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 31 January 2022[8]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 37 FW  BRA Kayky 48 FW  ENG Liam Delap 52 FW  NOR Oscar Bobb 53 FW  ENG Samuel Edozie 56 DF  ENG CJ Egan-Riley (captain) 60 FW  ENG Tai Sodje 62 DF  NIR Shea Charles 63 GK  NED Mikki van Sas 64 MF  ENG Rowan McDonald

No. Pos. Nation Player 73 FW  NED Jayden Braaf 79 DF  ENG Luke Mbete 84 GK  SCO Cieran Slicker 87 MF  ENG James McAtee 90 MF  BEL Roméo Lavia 92 MF  ENG Micah Hamilton 95 DF  GHA Kwaku Oduroh 97 DF  ENG Josh Wilson-Esbrand 99 DF  ESP Juan Larios

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 29 FW  COL Marlos Moreno (at Kortrijk until 30 June 2022) 39 DF  BRA Yan Couto (at Braga until 30 June 2022) 41 MF  ESP Pablo Moreno (at Girona until 30 June 2022) 55 GK  IRL Gavin Bazunu (at Portsmouth until 31 May 2022) 57 DF  GHA Yeboah Amankwah (at Accrington Stanley until 31 May 2022) 66 MF  ESP Iker Pozo (at HNK Rijeka until 30 June 2022) 68 DF  ESP Oscar Tarensi (at Girona until 30 June 2022) 71 MF  SCO Lewis Fiorini (at Lincoln City until 31 May 2022) 72 MF  ENG Morgan Rogers (at AFC Bournemouth until 31 May 2022) 78 DF  ENG Taylor Harwood-Bellis (at Stoke City until 30 June 2022) 81 MF  FRA Claudio Gomes (at Barnsley until 31 May 2022) 85 GK  ENG James Trafford (at Bolton Wanderers until 31 May 2022) 86 DF  ENG Callum Doyle (at Sunderland until 31 May 2022) 93 MF  ENG Alex Robertson (at Ross County until 31 May 2022) 94 DF  ENG Finley Burns (at Swansea City until 30 June 2022) 96 FW  ENG Ben Knight (at Crewe Alexandra until 31 May 2022) — DF  PER Kluiverth Aguilar (at Lommel until 30 June 2022) — DF  VEN Nahuel Ferraresi (at Estoril until 30 June 2022)

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  JPN Kō Itakura (at Schalke 04 until 30 June 2022) — DF  BFA Issa Kaboré (at Troyes until 30 June 2022) — DF  ESP Pedro Porro (at Sporting Lisbon until 30 June 2022) — MF  GHA Mohammed Aminu (at Lommel until 30 June 2022) — MF  AUS Daniel Arzani (at Lommel until 30 June 2022) — MF  VEN Yangel Herrera (at Espanyol until 30 June 2022) — MF  CRO Ante Palaversa (at Kortrijk until 30 June 2022) — MF  BRA Diego Rosa (at Lommel until 30 June 2022) — FW  GHA Thomas Agyepong (at Lommel until 30 June 2022) — FW  ARG Julián Álvarez (at River Plate until 11 July 2022) — FW  ARG Nahuel Bustos (at Girona until 30 June 2022) — FW  JPN Ryōtarō Meshino (at Estoril until 30 June 2022) — FW  ARG Darío Sarmiento (at Girona until 30 June 2022) — FW  SRB Filip Stevanović (at SC Heerenveen until 30 June 2022) — FW  SRB Slobodan Tedić (at PEC Zwolle until 30 June 2022)

The club's first youth team was set up by Albert Alexander in the 1920s,[10] 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 building a successful career at Burnley, Jadon Sancho at Borussia Dortmund and Manchester United, Kelechi Iheanacho at Leicester and Kieran Trippier formerly at Burnley and Spurs and now at Atlético Madrid.

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[11] 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[12] The club also launched an instructional video website aimed at helping the new skills of prospective footballers[13]

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,[14] the campus was opened on 8 December 2014,[15] 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 21 September 2021[16]

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 MF  ENG Isaac Smith 58 FW  SCO Adedire Mebude 67 MF  ENG Kane Taylor 70 DF  ENG Jadel Katongo 75 MF  ENG Nico O’Reilly 76 MF  ESP Mamadou Susoho 82 DF  ENG Rico Lewis (captain) 83 GK  ENG George Murray-Jones 89 MF  ENG Darko Gyabi 91 FW  POR Carlos Borges 93 FW  SCO Liam Smith

No. Pos. Nation Player 98 GK  ENG Joshua McNamara — DF  FIN Tomas Galvez — DF  ENG Lakyle Samuel — MF  SCO Josh Adam — MF  ENG Kian Breckin — MF  ENG Luca Barrington — MF  ENG Matthew Whittingham — FW  ENG Will Dickson — FW  ENG Joel Ndala — FW  ENG Daniel Ogwuru

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 12 May 2021

• Premier League 2
  • Winners (2): 2020–21, 2021–22
• 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 (9) 1997–98, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22
  • National Champions: (3) 2015–16, 2019–20, 2020–21
• U-18 Premier League Cup
  • Winners (2): 2018–19,[55] 2019–20