15 years ago, AFC Bournemouth were about to begin a fourth straight season in League One and at that point they would not realise the extreme lows and highs they would reach in the next few years.

Just a couple of years later, the Cherries were both in League Two and in administration, their existence as a club completely threatened until the summer of 2009 when they were taken over - and that started the rise up the leagues.

Promotion in 2010 was followed by another in 2013 to the Championship, and Premier League football was delivered by Eddie Howe in 2015 to make it three promotions in five years.

Bournemouth spent four happy years in the top flight before an unsuccessful fifth was their downfall - the 2019-20 campaign spelt the end of Howe and Championship football returned to Dean Court.

In that 15-year period there's been a lot of talented Englishmen who've plied their trade for the Cherries - let's look at 11 of the best that have shone for the club since 2006.

This is a tough position to fill for the Cherries - Shwan Jalal is the most long-serving of the lot but he represented Iraq at international level so we have to look elsewhere here and Artur Boruc also unavailable for selection.

We could go with one of the players who featured in the lower leagues such as Darryl Flahavan or Lee Camp but even though he was relegated in his one season with the Cherries, Aaron Ramsdale takes the spot after being named the club's Player of the Year.

Ramsdale's performances in the 2019-20 season earned him a move back to the Premier League and a return to Sheffield United for a fee of around £18.5 million after just 37 league games for the Cherries.

Not a huge field to choose from but Ramsdale is definitely the best of the bunch.

Two right-backs have dominated Bournemouth's teams for years - those being Francis and Adam Smith but the former gets the preference here for sheer longevity.

Smith is seven years and counting at Dean Court but Francis spent eight years as a permanent Cherry and achieved two promotions in his 287 league appearances for the club, and was named in both the League One Team of the Season in 2012-13 and the Championship equivalent in 2014-15.

Francis continued to star for Bournemouth in the Premier League, and was a regular for their first three seasons in the top flight - his playing time did decrease eventually and after leaving the club in a playing capacity last year he recently re-joined as an assistant to technical director Richard Hughes.

This was a tough between two players but Jason Pearce just misses out here to Elphick, who spent four years with the Cherries and played in three different leagues for the club.

Arriving in 2012, Elphick was a regular part of the defence which saw Bournemouth promoted to the Championship in his debut and then continued to partner Steve Cook as they made it to the Premier League in 2015.

Elphick only made 12 appearances once they did make it to the top flight before moving on to Aston Villa in the Championship, but his contributions to the two promotions that he was a part of can't be understated.

The current longest-serving player of the Cherries squad, Cook first joined on loan from Brighton in 2011 as a teenager before signing permanently a few months later - it may the best £150,000 the club has ever spent.

Cook didn't feature regularly until the 2012-13 season - which is the campaign where Bournemouth's success really first started as they were promoted from League One, and he's been a regular ever since -  he's had so many partners in the middle of defence but Cook has been the mainstay.

Still only aged 30, Cook could be a regular at the Vitality Stadium for a while longer and he will almost certainly be in the starting line-up for Bournemouth at the start of the 2021-22 season.

There can only be one player to fill the left-back spot in this team and it is Charlie Daniels.

Like Cook, Daniels arrived at the Cherries in 2011 initially on loan before turning it into a permanent deal, and over the next eight years he made 244 league appearances for the club.

15 goals were scored in that time and there were some memorable goals in that cluster - most notably a screamer against Manchester City in 2017 - and he was still a regular fixture in the Cherries squad during their Premier League days.

A knee injury in 2019 though effectively ended his career at Dean Court - when he recovered he dropped into League One last season with both Shrewsbury and Portsmouth but his efforts at Bournemouth won't be forgotten in a hurry.

A few of Bournemouth's most talented wingers in the last 15 years have not been English - think of the likes of Max Gradel, Ryan Fraser and Matt Ritchie, but one of the more consistent ones has been Junior Stanislas.

He's recently just extended his stay at the club for another two years, having first signed in 2014 from Burnley but spent large parts of his debut season on the bench as the Cherries gained promotion to the Premier League.

It was when Bournemouth reached the top flight where Stanislas started to see a bit more of the pitch, although niggling injuries have tended to break his seasons up somewhat.

Despite that, Stanislas has racked up 147 league appearances for the club so far and has just come off the back of his best scoring campaign with 10 goals, so there's clearly more contributions to come.

There's been a few long-serving midfielders in Bournemouth's recent history - one of them being Surman who gave the Cherries over six years of his service.

Signing from Norwich City in 2013, initially on loan but converting it into a permanent deal, Surman played 184 league games for the club and in his first three seasons he was a key player in Bournemouth's Championship success and early Premier League days.

Injuries started to set in though and then Surman slipped down the pecking order, however he was still one of the more talented and consistent English midfielders over the last few years.

It was tough to choose a partner for Surman but because of his contributions to the team in the lower leagues, Danny Hollands definitely deserves a spot.

Hollands joined in 2006 after failing to make the grade at Chelsea and went on to make over 200 appearances in all competitions for the club - all in Leagues One and Two but he scored 28 goals in that time.

He may never really have done it at Championship level in his career like the rest of the players in this team but there's not much top class English depth in the centre of midfield from Bournemouth over the years, and at least one of the players that featured in the dark days of League Two deserved a spot and none more-so than Hollands.

Primarily a right-sided player, Pugh did sometimes cut in off the left and he was very good at it for the nine years he played for Bournemouth.

Pugh played for a number of lower league clubs before signing for the Cherries in 2010 and he exploded into life when he arrived at Dean Court, scoring 12 goals in his debut season in League One and then being a consistent scorer for a number of campaigns afterwards.

His game-time did dwindle when the Cherries reached the Premier League and the goals started to dry up, but Pugh made an impact at every level he played at for the club and he will be a club icon for a long time.

If Brett Pitman was English he would definitely be one of the two strikers here, but he's from Jersey which means he's ineligible - meaning Lewis Grabban sneaks in instead.

Ignoring Grabban's second spell at Dean Court between 2016 and 2018 - which was a goalless one in the league - he was one of the more prolific Cherries strikers of the 21st century between 2012 and 2014, scoring 35 goals in 93 outings in all competitions.

Bournemouth made a healthy profit on Grabban in 2014 when they sold him to Norwich for £3 million, and whilst they were able to replace his goals quite easily Grabban can still be recognised as one of the best strikers of any nationality to play for the club in the last 15 years.

Who else was this going to be but Wilson?

As mentioned on the last page, Lewis Grabban was sold in 2014 and the man that came in to replace him was Callum Wilson, who had been prolific for Coventry City and stepping up to the Championship for the first time scored 20 goals as the Cherries were promoted to the top flight.

Wilson's first two seasons in the Premier League were blighted by bad knee injuries, but he put his issues to one side from late 2017 onwards to become a consistent scorer for the club.

Wilson is another that Bournemouth made a healthy profit on as he departed for Newcastle last summer, and it's unquestionable that he's the best English striker - if not player - to play for the Cherries in the last 15 years.