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 1 February 2021[8][9]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 48 FW  ENG Liam Delap 52 FW  NOR Oscar Bobb 53 FW  ENG Samuel Edozie 54 MF  IRL Joe Hodge 56 MF  ENG CJ Egan-Riley 57 DF  ENG Yeboah Amankwah 61 MF  ENG Felix Nmecha 64 MF  ENG Rowan McDonald 69 MF  ENG Tommy Doyle 70 GK  ENG Louie Moulden 77 DF  ENG Sammy Robinson 79 DF  ENG Luke Mbete-Tabu 80 MF  ENG Cole Palmer

No. Pos. Nation Player 81 MF  FRA Claudio Gomes 82 MF  ESP Adrián Bernabé 83 MF  IRL Timi Sobowale 84 GK  SCO Cieran Slicker 85 GK  ENG James Trafford 87 MF  ENG James McAtee 88 DF  SEN Alpha Dionkou 93 MF  ENG Alexander Robertson 94 DF  ENG Finley Burns 96 MF  ENG Ben Knight 97 DF  ENG Josh Wilson-Esbrand — DF  ESP Oscar Tarensi — MF  GHA Collins Tanor

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 Lommel until 30 June 2021) 32 GK  ENG Daniel Grimshaw (at Lommel until 30 June 2021) 38 MF  ENG Jack Harrison (at Leeds United until 30 June 2021) 43 FW  GER Lukas Nmecha (at Anderlecht until 30 June 2021) 55 GK  IRL Gavin Bazunu (at Rochdale until 30 June 2021) 59 DF  ENG Camron Gbadebo (at AFC Fylde until 30 June 2021) 65 MF  WAL Matthew Smith (at Doncaster Rovers until 30 June 2021) 66 MF  ESP Iker Pozo (at Eindhoven until 30 June 2021) 71 MF  SCO Lewis Fiorini (at NAC Breda until 30 June 2021) 72 MF  ENG Morgan Rogers (at Lincoln City until 30 June 2021) 73 FW  NED Jayden Braaf (at Udinese until 30 June 2021) 74 MF  ENG Luke Bolton (at Dundee United until 30 June 2021) 78 DF  ENG Taylor Harwood-Bellis (at Blackburn Rovers until 30 June 2021[10]) — DF  BRA Yan Couto (at Girona until 30 June 2021) — DF  VEN Nahuel Ferraresi (at Moreirense until 30 June 2021) — DF  JPN Kō Itakura (at Groningen until 30 June 2021)

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  BFA Issa Kaboré (at Mechelen until 30 June 2021) — DF  USA Erik Palmer-Brown (at Austria Vienna until 30 June 2021) — DF  ESP Pedro Porro (at Sporting Lisbon until 30 June 2022) — MF  AUS Daniel Arzani (at AGF until 30 June 2021) — MF  VEN Yangel Herrera (at Granada until 30 June 2021) — MF  SRB Ivan Ilić (at Verona until 30 June 2021) — MF  SRB Luka Ilić (at Twente until 30 June 2021) — MF  JPN Ryōtarō Meshino (at Rio Ave until 30 June 2022) — MF  GHA Aminu Mohammed (at Lommel until 30 June 2021) — MF  ESP Pablo Moreno (at Girona until 30 June 2021) — MF  CRO Ante Palaversa (at Kortrijk until 30 June 2022) — FW  GHA Thomas Agyepong (at Lommel until 30 June 2021) — FW  ARG Nahuel Bustos (at Girona until 30 June 2021) — FW  SRB Slobodan Tedić (at PEC Zwolle until 30 June 2021) — FW  SRB Filip Stevanović (at Partizan until 30 June 2021)

The club's first youth team was set up by Albert Alexander in the 1920s,[12] 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 70 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, Kelechi Iheanacho at Leicester and Kieran Trippier formally 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[13] 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[14] The club also launched an instructional video website aimed at helping the new skills of prospective footballers[15]

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,[16] the campus was opened on 8 December 2014,[17] and has since become the base for all senior and youth Manchester City mens and womans 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 team-sheeted to play for the MCFC first team in either a friendly or competitive game.

As of 17 November 2020

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 86 DF  ENG Callum Doyle 89 MF  ENG Darko Gyabi 90 MF  BEL Roméo Lavia 91 FW  POR Carlos Borges 92 MF  ENG Micah Hamilton 95 DF  GHA Kwaku Oduroh — GK  ENG Joshua McNamara — GK  NED Mikki van Sas — DF  NIR Shea Charles

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ESP Juan Larios — DF  ENG Rico Lewis — MF  SCO Josh Adam — MF  ENG Kian Breckin — MF  ENG Harvey Griffiths — MF  ENG Kane Taylor — FW  SCO Adedire Mebude — FW  SCO Liam Smith — FW  ENG Tai Sodje

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

Updated 20 August 2020

Player	Current Club	Born	International Honours	Debut	Manager
Shaun Wright-Phillips	Retired	London	Full England Caps	Age 17 v Burnley, 24 Aug. 1999[18]	Joe Royle
Terry Dunfield	Toronto (academy coach)	Vancouver	Full Canada Caps	Age 19 v Chelsea, 11 May 2001[19]
Chris Shuker	Retired	Liverpool		Age 19 v Notts County, 11 Sep. 2001[20]	Kevin Keegan
Dickson Etuhu	Retired	Kano	Full Nigeria Caps	Age 19 v Birmingham City, 15 Sep. 2001[21]
Leon Mike	Retired	Manchester	England U18	Age 19 v Portsmouth, 16 Nov. 2001[22]
Chris Killen	Retired	Wellington	Full New Zealand Caps	Age 20 v Rotherham United, 24 Nov. 2001[23]
Tyrone Mears	Retired	Manchester	Full Jamaican Caps	Age 19 v Nottingham Forest, 30 Mar. 2002[24]
Joey Barton	Fleetwood Town (manager)	Liverpool	Full England Cap	Age 21 v Bolton Wanderers, 5 Apr. 2003[25]
Stephen Jordan	Retired	Liverpool		Age 21 v Bolton Wanderers, 5 Apr. 2003[26]
Willo Flood	Retired	Dublin	Ireland U21	Age 18 v Total Network Solutions, 28 Aug. 2003[27]
Glenn Whelan	Fleetwood Town	Dublin	Full Ireland Caps	Age 19 v Total Network Solutions, 28 Aug. 2003[28]
Stephen Elliott	Retired	Dublin	Full Ireland Caps	Age 20 v Bolton Wanderers, 21 Feb. 2004[29]
Bradley Wright-Phillips	Los Angeles	London	England U20	Age 19 v Barnsley, 21 Sep. 2004[30]
Nedum Onuoha	Retired	Warri	England U21	Age 18 v Arsenal, 24 Oct. 2004[31]
Jonathan D'Laryea	Free agent	Manchester		Age 19 v Arsenal, 24 Oct. 2004[32]
Lee Croft	Retired	Wigan	England U20	Age 19 v Bolton Wanderers, 7 Mar. 2005[33]
Stephen Ireland	Free agent	Cork	Full Ireland Caps	Age 19 v Bolton Wanderers, 18 Sep. 2005[34]	Stuart Pearce
Micah Richards	Retired	Birmingham	Full England Caps	Age 17 v Arsenal, 22 Oct. 2005[35]
Ishmael Miller	Free agent	Manchester	England U21	Age 19 v Wigan Athletic, 18 Mar. 2006[36]
Michael Johnson	Retired	Manchester	England U21	Age 18 v Wigan Athletic, 21 Oct. 2006[37]
Daniel Sturridge	Free agent	Birmingham	Full England Caps	Age 17 v Reading, 3 Feb. 2007[38]
Kasper Schmeichel	Leicester City	Copenhagen	Full Denmark Caps	Age 19 v West Ham United, 11 Aug. 2007[39]	Sven-Göran Eriksson
Shaleum Logan	Aberdeen	Manchester		Age 19 v Bristol City, 29 Aug. 2007[40]
Kelvin Etuhu	Free agent	Kano		Age 19 v Norwich City, 25 Sep. 2007[41]
Ched Evans	Fleetwood Town	Rhyl	Full Wales Caps	Age 18 v Norwich City, 25 Sep. 2007[42]
Sam Williamson	Retired	Manchester		Age 20 v Portsmouth, 20 Apr. 2008[43]
Vladimír Weiss	Slovan Bratislava	Bratislava	Full Slovakia Caps	Age 19 v Bolton Wanderers, 24 May 2009[44]	Mark Hughes
Dedryck Boyata	Hertha BSC	Brussels	Full Belgium Caps	Age 19 v Middlesbrough, 2 Jan. 2010[45]	Roberto Mancini
Abdisalam Ibrahim	Pafos	Mogadishu	Full Norway Caps	Age 18 v Scunthorpe United, 24 Jan. 2010[46]
Greg Cunningham	Cardiff City	Galway	Full Ireland Caps	Age 18 v Scunthorpe United, 24 Jan. 2010[47]
Alex Nimely	Kettering Town	Monrovia	England U20	Age 18 v Burnley, 3 Apr. 2010[48]
Javan Vidal	Kettering Town	Manchester	England U20	Age 21 v West Bromwich Albion, 22 Sep. 2010[49]
Ben Mee	Burnley	Manchester	England U21	Age 20 v West Bromwich Albion, 22 Sep. 2010[50]
John Guidetti	Deportivo Alavés	Stockholm	Full Sweden Caps	Age 18 v West Bromwich Albion, 22 Sep. 2010[51]
Chris Chantler	Ossett United	Manchester		Age 20 v Juventus, 16 Dec. 2010[52]
Abdul Razak	Örgryte	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[53]
Reece Wabara	Retired	Birmingham	England U20	Age 19 v Bolton Wanderers, 22 May 2011[54]
Karim Rekik	Sevilla	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	Nice (on loan from 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	Millwall	Cheadle	England U20	Age 20 v Sunderland, 22 Sep. 2015
Bersant Celina	Dijon	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	Zulte Waregem	Manchester	England U19	Age 17 v Aston Villa, 30 Jan. 2016
Aleix García	SD Eibar	Ulldecona	Spain U21	Age 18 v Chelsea, 21 Feb. 2016
Tosin Adarabioyo	Fulham	Manchester	England U19	Age 18 v Chelsea, 21 Feb. 2016
David Faupala	Valletta	Bully-les-Mines	France U18	Age 19 v Chelsea, 21 Feb. 2016
Brandon Barker	Oxford United (on loan from Rangers)	Manchester	England U20	Age 19 v Chelsea, 21 Feb. 2016
Pablo Maffeo	Huesca (on loan from VfB Stuttgart)	Sant Joan Despi	Spain U21	Age 19 v Steaua București, 24 Aug. 2016	Pep Guardiola
Brahim Diaz	A.C. Milan (on loan from Real Madrid)	Málaga	Spain U21	Age 17 v Swansea, 21 Sep. 2016
Phil Foden	Manchester City	Stockport	Full England Caps	Age 17 v Feyenoord, 21 Nov. 2017
Lukas Nmecha	Anderlecht (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	Manchester City	Argenteuil	France U19	Age 18 v Chelsea, 5 Aug. 2018
Arijanet Muric	Willem II (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	Full Spain Caps	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	Blackburn Rovers (on loan from Manchester City)	Stockport	England U20	Age 17 v Preston North End, 24 Sep. 2019
Tommy Doyle	Manchester City	Manchester	England U20	Age 18 v Southampton, 29 Oct. 2019
Liam Delap	Manchester City	Winchester	England U18	Age 17 v Bournemouth, 24 Sep. 2020
Cole Palmer	Manchester City	Manchester	England U19	Age 18 v Burnley, 30 Sep. 2020

• 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 (7) 1997–98, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2019–20
  • National Champions: (2) 2015–16, 2019–20
• U-18 Premier League Cup
  • Winners (2): 2018-19,[55] 2019–20