Manchester City F.C. EDS and Academy

The EDS currently play all of their home fixtures at the CFA Academy stadium in Manchester.

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 MCFC official first team squad consists of about 40 players, which is why the EDS players' squad numbers 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 14 June 2020[8][9]

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

No. Position Player 51 FW Nabil Touaizi 52 DF Tyreke Wilson 55 GK Gavin Bazunu 57 DF Yeboah Amankwah 60 MF Fisayo Dele-Bashiru 61 MF Felix Nmecha 62 DF Nathanael Ogbeta 64 MF Rowan McDonald 66 MF Iker Pozo 69 MF Tommy Doyle

No. Position Player 70 GK Louie Moulden 72 FW Morgan Rogers 73 FW Jayden Braaf 78 DF Taylor Harwood-Bellis 82 MF Adrián Bernabé 88 DF Alpha Dionkou 96 FW Ben Knight — GK Tom Scott — MF Collins Tanor

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

No. Position Player 24 DF Tosin Adarabioyo (at Blackburn Rovers until 30 June 2020) 29 FW Marlos Moreno (at Portimonense until 30 June 2020) 32 GK Daniel Grimshaw (at Hemel Hempstead Town until 30 June 2020) 38 MF Jack Harrison (at Leeds United until 30 June 2020) 43 FW Lukas Nmecha (at Middlesbrough until 30 June 2020) 65 MF Matthew Smith (at Charlton Athletic until 30 June 2020) 67 MF Paolo Fernandes (at Perugia until 30 June 2020) 68 FW Thierry Ambrose (at Metz until 30 June 2020) 74 FW Luke Bolton (at Luton Town until 30 June 2020) 75 MF Aleix Garcia (at Royal Excel Mouscron until 30 June 2020) 81 MF Claudio Gomes (at PSV Eindhoven until 30 June 2020) — MF Thomas Agyepong (at Waasland-Beveren until 30 June 2020) — MF Ernest Agyiri (at Enosis Neon Paralimni FC until 30 June 2020) — MF Mohammed Aminu (at Dordrecht until 30 June 2020)

No. Position Player — MF Daniel Arzani (at Celtic until 30 June 2020) — MF Félix Correia (at AZ Alkmaar until 30 June 2020) — MF Mix Diskerud (at Helsingborgs IF until 31 December 2020) — MF Yangel Herrera (at Granada until 30 June 2020) — MF Ivan Ilić (at NAC Breda until 30 June 2020) — MF Luka Ilić (at NAC Breda until 30 June 2020) — DF Ko Itakura (at Groningen until 30 June 2020) — DF Joël Latibeaudiere (at Twente until 30 June 2020) — MF Ryotaro Meshino (at Hearts until 30 June 2020) — MF Ante Palaversa (at Oostende until 30 June 2020) — DF Erik Palmer-Brown (at Austria Wien until 30 June 2020) — DF Pedro Porro (at Real Valladolid until 30 June 2020) — GK Zack Steffen (at Fortuna Düsseldorf until 30 June 2020) — FW Slobodan Tedić (at FK Cukaricki Beograd until 30 June 2020)

The club's first youth team was set up by Albert Alexander in the 1920s,[11] 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 the Academy has produced 35 first team players, 15 of whom have gained full international honours, including England internationals Shaun Wright-Phillips, Micah Richards and Joey Barton. 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 Glenn Whelan building a successful career at Sheffield Wednesday and now Stoke City and Dickson Etuhu similarly making his career at Fulham

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[12] 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[13] The club also launched an instructional video website aimed at helping the new skills of prospective footballers[14]

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 team-sheeted to play for the MCFC first team in either a friendly or competitive game.

As of 16 January 2020

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

No. Position Player 71 MF Lewis Fiorini 77 DF Samson Robinson 80 MF Cole Palmer 84 GK Cieran Slicker 87 MF James McAtee 93 FW Keyendrah Simmonds 94 DF Finley Burns GK Joshua McNamara GK James Trafford DF Camron Gbadebo DF Luke Mbete-Tabu DF Kwaku Oduroh

No. Position Player DF Josh Wilson-Esbrand MF Oscar Bobb MF Carlos Borgas MF CJ Egan-Riley MF Joe Hodge MF Alexander Robertson MF Liam Smith MF Timi Sobowale MF Oscar Tarensi FW Liam Delap FW Samuel Edozie FW D'Margio Wright-Phillips

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

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

Updated 24 September 2019

Player	Current Club	Born	International Honours	Debut	Manager
Shaun Wright-Phillips	Retired	London	Full England Caps	Age 17 v Burnley, 24 Aug. 1999[15]	Joe Royle
Terry Dunfield	Toronto (academy coach)	Vancouver	Full Canada Caps	Age 19 v Chelsea, 11 May 2001[16]
Chris Shuker	Retired	Liverpool		Age 19 v Notts County, 11 Sep. 2001[17]	Kevin Keegan
Dickson Etuhu	Free agent	Kano	Full Nigeria Caps	Age 19 v Birmingham City, 15 Sep. 2001[18]
Leon Mike	Retired	Manchester	England U18	Age 19 v Portsmouth, 16 Nov. 2001[19]
Chris Killen	Retired	Wellington	Full New Zealand Caps	Age 20 v Rotherham United, 24 Nov. 2001[20]
Tyrone Mears	Free agent	Manchester	Full Jamaican Caps	Age 19 v Nottingham Forest, 30 Mar. 2002[21]
Joey Barton	Fleetwood Town (manager)	Liverpool	Full England Cap	Age 21 v Bolton Wanderers, 5 Apr. 2003[22]
Stephen Jordan	Retired	Liverpool		Age 21 v Bolton Wanderers, 5 Apr. 2003[23]
Willo Flood	Retired	Dublin	Ireland U21	Age 18 v Total Network Solutions, 28 Aug. 2003[24]
Glenn Whelan	Fleetwood Town	Dublin	Full Ireland Caps	Age 19 v Total Network Solutions, 28 Aug. 2003[25]
Stephen Elliott	Retired	Dublin	Full Ireland Caps	Age 20 v Bolton Wanderers, 21 Feb. 2004[26]
Bradley Wright-Phillips	Free agent	London	England U20	Age 19 v Barnsley, 21 Sep. 2004[27]
Nedum Onuoha	Real Salt Lake	Warri	England U21	Age 18 v Arsenal, 24 Oct. 2004[28]
Jonathan D'Laryea	Free agent	Manchester		Age 19 v Arsenal, 24 Oct. 2004[29]
Lee Croft	Retired	Wigan	England U20	Age 19 v Bolton Wanderers, 7 Mar. 2005[30]
Stephen Ireland	Free agent	Cork	Full Ireland Caps	Age 19 v Bolton Wanderers, 18 Sep. 2005[31]	Stuart Pearce
Micah Richards	Retired	Birmingham	Full England Caps	Age 17 v Arsenal, 22 Oct. 2005[32]
Ishmael Miller	Tranmere Rovers	Manchester	England U21	Age 19 v Wigan Athletic, 18 Mar. 2006[33]
Michael Johnson	Retired	Manchester	England U21	Age 18 v Wigan Athletic, 21 Oct. 2006[34]
Daniel Sturridge	Trabzonspor	Birmingham	Full England Caps	Age 17 v Reading, 3 Feb. 2007[35]
Kasper Schmeichel	Leicester City	Copenhagen	Full Denmark Caps	Age 19 v West Ham United, 11 Aug. 2007[36]	Sven-Göran Eriksson
Shaleum Logan	Aberdeen	Manchester		Age 19 v Bristol City, 29 Aug. 2007[37]
Kelvin Etuhu	Carlisle United	Kano		Age 19 v Norwich City, 25 Sep. 2007[38]
Ched Evans	Fleetwood Town F.C.	Rhyl	Full Wales Caps	Age 18 v Norwich City, 25 Sep. 2007[39]
Sam Williamson	Retired	Manchester		Age 20 v Portsmouth, 20 Apr. 2008[40]
Vladimír Weiss	Free agent	Bratislava	Full Slovakia Caps	Age 19 v Bolton Wanderers, 24 May 2009[41]	Mark Hughes
Dedryck Boyata	Hertha BSC	Brussels	Full Belgium Caps	Age 19 v Middlesbrough, 2 Jan. 2010[42]	Roberto Mancini
Abdisalam Ibrahim	Pafos	Mogadishu	Full Norway Caps	Age 18 v Scunthorpe United, 24 Jan. 2010[43]
Greg Cunningham	Cardiff City	Galway	Full Ireland Caps	Age 18 v Scunthorpe United, 24 Jan. 2010[44]
Alex Nimely	Kettering Town	Monrovia	England U20	Age 18 v Burnley, 3 Apr. 2010[45]
Javan Vidal	Kettering Town	Manchester	England U20	Age 21 v West Bromwich Albion, 22 Sep. 2010[46]
Ben Mee	Burnley	Manchester	England U21	Age 20 v West Bromwich Albion, 22 Sep. 2010[47]
John Guidetti	Hannover 96 (on loan from Deportivo Alavés)	Stockholm	Full Sweden Caps	Age 18 v West Bromwich Albion, 22 Sep. 2010[48]
Chris Chantler	Ossett United	Manchester		Age 20 v Juventus, 16 Dec. 2010[49]
Abdul Razak	IK Sirius	Abidjan	Full Ivory Coast Caps	Age 18 v West Bromwich Albion, 5 Feb. 2011
Ryan McGivern	Linfield	Newry	Full Northern Ireland Caps	Age 21 v Sunderland, 3 Apr. 2011[50]
Reece Wabara	Retired	Birmingham	England U20	Age 19 v Bolton Wanderers, 22 May 2011[51]
Karim Rekik	Hertha BSC	Rotterdam	Full Netherlands Caps	Age 16 v Birmingham City, 21 Sep. 2011
Luca Scapuzzi	Pro Sesto	Milan		Age 20 v Birmingham City, 21 Sep. 2011
Denis Suárez	Celta Vigo	Vigo	Full Spain Cap	Age 17 v Wolverhampton Wanderers, 26 Oct. 2011
Jérémy Hélan	Retired	Paris	France U19	Age 20 v Aston Villa, 25 Sep. 2012
Marcos Lopes	Sevilla	Belém de Maria	Full Portugal Cap	Age 17 v Watford, 5 Jan. 2013
Emyr Huws	Ipswich Town	Llanelli	Full Wales Caps	Age 20 v Blackburn Rovers, 15 Jan. 2014	Manuel Pellegrini
José Ángel Pozo	Rayo Vallecano	Málaga	Spain U21	Age 18 v Sheffield Wednesday, 24 Sep. 2014
Kelechi Iheanacho	Leicester City	Imo State	Full Nigeria Caps	Age 18 v Watford, 29 Aug. 2015
Manu García	Sporting Gijón	Oviedo	Spain U19	Age 17 v Sunderland, 22 Sep. 2015
George Evans	Derby County	Cheadle	England U20	Age 20 v Sunderland, 22 Sep. 2015
Bersant Celina	Swansea City	Prizren	Full Kosovo Caps	Age 19 v Norwich, 9 Jan. 2016
Angeliño	RB Leipzig (on loan from Manchester City)	Coristanco	Spain U21	Age 19 v Aston Villa, 30 Jan. 2016
Cameron Humphreys	SBV Excelsior (on loan from Zulte Waregem)	Manchester	England U19	Age 17 v Aston Villa, 30 Jan. 2016
Aleix García	Royal Excel Mouscron (on loan from Manchester City)	Ulldecona	Spain U21	Age 18 v Chelsea, 21 Feb. 2016
Tosin Adarabioyo	Blackburn Rovers (on loan from Manchester City)	Manchester	England U19	Age 18 v Chelsea, 21 Feb. 2016
David Faupala	Jerv	Bully-les-Mines	France U18	Age 19 v Chelsea, 21 Feb. 2016
Brandon Barker	Rangers	Manchester	England U20	Age 19 v Chelsea, 21 Feb. 2016
Pablo Maffeo	Girona (on loan from VfB Stuttgart)	Sant Joan Despi	Spain U21	Age 19 v Steaua București, 24 Aug. 2016	Pep Guardiola
Brahim Diaz	Real Madrid	Malaga	Spain U21	Age 17 v Swansea, 21 Sep. 2016
Phil Foden	Manchester City	Stockport	England U21	Age 17 v Feyenoord, 21 Nov. 2017
Lukas Nmecha	Middlesbrough (on loan from Manchester City)	Hamburg	England U21 Germany U21	Age 19 v Leicester City, 19 Dec. 2017
Tom Dele-Bashiru	Watford	Manchester	Nigeria U20	Age 18 v Leicester City, 19 Dec. 2017
Claudio Gomes	PSV Eindhoven (on loan from Manchester City)	Argenteuil	France U19	Age 18 v Chelsea, 5 Aug. 2018
Arijanet Muric	Nottingham Forest (on loan from Manchester City)	Zürich	Full Kosovo Caps	Age 19 v Oxford United, 25 Sep. 2018
Adrián Bernabé	Manchester City		Spain U17	Age 17 v Oxford United, 25 Sep. 2018
Eric García	Manchester City	Barcelona	Spain U21	Age 17 v Leicester City, 18 Dec. 2018
Ian Poveda	Leeds United	London	England U19	Age 18 v Burton Albion, 23 Jan. 2019
Felix Nmecha	Manchester City	Hamburg	England U19	Age 18 v Burton Albion, 23 Jan. 2019
Taylor Harwood-Bellis	Manchester City	Stockport	England U19	Age 17 v Preston North End, 24 Sep. 2019
Tommy Doyle	Manchester City	Manchester	England U18	Age 18 v Southampton, 29 Oct. 2019

• 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 (2): 1986, 2008
• U-18 Professional Development League
  • Northern Division Champions (6) 1997–98, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17
  • National Champions: (1) 2015–16
• U-18 Premier League Cup
  • Winners (1): 2018-19[52]