Arsenal icon joins Petr Čech and Rio Ferdinand in PL Hall of Fame | OneFootball

Arsenal defender Tony Adams is the third and final player to be added to the Premier League Hall of Fame on Wednesday.

The former Gunners captain spent the entirety of his career at Highbury and already won two top flight titles prior to the change to the Premier League.

During the decade he enjoyed after the rebrand, he skippered his boyhood club 255 times and helped contribute to 115 clean sheets during that time.

Adams won two Premier League titles (memorably notching a fine goal against Everton on the final day in 1998) and is the only man to captain an English side to top flight titles in three different decades.

Previously, legendary Chelsea and Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Čech was inducted.

Čech holds the record for most Premier League clean sheets as a goalkeeper, with 202 shutouts in 443 appearances for Chelsea and Arsenal.

He won the Premier League title four times with Chelsea, helping the club to back-to-back titles in his first two seasons in English football after joining from Rennes in 2004.

His debut campaign saw the Blues concede just 15 league goals, with the with Czech international keeping 24 clean sheets in 35 appearances, both records for a single season.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Premier League also announced that Rio Ferdinand is the latest inductee into their Hall of Fame.

The former England defender made just over 500 appearances across spells with West Ham, Leeds, Manchester United and QPR.

He kept 189 clean sheets and won the league title six times – all of those coming after he broke the British transfer record with his move to Old Trafford.

Ferdinand was the first playing inductee of 2023, with legendary managerial duo Alex Ferguson and Arsène Wenger already announced.