Gareth Barry has made the most career appearances by a midfielder in the Premier League, with 653 appearances.

	NAME	M	MIN	START	G	G/M	A	G+A	PK
1	Gareth Barry G. Barry	653	54,434	618	53	0.08	64	117	18
2	James Milner J. Milner	645	40,285	434	56	0.09	88	144	18
3	Ryan Giggs R. Giggs	632	46,437	522	109	0.17	163	272	2
4	Frank Lampard F. Lampard	609	48,871	546	177	0.29	102	279	43
5	Gary Speed G. Speed	535	46,319	521	80	0.15	44	124	10
6	Phil Neville P. Neville	505	39,857	446	9	0.02	25	34	0
7	Steven Gerrard S. Gerrard	504	41,129	466	121	0.24	89	210	31
8	Paul Scholes P. Scholes	499	36,129	404	107	0.21	54	161	1
9	Ashley Young A. Young	485	36,894	411	50	0.10	74	124	5
10	Michael Carrick M. Carrick	481	38,052	421	24	0.05	40	64	0
11	Jordan Henderson J. Henderson	443	33,148	372	33	0.07	53	86	1
12	Danny Murphy D. Murphy	417	30,328	336	50	0.12	55	105	18
13	Aaron Lennon A. Lennon	416	27,990	312	36	0.09	50	86	0
14	Mark Noble M. Noble	414	32,029	373	47	0.11	36	83	28
15	Nicky Butt N. Butt	411	29,909	343	29	0.07	24	53	0
16	James Ward-Prowse J. Ward-Prowse	409	28,923	319	57	0.14	45	102	15
17	Stewart Downing S. Downing	408	32,593	361	37	0.09	56	93	2
18	Kevin Nolan K. Nolan	401	31,503	360	69	0.17	25	94	1
19	Lee Bowyer L. Bowyer	397	31,473	359	57	0.14	37	94	0
20	Damien Duff D. Duff	392	28,643	327	54	0.14	55	109	0
21	George Boateng G. Boateng	384	31,795	363	17	0.04	18	35	0
22	Ray Parlour R. Parlour	379	28,299	323	20	0.05	20	40	0
23	Joe Cole J. Cole	378	23,071	255	46	0.12	36	82	0
24	Scott Parker S. Parker	368	29,260	336	24	0.07	21	45	0
25	Roy Keane R. Keane	366	30,839	349	39	0.11	33	72	0