Who is in the Premier League Hall of Fame?

FT Desk

• 30 Oct 2025 05:00 CDT
• 4 min read

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Former Chelsea winger Eden Hazard and Manchester United legend Gary Neville are the latest names to have been inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame.

First introduced in 2021, the Premier League Hall of Fame celebrates the best players and managers to ever feature in the English top flight, with Hazard and Neville becoming the 25th and 26th members to be inducted.

The first batch of eight inductees were announced in 2021, with Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry, Eric Cantona, Roy Keane, David Beckham, Dennis Bergkamp, Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard all inducted.

Public and panel votes decide who will be inducted into the Hall of Fame and a player must be retired and have made a minimum of 250 Premier League appearances to stand a chance of inclusion unless they have met one of the following criteria:

- Made a minimum of 200 Premier League appearances for one club

- Been selected in any of the Premier League Team of the Decade or 20-Year Anniversary teams

- Won a Premier League Golden Boot or Golden Glove

- Been voted as Premier League Player of the Season

- Won three Premier League titles

- Scored 100 Premier League goals or recorded 100 Premier League clean sheets (goalkeepers only)

Manchester United legend Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsenal counterpart Arsene Wenger are the only two managers to be inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame.

Ferguson was the dominant managerial figure in English football over a period that stretched two decades. He won 13 Premier League titles with Manchester United and led the Old Trafford club to Champions League success on two occasions, including a historic treble in 1999.

Wenger, meanwhile, was Ferguson’s main rival in the late 1990s into the early 2000s, when Arsenal were at their peak. He enjoyed an intense rivalry with the Scot and is widely credited for elevating the Gunners to their current position.

Man Utd have 10 members in the Premier League Hall of Fame, which is more than any other club. Arsenal are second with eight members, while Chelsea have six and Manchester City five.

2025 Hall of Fame Inductees

Hazard is regarded as one of the Premier League's finest players of the 2010s. A tricky wide player, the Belgian used to terrify defences and won two Premier League titles during his seven years at Stamford Bridge.

Hazard made 245 top-flight appearances in which he netted 85 goals and provided 52 assists. Former Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri previously described the now-34-year-old as a 'genius.'

The scintillating winger left Chelsea in 2019 for Real Madrid. However, constant injuries never allowed him to recapture the form he showed in West London, and he retired in 2023.

"For a small Belgian guy from Braine-le-Comte playing for fun, being inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame with these greats of the game at 34 years old is crazy," Hazard responded on social media to his induction. "Thank you to all of you; I will see you soon, my friends!"

In addition to Hazard, Man Utd great Gary Neville has also been inducted this year. A one-club man, the former right-back made a whopping 600 appearances for the Red Devils between 1992 and 2011, around 400 of which came in the Premier League.

Neville was a member of the famous Class of '92 and is regarded as one of the greatest right-backs in the history of English football. He won the Premier League eight times during Ferguson's record-breaking spell at the club.

Premier League Hall of Fame inductees