By Geoff Pruce

Fulham’s fans on Twitter have named our best ever Premier League XI through a series of votes.

As part of the PL30 celebrations, we put forward four options for each position in a traditional 4-4-2 formation, ex-players only, with more than 17,000 votes cast in total.

Fulham's best Premier League XI, as voted for by fans on Twitter
Voting breakdown

Goalkeeper

  1. Edwin van der Sar 68%
  2. Mark Schwarzer 24.7%
  3. Alphonse Areola 3.7%
  4. David Stockdale 3.6%

Right-back

  1. Steve Finnan 49.5%
  2. John Paintsil 25.1%
  3. Moritz Volz 14.9%
  4. Sascha Riether 10.6%

Right centre-back

  1. Aaron Hughes 60.1%
  2. Chris Smalling 22.7%
  3. Alain Goma 8.9%
  4. Zat Knight 8.3%

Left centre-back

  1. Brede Hangeland 80.6%
  2. Joachim Andersen 12.6%
  3. Carlos Bocanegra 6%
  4. Andy Melville 0.8%

Left-back

  1. Paul Konchesky 45.1%
  2. Rufus Brevett 22.2%
  3. Chris Baird 21.5%
  4. Wayne Bridge 11.2%

Right midfield

  1. Steed Malbranque 39.3%
  2. Damien Duff 32%
  3. Simon Davies 17.1%
  4. Bryan Ruiz 11.5%

Defensive midfield

  1. Papa Bouba Diop 65.9%
  2. Sean Davis 13.9%
  3. Dickson Etuhu 13.4%
  4. Sylvain Legwinski 6.9%

Central midfield

  1. Mousa Dembélé 66.8%
  2. Danny Murphy 25%
  3. Steve Sidwell 6%
  4. Lee Clark 2.2%

Left midfield

  1. Clint Dempsey 64.5%
  2. Luis Boa Morte 27.3%
  3. Zoltan Gera 6.6%
  4. Tomasz Radzinski 1.6%

Centre forward

  1. Dimitar Berbatov 47.4%
  2. Brian McBride 46.1%
  3. Andrew Johnson 4.9%
  4. Collins John 1.6%

Centre forward

  1. Louis Saha 65.7%
  2. Bobby Zamora 26.7%
  3. Andrew Cole 4.8%
  4. Barry Hayles 2.8%