As of December 2023, who is the oldest outfield player to appear in a Premier League match?

Edward 'Teddy' Paul Sheringham, (born 2 April 1966) is an English football manager and former player. He played as a forward, mostly as a second striker (Deep-lying forwards), in a 24-year professional career.

Sheringham is currently the twelfth-highest goalscorer in the history of the Premiership with 146 goals, and is the competition's 32nd-highest appearance maker. He holds the record as the oldest outfield player to appear in a Premier League match (40 years, 272 days) and the oldest player to score in a Premier League match (40 years, 268 days).

Sheringham began his career at Millwall, where he scored 111 goals between 1983 and 1991, and is the club's second all-time leading scorer. He left to join First Division Nottingham Forest. A year later, Sheringham scored Forest's first ever Premiership goal, and was signed by Tottenham Hotspur. After five seasons at Tottenham he joined Manchester United where he won three Premiership titles, one FA Cup, one EUFA (Union of European Football Associations) Champions League, an Intercontinental Cup and an FA Charity Shield. In 2001, he was named both the PFA (Professional Footballers' Association) Players' Player of the Year and FWA (Football Writers' Association) Footballer of the Year.