Jerome Abbey made Wolves history on the final day of the Premier League season.
Teenager Jerome Abbey etched himself into Wolves history on Sunday when he came off the bench in a 1-1 draw against Burnley.
The 16-year-old replaced Adam Armstrong in the latter stages - becoming Wolves’ youngster ever Premier League player.
In the process he also went in at second in Wolves’ all time list of youngest players.
That title is still held by three time title winner Jimmy Mullen, who made his Wolves bow just a month after he turned 16.
Here is a look at the other 16-year-olds to turn out for Wolves, including one player who scored on his debut and never played again:
Jimmy Mullen - 16, years, one month and 12 days
The ‘outside left’ remains Wolves’ youngest ever player by seven months following Abbey’s appearance against Burnley.
Signed by Wolves as a schoolboy having grown up in Newcastle, Mullen went on to become a club legend.
He made his debut in 1939, before signing professional forms for the club, as he started a 4-1 win over Leeds.
In total he went on to make 488 appearances for Wolves, scoring 12 goals and helping the club to three league titles as well as an FA Cup in 1949.
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Jimmy Mullen | Local Library
Mullen also earned 12 England caps and holds the title of being England’s first ever substitute in an international against Belgium in 1950.
He also appeared at three World Cups for his country.
During the war, he served as a solider from 1941 onwards and after retiring he went on to run a sports shop in Wolverhampton.
Alan Steen - 16 years, eight months and 20 days
Not many players are lucky enough to score on their debut, let alone when they are just 16 years of age. But Steen did exactly that.
As part of two teenage wingers selected for a game against Manchester United in 1939 alongside Mullen, it was the Wolves legend who set Steen up for his strike in a 3-0 win. At the time of that goal Steen was listed as an amateur player.
And it was to be his only ever senior appearance for Wolves. He turned out 19 times for Wolves in the Midland Regional League, but never again for the first team.
Steen was a wireless operation with the Bomber Command during the Second World War. He was shot down over Germany and spent two years in a prisoner of war camp.
Following the end of the war, he returned to football and played for Luton, Rochdale, Aldershot and Carlisle.
Chem Campbell - 16 years and ten months
The Birmingham born winger was handed his senior debut in 2019 in an EFL Cup tie against Villa, before a Premier League debut arrived in 2022.
A lot of his time was spent away from Wolves on loan, before he signed permanently for Stevenage in 2025 for an undisclosed fee, scoring four times in 32 appearances during his first season.
Peter Broadbent - 16, ten months two days
Another one who went on to become a Wolves legend. Signed from Brentford for £10,000 having started his career at Dover, the inside forward would spent 14 years at Wolves.
He made his debut in a 3-2 defeat to Portsmouth in 1951 - before going on to become a hero for Wolves fans.
In just under a decade and a half, he scored 127 goals in 452 games, winning three league titles and an FA Cup.
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Peter Broadbent and Jimmy Mullen before a Wolves game in 1958 | Getty Images
Later Broadbent, who featured in the 1958 World Cup, went on to play for Shrewsbury, Aston Villa and Stockport before ending his career with Bromsgrove.
Martin Patching - 16 years, eleven months and nine days
The Rotherham born midfielder moved to Wolves as a schoolboy and was handed his debut for club at the age of 16 in a 5-1 win over Sheffield United in 1975.
He would go on to nail down a place in the Wolves side that won the old Second Division and also reached an FA Cup semi-final in 1978.
From there he went on to sign for Watford, and played a hand in the Hornets pushing Liverpool for the first Division title in 1983.
The former England youth international then finished his career in non-league before going on to run a pub in Hertfordshire and play non-league football.
He is the father of EFL striker Cauley Woodrow, who spent last season on loan at Wycombe.
Morgan Gibbs-White - 16 years, eleven months and eleven days
The academy graduate from Stafford made his Wolves bow in 2017 when he came on as a substitute for Joe Mason in a 2-0 win at Stoke.
In total he made 88 appearances for Wolves - but departed the club for Nottingham Forest where he has gone on to help the club reach the last four of the Europa League.
He was linked with a big money move to Tottenham last summer before going on to net 15 Premier League goals this season. Last week he surprisingly missed out on the England World Cup squad, despite being the second highest scoring Englishman in the Premier League.
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