Manchester City F.C. EDS and Academy

The EDS play all of their home fixtures at the Academy Stadium.

The squad numbers depicted for the EDS players in this article are the MCFC first team squad numbers – which means that these are the shirt numbers that the EDS players will wear if and when team-sheeted to play for the MCFC first team in either a friendly or competitive game. The current MCFC official first team squad consists of only about 20 players, however, the EDS players' squad numbers traditionally start in the region of the middle forties. For the Premier League 2, players use the 1–11 numbering system whilst squad numbers (including player names) are used for the EFL Trophy.

The MCFC first team squad numbers are normally assigned and published in late July during the close season and they remain constant for the entire duration of the upcoming season (meaning that a squad number that is assigned to a player in the close season who subsequently wears that number in a competitive match, but who later leaves the club during that same season, will not be assigned to another player during the remainder of that season).

As of 29 August 2023[11][12]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 51 DF  ENG Issac Smith 56 MF  ENG Jacob Wright 57 MF  HUN Michael Okeke 60 FW  ENG Tai Sodje 61 MF  SCO Josh Adam 65 FW  ENG Will Dickson 66 DF  ENG Jahmai Simpson-Pusey 67 MF  ENG Kane Taylor 68 DF  ENG Max Alleyne 71 MF  SCO Lewis Fiorini 73 FW  ENG Joel Ndala 74 DF  FIN Tomas Galvez

No. Pos. Nation Player 75 MF  ENG Nico O'Reilly 76 MF  ESP Mahamadou Susoho 77 FW  ENG Justin Oboavwoduo 81 FW  ENG Jaden Heskey 83 GK  ENG George Murray-Jones 85 FW  GER Farid Alfa-Ruprecht 88 GK  ENG True Grant 92 MF  ENG Micah Hamilton 95 DF  ENG Lakyle Samuel 96 MF  ENG Ben Knight 99 MF  SCO Emilio Lawrence — DF  ENG Isaiah Dada-Mascoll

These are EDS players who have previously made competitive appearances for the Manchester City Academy, EDS or First Team, or have been brought with the explicit intention to join the first team in future.[13]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 12 DF  ENG Taylor Harwood-Bellis (at Southampton until 30 June 2024) 37 FW  BRA Kayky (at Bahia until 31 December 2023) 48 FW  ENG Liam Delap (at Hull City until 30 June 2024) 50 MF  ENG Kian Breckin (at Wycombe Wanderers until 30 June 2024) 69 MF  ENG Tommy Doyle (at Wolverhampton Wanderers until 30 June 2024) 70 DF  ENG Jadel Katongo (at Peterborough United until 30 June 2024)

No. Pos. Nation Player 79 DF  ENG Luke Mbete (at Den Bosch until 30 June 2024) 87 MF  ENG James McAtee (at Sheffield United until 30 June 2024) 86 DF  ENG Callum Doyle (at Leicester City until 30 June 2024) 93 MF  AUS Alex Robertson (at Portsmouth until 30 June 2024) 94 DF  ENG Finley Burns (at Stevenage until 30 June 2024)

These are Manchester City players who are usually on loan as part of the CFG development strategy, are yet to make a competitive appearance for the club's Academy, EDS or First Team, or are over the age of 23.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  ARG Darío Sarmiento

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 39 DF  BRA Yan Couto (at Girona until 30 June 2024) — DF  ENG Jamal Baptiste (at Lommel until 31 December 2023) — DF  VEN Nahuel Ferraresi (at São Paulo until 31 December 2023) — DF  BFA Issa Kaboré (at Luton Town until 30 June 2024)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  ARG Nahuel Bustos (on loan at Talleres until 31 December 2023) — FW  SRB Filip Stevanović (on loan at Waalwijk until 30 June 2024) — FW  SRB Slobodan Tedić (on loan at Charlton Athletic until 30 June 2024)

The club's first youth team was set up by Albert Alexander in the 1920s,[15] known as the 'A' Team. From 1951 the 'A' team competed in the Lancashire League against reserve and youth teams of other clubs from North West England. From 1955 a second youth team, the 'B' team, typically comprising younger players than the 'A' team, competed in Division Two of the Lancashire League.

Youth football in England was restructured by the Football Association in 1997, with the introduction of the Academy system. Current International Youth Academy Director Jim Cassell joined from Oldham Athletic in July 1997 and was responsible for building Manchester City's youth structure, which gained Academy accreditation in 1998.

In its new incarnation, the 'A' and 'B' teams were replaced with 'Under-19' and 'Under-17' teams, which competed in the FA Premier Youth League. Since gaining FA approval in 1998 the academy has produced 78 players for Manchester City's first team, 28 of whom have gained full international honours, including England internationals Shaun Wright-Phillips, Micah Richards, Joey Barton, Daniel Sturridge and Phil Foden. The academy not only produces players for Manchester City but also players that have the talent to make the grade elsewhere, with players such as Ben Mee who's had a successful career at Burnley and Brentford, Jadon Sancho at Borussia Dortmund and Manchester United, Kelechi Iheanacho at Leicester and Kieran Trippier formerly at Burnley, Spurs, Atlético Madrid and now at Newcastle United.

Since the club was taken over in September 2008, with extra capital and increased ambitions the club looked to expand their successful academy further afield[16] and City in the Community programme in Manchester. In 2010, the Platt Lane complex was upgraded to include new facilities, such as a gym, changing rooms, as well as office and seminar space[17] The club also launched an instructional video website aimed at helping the new skills of prospective footballers[18]

City announced on 19 September 2011 that they would build an 80-acre training facility, known since as the City Football Academy to cater for around 400 youth players at a time,[19] the campus was opened on 8 December 2014,[20] and has since become the base for all senior and youth Manchester City men's and women's teams.

The squad numbers (if any) depicted for the academy players in this article are MCFC first-team squad numbers – which means that these are the shirt numbers that the academy players will wear if and when they are selected to play for the MCFC first team in either a friendly or competitive game.

As of 29 August 2023[21][22]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 53 DF  ENG Ezra Carrington 90 DF  ENG Kian Noble — GK  ENG Oliver Whatmuff — GK  ENG Jack Wint — DF  ENG Leke Drake — DF  ENG Stephen Mfuni — DF  ENG Sebastian Naylor — DF  ENG Jake Spaven — DF  WAL Rhys Thomas — DF  ENG Oliver Tevenan

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ENG Femi Fapetu — MF  ENG Charlie Gray — MF  IRL Gabriel Gartside-Kelly — MF  ENG Alfie Harrison — MF  ENG Sebastian Naylor — FW  ENG Christian Dunbar-McDonald — FW  ENG Matthew Henderson-Hall — FW  ENG Reigan Heskey — FW  SCO Ashton Muir — FW  ENG Brooklyn Nfonkeu

These are the academy players who have made at least one competitive appearance for the Manchester City first team.

Academy graduates who still play for Manchester City, including those that are currently out on loan to other clubs, are highlighted in blue.

Updated 1 September 2022[24][25][26]

• Premier League 2
  • Winners (3): 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23
• Premier League International Cup
  • Winners (1): 2014–15
• The Central League
  • Winners (4): 1977–78, 1986–87, 1999–00, 2007–08
• Lancashire Senior Cup
  • Winners (6): 1920–21, 1922–23, 1927–28, 1929–30, 1952–53, 1973–74

• FA Youth Cup
  • Winners (3): 1986, 2008, 2020
• U-18 Professional Development League
  • Northern Division Champions (10) 1997–98, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2019—20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23
  • National Champions: (4) 2015–16, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23
• U-18 Premier League Cup
  • Winners (2): 2018–19,[65] 2019–20