Players

Read more about some of the great players to have pulled on a Swansea shirt.

Centenary video of memories of and from players

Some great players

Fans on players

Team photographs

Team shirts through the ages

Players’ memories of the Vetch

Swansea Town’s first team 1912

Photographs of players from 1910s and 1920s (taken by a local photographer and donated by his grandson Mel Clare)

Players killed in the First World War

1920s Swansea Town cigarette cards

John Harris’ 1935 players’ contract

1949 cartoons of players

Anonymous 1950s portraits

Team pen pictures from 1956 supporters’ club handbook

Play good football (Memories from John Charles)

John Charles and Trevor Ford stories of Swansea from Charlie Buchan’s Monthly

Ivor Allchurch and the Coronation

Tom Kiley – memories of playing in the 1940s and 50s

Ray Powell – memories of playing in the 1940s and 50s

Memories from Terry Medwin

Alan Jones’ contracts, 1963 and 1965

A Letter to Alan Jones from Giorgio Chinaglia

Harry Griffiths appeal fund

Herbie Williams testimonal

1978 squad profile from Watford (A) match programme

The appointment of John Toshack

Wyndham Evans testimonial dinner programme

Leighton James (memories of playing in the 1970s and 80s)

Jimmy Rimmer testimonial programme

Jimmy Rimmer (memories of playing in the 1970s)

Colin Irwin and Robbie James (Shoot magazine Q&A, early 1980s)

Alan Davies, died 1992

Colin Webster, former Swan, 1958 World Cup squad member and Busby Babe

Player autographs

Short biographies of every Swans player

Pen pictures of great Swansea players from the project’s museum exhibition

Football and racism

Swansea Town 1950

Swansea Town 1950

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