Top Scorers

The top scorers for Boro during their time at Ayresome Park are listed below, season-by-season. The first prolific scorer for Boro was George Elliott who topped the charts four times before the outbreak of WWI. In the 1913/14 season Elliott became the first Boro player to be top scorer in Division 1, when he scored 31 league goals. He went on to score 213 goals for Boro in a career that spanned 16 years from 1909 to 1925.

Other names of note in this period were Alf Common, the first £1000 transfer from Sunderland, and Steve Bloomer, a £750 signing from Derby County.

After WWI George Elliott had continued where he left off before the war, and was top scorer for three of the seven seasons, before he retired in 1925. However, the period between WWI and WWII was dominated by the phenomenal George Camsell, who scored 345 goals in 453 matches for Boro. In the 1926/27 season Camsell scored an incredible 59 goals in just 37 games.

His record was broken the following season by the great Dixie Dean, who scored 60 for Everton, however, the Boro star started two games less! Following his debut season in 1925/26 the Durham born player was Boro's top scorer for ten consecutive seasons, until a young Mickey Fenton took over prior to the outbreak of WWII.

Camsell spent over twenty years at Boro, and after playing a handful of matches during WWII, he hung up his boots and joined the Ayresome Park staff.

Mickey Fenton followed in a similar fashion to George Elliott and continued where he had left off before the war, being top scorer for three consecutive seasons after the war. The next prolific scorer would be a certain Brian Clough who scored 202 goals in 222 games over a six year period, before his move to Sunderland in 1961, where his career would be cut short through injury.

In more recent times there were major contributions from John Hickton and Bernie Slaven who topped the charts for six and five consecutive seasons respectively.

The 1960/61 season saw the introduction of the League Cup and later there would be 'other' competitions, such as the Anglo-Italian Cup, Anglo-Scottish Cup, Full Members Cup, Freight Rover Trophy, Simod Cup and ZDS Cup.