1994–95 Manchester City F.C. season

Manchester City endured another torrid season which saw them continue to fall well short of the standards of their city rivals. Their goalscoring rate improving dramatically from 36 to 53, but they slipped one place into 17th - though still enough to achieve survival. But it was too late to save manager Brian Horton's job and he was sacked to make way for Alan Ball of Southampton.

Key striker Niall Quinn recovered from a serious knee injury but failed to make an impact on City's dismal showing, though new German striker Uwe Rösler was among the Premiership's top target men with 15 league goals. His strike partner Paul Walsh was also a frequent goalscorer, with 12 Premiership strikes.

One of the few things that gave City fans something to look forward to was the emergence of exciting young players like Garry Flitcroft, Richard Edghill and Steve Lomas. The close season arrival of Georgian midfielder Georgi Kinkladze was another exciting prospect which suggested that the dark clouds that had recently hung over Maine Road might not have cast too lengthy a shadow.

The team kit was produced by Umbro and the shirt sponsor was Brother.

True products of the nineties, the home and away kits used in the 1994–95 season were over-designed, with the away kit in particular leaving a legacy as being one of the worst kits of Premier League history. The home kit, while on the face of it a classic plain blue shirt with white shorts, in fact had a pattern inlaid in such a way as was only visible when caught by the light, which contained oversized angular Umbro diamonds over the top of each other across the front of the shirt. The away kit was intended as a tribute to the classic red and black stripes which City had worn as an away kit on a number of occasions previously, but for no apparent reason had two-tone grey shoulder stripes as well as an embossed shield which was more suited to the shape of the club's badge after its redesign in 1997 (by which point the shirt was no longer being worn) than the circular badge of the time. The third kit was a more simple white kit with dark blue pinstripes and matching shorts.

Results summary

Results by round

Manchester City's score comes first[1]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Tony Coton 2 DF Andy Hill 3 DF Terry Phelan 4 MF Maurizio Gaudino (on loan from Eintracht Frankfurt) 5 DF Keith Curle (captain) 6 DF Michel Vonk 8 FW Paul Walsh 9 FW Niall Quinn 10 MF Garry Flitcroft 11 MF Peter Beagrie 12 DF Ian Brightwell 13 GK Martyn Margetson 14 FW Carl Griffiths 15 DF Alan Kernaghan 16 MF Nicky Summerbee 17 MF Mike Quigley

No. Position Player 18 DF David Brightwell 19 MF Fitzroy Simpson 21 MF Steve Lomas 22 DF Richard Edghill 23 MF David Kerr 24 FW Adie Mike 25 GK Andy Dibble 27 DF Rae Ingram 28 FW Uwe Rösler 29 DF John Foster 30 FW Steve Finney 31 MF Paul Lake 32 GK Simon Tracey (on loan from Sheffield United) 33 GK John Burridge 34 MF Scott Thomas

Left club during season

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

No. Position Player 4 MF Steve McMahon (to Swindon Town)

No. Position Player 26 FW Mike Sheron (to Norwich City)

Reserve squad

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

No. Position Player DF Chris Beech DF Lee Crooks MF Michael Brown

No. Position Player MF Jim Whitley FW Ray Kelly

• Manchester City squad for 1994–95 season