Premier League · former league club
- Southampton 58 shared
- Crystal Palace 50 shared
- West Ham United 45 shared
- Tottenham Hotspur 42 shared
- Wolves 36 shared
- Leicester City 35 shared
- Chelsea 34 shared
- Newcastle United 26 shared
- Arsenal 22 shared
- Liverpool 22 shared
- Leeds United 22 shared
- West Brom 21 shared
- Manchester City 20 shared
- Everton 19 shared
- Aston Villa 19 shared
- Manchester United 19 shared
- Brentford 64 shared
- Fulham 51 shared
- Brighton 49 shared
- Watford 48 shared
- Bournemouth 42 shared
- Stoke City 41 shared
- Cardiff City 33 shared
- Nottingham Forest 33 shared
- QPR 33 shared
- Norwich City 31 shared
- Sunderland 29 shared
- Sheffield United 29 shared
- Luton Town 29 shared
- Coventry City 26 shared
- Hull City 24 shared
- Ipswich Town 22 shared
- Huddersfield 22 shared
- Swansea City 22 shared
- Burnley 20 shared
- Middlesbrough 17 shared
- Celtic 11 shared
- Rangers 8 shared
- Wigan Athletic 8 shared
Famous players who played for Reading
- Emiliano Martínez 2019
- Yakubu Aiyegbeni 2015
- Andy Carroll 2021–2022, 2022–2023
- John O'Shea 2018–2019
- Nathan Aké 2015
- Wayne Bridge 2013–2014
- Michael Olise 2019–2021
- Gylfi Sigurdsson 2008–2010
- Pavel Pogrebnyak 2012–2015
- Matthew Upson 2002
- Shane Long 2005–2011, 2022–2023
- Ryan Bertrand 2009–2010
- Chris Gunter 2012–2020
- Hal Robson-Kanu 2007–2016
- Danny Drinkwater 2021–2022
- Abdul Rahman Baba 2021–2022, 2022–2023
- Vito Mannone 2017–2020
- Charlie Adam 2019–2020
- Alen Halilović 2021–2022
- Ørjan Nyland 2022
- Jón Daði Böðvarsson 2017–2019
- Les Ferdinand 2005
- Royston Drenthe 2013–2015
- Graham Potter 1999
- Lucas Piazón 2015–2016
- Jeff Hendrick 2022–2023
- Leandro Bacuna 2017–2019
- Ali Al-Habsi 2015–2017
- Steve Sidwell 2003–2007
- Bongani Khumalo 2011–2012
- Michail Antonio 2008–2012
- Kevin Doyle 2005–2009
- Chris Baird 2013–2014
- Nathaniel Chalobah 2015
- Matěj Vydra 2015–2016
- Nélson Oliveira 2019
- Martin Keown 2005
- Anton Ferdinand 2014–2016
- Tiago Ilori 2017–2019
- Stephen Kelly 2013–2015
Source: Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia club articles and player infoboxes (years at each club). Youth spells and appearances that look unplayed are left out; volunteer-kept records can contain gaps or errors.