Gareth Barry made 653 appearances in the Premier League before turning 38.

most games before turning 38 top 5 years old by a player

	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	632	39,832	428	55	0.09	87	142	17
3	Frank Lampard F. Lampard	609	48,871	546	177	0.29	102	279	43
4	Ryan Giggs R. Giggs	581	43,670	493	105	0.18	154	259	2
5	Gary Speed G. Speed	526	45,782	515	80	0.15	44	124	10
6	Emile Heskey E. Heskey	516	38,108	445	110	0.21	53	163	0
7	David James D. James	511	45,824	510	0	0.00	2	2	0
8	Jamie Carragher J. Carragher	508	43,267	484	3	0.01	15	18	0
9	Phil Neville P. Neville	505	39,857	446	9	0.02	25	34	0
10	Steven Gerrard S. Gerrard	504	41,129	466	121	0.24	89	210	31
11	Rio Ferdinand R. Ferdinand	504	43,890	492	11	0.02	8	19	0
12	Sol Campbell S. Campbell	503	43,321	488	20	0.04	15	35	0
13	Jermain Defoe J. Defoe	496	32,631	347	162	0.33	33	195	14
14	John Terry J. Terry	492	41,969	473	41	0.08	12	53	0
15	Wayne Rooney W. Rooney	491	38,027	421	208	0.42	100	308	23
16	Paul Scholes P. Scholes	491	35,836	401	107	0.22	54	161	1
17	Michael Carrick M. Carrick	481	38,052	421	24	0.05	40	64	0
18	Sylvain Distin S. Distin	466	40,586	451	7	0.02	6	13	0
19	Peter Crouch P. Crouch	462	28,399	310	107	0.23	58	165	1
20	Aaron Hughes A. Hughes	455	38,823	434	5	0.01	14	19	0
21	Jordan Henderson J. Henderson	446	33,357	374	33	0.07	54	87	1
22	John O'Shea J. O'Shea	445	33,068	370	13	0.03	13	26	0
23	Kevin Davies K. Davies	444	34,474	390	88	0.20	55	143	5
24	Petr Čech P. Čech	443	39,495	442	0	0.00	2	2	0
25	Alan Shearer A. Shearer	441	38,197	427	260	0.59	64	324	56