Chelsea’s all-time leading goalscorer Frank Lampard and ex-Arsenal forward Dennis Bergkamp have been inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame.
Lampard scored 177 goals in 609 Premier League appearances for West Ham, Chelsea and Manchester City.
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He won the Premier League three times during a storied 13-year career at Stamford Bridge, during which he scored 211 goals in all competitions.
The ex-England international was named the Premier League’s Player of the Season following Chelsea’s 2004/05 title-winning campaign.
Lampard began his Premier League career as a West Ham academy graduate and also had a short spell at Man City before his retirement.
Dutchman Bergkamp joined Arsenal in 1995 from Inter Milan and was part of three title-winning squads, including the unbeaten 2003-04 campaign, which saw the Gunners team dubbed ‘The Invincibles’.
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He scored 87 goals in his 315 appearances Premier League appearances, before his retirement in 2006.
In 2017, Bergkamp’s famous pirouette strike against Newcastle in 2002 was voted by fans as the best goal in the Premier League’s first 25 years.
To be eligible for the Premier League Hall of Fame this year, players had to have been retired as of 1 August 2020, and only a player’s Premier League career was considered in his candidacy.
Each inductee will receive a personalised medallion, engraved with the year of their induction.
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