2009–10 Manchester City F.C. season

For the 2009–10 season, the shirt sponsor for all of the club's kits was Etihad Airways, which replaced the previous season's sponsor, Thomas Cook. There was also a change in the supplier of those kits for this season, with Nike-owned Umbro replacing the previous season's supplier, Le Coq Sportif. As a result of the switch from its prior French kit supplier to the Greater Manchester-based Umbro, all of the club's previous season's team and goalkeeper kits were essentially replaced with new ones for this season.

The overall sky blue colour of the first team kit was retained but the style and trim of this strip was significantly changed. Completely new away and third team kits were introduced, while a new all-green goalkeeper strip replaced the previous season's gold and black strip as the primary one for use by the goalkeepers, with a newly styled and trimmed variant of the old gold and black strip which became the secondary strip for use by the goalkeepers in away fixtures.

The new all-black away team kit came with gold vertical shoulder trim on the front that enabled the kit to be colour-coordinated with the gold and black goalkeeper strip, although it was sometimes also used with the all-green goalkeeper strip. This gold and black colour scheme was, according to its designer David Blanch,[11] intended to be symbolic of the globe covered with bees (representing the world, to all parts of which the goods of the city were exported) that was featured on the city of Manchester coat of arms. That was because the Manchester City teams in the past have established the unique tradition of always wearing this crest on their shirts when playing at Wembley (or in a major cup final elsewhere) as a symbol of their pride in representing the city of Manchester at a major sporting event. In heraldic terms, the bee was symbolic of a hive of industry, and even today the Manchester bee was often used all by itself as a shorthand emblem for the city of Manchester.

The red and black diagonal sash across the white shirts of the new third team kit was intended as a nostalgic re-mastering of the original sashed strip worn by the City team in the 1970s,[12] while that original design had, in its turn, been a nod back at the classic red and black striped shirts with black shorts that had originally been introduced by coach Malcolm Allison in imitation of Milan's strip, and which was frequently worn in its cup ties by the successful trophy-winning City team of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Appearances (Apps.) numbers are for appearances in competitive games only including sub appearances
Red card numbers denote: Numbers in parentheses represent red cards overturned for wrongful dismissal.

No.	Nat.	Player	Pos.	Premier League				FA Cup				League Cup				Total
				Apps				Apps				Apps				Apps
1		Shay Given	GK	35		2		3				6				44		2
2		Micah Richards	DF	23	2	2		2		1		4		1		29	2	4
3		Wayne Bridge	DF	23		2		2				3				28		2
4		Nedum Onuoha	DF	10	1			2	1			1				13	1
5		Pablo Zabaleta	DF	27		9	1	4		1		4		2		35		12	1
6		Michael Johnson	MF	1								1	1			2	1
7		Stephen Ireland	MF	22	2			3				5	1			30	3
8		Shaun Wright-Phillips	MF	30	4	2		2	1			6	2			38	7	2
10		Robinho	FW	10				1	1	1		1				12	1	1
11		Adam Johnson	MF	16	1	1										16	1	1
12		Stuart Taylor	GK					1								1
14		Roque Santa Cruz	FW	19	3	1		2				1	1			22	4	1
15		Javier Garrido	DF	9	1	1		1		1		2				12	1	2
16		Sylvinho	DF	10		2		3	1	1		2				15	1	3
17		Martin Petrov	MF	16	4			3	1			1				20	5
18		Gareth Barry	MF	34	2	4		3		1		6	1			43	3	5
19		Joleon Lescott	DF	18	1	1		2				4	1			24	2	1
22		Richard Dunne	DF	2												2
24		Patrick Vieira	DF	13	1	2		1								14	1	2
25		Emmanuel Adebayor	FW	26	14	1		2			1	3				31	14	1	1
27		Benjani	FW	2				2	1			2				6	1
28		Kolo Touré	DF	31	1	1		1				3	1			35	2	1
32		Carlos Tevez	FW	35	23	6		1				6	6	1		42	29	7
33		Vincent Kompany	DF	25	2	2		3				4		1		32	2	3
34		Nigel de Jong	MF	34		7		3				5		2		42		9
37		Gunnar Nielsen	GK	1												1
38		Márton Fülöp	GK	3												3
39		Craig Bellamy	FW	32	10	5	1	3	1	1		5		1		40	11	7
40		Vladimír Weiss	MF					1				3	1			4	1
44		Dedryck Boyata	DF	3		1		2				2				7		1
45		Greg Cunningham	DF	2				1		1						3		1
48		Abdisalam Ibrahim	MF	1				1								2
52		Alex Nimely	FW	1												1
Own goals					0				0				0				0
Totals					73	52	2		7	8	1		15	9	0		95	69	3

Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted alphabetically by surname when total goals are equal.

Awarded monthly to the player that was chosen by a panel assembled by the Premier League's sponsor

Month	Player	Club
December[14]	Carlos Tevez	Manchester City

Awarded monthly to four players – one in each of the Premier League plus the three divisions of the Football League – those players being the ones that receive the most votes cast for that league in a poll conducted each month on the PFA's OWS (http://www.givemefootball.com)

Month	Player	Club
March[15]	Carlos Tevez	Manchester City

Awarded on a weekly basis to the Premier League or Football League team that a five-man LMA adjudication panel deems to have performed in some outstanding manner

Awarded to the player in each category that receives the most votes in a poll conducted each month on the MCFC OWS

Month	First Team	Reserve Team	Academy
August/September[17]	Craig Bellamy	David Ball	Tom Smith
October[18]	Martin Petrov	Donal McDermott	Omar Elabdellaoui
November[19]	Shay Given	James Poole	Sean Tse
December[20]	Carlos Tevez	N/A
January[21]	Carlos Tevez	N/A
February[22]	Vincent Kompany	N/A
March[23]	Adam Johnson	N/A
April[24]	Carlos Tevez	N/A