List of Manchester City F.C. players

Richard Dunne played for the club for nine years between 2000–2009, making 352 appearances and scoring 7 goals in the opponent's net. He has won the Player of the Year award four times, more than any other player.

Niall Quinn made 244 appearances for the club between 1990 and 1996, scoring a total of 77 goals. He was voted Player of the Year in 1991 and is an inductee of both the National Hall of Fame and the club's own Hall of Fame.

Manchester City Football Club, then known as Ardwick, first entered the Football League in the 1892–83 season. Since that time the club's first team has competed in numerous nationally and internationally organised competitions, and all players who have played in 100 or more such matches are listed below, which encompasses all players who have been inducted into the Manchester City Hall of Fame.^{[book 1]} Also included are all winners of the Player of the Year award, which has been awarded annually since 1967 by the Manchester City Official Supporters Club based on a ballot of the supporters.

Alan Oakes holds the record for Manchester City league appearances, having played 565 matches between 1959 and 1976.^[1] If all senior competitions are included, Oakes has 680.^[2] As of 1 January 2016, the player who has won most^[3] international caps while at the club is Joe Hart with 57 for England.^{[caps 1]} Prior to Joe achieving this distinction the record had previously been held for over 40 years by Colin Bell with 48 England appearances between 1968 and 1975.^[4]

The Manchester City player who has been capped the most times for England is Frank Lampard who was capped 106 times for England between October 1999 and June 2014, but he only played for City for one season in 2014–15 after he had retired from international duty. The Manchester City player who has been capped the most times internationally is Shay Given who, as of 1 January 2016, has been capped for the Republic of Ireland 131 times since March 1996. He played for the club for two and a half seasons between 2009 and 2011.

The goalscoring record is held by Eric Brook with 177 in total, scored between 1928 and 1939.^[5] Brook shares the league goalscoring record with Tommy Johnson; both players having scored 158 league goals.^[6] Johnson also holds the record for league goals in a single season, with 38 in 1928–29.^[7] This single season tally also means Johnson additionally holds the record for most goals scored per game played in a season, his 38 goals in 39 appearances during 1928–29 yielding a goal scoring rate of 0.97 goals per game.

The player who holds the Premier League record for the most lethal scoring rate (i.e., the highest number of goals scored per total minutes played) while playing for City is Sergio Agüero^[8] who, as of 1 January 2016, is still currently playing for the club. During the 2013–14 season he scored 28 goals from 34 game appearances (or 0.82 goals per game), but since many of his appearances were not full 90 minute games, he actually averaged a goal for roughly every 90 minutes he was on the field, which made him not only the most efficient striker (in terms of minutes per goal) of any club in the Premier League that season — but also since the Premier League began.^[8]

Sourcing, currency and key for the statistics

Samir Nasri and Sergio Agüero have both won two Premier League titles with Manchester City.

The following information applies to both of the tables listed in the next section of this article:

Order

• Players are listed according to the date of their first team debut for the club.

Legend

• Players listed in bold are inductees of one or more of the following: the Manchester City Hall of Fame,^[9] the National Football Museum Hall of Fame, or the Scottish Football Museum Hall of Fame.
• Players listed in italics are winners of the Player of the Year award (and the number of times they have each received this award is shown in the "PotY" column).

Nationality

• Normally the player's country of birth or later adopted nationality. In the case of a country such as Germany that has been unified it will indicate whichever of the prior nations, West or East, determined how that player was capped at international level during his playing career despite his nationality now being simply German.

Club career

• Club career is defined as the first and last calendar years in which the player appeared for the club in any of the competitions listed below, regardless of how long the player was contracted to the club. For players who had two or more spells at the club, the years for each period are listed separately.

Position

• Playing positions are listed according to the tactical formations that were employed at the time. Thus the more defensive emphasis in the responsibilities of many of the old forward and midfield positions, and their corresponding name changes, reflects the tactical evolution that occurred in the sport from the late 1960s onwards. The position listed is that in which the player played most frequently for the club.

The following information applies only to the table of "Historic players" listed in the next section:

Appearances and Goals

• Appearances and goals comprise those in the Football League (including test matches and play-offs), Premier League, FA Cup, Football League Cup, UEFA European Cup, UEFA Cup, FA Charity Shield, Associate Members' Cup/Football League Trophy, and several now-defunct competitions — namely the European Cup Winners' Cup, Anglo-Italian Cup, Anglo-Italian League Cup, Texaco Cup, Anglo-Scottish Cup and Full Members' Cup.
• Substitute appearances in any of the above included fixtures, and any goals scored as a substitute, are also included.
• Appearances or goals scored in testimonial matches, exhibition games, or in any abandoned fixtures, are excluded.
• Appearances in the 1939–40 Football League season (abandoned after three games because of the Second World War, and the records for which were expunged from official records), and any other matches played in wartime competitions, are excluded.

Statistics sourcing

David Silva has won one FA Cup, one Football League Cup, and three Premier League titles with Manchester City since joining the club in 2010.

• All of the Player of the Year data in the table is sourced from the history pages of the Happy to be Blue! web site, which lists all award winners up to, and including, season 2011–12.
• All dates and numbers in the table are sourced from a hardcover book published in 2006 according to the inclusion / exclusion rules stated above. The individual table entries of a number of these players have subsequently been sourced from the web wherever possible.
• In the case of players whose football careers at Manchester City spanned either of the two world wars, the choice of which appearances, during and either side of the wartime period, are included in the "official" tally of games played may cause discrepancies with other possible sources of similar data for those particular players. Likewise, how competitions such as the Charity Shield, Anglo-Scottish Cup and the Texaco Cup are handled by other sources will also create discrepancies with the numbers included in the table below.

Currency

• The statistics are correct as of the beginning of 2004.

The following information applies only to the table of "Contemporary players" listed in the next section:

Appearances and Goals

• Appearances and goals are broken out into four column pairs, with the rightmost column pair depicting the respective totals of the appearances and goals shown in the three leftmost column pairs.
• The appearances and goals listed under the "League" column pair heading comprise those in the top two tiers of the Football League (including any Football League play-off games) and the Premier League.
• The appearances and goals listed under the "Cups" column pair heading comprise only those in the FA Cup and Football League Cup.
• The appearances and goals listed under the "Other" column pair heading comprise those in the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup, the FA Community Shield, and the Football League Trophy.
• Substitute appearances in any of the above included fixtures, and any goals scored as a substitute, are also included.
• Appearances or goals scored in testimonial matches, exhibition games, or in any abandoned fixtures, are excluded.

Statistics sourcing

• Most of the Player of the Year data in the following table (and elsewhere in this article) is sourced from the history pages of the Happy to be Blue! web site, which lists all award winners up to, and including, season 2011–12. Winners of the PotY award since 2012 are individually cited from elsewhere on the web.
• Most of the dates and numbers in the table are sourced from the Soccerbase online database as indicated by the individual cited reference notes for each of the players. The remainder are sourced from Gary James' book.
• However, Soccerbase has a few issues. It seems to identify all player appearances and goals scored in Community Shield fixtures on an individual season basis, but does not necessarily include all those appearances in the total appearances tally of certain players. Regardless, the core match data on which those tallies are sometimes mis-totalled is quite sound and accessible in alternative ways, and thus can be used to (self-)correct the database's own tallying errors if properly footnoted.
• Goals later reassigned by the Premier League "Dubious Goals Committee" also tend to get overlooked by Soccerbase. Some goals that have never even come before the DGC have been misattributed to other players despite the rest of the football media correctly attributing them. Whatever the source of the discrepancy it can be addressed by footnote reference to alternative match reports for the games in question - which correctly attribute the dubious goal(s) - and by providing links to documentation of the pertinent DGC reassignment findings elsewhere on the web.

Currency

• The statistics are correct as of the last match of the 2015 calendar year, which was played on 29 December 2015.

List of players

The list of Manchester City players with over 100 appearances, or winners of "Player of the Year" award, is presented below in two tables. The first table lists all the club's historic players, providing only the basic "appearances" and "goals" totals for each of them. The second table groups together the club's most recent players, providing a more detailed breakdown of their "appearances" and "goals" statistics (and with the current players highlighted in blue for easy reference).

Historic players

Name	Nat.	Position	Club career	Apps.	Goals	PotY	Refs.
Billy Meredith		Winger	1894–1905 1921–1924	393	151		[stat 1]
Charlie Williams		Goalkeeper	1894–1902	232	1
Bobby Moffatt		Half back	1895–1903	163	7
Billy Holmes		Half back	1896–1904	166	4
Fred Williams		Forward	1896–1902	130	38
Billie Gillespie		Forward	1897–1905	231	132
William "Buxton" Smith		Half back	1897–1902	153	8
Di Jones		Full back	1898–1902	118	1
Sammy Frost		Half back	1901–1906	112	4
Tommy Hynds		Centre half	1901–1906	171	9
Frank Booth		Winger	1902–1912	107	19		[stat 2]
Jack Hillman		Goalkeeper	1902–1906	124	0
Johnny McMahon		Centre half	1902–1906	109	1
Sandy Turnbull		Forward	1902–1906	119	60		[stat 3]
Billy Lot Jones		Forward	1903–1915	301	74
Irvine Thornley		Forward	1904–1912	204	93
James Buchan		Half back	1905–1911	164	10
George Dorsett		Half back	1905–1912	211	65
George Stewart		Winger	1906–1911	102	13
Jimmy Conlin		Winger	1906–1911	175	30		[stat 4]
Tommy Kelso		Full back	1906–1913	151	3
Bill Eadie		Half back	1906–1913	204	6
Bertram Jackson		Full back	1907–1911	101	0
Bill Bottomley		Half back	1908–1915	103	2		[stat 5]
Tom Holford		Half back	1908–1914	183	38
George Wynn		Forward	1909–1919	127	59		[stat 6]
Joe Dorsett		Winger	1910–1920	138	17		[stat 7]
Eli Fletcher		Full back	1911–1925	326	2
Jim Goodchild		Goalkeeper	1911–1926	217	0
Billy Henry		Full back	1911–1919	157	1		[stat 8]
Harry Taylor		Forward	1912–1921	101	28
Tommy Browell		Forward	1913–1926	247	139		[stat 9]
Horace Barnes		Forward	1914–1924	235	125		[stat 10]
Sam Cookson		Full back	1919–1927	306	1
Tommy Johnson		Forward	1920–1930	354	166		[stat 11]
Billy "Spud" Murphy		Winger	1919–1926	220	31
Micky Hamill		Half back	1920–1924	128	2
Sammy Sharp		Half back	1920–1928	182	1
James Mitchell		Goalkeeper	1922–1926	109	0
Charlie Pringle		Half back	1922–1928	216	1
Frank Roberts		Forward	1922–1929	237	130
Billy Austin		Forward	1924–1931	172	47
Sam Cowan		Centre half	1924–1935	407	24
George Hicks		Winger	1924–1928	135	48
Phillip McCloy		Full back	1925–1929	157	0
Jimmy McMullan		Half back	1925–1933	242	12
Matt Barrass		Half back / Forward	1925–1933	172	15
Eric Brook		Winger	1928–1939	493 [A 1]	178		[stat 12]
Bobby Marshall		Forward / Centre half	1928–1938	356	80		[stat 13]
John Ridley		Full back	1927–1933	184	0
Fred Tilson		Forward	1928–1938	275	132		[stat 14]
Matt Busby		Half back	1928–1936	227	14
Ernie Toseland		Winger	1929–1939	411	75		[stat 15]
Jackie Bray		Half back	1929–1940	279	10
Len Langford		Goalkeeper	1930–1933	125	0
Bill Dale		Full back	1931–1938	271	0
Alec Herd		Forward	1933–1948	288 [A 1]	125		[stat 16]
Sam Barkas		Full back	1933–1947	196	1
Jack Percival		Half back	1933–1946	174	8
Frank Swift		Goalkeeper	1933–1949	375 [A 1]	0		[stat 17]
Peter Doherty		Forward	1936–1939	131 [A 1]	80 [G 1]		[stat 18]
Albert Emptage		Half back	1937–1951	144	1
Eric Westwood		Full back	1937–1953	260	5
Les McDowall		Half back	1938–1948	126	8
Bert Sproston		Full back	1938–1949	131	5
Billy Walsh		Half back	1938–1950	118	1
George Smith		Forward	1939–1951	179	80
Andy Black		Forward	1946–1950	146	52
Joe Fagan		Half back	1946–1950	158	2
Johnny Hart		Forward	1946–1961	178	73		[stat 19]
Roy Clarke		Winger	1947–1958	370	79		[stat 20]
Ken Branagan		Full back	1948–1961	208	3
Roy Little		Full back	1949–1958	187	2
Bert Trautmann		Goalkeeper	1949–1964	545	0		[stat 21]
Ken Barnes		Half back	1952–1961	282	19		[stat 22]
Roy Paul		Half back	1950–1957	294	9
Billy Spurdle		Half back	1950–1956	172	33
Jimmy Meadows		Full back / Winger	1951–1955	141	31
Don Revie		Forward	1951–1956	178	41		[stat 23]
Dave Ewing		Centre half	1953–1962	303	1		[stat 24]
Paddy Fagan		Winger	1953–1960	165	35
Joe Hayes		Forward	1953–1965	364	152		[stat 25]
Bill Leivers		Full back	1953–1964	282	4
Billy McAdams		Forward	1953–1960	134	65
Bobby Johnstone		Forward	1955–1959	139	51		[stat 26]
Cliff Sear		Full back	1956–1967	279	1
Colin Barlow		Winger	1957–1963	189	80
Roy Cheetham		Winger	1957–1967	143	4
George Hannah		Forward	1958–1963	131	16
Alan Oakes		Midfielder	1959–1976	682	34	1	[stat 27]
Barrie Betts		Defender	1960–1964	117	6
David Wagstaffe		Winger	1960–1964	161	8		[stat 28]
Harry Dowd		Goalkeeper	1961–1970	219	1
Bobby Kennedy		Defender / Midfielder	1961–1969	254	9
Glyn Pardoe		Full back / Forward	1962–1975	380	22 [G 2]	1	[stat 29]
Neil Young		Forward	1961–1971	416	111		[stat 30]
David Connor		Winger	1962–1972 1974–1975	168	10
Matt Gray		Forward	1963–1967	101	23
Mike Doyle		Defender	1965–1978	570	41	2	[stat 31]
Johnny Crossan		Forward	1965–1967	110	28 [G 2]
George Heslop		Centre half	1965–1972	203	3
Mike Summerbee		Winger	1965–1975	452	68	2	[stat 32]
Tony Book		Full back	1966–1973	315 [A 2]	5	1	[stat 33]
Colin Bell		Midfielder	1966–1979	501	153	1
Tommy Booth		Centre half	1968–1981	491 [A 2]	36 [G 3]		[stat 34]
Tony Coleman		Winger	1967–1969	104	16		[stat 35]
Joe Corrigan		Goalkeeper	1967–1983	603	0	3	[stat 36]
Francis Lee		Forward	1967–1974	330	148	1	[stat 37]
Willie Donachie		Full back	1970–1980	436	2		[stat 38]
Tony Towers		Midfielder	1969–1974	165	12
Rodney Marsh		Forward	1972–1975	152	47		[stat 39]
Kenny Clements		Defender	1971–1979 1985–1988	282	2	1
Peter Barnes		Winger	1974–1979 1987	161	22		[stat 40]
Asa Hartford		Midfielder	1974–1979 1981–1984	321	36	1	[stat 41]
Joe Royle		Forward	1974–1977	124	32 [G 3]
Dennis Tueart		Forward	1974–1978 1980–1983	275	109		[stat 42]
Dave Watson		Centre back	1975–1979	188	6	1	[stat 43]
Paul Power		Defender / Midfielder	1975–1986	444 [A 3]	36	2	[stat 44]
Gary Owen		Midfielder	1976–1979	124	23
Brian Kidd		Forward	1977–1979	128	57
Ray Ranson		Defender	1978–1984 1993	235	1
Nicky Reid		Defender	1978–1982 1982–1986	262	2
Tommy Caton		Defender	1979–1983	198	8	1
Bobby McDonald		Defender	1980–1983	112	16
Kevin Reeves		Forward	1980–1983	158	39
Kevin Bond		Defender	1981–1984	124	12	1
Steve Kinsey		Forward	1981–1986	115	18
Alex Williams		Goalkeeper	1981–1985	125	0
Clive Wilson		Defender	1981–1987	126	11
Graham Baker		Midfielder	1982–1987	138	21
Andy May		Midfielder	1982–1987	174	8
Paul Simpson		Forward	1982–1988	155	24
Mick McCarthy		Defender	1983–1987	163	3	1
Neil McNab		Midfielder	1983–1990	266	19	2
Ian Brightwell		Defender / Midfielder	1986–1998	382	19
Steve Redmond		Defender	1986–1992	287	7	1
David White		Forward	1986–1994	341	96
Paul Lake		Midfielder	1987–1992	134	11		[stat 45]
Andy Hinchcliffe		Defender	1987–1990	139	11
Andy Dibble		Goalkeeper	1988–1997	141	0
Ian Bishop		Midfielder	1989 1998–2001	117	7
Colin Hendry		Defender	1989–1991	77	10	1
Peter Reid		Midfielder	1989–1993	114	2
Niall Quinn		Forward	1990–1996	243	78	1	[stat 46]
Tony Coton		Goalkeeper	1990–1995	194	0	2
Andy Hill		Defender	1990–1995	113	6
Keith Curle		Defender	1991–1996	204	13
Michel Vonk		Defender	1991–1995	103	6
Mike Sheron		Forward	1991–1994	119	28
Garry Flitcroft		Midfielder	1992–1996	141	15	1
Terry Phelan		Defender	1992–1995	122	2
Steve Lomas		Midfielder	1993–1997	137	11
Richard Edghill		Defender	1993–2001	210	1
Uwe Rösler		Forward	1994–1998	176 [A 4]	64	1	[stat 47]
Nicky Summerbee		Defender / Midfielder	1994–1997	156	10
Giorgi Kinkladze		Midfielder	1995–1998	121	22	2	[stat 48]
Kit Symons		Defender	1995–1998	139	4
Michael Brown		Midfielder	1995–2000	110	4	1
Jeff Whitley		Midfielder	1996–2001	141	8
Kevin Horlock		Midfielder	1996–2003	232	42

Contemporary players

Name	Nat	Club career	Position	League		Cups		Other		Total		PotY	Refs.
				A	G	A	G	A	G	Apps.	Goals
Paul Dickov		1996–2002 2006–2008	Forward	175	35	25	6			200	041		[James 1]
Gerard Wiekens		1997–2003	Defender	185	10	27	0	1	0	213	010	1	[James 1]
Nicky Weaver		1998–2007	Goalkeeper	175	0	31	0	1	0	207	000		[Sb 1]
Shaun Goater		1998–2003	Striker	187	85	25	18			212	103	1	[Sb 2]
Danny Tiatto		1998–2004	Left back / Midfielder	139	3	14	1	5	0	158 [A 5]	004	1	[Sb 3]
Shaun Wright-Phillips		1999–2005 2008–2011	Midfielder	217	35	34	7	24	5	275	047	1	[Sb 4]
Steve Howey		2000–2003	Defender	94	11	9	0			103	011		[Sb 5]
Richard Dunne		2000–2009	Centre back	296	8	38	0	18	0	352	008 [G 4]	4	[Sb 6]
Ali Benarbia		2001–2003	Midfielder	71	11	7	0			078	011	1	[Sb 7]
Sun Jihai		2002–2008	Defender	130	3	16	0	5	1	151	004		[Sb 8]
Nicolas Anelka		2002–2005	Forward	89	37	9	4	5	4	103	045 [G 5]		[Sb 9]
Sylvain Distin		2002–2007	Centre back	178	5	23	1	5	0	206	006	1	[Sb 10]
Joey Barton		2003–2007	Midfielder	130	15	18	2	5	0	153	017		[Sb 11]
Antoine Sibierski		2003–2006	Midfielder	92	11	14	3	1	1	107	015		[Sb 12]
David James		2004–2006	Goalkeeper	93	0	7	0			100	000		[Sb 13]
Nedum Onuoha		2004–2012	Defender	95	3	14	1	7	1	116	005		[Sb 14]
Darius Vassell		2005–2009	Forward	103	17	15	4	6	1	124	022		[Sb 15]
Stephen Ireland		2005–2010	Midfielder	138	16	24	4	14	3	176	023	1	[Sb 16]
Micah Richards		2005–2014	Right back	179	7	33	3	33	0	245	010 [G 6]		[Sb 17]
Joe Hart		2006–2017	Goalkeeper	266	0	19	0	63	0	348	000		[Sb 18]
Vincent Kompany		2008–	Centre back	248	17	32	1	54	1	334	019	1	[Sb 19]
Pablo Zabaleta		2008–2017	Right back	230	9	48	2	55	1	284	010	1	[Sb 20]
Nigel de Jong		2009–2012	Midfielder	104	1	17	1	16	0	137	002		[Sb 21]
Kolo Touré		2009–2013	Centre back	82	2	12	1	8	0	102	003		[Sb 22]
Gareth Barry		2009–2013	Midfielder	132	6	24	2	19	0	175	008		[Sb 23]
Carlos Tevez		2009–2013	Forward	113	58	21	14	14	1	148	073 [G 7]	1	[Sb 24]
Joleon Lescott		2009–2014	Centre back	107	7	32	1	21	1	160	009		[Sb 25]
David Silva		2010–	Midfielder	249	49	37	5	60	8	346	062		[Sb 26]
Yaya Touré		2010–2018	Midfielder	230	62	34	11	52	9	316	082 [G 8]	1	[Sb 27]
Aleksandar Kolarov		2010–2017	Wing back	165	11	36	6	46	4	247	021		[Sb 28]
James Milner		2010–2015	Midfielder	147	13	26	3	30	2	203 [A 6]	018		[Sb 29]
Edin Džeko		2011–2015	Striker	130	50	25	15	34	7	189 [A 7]	072		[Sb 30]
Gaël Clichy		2011–2017	Left back	138	2	26	1	39	0	203	003		[Sb 31]
Sergio Agüero		2011–	Striker	206	146	33	23	53	35	292	204	2	[Sb 32]
Samir Nasri		2011–2017	Midfielder	129	18	15	5	32	4	176	027		[Sb 33]
Jesús Navas		2013–2017	Midfielder	123	4	28	4	32	0	182	008		[Sb 34]
Fernandinho		2013–	Midfielder	165	17	22	2	44	3	231	022		[Sb 35]
Martín Demichelis		2013–2016	Defender	78	3	13	0	15	1	106	004		[Sb 36]
Fernando		2014–2017	Midfielder	64	4	16	0	22	0	102	004		[Sb 37]
Raheem Sterling		2015–	Forward	97	31	17	4	26	9	140	044		[Sb 38]
Nicolás Otamendi		2015–	Defender	94	6	17	0	27	1	138	007		[Sb 39]
Kevin De Bruyne		2015–	Midfielder	98	21	19	9	25	5	142	035		[Sb 40]

Most prolific goalscorers

The players who have scored the most goals in total during their entire club career can be determined by sorting on the appropriate column in either of the above tables. Below is an additional sortable list of the most prolific Manchester City strikers' acumen in front of goal based on their best individual seasons for the club. Current players are highlighted in blue.

Shaun Goater appeared 211 times for City between 1998 and 2003, scoring 103 goals. In season 2001–02 he scored 32 goals making him 1 of only 5 players to have scored 30+ goals in a season since World War 2.

Manchester City players who have scored 30 or more goals for the club in a single season

Name	Nat.	Season	No. of goals	No. of games	Avg. goals per game	Total goals for club	Refs.
Billy Meredith		1898–99	30	34	0.88	151	[prolific 1]
Billie Gillespie		1902–03	30	33	0.91	132	[prolific 2]
Tommy Browell		1920–21	31	43	0.72	139	[prolific 3]
Frank Roberts		1924–25	32	39	0.82	130	[prolific 4]
Frank Roberts		1925–26	30	45	0.67	130	[prolific 5]
Tommy Johnson		1928–29	38	39	0.97	166	[prolific 6]
Tommy Tait		1929–30	31	34	0.91	46	[prolific 7]
Dave Halliday		1931–32	32	45	0.71	51	[prolific 8]
Peter Doherty		1936–37	32	45	0.71	80	[prolific 9]
Alex Harley		1962–63	32	49	0.65	32	[prolific 10]
Derek Kevan		1963–64	36	46	0.78	56	[prolific 11]
Francis Lee		1971–72	35	46	0.76	148	[prolific 12]
Shaun Goater		2001–02	32	46	0.70	103	[prolific 13]
Sergio Agüero		2011–12	30	48	0.63	201	[prolific 14]
Sergio Agüero		2014–15	32	42	0.76	201	[prolific 15]

Most England caps

The following is a list of the most capped England internationals to play for Manchester City. The list is initially presented in the chronological order of the dates each player made his debut for England at full international level, but can be sorted based on the contents of the fourth column to display the players in order of most appearances for their country. The list includes all ten of the most capped players who played for England while also actively playing for the club (just sort the list instead based on the contents of the third column). Players who won all of their England caps playing for Manchester City are indicated in bold font. Players who are currently internationally active players are highlighted in blue.

* Parenthetical number represents total substitute appearances included in larger total appearances tally for those players for whom substitution is applicable.

Player of the Year awards

Each season since the end of the 1966–67 season, the members of the Manchester City Official Supporters Club have voted by ballot to choose the player on the team they feel is the most worthy of recognition for his performances during that season. The following table lists all of the recipients of this award since its inception. All of these players are listed in italics font in the pair of tables presented in the main section of this article.

Year	Winner
1967	Tony Book
1968	Colin Bell
1969	Glyn Pardoe
1970	Francis Lee
1971	Mike Doyle
1972	Mike Summerbee
1973	Mike Summerbee
1974	Mike Doyle
1975	Alan Oakes
1976	Joe Corrigan
1977	David Watson
1978	Joe Corrigan
1979	Asa Hartford

Year	Winner
1980	Joe Corrigan
1981	Paul Power
1982	Tommy Caton
1983	Kevin Bond
1984	Mick McCarthy
1985	Paul Power
1986	Kenny Clements
1987	Neil McNab
1988	Steve Redmond
1989	Neil McNab
1990	Colin Hendry
1991	Niall Quinn
1992	Tony Coton

Year	Winner
1993	Garry Flitcroft
1994	Tony Coton
1995	Uwe Rösler
1996	Giorgi Kinkladze
1997	Giorgi Kinkladze
1998	Michael Brown
1999	Gerard Wiekens
2000	Shaun Goater
2001	Danny Tiatto
2002	Ali Benarbia
2003	Sylvain Distin
2004	Shaun Wright-Phillips
2005	Richard Dunne

Year	Winner
2006	Richard Dunne
2007	Richard Dunne
2008	Richard Dunne
2009	Stephen Ireland
2010	Carlos Tevez
2011	Vincent Kompany
2012	Sergio Agüero
2013	Pablo Zabaleta[10]
2014	Yaya Touré[11]
2015	Sergio Agüero[12]
2016	Kevin De Bruyne
2017	David Silva
2018	Kevin De Bruyne[13]

Former Manchester City players and managers inducted into Halls of Fame

A number of former Manchester City players and managers have been inducted into the club's own Hall of Fame (which was inaugurated in 2004) as well as the national football Halls of Fame of both Scotland (also inaugurated in 2004) and England / Wales (inaugurated in 2002). All of the honoured inductees in one of these three football halls of fame (listed below), who were former players at the club with more than one hundred appearances, are listed in bold font in the pair of tables presented in the main section of this article.

Manchester City Hall of Fame

The following former Manchester City players and managers are inductees in the Manchester City F.C. Hall of Fame and are listed according to the year of their induction:

Inductees in MCFC Hall of Fame
Year of induction	Player	Position	Role at MCFC	Years in role at MCFC	Notes
	Manchester City players who were the inaugural inductees in October 2004
2004 [14]	Billy Meredith	right winger	player	1894 – 1906, 1921 – 1924	also see NFM Hall of Fame
	Tommy Johnson	centre forward & inside left	player	1919 – 1930
	Eric Brook	left winger	player	1928 – 1939
	Frank Swift	goalkeeper	player	1933 – 1949	also see NFM Hall of Fame
	Peter Doherty	inside left	player	1936 – 1945	also see NFM Hall of Fame
	Roy Clarke	left winger	player	1947 – 1958	Lifetime achievement award
	Bert Trautmann, OBE	goalkeeper	player	1949 – 1964	also see NFM Hall of Fame
	Roy Paul	half back	player	1950 – 1957
	Mike Summerbee	centre forward & right winger	player	1965 – 1975	also see NFM Hall of Fame
	Tony Book	right back	player manager interim mgr.	1966 – 1974 1974 – 1979 1973, 1980, 1989, 1993
	Colin Bell, MBE	attacking midfielder	player	1966 – 1979	also see NFM Hall of Fame
	Francis Lee, CBE	forward	player chairman	1967 – 1974 1994 – 1998	also see NFM Hall of Fame
	Joe Corrigan	goalkeeper	player	1967 – 1983
	Paul Lake	midfielder / defender	player	1987 – 1996
	Niall Quinn, (Honorary) MBE	forward	player	1990 – 1996	also see NFM Hall of Fame
	Manchester City players and teams inducted since 2004
2005 [15]	Sam Cowan	centre half	player manager	1924 – 1935 1946 – 1947
	Ken Barnes	wing half	player	1950 – 1961	Lifetime achievement award
	Alan Oakes	midfielder	player	1958 – 1976
	Joe Mercer, OBE	left half	manager	1965 – 1971	Outstanding achievement award also see NFM Hall of Fame
	Malcolm Allison	centre half	assistant mgr. manager	1965 – 1971 1971 – 1973, 1979 – 1980	Outstanding achievement award also see NFM Hall of Fame
2006 [16]	Ernie Toseland	right winger	player	1928 – 1938
	Johnny Hart	inside forward	player manager	1947 – 1960 1973	Lifetime achievement award
	Manchester City 1956 0000FA Cup-winning team	not applicable			en masse induction
	Mike Doyle	centre half & defensive midfielder	player	1965 – 1978
	Shaun Goater	forward	player	1998 – 2003	Cult hero award
2008 [17]	Fred Tilson	centre forward	player	1928 – 1939
	Neil Young	inside left & left winger	player	1961 – 1972
	Alex Williams, MBE	goalkeeper	player	1980 – 1986	Lifetime achievement award
2009 [18]	Uwe Rösler	forward	player	1994 – 1998

Last updated: 1 January 2016.
Source: list of MCFC Hall of Fame inductees

National Football Museum Hall of Fame

Former German POW Bernhard Carl "Bert" Trautmann kept goal for the club between 1949 and 1964. Famous for having played through to the end of the 1956 FA Cup final despite sustaining a broken neck, he has now acquired an almost legendary status at the club. This sculpture of him at the Manchester City Museum celebrates his prowess.

Trevor Francis will always be remembered in Britain as the first £1 million player. £1.18m is the actual amount Nottingham Forest paid Birmingham City in 1979. Two years later he moved to Maine Road for an even larger fee, but his time spent wearing sky blue was plagued with injuries and he was sold to Sampdoria by a cash-strapped City at the end of his first season. City fans that saw him play (when not injured) rate his skill and flair as highly as any player that has worn the club's shirt.

The following former Manchester City players and managers are inductees in the English Football Hall of Fame (a.k.a. the National Football Museum Hall of Fame) and are listed according to the year of their induction within the various categories:

Inductees in NFM Hall of Fame
Year of induction	Player	Position	Role at MCFC	Years in role at MCFC
	Players with Manchester City backgrounds inducted to date
2002	Peter Doherty	inside left	player	1936 – 1945
	Denis Law, CBE	forward & midfielder	player	1960 – 1961, 1973 – 1974
	Kevin Keegan, OBE	forward	manager	2001 – 2005
2003	Peter Schmeichel, MBE	goalkeeper	player	2002 – 2003
	Alan Ball, MBE	attacking midfielder	manager	1995 – 1996
2005	Bert Trautmann, OBE	goalkeeper	player	1949 – 1964
	Colin Bell, MBE	attacking midfielder	player	1966 – 1979
2007	Billy Meredith	right winger	player	1894 – 1906, 1921 – 1924
	Mark Hughes	forward	manager	2008 – 2009
2009	Frank Swift	goalkeeper	player	1933 – 1949
2010	Francis Lee, CBE	forward	player	1967 – 1974
2013	Mike Summerbee	forward	player	1965 – 1975
2014	Trevor Francis	centre forward	player	1981 – 1982
	Patrick Vieira	holding midfielder	player EDS manager	2010 – 2011 2011 – 2015
2015	Stuart Pearce, MBE	left back	player coach manager	2001 – 2002 2002 – 2005 2005 – 2007
	Sun Jihai	defender	player	2002 – 2008
	Managers with Manchester City backgrounds inducted to date
2002	Sir Matt Busby, CBE, KCSG	inside right & right half	player	1928 – 1936
2004	Don Revie, OBE	centre forward	player	1951 – 1956
2005	Howard Kendall	attacking midfielder	manager	1989 – 1990
2009	Joe Mercer, OBE	left half	manager	1965 – 1971
	Malcolm Allison	centre half	assistant mgr. manager	1965 – 1971 1971 – 1973, 1979 – 1980
	Manchester City "Football Foundation Community Champions" inducted to date
2007	Niall Quinn, (Honorary) MBE	forward	player	1990 – 1996
	Manchester City teams inducted to date
2009	Manchester City 1967–70	not applicable

Last updated: 2 January 2016.
Source: list of NFM Hall of Fame inductees

Scottish Football Museum Hall of Fame

Iconic Celtic defender Billy McNeill managed the club between 1983 and 1986, securing promotion back to the top flight in his second season in charge.

Dubbed the "Welsh Wizard" by his admirers, Billy Meredith made 394 appearances for the club in two separate spells with the Blues between 1894–1906 and 1921–1924, scoring a total of 151 goals.

The following former Manchester City players and managers are inductees in the Scottish Football Hall of Fame (a.k.a. the Scottish Football Museum Hall of Fame) and are listed according to the year of their induction within the appropriate category:

Inductees in SFM Hall of Fame
Year of induction	Player	Position	Role at MCFC	Years in role at MCFC
	Players with Manchester City backgrounds inducted to date
2004	Denis Law, CBE	forward	player	1960 – 1961, 1973 – 1974
	Billy McNeill, MBE	defender	manager	1983 – 1986
2011	Bobby Johnstone	inside right	player	1955 – 1959
	Managers with Manchester City backgrounds inducted to date
2004	Sir Matt Busby, CBE, KCSG	inside right & right half	player	1928 – 1936

Last updated: 1 January 2016.
Source: list of SFM Hall of Fame inductees

Welsh Sports Hall of Fame

The following former Manchester City players and managers are inductees in the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame and are listed according to the year of their induction:

Inductees in WS Hall of Fame
Year of induction	Player	Position	Role at MCFC	Years in role at MCFC
	Players with Manchester City backgrounds inducted to date
1990	Billy Meredith	right winger	player	1894 – 1906, 1921 – 1924
1999	Horace Blew	full back	player	1906
2003	Mark Hughes	forward	manager	2008 – 2009

Last updated: 18 July 2015.
Source: list of WS Hall of Fame inductees

See also

• List of Manchester City F.C. players with between 25 and 99 appearances
• List of Manchester City F.C. players with fewer than 25 appearances

List of players footnotes

List of players statistics references

Other table references

All other references

External links

• "MCFC Alumni". Retrieved 31 December 2006.
• "MCFCstats". Retrieved 31 December 2006.