List of Manchester City F.C. players

Sourcing, currency and key for the statistics

• Players are listed according to the date of their first team debut for the club.

• Players listed in bold are inductees of one or more of the following: the Manchester City Hall of Fame, the ', the ', or the Premier League Hall of Fame.
• Players listed in italics are winners of the Player of the Year award.

• Normally the player's country of birth or later adopted nationality. In the case of a country such as Germany that has been unified it will indicate whichever of the prior nations, West or East, determined how that player was capped at international level during his playing career despite his nationality now being simply German.

• Club career is defined as the first and last calendar years in which the player appeared for the club in any of the competitions listed below, regardless of how long the player was contracted to the club. For players who had two or more spells at the club, the years for each period are listed separately.

• Playing positions are listed according to the tactical formations that were employed at the time. Thus the more defensive emphasis in the responsibilities of many of the old forward and midfield positions, and their corresponding name changes, reflects the tactical evolution that occurred in the sport from the late 1960s onwards. The position listed is that in which the player played most frequently for the club.

• Appearances and goals comprise those in the Football League, Premier League, FA Cup, Football League Cup, UEFA European Cup, UEFA Cup, FA Charity Shield, Associate Members' Cup/Football League Trophy, and several now-defunct competitions — namely the European Cup Winners' Cup, Anglo-Italian Cup, Anglo-Italian League Cup, Texaco Cup, Anglo-Scottish Cup and Full Members' Cup.
• Substitute appearances in any of the above included fixtures, and any goals scored as a substitute, are also included.
• Appearances or goals scored in testimonial matches, exhibition games, or in any abandoned fixtures, are excluded.
• Appearances in the 1939–40 Football League season, and any other matches played in wartime competitions, are excluded.

• All of the Player of the Year data in the table is sourced from the history pages of the Happy to be Blue! web site, which lists all award winners up to, and including, season 2011–12.
• All dates and numbers in the table are sourced from a hardcover book published in 2006 according to the inclusion / exclusion rules stated above. The individual table entries of a number of these players have subsequently been sourced from the web wherever possible.
• In the case of players whose football careers at Manchester City spanned either of the two world wars, the choice of which appearances, during and either side of the wartime period, are included in the "official" tally of games played may cause discrepancies with other possible sources of similar data for those particular players. Likewise, how competitions such as the Charity Shield, Anglo-Scottish Cup and the Texaco Cup are handled by other sources will also create discrepancies with the numbers included in the table below.

• The statistics are correct as of the beginning of 2004.

• Appearances and goals are broken out into four column pairs, with the rightmost column pair depicting the respective totals of the appearances and goals shown in the three leftmost column pairs.
• The appearances and goals listed under the "League" column pair heading comprise those in the top two tiers of the Football League and the Premier League.
• The appearances and goals listed under the "Cups" column pair heading comprise only those in the FA Cup and Football League Cup.
• The appearances and goals listed under the "Other" column pair heading comprise those in the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup, the FA Community Shield, and the Football League Trophy.
• Substitute appearances in any of the above included fixtures, and any goals scored as a substitute, are also included.
• Appearances or goals scored in testimonial matches, exhibition games, or in any abandoned fixtures, are excluded.

• Most of the Player of the Year data in the following table is sourced from the history pages of the Happy to be Blue! web site, which lists all award winners up to, and including, season 2011–12. Winners of the PotY award since 2012 are individually cited from elsewhere on the web.
• Most of the dates and numbers in the table are sourced from the Soccerbase online database as indicated by the individual cited reference notes for each of the players. The remainder are sourced from Gary James' book.
• However, Soccerbase has a few issues. It seems to identify all player appearances and goals scored in Community Shield fixtures on an individual season basis, but does not necessarily include all those appearances in the total appearances tally of certain players. Regardless, the core match data on which those tallies are sometimes mis-totalled is quite sound and accessible in alternative ways, and thus can be used to correct the database's own tallying errors if properly footnoted.
• Goals later reassigned by the Premier League "Dubious Goals Committee" also tend to get overlooked by Soccerbase. Some goals that have never even come before the DGC have been misattributed to other players despite the rest of the football media correctly attributing them. Whatever the source of the discrepancy it can be addressed by footnote reference to alternative match reports for the games in question – which correctly attribute the dubious goal – and by providing links to documentation of the pertinent DGC reassignment findings elsewhere on the web.

• The statistics are correct as of the last match of the 2022–23 season, which was played on 10 June 2023.

List of players

Club captains

Most prolific goalscorers The players who have scored the most goals in total during their entire club career can be determined by sorting on the appropriate column in either of the above tables. Below is an additional sortable list of the most prolific Manchester City strikers' acumen in front of goal based on their best individual seasons for the club. Current players are highlighted in blue. Player Nat. Season No. of goals No. of matches Avg. goals per match Total goals for club Refs. Billy Meredith Wales Most England caps The following is a list of the most capped England internationals to play for Manchester City. The list is initially presented in the chronological order of the dates each player made his debut for England at full international level but can be sorted based on the contents of the fourth column to display the players in order of most appearances for their country. The list includes all ten of the most capped players who played for England while also actively playing for the club. Players who won all of their England caps playing for Manchester City are indicated in bold font. Internationals with no caps won while playing at Manchester City are indicated in italics. Players who are currently internationally active players are highlighted in blue. Player Caps while at club Total caps * Goals Clean sheets First capped Last capped England career span Refs. Eric Brook FW 18 18 10 –– Frank Swift GK 19 19 0 9 Colin Bell MF 48 48 9 –– Francis Lee FW 27 27 10 –– Mick Channon FW 1 46 21 –– Dave Watson DF 30 65 4 –– Trevor Francis FW 10 52 12 –– Peter Barnes FW 14 22 4 –– Peter Beardsley MF 0 59 9 –– Stuart Pearce DF 0 78 5 –– David Seaman GK 0 75 0 40 Steve McManaman MF 0 37 3 –– Robbie Fowler FW 0 26 7 –– David James GK 13 53 0 21 Frank Lampard MF 0 106 29 –– Gareth Barry MF 24 53 2 –– Danny Mills DF 0 19 0 –– Owen Hargreaves MF 0 42 0 –– Wayne Bridge DF 4 36 1 –– Darius Vassell FW 0 22 6 –– Shaun Wright-Phillips MF 20 36 6 –– Joleon Lescott DF 21 28 1 –– Joe Hart GK 64 75 0 43 James Milner MF 42 61 1 –– Kyle Walker DF 66 95 1 –– Raheem Sterling MF 61 82 20 –– John Stones DF 77 87 3 –– Fabian Delph MF 14 20 0 –– Phil Foden MF 47 47 4 –– Jack Grealish MF 27 39 4 –– Kalvin Phillips MF 8 31 1 –– ''* Parenthetical number represents total substitute appearances included in larger total appearances tally for those players for whom substitution is applicable.'' ''Player of the Year'' awards Each season since the end of the 1966–67 season, the members of the Manchester City Official Supporters Club have voted by ballot to choose the player on the team they feel is the most worthy of recognition for his performances during that season. The following table lists all of the recipients of this award since its inception. All of these players are listed in italics font in the pair of tables presented in the [|main section] of this article. Player of the month awards The club have publicly awarded a Player of the Month award since the start of the 2007–08 season. Titled the Thomas Cook Player of the Month award until the end of the 2008–09 season it has been known as the Etihad Player of the Month award since then to the present day. Since 2010–11 it has been awarded by means of a public poll of registered "cityzen" users of the website each month. Before that it was by a poll of members of the clubs official supporters club. To date, the award has been made on 157 occasions to 63 individual players. The player awarded the most times is Kevin De Bruyne. De Bruyne is also the only player to date to have been awarded it four times in a single season. The player with the most consecutive awards is Bernardo Silva who won it three times between September and November 2021. Players with the most awards Current players at the club are highlighted in bold. Former Manchester City players and managers inducted into Halls of Fame A number of former Manchester City players and managers have been inducted into the club's own Hall of Fame as well as the national football Halls of Fame of both Scotland and England / Wales. All of the honoured inductees in one of these three football halls of fame, who were former players at the club with more than one hundred appearances, are listed in bold font in the pair of tables presented in the main section of this article. Manchester City Hall of Fame The following former Manchester City players and managers are inductees in the Manchester City F.C. Hall of Fame and are listed according to the year of their induction: National Football Museum Hall of Fame The following former Manchester City players and managers are inductees in the English Football Hall of Fame and are listed according to the year of their induction within the various categories: Premier League Hall of Fame The following players have been inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame, which is the hall of fame for association football players that have played in the Premier League. Inaugurated in 2020 but delayed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hall of Fame is intended to recognise and honour players that have achieved great success and made a significant contribution to the league since its founding in 1992. Scottish Football Museum Hall of Fame The following former Manchester City players and managers are inductees in the Scottish Football Hall of Fame and are listed according to the year of their induction within the appropriate category: Welsh Sports Hall of Fame The following former Manchester City players and managers are inductees in the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame and are listed according to the year of their induction: List of players statistics references Historic players table Primary table reference *