Stoke striker Peter Crouch becomes the first player to score 50 headers in the Premier League... but who else makes the list of top 10 aerial threats?

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Stoke striker Peter Crouch became the first player in Premier League history to head home 50 goals.

The 6ft 7in forward nodded in the only goal during Stoke's 1-0 win over Southampton on the final day of the season and in doing so brought up his half century.

That means Crouch has headed almost half of his 103 Premier League goals over a career spanning the best part of 15 years in the English top flight. 

Stoke striker Peter Crouch became the first person to head 50 goals in the Premier League

He tops the list of 10 esteemed players and potent aerial threats from the Premier League era

Crouch scored for Aston Villa, Norwich, Southampton, Portsmouth, Tottenham and now Stoke

Plying his trade for Aston Villa, Norwich, Southampton, Portsmouth, Tottenham and now Stoke in the Premier League, Crouch has enjoyed a stellar career in the top echelon of English football.

He tops a list of esteemed Premier League stalwarts, with no less than all-time leading goalscorer Alan Shearer sitting in second place.

Shearer bagged an astonishing 260 goals during spells at Southampton, Blackburn and Newcastle with almost a fifth of them (46) headers.

Manchester United's potent trio at the turn of the century - Dwight Yorke, Teddy Sheringham and Andrew Cole - all also feature in the top 10 list of aerial threats over the last 25 years.

The Premier League's all-time leading scorer Alan Shearer sits in second place with 46

Former Manchester United forward Dwight Yorke also makes the top-10 list with 38 headers

Former Everton talisman Duncan Ferguson, whose Premier League goals record for the Blues was overtaken by Romelu Lukaku earlier this season, managed 36 headers while fellow Toffee Tim Cahill scored 31.

Departing Chelsea captain John Terry props up the top-10 with 27 and is the only other active player in the Premier League who makes the list.

Terry will hope to add to his tally as Bournemouth and Swansea are both interested in the defender's services next season. 

Everton's former record goalscorer in the Premier League, Duncan Ferguson, headed 36 goals

Departing Chelsea skipper John Terry props up the table with 27 headed goals for the Blues