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  Record Transfer Fee Paid
  £8m to Manchester United for Andrew Cole, December 2001
Andy Cole scored 27 goals in his 83 appearances from 2001 to 2004.
   
  Record Transfer Fee Received
  £17m from Chelsea for Damien Duff, July 2003

Undisclosed amount from Manchester City for Roque Santa Cruz, June 2009.
The transfer deal is believed to involve an initial down payment of £16 million, rising to £18m based on goals and appearances.
Roque Santa Cruz had a release clause in his contract for £18m.
   
  Record Attendance at Ewood Park
  62,555 vs Bolton Wanderers, FA Cup 6th round, 2nd March 1929
   
  Record Win
  11 - 0 v Rossendale United, Ewood Park, FA Cup 1st round on 13 Oct 1884
   
  Record Premier League Win
  Blackburn 7-0 Nottingham Forest - November 1995
Alan Shearer scored a hat-trick, Lars Bohinen scored 2 goals, Mike Newell and Graeme Le Saux also netted.
 
  Record League Win
  9 - 0 v Middlesbrough, Ewood Park, Division 2,on 6 Nov 1954
   
  Record Away Win
  8 - 2 v West Ham United, Division 1, on 26 Dec 1963
   
  Record League Def
  0 - 8 v Arsenal, Division 1, on 25 Feb 1933
0 - 8 v Lincoln City, Division 2, on 29 Aug 1953
   
  Record Home League Defeat
  1 - 7 v Notts County, on 14 Mar 1891
1 - 7 v Middlesbrough, on 29 Nov 1947
   
  Record Aggregate Highest League
  13: 5 - 8 v Notts County (away), on 6 September 1890
   
  Record Aggregate Home Leagu
  12: 7 - 5 v Birmingham City, Division 1, on 28 September 1929
   
  Most League Apperances by Player
 

Derek Fazackerley, 593 + 3 sub, 1970/71 to 1986/87


In his entire 17 years Blackburn career, the centre-back played 596 league games with 23 league goals. He also made 78 cup appearances.
Later on, the Blackburn legend became the club's coach in 1995, but was sacked by new manager Brian Kidd on 7th Dec 1998.
   
  Most Capped Player with Club
  Henning Berg represented 61 times for Norway while playing for Blackburn Rovers as defender.
Berg acheived a 100 caps for his country in total during his entire playing career.
   
  Most Consecutive League Appearances
  Walter Crook, 208 (1934-46)
Crook made a total of 236 appeareances with 2 goals in his Blackburn career as a full-back.
   
  Record Goalscorer
  Simon Garner, 194 goals(168 league goals), 1978/79 to 1991/92
   
  Most Goals scored by a player in 1 season
  Ted Harper, 43 goals, Division 1, 1925/26
Harper played for Rovers (1923-1927 and 1933-1934), and became the club's coach in 1934.
   
  Most Goals scored by a player in 1 match
  Tommy Briggs, 7 goals v Bristol Rovers, Ewood Park, Division 2, on 5 February 1955
The striker scored 140 goals in 194 Rovers games from 1952 to 1957. In 4 successive seasons with Rovers, Briggs scored over 30 goals each season.
He broke the Rovers record for top-scorer with 143 goals, until Simon Garner broke his record.
   
  Most Hat-tricks in 1 Season
  8 hat-tricks in season 1963/64
In that season 1963/64, Blackburn Rovers acheived 7th place out of 22th in the League Table First Division with 46 points.
   
  Most Individual Hat-tricks in 1 Season
  5 hat-tricks by John Southworth in season 1890/91 against Derby County, Aston Villa, Derby County, Chester, and Accrington.
Southworth finished the season as top scorer in the Football League, with 26 league goals (plus 6 in the cup).
Blackburn was placed 6th out of 12th in the Football League.

5 hat-tricks by Andy McEvoy in season 1963/64,
The Irish star played for Rovers between 1956 to 1967 and scored 89 goals in 183 appearances.
Blackburn was placed 7th out of 22th in the First Division.

5 hat-tricks by Alan Shearer in season 1995/96 against Coventry, Nottingham Forest, West Ham, Bolton and Tottenham.
Shearer topped the Premiership scoring charts with the highest number of goals in the league charted at the time, with 31 goals.
Blackburn Rovers was placed 7th out of 20th in the Premier League.
   
  Most Individual Hat-tricks
  13 hat-tricks by John Southworth in 1887-1893
In his Blackburn career from 1888 to 1893, the striker scored 97 goals in 108 league appeareances, and 22 goals in 21 cup appeareances.
He was awarded the "Golden Boot" (Top scorer in Football League) in season 1890–91. Blackburn Rovers won the FA Cup in 1890 and 1891.
   
  Most League Apperances by a Goalkeeper
  289 appearances by Terry Gennoe from 1981/82 to 1990/91
After playing 10 years for Rovers, Gennoe retired in 1991 and continue as the club's goalkeeping coach until 1997.
   
  Most Consecutive League Apperances by a Goalkeeper
  152 consecutive appearances by Reginald Elvy and Brad Friedel
"Reg." Elvy made 192 Rovers appearances from 1951 to 1956.
   
  Most Clean Sheets by a Goalkeeper in a League Season
  19 clean sheets by Jim Arnold, Division 3, in season 1979/80
Arnold played for Blackburn Rovers from 1979 to 1981, and made 58 appearances.

19 clean sheets by Bommy Mimms, Premier League, in season 1992/93
Mimms made 126 appearances for Blackburn from 1990 to 1996. He made 4 appearances during Rovers' Premier League winning season of 1994-95.
Bobby Mimms was appointed as the curent goalkeeping coach since July 2008.
   
  Most FA Cup appearances
  56 cup appearances by Ronnie Clayton from 1949-1969


Captain Ronnie Clayton made 581 appearances in midfield, scoring 15 goals for the Rovers from 1951 to 1969.
The Rovers legend made 35 appearances for the England team, including 5 as England captain.
Clayton is the current club's tour guide for Ewood Park.
   
  Most League Cup apperances
  38 cup appearances by Derek Fazackerley from 1969-1987
   
  Youngest Player who played for the club
  Harry Dennison, aged 16 years 155 days, v Bristol City (home), Division 1, 8 April 1911
   
  Oldest Player who played for the club
  Bob Crompton, aged 40 years 150 days, v Bradford (away), Divison 1, 23 February 1920
The local lad played as Rovers full-back between 1896 to 1920, playing 530 games with 14 goals.
He also played 41 times for England, captaining them 22 times.
The captain helped the club to be crowned First Division champions in seasons 1911–12 and 1913–14.
He became Rovers manager in 2 spells (1926 to 1931 and 1938 to 1941), and led the club to a FA Cup win in 1928, and Second Division champions
in season 1938–39. Crompton died on 15 March 1941 in the match against Burnley, while he was still in charge of Blackburn.
   
  Only Goalkeeper to ever score a goal
  Brad Friedel, Charlton Athletic 3 - 2 Blackburn Rovers, Premiership, on 21 February 2004


The US goalkeeper made 287 Rovers appearances between 2000 to 2008.
Friedel won the Blackburn Rovers Player of the Year in season 2002-03. Blackburn Rovers won the League Cup in 2002.