Premier League rules state that a player must retain his number throughout the season. Manchester United has asked the league to make an exception for Cristiano Ronaldo
A daily email with the best of our journalismWhen club football became popular in England in the 19th century, players would appear without a number. Instead they were identified by their position on the pitch. Teams almost always played in a 2-3-5 formation , and substitutes were not permitted, so tracking players was easy. The first record of shirt numbers at club level was in August 1928, when Arsenal and Chelsea wore them in matches against Sheffield Wednesday and Swansea Town, respectively.
One to 11 corresponded to how the 2-3-5 formation would appear in newspaper reports and matchday programmes. It scanned down the page: the goalkeeper wore number one, right back two, left back three, etc, down to the attacking left winger at 11. These numbers largely endured as tactics changed from a 2-3-5 formation to 4-4-2, which arranged the team in lines of four defenders, four midfielders and two strikers. This meant there was no longer a strict link between positions and shirt numbers .
In 1993 the Premier League scrapped the old system and required each member of a squad to keep his number for an entire season regardless of position, largely to make it easier to identify players. In that season 37 different numbers appeared. Other leagues quickly followed suit. Managers tend to dish out the sought-after low numbers to the best players, a legacy of the “first 11” lineup, indicating that they will start regularly.
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