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Which clubs did Les Ferdinand play for?

Les Ferdinand turned out for 7 clubs across his senior career:

Queens Park Rangers · Newcastle United · Tottenham Hotspur · West Ham United · Leicester City · Bolton Wanderers · Reading

In order, that career path reads: Queens Park Rangers → Newcastle United → Tottenham Hotspur → West Ham United → Leicester City → Bolton Wanderers → Reading. Every club listed here is checked against Les Ferdinand's own Wikipedia article before it is published, so the career path you see is the one you can verify.

Can you name him from the clubs alone?

That sequence is the basis of our most-played format: the clubs appear one by one and you name the player before the last one lands. Les Ferdinand is one of 801 careers in the database, and with 7 clubs his path gives more away than most — the median player in our data has 5 — so this one is on the kinder side.

1 questions about Les Ferdinand from the quiz

These are pulled from the 2,917-question bank the site plays from. Every one has been checked against Wikipedia before publication — if a source contradicts it, it never reaches you.

Which club did Teddy Sheringham leave Tottenham Hotspur to join in 1997, only for Les Ferdinand to arrive as his replacement?
Manchester United

Where Les Ferdinand played

Those 7 clubs span 1 country — England, across Premier League. A career spent largely in one country is harder than it sounds to place — the clue is the order, not the badge.

Les Ferdinand in the quiz

He turns up in the career-path round, the club quizzes for Queens Park Rangers and Newcastle United, and the open search — type his name and the site builds a quiz around him on the spot. English striker, and one of the England players in the database.

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Les Ferdinand's clubs, one by one

Queens Park Rangers — England, Premier League. Also in the quiz from Queens Park Rangers: Yossi Benayoun, Stéphane Mbia, Mauricio Isla.

Newcastle United — England, Premier League. Also in the quiz from Newcastle United: Michael Owen, Georginio Wijnaldum, Shay Given.

Tottenham Hotspur — England, Premier League. Also in the quiz from Tottenham Hotspur: Harry Kane, Heung-min Son, Gareth Bale.

West Ham United — England, Premier League. Also in the quiz from West Ham United: Jermaine Defoe, Alex Song, Andy Carroll.

Leicester City — England, Premier League. Also in the quiz from Leicester City: Riyad Mahrez, N'Golo Kanté, Shinji Okazaki.

Bolton Wanderers — England, Premier League. Also in the quiz from Bolton Wanderers: Nicolas Anelka, El-Hadji Diouf, Kevin Nolan.

Reading — England, Premier League. Also in the quiz from Reading: Royston Drenthe, Vito Mannone, Shaka Hislop.

Other England players in the quiz

David Beckham · Wayne Rooney · Frank Lampard · Michael Owen · Danny Welbeck · Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain · Ben Foster · Ashley Young

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