The current Salisbury FC is a phoenix club that began in December 2014 and played its first competitive game in August 2015 away to Brockenhurst in the Sydenhams Football League (Wessex) Premier Division.
This feature covers not only players of the most recent past, but also players from earlier Salisbury teams, including Salisbury City and the `original` Salisbury FC which was formed in 1947.
Barry Fitch played 713 matches for Salisbury between 1962 and 1983 and enjoyed considerable success with the club.
The former defender was born and brought up in Brighton where his footballing talent was spotted at an early age.
He played with junior side the Brighton Boys and was then signed with Brighton & Hove Albion, a club he followed his whole life.
At the age of 18, Fitch left home to join the Salisbury at its Victoria Park ground.
Until 1967/68 the club was in the Western League and had many successful seasons - reaching the First Round of the FA Cup on more than one occasion, including against Peterborough United in 64/65 and against Swindon Town in 67/68.
The club was then transferred to the Southern League where it faced tougher opposition, but Fitch remained a regular member of the starting eleven until retiring at the age of 39.
Ian Chalk (pictured) made in excess of 500 appearances for Salisbury.
He spent time with Wrexham, Swindon Town and Peterborough United as a young professional before returning to his native Wiltshire to play for Bemerton Athletic and Warminster Town before signing for Salisbury in 1988.
He passed the 500-game mark for the club during the 1996/97 season and played on, despite not being a regular, as the new Millennium passed.
Chalk joined Bemerton Heath Harlequins as a player before becoming the Wessex League club`s permanent manager in 2007, spending eight years in charge before quitting in January 2015.
Tommy Paterson has the distinction of being the second top goalscorer in the inaugural season of the Alliance Premier League.
He scored 28 league goals for Weymouth in 1979/80 to finish just one shy of Northwich Victoria`s Graham Smith.
Hailing from the famous north east town of Ashington, home of the Charlton brothers, Paterson`s career began with Leicester City.
However, he returned to the north east without managing a senior outing for the Foxes and signed for Middlesbrough in 1974.
He played just the once for Boro, and spent time on loan with Hamilton Academical in Scotland, playing 5 times and scoring his first professional goal.
He moved south to join Bournemouth in 1976 and spent three years at Dean Court, making 57 appearances and scoring 10 goals.
He briefly returned north to play a handful of times for Darlington before signing for Weymouth, enjoying a stellar first season in the new Alliance Premier League.
He played 107 times for the Cherries, scoring 42 goals before having short spells with Poole Town and Dorchester Town.
He signed for Southern League Salisbury in 1983 and went on to play over 100 times for the Whites, scoring 45 goals.
He finished his playing days in a second spell with Poole.
Roger Emms was widely acknowledged as being one of the best central defenders in the Southern League in his time with Salisbury.
He was dominant in the air and a powerful presence at set-pieces.
A former South West youth representative, he began his playing career with Devizes Town in the Western League and then turned out for Penhill and Swindon Athletic – the forerunner of Swindon Supermarine – in the Wiltshire Senior League and Hellenic League, Newbury Town in the Isthmian League and Andover in the Southern League South Division before signing for the Whites in 1992 for a bargain £4,000.
He went on to make over 400 appearances for Salisbury, enjoying title success as well as relegation battles during his time at Victoria Park.
In February 2006 he announced he was retiring at the end of the 2005/06 season but was persuaded to play on in the end by Hellenic League Division One West outfit Cirencester United.
However, nine months later, at the age of 39, he made a surprise return to `Marine to help in their Southern League Division One promotion chase.
They finished fourth but it was enough to guarantee a spot in the Premier Division and Emms finally did hang up his boots after appearing over 100 times for `Marine, although he continued to play in charity games.
Barry Cranmer was a local lad who originally joined Salisbury at the start of the 1981/82 season from Andover and proved a key player for the club throughout the next ten years in central defence.
He had spells away from Victoria Park at Basingstoke Town and Poole Town before returning to the club in 1993/94 and again in 1996/97.
He went on to total 541 games for the club, scoring 56 goals, mostly from set-pieces.
He was rewarded with a testimonial match at Victoria Park against Southampton.
Often partnering Barry Cranmer at the heart of the defence, Ricky Haysom was another whose service to Salisbury earned him a testimonial game in October 1986 against Southampton at Victoria Park.
Previously with Southampton, Cowes, Newport Isle of Wight and Andover, Haysom made his Salisbury debut in 1980 and was a member of the promotion-winning side in 1985/86.
Appointed as Geoff Butler`s assistant at Salisbury, he was still making the occasional appearance in the 1990s, finishing his career on 298 games, with 17 goals.
The pair moved to Weymouth in 2002 but were sacked at the end of the 2002/03 season, despite helping the Terras avoid relegation into the Southern League Eastern Division.
He later teamed up with Butler again briefly at Bashley and returned to help Nicky Holmes at Salisbury.
Jimmy Smith`s playing days began in Scotland with Linwood Rangers, where he was in the same team as Paul Lambert who is now manager of Ipswich Town before he joined the trainee ranks at St Mirren.
Later released, Smith (pictured) headed over the border and down to the south coast to join Torquay United on trial, where we would earn a two-year YTS deal.
He chose Torquay after enjoying the area on family holidays as a youngster!
Smith appeared for the Gulls at Wembley in the 1989 Sherpa Van Trophy final and totalled 45 League appearances but when Cyril Knowles, the former Tottenham Hotspur favourite departed as manager, so did Smith, and he went on trial at Weymouth before joining Salisbury in 1990 where he hit the goal trail.
He won the Southern League`s `golden boot` award in 1990/91 with 45 goals as the Whites finished third in the South Division.
And his near goal-a-game ratio alerted Cheltenham Town, who signed him for a £5,000 fee in 1992.
Smith enjoyed remarkable success at Whaddon Road, topping the scoring charts most of the time he was there and helping them into the Conference in 1997 and then coming off the bench to help them win the 1998 FA Trophy Final in his second Wembley appearances.
After that Trophy success, the following season was even more successful for Cheltenham as they clinched promotion to the Football League for the first time in their history.
For Smith, though, his time at the club was to end as he moved to Southern League neighbours Gloucester City where he played for a season under Brian Hughes and his goal ratio of 20 goals in 41 games stood up before he called it a day.
Darrell Clarke deserves to be in this list as he was both a successful player and a successful manager of the club.
He joined the Whites in 2007 from Hartlepool United.
A vastly experienced player, Clarke began his career with his home-town club Mansfield, progressing through their youth scheme to the first team.
He made more than 150 League and cup appearances for the Stags, scoring 27 goals.
As he neared the end of his contract, a number of clubs expressed interest in him. He eventually chose Hartlepool, leaving on a free transfer, but as was still under 24, a nominal £80,000 fee was required because of the Bosman ruling.
He also had loan spells at Stockport County, Port Vale and Rochdale before leaving Pools.
He made over 150 appearances for Salisbury and was appointed as player-manager in August 2010 following the departure of Tommy Widdrington.
It wasn`t the best of situations for the club at the time as Salisbury had suffered a two-division demotion two months earlier, falling from the Conference Premier to the Southern Premier, but remained as a full-time club.
Clarke was very successful in his three years in charge and helped them to the Conference Premier in May 2013 - their second promotion in three years.
However, in June 2013 he accepted the job as assistant manager to John Ward at Bristol Rovers.
Clarke took the top job the following March after Ward`s departure and although he was unable to rescue Rovers from relegation, he achieved promotion back to the EFL at the first attempt with a penalty shoot-out win over Grimsby Town in the Conference Premier Promotion Final.
The Pirates then went on to secure a second successive promotion in 2015/16, pipping Accrington Stanley to third place in League Two after a last-gasp final-day victory over Dagenham & Redbridge.
A period of consolidation followed, with Rovers placing 10th and 13th in League One over the next two seasons before Clarke left his post in December 2018.
He was appointed manager of League One Walsall on a three-year deal in May 2019.
Phil Gilbert started out with his local club Margate in 1960 but moved along the Kent coast to Ramsgate in the summer of 1961 without making a senior appearance for Margate.
Normally used as a striker, he impressed enough with the Rams as a teenager to be signed by Brighton & Hove Albion in January 1962 and he went on to make 6 first-team appearances for the Seagulls, scoring 3 times, before signing for Salisbury in March 1964.
He went on to play over 300 games for the Whites and featured in some famous FA Cup ties, including playing against Peterborough United in the First Round in 64/65 after Salisbury had played six ties to reach that stage.
He also appeared in the First Round again in 67/68 against Swindon Town.
He was released by Salisbury in 1972 and stopped playing for while before being tempted back by Margate in 1977 and again in 1980 when he finally made his senior debut for the club at the age of 36!
He had a spell as manager of another former club, Ramsgate, in 1981, but resigned after less than five months in the post.
Alan Green was also a striker who started his career with Bournemouth in 1970 as a young professional but found his first-team opportunities limited with Ted MacDougal and Phil Boyer leading their attack at the time.
In 1972 he moved to Mansfield Town and earned a place in the side for the opening fixture against Northampton Town in August 1972.
However, just before half-time he collapsed with a heart attack.
He spent almost a month in hospital and although Mansfield honoured his contract for that year, his full-time football career was over at the age of 22.
Bournemouth helped him out by staging a testimonial match against a Leicester City side containing the likes of Peter Shilton, Frank Worthington and Alan Birchenall.
Green got a job as an insurance agent and was encouraged to take up sport again by his doctor.
He returned to Salisbury in the Southern League in 1974, initially on a month-to-month deal to see how it went and it proved a great success as he
played for four seasons, scoring 136 goals, and was voted as one of the top 30 all-time best players for the first 60 years.
He went on to have two seasons with Andover as player-manager, scoring 41 goals in 85 games and took them for a period to the top spot in the Southern League.
Adam Wallace joined Salisbury City in August 2002, having made a couple of appearances for the club the previous season following his release from Southampton.
In his second spell with the Whites, he spent two seasons scoring 54 goals in 93 appearances for the club.
He had a short spell with Southend United at the end of the 2001/02 season, making two Football League appearances.
After a short spell with Basingstoke Town, he transferred to Windsor & Eton in July 2005 and went on to join Slough Town and Fleet Town before re-joining Windsor in September 2008.
Of the current squad at the Ray Mac, Lewis Benson (pictured) is one of the longest-serving players, popular with supporters.
He signed for the Whites from Andover in June 2016.
He progressed through Woking academy and joined Salisbury City`s youth team in the summer of 2007, aged 17, and became a regular in the youth and reserve teams.
On his release in the summer of 2008, he joined Havant & Waterlooville but stopped playing competitive football to go to university where he gained a degree in sports coaching.
During this time, he obtained several coaching badges, and currently holds a UEFA `B` Licence.
After he gained his degree, he started playing competitive football again and joined the new Andover Town in the summer of 2013.
He is a talented attacking midfield player and has proved to be a great acquisition for Salisbury.
Striker Matty Tubbs started out with Bournemouth and then moved north to spend two years on Bolton Wanderers` books as a scholar.
After he failed to earn a deal with the Trotters, Tubbs returned to Dorset and was re-signed by the Cherries in 2003 on non-contract terms.
However, that second spell at Dean Court was a short one and he made the short trip to join Southern League Premier Division side Dorchester.
But once again his time with the Magpies lasted only two months after they let him go.
By the time he departed from the club, Tubbs made 11 appearances and scored 2 goals.
The move that really kick-started his career though came when he joined Salisbury City following his departure from Dorchester.
He went on to become one of the most sought-after strikers outside the Football League, scoring 108 goals for the Whites in 250 games – and even had a loan spell back at Bournemouth in 2008 when he played 8 games scoring once.
He helped Salisbury to win the Southern Premier title in 2005/06 and to finish second in their first season in the Conference South the following season and also won two England C international caps.
It seemed only a matter of time before he would return to the full-time ranks but when he did in July 2010, rather than it be a Football League side, Tubbs signed a two-year deal with Conference Premier club Crawley Town for a then-club record fee of £55,000.
But he got his wish eventually as Crawley won their place in League Two with Tubbs contributing 40 goals in 48 games.
In January 2012, Tubbs returned to a now-League One Bournemouth for a fee in the region of £800,000 on a three-and-a-half-year contract.
He managed 38 games and 7 goals for the Cherries this time and also had loan spells with Rotherham United, AFC Wimbledon and back at Crawley.
After leaving Bournemouth for the last time in 2015, he went on to have spells with Portsmouth, Forest Green Rovers, Sutton United, Eastleigh, Havant & Waterlooville and Gosport Borough.
He finished playing in 2009 and is now a strength and conditioning coach and personal trainer.
Sean Sanders was a versatile player who played in almost every position for Salisbury since signing for the club from Andover during the 1987/88 season.
He began his career in midfield but had a couple of seasons at centre-back, and up front.
He was the club's top scorer with 22 goals in the 1992/93 season in which Salisbury won promotion but were denied it due to ground grading, then scored 25 in the next.
A member of the 1994/95 Southern Division title-winning squad, injuries took their toll and after a few games the following season he dropped down a level to play for Andover in the Wessex League and Stockbridge in the Hampshire League.
He returned to Salisbury to help out for a couple of games during the 2000/01 campaign, scoring once to take his career total to 97 goals from 376 appearances.
Surprisingly, few former full international players have found their way to Salisbury over the years.
One who did, however, was Northern Ireland forward Warren Feeney.
Belfast-born Feeney (pictured), who won 46 full international caps for Northern Ireland between 2002 and 2011, started his career at Leeds United in 1998.
He went on to have spells at AFC Bournemouth, Stockport County, Luton Town, Cardiff City, Oldham Athletic and Plymouth Argyle.
He totalled 379 appearances in the League, scoring 84 goals.
In July 2013, Feeney was appointed as Salisbury`s player/assistant-manager to Mikey Harris in the Conference Premier.
He left the club at the end of the 2013/14 season, after becoming manager Irish side Linfield.
Since then, he has been assistant and then manager at Newport County, assistant boss at Crawley Town and Notts County and made a surprise playing comeback at the age of 38 with Callington Town in the South West Peninsula League before taking a job as manager of Ards back in Northern Ireland and then with Pirin Blagoevgrad – a Bulgarian second division outfit.
In February 2007, Salisbury signed former Welsh international Alan Neilson.
The ex-Newcastle United, Southampton and Fulham midfielder had most recently been on the books of Conference strugglers Tamworth.
Born in Wegburg, Germany, Neilson began his career as a trainee at Newcastle United.
After making more than 40 appearances for the Tyneside club, he moved south in 1995 to Southampton for a fee of £750,000.
He played 50 times for the Saints before re-joining former boss Kevin Keegan at Fulham for £250,000 where he made 30-plus appearances.
His career has also included a loan spell at Grimsby Town and then a free transfer to Luton Town.
A Welsh international - he won seven caps for his country - he joined Tamworth in August 2006.
His stay with Salisbury was a brief one though as in the summer of 2008, he joined the Norwich City coaching team and has since been back at Luton, where he acted as caretaker manager three times, and then onto the coaching staff at Cambridge United before returning to Norwich as an academy coach.
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