marc Overmars
- Kanu Nwankwo
- David O’Leary
- Sol Campbell
- David Rocastle
- Pat Rice
- Cliff Bastin
- Ray Parlour
- Martin Keown
- Lee Dixon
- Emmanuel Petit
- Brian Talbot
- John Radford
- Ashley Cole
- Paul Merson
- Alan Smith
- Charlie Nicholas
- Nicolas Anelka
- Frank McLintock
- Ted Drake
- Nigel Winterburn
- Sylvain Wiltord
- Danny Clapton
- Sammy Nelson
- Kenny Sansom
- Michael Thomas
- Steve Williams
- Bob Wilson
- George Armstrong
- George Eastham
- George Graham
- Andy Ducat
- Malcolm Macdonald
- Alan Ball
- Alex James
- Frank Stapleton
- Tony Woodcock
- David Jack
- Peter Storey
