With four competitions – the league, the League Cup, the FA Cup and the Football League Trophy (no sponsorship names at BantamsHeritage!) – a permanent fixture in City’s calendar for at least another season, we thought we’d take a look at those players who have achieved the feat of scoring in all four competitions for the club.

Naturally, that removes some of Bradford’s greatest-ever players from the list for a number of reasons; be that they never played in the Football League Trophy, or some competitions weren’t invented until after they had finished representing the club.

As the newest of the four competitions, the Football League Trophy records was the ideal, and indeed easiest, place to look. 32 players have scored for City in that particular competition – but only seven have them have scored in the other three competitions. Fittingly, two of the club’s greatest-ever goal-scorers are in this exclusive club – listed in heritage number order, naturally:

Paul Jewell (#756)
56 league goals, 3 FA Cup goals, 5 League Cup goals, 1 Football League Trophy goal.
Brian Tinnion (#763)
22 league goals, 3 FA Cup goals, 2 League Cup goals, 2 Football League Trophy goals.
Sean McCarthy (#777)
60 league goals, 2 FA Cup goals, 9 League Cup goals, 7 Football League Trophy goals.
James Hanson (#1053)
78 league goals, 6 FA Cup goals, 5 League Cup goals, 1 Football League Trophy goal.
Kyel Reid (#1107)
13 league goals, 2 FA Cup goals, 1 League Cup goal, 1 Football League Trophy goal.
Billy Knott (#1157)
3 league goals, 3 FA Cup goals, 1 League Cup goal, 1 Football League Trophy goal.
Alex Jones (#1207)
5 league goals, 1 FA Cup goal, 1 League Cup goal, 3 Football League Trophy goals.

It’s arguably Knott and Jones’ record of being two of only seven players to have scored for Bradford in all four competitions which is most impressive – given Knott only scored eight goals for City in his time with the club and Jones (at the time of writing, has just ten).

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