Manchester City Football Club, then known as Ardwick, first entered the Football League in the 1892–93 season. Since that time the club's first team has competed in numerous nationally and internationally organised competitions, and all players who have played in 100 or more such matches are listed below, which encompasses all players who have been inducted into the Manchester City Hall of Fame.^{[book 1]} Also included are all winners of the Player of the Year award, which has been awarded annually since 1967 by the Manchester City Official Supporters Club based on a ballot of the supporters.

Alan Oakes holds the record for Manchester City league appearances, having played 565 matches between 1959 and 1976.^[1] If all senior competitions are included, Oakes has 680.^[2]

As of 1 August 2020, the player who has won the most international caps while playing at the club is David Silva with 87 for Spain.^[3] Prior to Silva achieving this distinction the record had previously been held by Joe Hart (63 caps) and Colin Bell, the latter of which held the record for over 40 years with 48 England appearances between 1968 and 1975.^[4] The current squad member with the most caps is Kevin De Bruyne, who has a total of 99 caps for Belgium, of which 66 have been awarded while a City player.^[5] Bernardo Silva currently has been awarded 73 caps playing for Portugal while at the club; the most of the current squad.

The Manchester City player who has been capped the most times for England in total is Frank Lampard, who was capped 106 times for England between October 1999 and June 2014, but he only played for City for one season in 2014–15 after he had retired from international duty. The Manchester City player who has been capped the most times totally internationally is Shay Given, who was capped for the Republic of Ireland 134 times from 1996 to 2016. He played for the club for two and a half seasons between 2009 and 2011.

Sergio Agüero holds the Manchester City goalscoring record across all competitions; is the club's highest league goalscorer; the Premier League's leading foreign goal scorer; and holds numerous other club records set between 2011 and 2021. As of May 2021, when he left the club, Agüero's record stood at 184 league goals scored and 260 overall.^[6][7]

Erling Haaland holds the club and Premier League records for league goals, and club record for total goals in a single season, with 36 league goals, 52 overall in 2022–23. This single season tally also means Haaland additionally currently holds the record for most goals scored per game played in a season, his 52 goals in 53 appearances yielding a goal scoring rate of 0.97 goals per game. Haaland is also the first City player to win five prestigious individual football awards in a season and the first to win the UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award.

The following information applies to both of the tables listed in the next section of this article:

Order

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

Legend

• Players listed in bold are inductees of one or more of the following: the Manchester City Hall of Fame,^[8] the National Football Museum Hall of Fame, the Scottish Football Museum Hall of Fame, or the Premier League Hall of Fame.
• Players listed in italics are winners of the Player of the Year award (and the number of times they have each received this award is shown in the "PotY" column).

Nationality

• 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

• 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.

Position

• 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.

The following information applies only to the table of "Historic players" listed in the next section:

Appearances and Goals

• Appearances and goals comprise those in the Football League (including test matches and play-offs), 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 (abandoned after three games because of the Second World War, and the records for which were expunged from official records), and any other matches played in wartime competitions, are excluded.

Statistics sourcing

• 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.

Currency

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

The following information applies only to the table of "Contemporary players" listed in the next section:

Appearances and goals

• 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 (including any Football League play-off games) 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.

Statistics sourcing

• Most of the Player of the Year data in the following table (and elsewhere in this article) 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 (self-)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(s) – and by providing links to documentation of the pertinent DGC reassignment findings elsewhere on the web.

Currency

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

The list of Manchester City players with over 100 appearances, or winners of "Player of the Year" award, is presented below in two tables. The first table lists all the club's historic players, providing only the basic "appearances" and "goals" totals for each of them. The second table groups together the club's most recent players, providing a more detailed breakdown of their "appearances" and "goals" statistics (and with the current players highlighted in blue for easy reference).

Historic players

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Player	Nat.	Position	Club career	Apps.	Goals	PotY	Refs.
Billy Meredith	Wales	Winger	1894–1905 1921–1924	393	151		[stat 1]
Charlie Williams	England	Goalkeeper	1894–1902	232	1
Bobby Moffatt	Scotland	Half back	1895–1903	163	7
Billy Holmes	England	Half back	1896–1904	166	4
Fred Williams	England	Forward	1896–1902	130	38
Billie Gillespie	England	Forward	1897–1905	231	132
William "Buxton" Smith	England	Half back	1897–1902	153	8
Di Jones	Wales	Full back	1898–1902	118	1
Sammy Frost	England	Half back	1901–1906	112	4
Tommy Hynds	Scotland	Centre half	1901–1906	171	9
Frank Booth	England	Winger	1902–1912	107	19		[stat 2]
Jack Hillman	England	Goalkeeper	1902–1906	124	0
Johnny McMahon	England	Centre half	1902–1906	109	1
Sandy Turnbull	Scotland	Forward	1902–1906	119	60		[stat 3]
Billy Lot Jones	Wales	Forward	1903–1915	301	74
Irvine Thornley	England	Forward	1904–1912	204	93
James Buchan	Scotland	Half back	1905–1911	164	10
George Dorsett	England	Half back	1905–1912	211	65
George Stewart	Scotland	Winger	1906–1911	102	13
Jimmy Conlin	England	Winger	1906–1911	175	30		[stat 4]
Tommy Kelso	Scotland	Full back	1906–1913	151	3
Bill Eadie	England	Half back	1906–1913	204	6
Bertram Jackson	England	Full back	1907–1911	101	0
Bill Bottomley	England	Half back	1908–1915	103	2		[stat 5]
Tom Holford	England	Half back	1908–1914	183	38
George Wynn	Wales	Forward	1909–1919	127	59		[stat 6]
Joe Dorsett	England	Winger	1910–1920	138	17		[stat 7]
Eli Fletcher	England	Full back	1911–1925	326	2
Jim Goodchild	England	Goalkeeper	1911–1926	217	0
Billy Henry	Scotland	Full back	1911–1919	157	1		[stat 8]
Harry Taylor	England	Forward	1912–1921	101	28
Tommy Browell	England	Forward	1913–1926	247	139		[stat 9]
Horace Barnes	England	Forward	1914–1924	235	125		[stat 10]
Sam Cookson	England	Full back	1919–1927	306	1
Tommy Johnson	England	Forward	1920–1930	354	166		[stat 11]
Billy "Spud" Murphy	England	Winger	1919–1926	220	31
Micky Hamill	England	Half back	1920–1924	128	2
Sammy Sharp	England	Half back	1920–1928	182	1
James Mitchell	England	Goalkeeper	1922–1926	109	0
Charlie Pringle	Scotland	Half back	1922–1928	216	1
Frank Roberts	England	Forward	1922–1929	237	130
Billy Austin	England	Forward	1924–1931	172	47
Sam Cowan	England	Centre half	1924–1935	407	24
George Hicks	England	Winger	1924–1928	135	48
Phillip McCloy	Scotland	Full back	1925–1929	157	0
Jimmy McMullan	Scotland	Half back	1925–1933	242	12
Matt Barrass	England	Half back / Forward	1925–1933	172	15
Eric Brook	England	Winger	1928–1939	493[A 1]	178		[stat 12]
Bobby Marshall	England	Forward / Centre half	1928–1938	356	80		[stat 13]
John Ridley	England	Full back	1927–1933	184	0
Fred Tilson	England	Forward	1928–1938	275	132		[stat 14]
Matt Busby	Scotland	Half back	1928–1936	227	14
Ernie Toseland	England	Winger	1929–1939	411	75		[stat 15]
Jackie Bray	England	Half back	1929–1940	279	10
Len Langford	England	Goalkeeper	1930–1933	125	0
Bill Dale	England	Full back	1931–1938	271	0
Alec Herd	Scotland	Forward	1933–1948	288[A 1]	125		[stat 16]
Sam Barkas	England	Full back	1933–1947	196	1
Jack Percival	England	Half back	1933–1946	174	8
Frank Swift	England	Goalkeeper	1933–1949	375[A 1]	0		[stat 17]
Peter Doherty	Ireland	Forward	1936–1939	131[A 1]	80[G 1]		[stat 18]
Albert Emptage	England	Half back	1937–1951	144	1
Eric Westwood	England	Full back	1937–1953	260	5
Les McDowall	England	Half back	1938–1948	126	8
Bert Sproston	England	Full back	1938–1949	131	5
Billy Walsh	Ireland/  Republic of Ireland	Half back	1938–1950	118	1
George Smith	England	Forward	1939–1951	179	80
Andy Black	Scotland	Forward	1946–1950	146	52
Johnny Hart	England	Forward	1946–1961	178	73		[stat 19]
Roy Clarke	Wales	Winger	1947–1958	370	79		[stat 20]
Ken Branagan	England	Full back	1948–1961	208	3
Roy Little	England	Full back	1949–1958	187	2
Bert Trautmann	Germany	Goalkeeper	1949–1964	545	0		[stat 21]
Ken Barnes	England	Half back	1952–1961	282	19		[stat 22]
Roy Paul	Wales	Half back	1950–1957	294	9
Billy Spurdle	England	Half back	1950–1956	172	33
Jimmy Meadows	England	Full back / Winger	1951–1955	141	31
Don Revie	England	Forward	1951–1956	178	41		[stat 23]
Dave Ewing	Scotland	Centre half	1953–1962	303	1		[stat 24]
Paddy Fagan	Republic of Ireland	Winger	1953–1960	165	35
Joe Hayes	England	Forward	1953–1965	364	152		[stat 25]
Bill Leivers	England	Full back	1953–1964	282	4
Billy McAdams	Northern Ireland	Forward	1953–1960	134	65
Bobby Johnstone	Scotland	Forward	1955–1959	139	51		[stat 26]
Cliff Sear	Wales	Full back	1956–1967	279	1
Colin Barlow	England	Winger	1957–1963	189	80
Roy Cheetham	England	Winger	1957–1967	143	4
George Hannah	England	Forward	1958–1963	131	16
Alan Oakes	England	Midfielder	1959–1976	682	34	1	[stat 27]
Barrie Betts	England	Defender	1960–1964	117	6
David Wagstaffe	England	Winger	1960–1964	161	8		[stat 28]
Harry Dowd	England	Goalkeeper	1961–1970	219	1
Bobby Kennedy	Scotland	Defender / Midfielder	1961–1969	254	9
Glyn Pardoe	England	Full back / Forward	1962–1975	380	22[G 2]	1	[stat 29]
Neil Young	England	Forward	1961–1971	416	111		[stat 30]
David Connor	England	Winger	1962–1972 1974–1975	168	10
Matt Gray	Scotland	Forward	1963–1967	101	23
Mike Doyle	England	Defender	1965–1978	570	41	2	[stat 31]
Johnny Crossan	Northern Ireland	Forward	1965–1967	110	28[G 2]
George Heslop	England	Centre half	1965–1972	203	3
Mike Summerbee	England	Winger	1965–1975	452	68	2	[stat 32]
Tony Book	England	Full back	1966–1973	315[A 2]	5	1	[stat 33]
Colin Bell	England	Midfielder	1966–1979	501	153	1
Tommy Booth	England	Centre half	1968–1981	491[A 2]	36[G 3]		[stat 34]
Tony Coleman	England	Winger	1967–1969	104	16		[stat 35]
Joe Corrigan	England	Goalkeeper	1967–1983	603	0	3	[stat 36]
Francis Lee	England	Forward	1967–1974	330	148	1	[stat 37]
Willie Donachie	Scotland	Full back	1970–1980	436	2		[stat 38]
Tony Towers	England	Midfielder	1969–1974	165	12
Rodney Marsh	England	Forward	1972–1975	152	47		[stat 39]
Kenny Clements	England	Defender	1971–1979 1985–1988	282	2	1
Peter Barnes	England	Winger	1974–1979 1987	161	22		[stat 40]
Asa Hartford	Scotland	Midfielder	1974–1979 1981–1984	321	36	1	[stat 41]
Joe Royle	England	Forward	1974–1977	124	32[G 3]
Dennis Tueart	England	Forward	1974–1978 1980–1983	275	109		[stat 42]
Dave Watson	England	Centre back	1975–1979	188	6	1	[stat 43]
Paul Power	England	Defender / Midfielder	1975–1986	444[A 3]	36	2	[stat 44]
Gary Owen	England	Midfielder	1976–1979	124	23
Brian Kidd	England	Forward	1977–1979	128	57
Ray Ranson	England	Defender	1978–1984 1993	235	1
Nicky Reid	England	Defender	1978–1982 1982–1986	262	2
Tommy Caton	England	Defender	1979–1983	198	8	1
Bobby McDonald	Scotland	Defender	1980–1983	112	16
Kevin Reeves	England	Forward	1980–1983	158	39
Kevin Bond	England	Defender	1981–1984	124	12	1
Steve Kinsey	England	Forward	1981–1986	115	18
Alex Williams	England	Goalkeeper	1981–1985	125	0
Clive Wilson	England	Defender	1981–1987	126	11
Graham Baker	England	Midfielder	1982–1987	138	21
Andy May	England	Midfielder	1982–1987	174	8
Paul Simpson	England	Forward	1982–1988	155	24
Mick McCarthy	Republic of Ireland	Defender	1983–1987	163	3	1
Neil McNab	Scotland	Midfielder	1983–1990	266	19	2
Ian Brightwell	England	Defender / Midfielder	1986–1998	382	19
Steve Redmond	England	Defender	1986–1992	287	7	1
David White	England	Forward	1986–1994	341	96
Paul Lake	England	Midfielder	1987–1992	134	11		[stat 45]
Andy Hinchcliffe	England	Defender	1987–1990	139	11
Andy Dibble	Wales	Goalkeeper	1988–1997	141	0
Ian Bishop	England	Midfielder	1989 1998–2001	117	7
Colin Hendry	Scotland	Defender	1989–1991	77	10	1
Peter Reid	England	Midfielder	1989–1993	114	2
Niall Quinn	Republic of Ireland	Forward	1990–1996	243	78	1	[stat 46]
Tony Coton	England	Goalkeeper	1990–1995	194	0	2
Andy Hill	England	Defender	1990–1995	113	6
Keith Curle	England	Defender	1991–1996	204	13
Michel Vonk	Netherlands	Defender	1991–1995	103	6
Mike Sheron	England	Forward	1991–1994	119	28
Garry Flitcroft	England	Midfielder	1992–1996	141	15	1
Terry Phelan	Republic of Ireland	Defender	1992–1995	122	2
Steve Lomas	Northern Ireland	Midfielder	1993–1997	137	11
Richard Edghill	England	Defender	1993–2001	210	1
Uwe Rösler	Germany	Forward	1994–1998	176[A 4]	64	1	[stat 47]
Nicky Summerbee	England	Defender / Midfielder	1994–1997	156	10
Giorgi Kinkladze	Georgia	Midfielder	1995–1998	121	22	2	[stat 48]
Kit Symons	Wales	Defender	1995–1998	139	4
Michael Brown	England	Midfielder	1995–2000	110	4	1
Jeff Whitley	Northern Ireland	Midfielder	1996–2001	141	8
Kevin Horlock	Northern Ireland	Midfielder	1996–2003	232	42

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Last updated: 21 August 2015.
Source: James, Gary (2006). Manchester City – The Complete Record. Derby: Breedon. ISBN 1-85983-512-0.; plus citations in "Refs." column for individual aspects of player data of various players.

Contemporary players

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Player	Nat.	Club career	Position	League		Cups		Other		Total		PotY	Refs.
				A	G	A	G	A	G	Apps.	Goals
Paul Dickov	Scotland	1996–2002 2006–2008	Forward	175	35	25	6			200	041		[James 1]
Gerard Wiekens	Netherlands	1997–2003	Defender	185	10	27	0	1	0	213	010	1	[James 1]
Nicky Weaver	England	1998–2007	Goalkeeper	175	0	31	0	1	0	207	000		[Sb 1]
Shaun Goater	Bermuda	1998–2003	Forward	187	85	25	18			212	1030	1	[Sb 2]
Danny Tiatto	Australia	1998–2004	Defender	139	3	14	1	5	0	158[A 5]	004	1	[Sb 3]
Shaun Wright-Phillips	England	1999–2005 2008–2011	Midfielder	217	35	34	7	24	5	275	047	1	[Sb 4]
Steve Howey	England	2000–2003	Defender	94	11	9	0			103	011		[Sb 5]
Richard Dunne	Republic of Ireland	2000–2009	Defender	296	8	38	0	18	0	352	008[G 4]	4	[Sb 6]
Ali Benarbia	Algeria	2001–2003	Midfielder	71	11	7	0			078	011	1	[Sb 7]
Sun Jihai	China	2002–2008	Defender	130	3	16	0	5	1	151	004		[Sb 8]
Nicolas Anelka	France	2002–2005	Forward	89	37	9	4	5	4	103	045[G 5]		[Sb 9]
Sylvain Distin	France	2002–2007	Defender	178	5	23	1	5	0	206	006	1	[Sb 10]
Joey Barton	England	2003–2007	Midfielder	130	15	18	2	5	0	153	017		[Sb 11]
Antoine Sibierski	France	2003–2006	Midfielder	92	11	14	3	1	1	107	015		[Sb 12]
David James	England	2004–2006	Goalkeeper	93	0	7	0			100	000		[Sb 13]
Nedum Onuoha	England	2004–2012	Defender	95	3	14	1	7	1	116	005		[Sb 14]
Darius Vassell	England	2005–2009	Forward	103	17	15	4	6	1	124	022		[Sb 15]
Stephen Ireland	Republic of Ireland	2005–2010	Midfielder	138	16	24	4	14	3	176	023	1	[Sb 16]
Micah Richards	England	2005–2014	Defender	179	7	33	3	33	0	245	010[G 6]		[Sb 17]
Joe Hart	England	2006–2017	Goalkeeper	266	0	19	0	63	0	348	000		[Sb 18]
Vincent Kompany	Belgium	2008–2019	Defender	265	18	36	1	59	1	360	020	1	[Sb 19]
Pablo Zabaleta	Argentina	2008–2017	Defender	230	9	48	2	55	1	284	010	1	[Sb 20]
Nigel de Jong	Netherlands	2009–2012	Midfielder	104	1	17	1	16	0	137	002		[Sb 21]
Kolo Touré	Ivory Coast	2009–2013	Defender	82	2	12	1	8	0	102	003		[Sb 22]
Gareth Barry	England	2009–2013	Midfielder	132	6	24	2	19	0	175	008		[Sb 23]
Carlos Tevez	Argentina	2009–2013	Forward	113	58	21	14	14	1	148	073[G 7]	1	[Sb 24]
Joleon Lescott	England	2009–2014	Defender	107	7	32	1	21	1	160	009		[Sb 25]
David Silva	Spain	2010–2020	Midfielder	309	60	53	6	74	11	436	077	1	[Sb 26]
Yaya Touré	Ivory Coast	2010–2018	Midfielder	230	62	34	11	52	9	316	082[G 8]	1	[Sb 27]
Aleksandar Kolarov	Serbia	2010–2017	Defender	165	11	36	6	46	4	247	021		[Sb 28]
James Milner	England	2010–2015	Midfielder	147	13	26	3	30	2	203[A 6]	018		[Sb 29]
Edin Džeko	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2011–2015	Forward	130	50	25	15	34	7	189[A 7]	072		[Sb 30]
Gaël Clichy	France	2011–2017	Defender	138	2	26	1	39	0	203	003		[Sb 31]
Sergio Agüero	Argentina	2011–2021	Forward	275	184	44	31	71	45	390	2600	2	[Sb 32]
Samir Nasri	France	2011–2017	Midfielder	129	18	15	5	32	4	176	027		[Sb 33]
Jesús Navas	Spain	2013–2017	Midfielder	123	4	28	4	32	0	182	08		[Sb 34]
Fernandinho	Brazil	2013–2022	Midfielder	264	20	42	3	77	3	383	026		[Sb 35]
Martín Demichelis	Argentina	2013–2016	Defender	78	3	13	0	15	1	106	004		[Sb 36]
Fernando	Brazil	2014–2017	Midfielder	64	4	16	0	22	0	102	004		[Sb 37]
Raheem Sterling	England	2015–2022	Forward	225	91	45	15	69	25	339	1310		[Sb 38]
Nicolás Otamendi	Argentina	2015–2020	Defender	136	8	32	2	42	1	210	0011		[Sb 39]
Kevin De Bruyne	Belgium	2015–	Midfielder	239	64	53	18	63	14	356	960	4	[Sb 40]
John Stones	England	2016–	Defender	144	7	37	3	46	5	229	015		[Sb 41]
Leroy Sané	Germany	2016–2020	Forward	90	25	22	8	23	6	135	039		[Sb 42]
İlkay Gündoğan	Germany	2016–2023	Midfielder	188	44	49	6	67	10	304	600		[Sb 43]
Oleksandr Zinchenko	Ukraine	2016–2022	Defender	76	0	26	2	26	0	128	02		[Sb 44]
Gabriel Jesus	Brazil	2017–2022	Forward	159	58	37	17	40	20	236	095		[Sb 45]
Ederson	Brazil	2017–	Goalkeeper	217	0	11	0	61	0	289	00		[Sb 46]
Bernardo Silva	Portugal	2017–	Midfielder	200	33	45	10	61	12	306	055	1	[Sb 47]
Kyle Walker	England	2017–	Defender	165	3	42	2	46	1	254	06		[Sb 48]
Phil Foden	England	2017–	Midfielder	129	35	44	15	44	10	217	600		[Sb 49]
Aymeric Laporte	Spain	2018–2023	Defender	121	8	26	2	33	2	180	012		[Sb 50]
Riyad Mahrez	Algeria	2018–2023	Forward	145	43	45	19	46	16	236	780		[Sb 51]
Rodri	Spain	2019–	Midfielder	138	14	29	1	40	2	207	017		[Sb 52]
João Cancelo	Portugal	2019–	Defender	98	5	24	1	32	3	154	09		[Sb 53]
Rúben Dias	Portugal	2020–	Defender	87	3	15	0	31	1	133	4	1	[Sb 54]
Erling Haaland	Norway	2022–	Forward	35	36	7	4	11	12	53	52	1	[Sb 55]

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Last updated: 12 June 2023.
Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Club captains

This is a list of City's official club captains, who are currently appointed via a vote of players and staff. Other players (vice-captains) have led the team on the pitch when the club captain is not playing or not available. Some players have been made captain on a one-off basis to celebrate or commemorate an event, e.g. Oleksandr Zinchenko captained the team in their 2021–22 FA Cup fifth round tie at Peterborough United in support of his country during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[9]

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Years Pos Captain 1904–1906 FW Billy Meredith 1906–1914 FW Lot Jones 1914–1919 No competitive football due to the First World War 1919–1923 DF Eli Fletcher 1923–1925 DF Max Woosnam 1926–1928 MF Charlie Pringle 1928–1932 MF Jimmy McMullan 1932–1935 DF Sam Cowan 1935–1936 MF Matt Busby 1937–1939 MF Les McDowall

Years Pos Captain 1939–1946 No competitive football due to the Second World War 1946–1947 GK Frank Swift 1947–1950 DF Eric Westwood 1950–1957 DF Roy Paul 1957–1961 MF Ken Barnes 1961–1964 DF Bill Leivers 1965–1967 FW Johnny Crossan 1967–1974 DF Tony Book 1974–1975 MF Colin Bell 1975–1976 DF Mike Doyle

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Years Pos Captain 1976–1979 DF David Watson 1979–1986 DF/MF Paul Power 1986–1988 DF Kenny Clements 1988–1992 DF Steve Redmond 1992–1993 DF Terry Phelan 1993–1996 DF Keith Curle 1996–1998 DF Kit Symons 1998 MF Jamie Pollock 1998–2000 DF Andy Morrison 2000–2001 DF/MF Alfie Haaland

Years Pos Captain 2001–2002 DF Stuart Pearce 2002–2003 MF Ali Benarbia 2003–2006 DF Sylvain Distin 2006–2009 DF Richard Dunne 2009–2010 DF Kolo Touré 2010–2011 FW Carlos Tevez 2011–2019 DF Vincent Kompany 2019–2020 MF David Silva 2020–2022 MF Fernandinho 2022–2023 MF İlkay Gündoğan

Years Pos Captain 2023–present DF Kyle Walker[10]

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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.

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Manchester City players who have scored 30 or more goals for the club in a single season

Name	Nat.	Season	No. of goals	No. of games	Avg. goals per game	Total goals for club	Refs.
Billy Meredith	Wales	1898–99	30	34	0.88	151	[prolific 1]
Billie Gillespie	England	1902–03	30	33	0.91	132	[prolific 2]
Tommy Browell	England	1920–21	31	43	0.72	139	[prolific 3]
Frank Roberts	England	1924–25	32	39	0.82	130	[prolific 4]
		1925–26	30	45	0.67		[prolific 5]
Tommy Johnson	England	1928–29	38	39	0.97	166	[prolific 6]
Tommy Tait	England	1929–30	31	34	0.91	46	[prolific 7]
Dave Halliday	Scotland	1931–32	32	45	0.71	51	[prolific 8]
Peter Doherty	Ireland	1936–37	32	45	0.71	80	[prolific 9]
Alex Harley	Scotland	1962–63	32	49	0.65	32	[prolific 10]
Derek Kevan	England	1963–64	36	46	0.78	56	[prolific 11]
Francis Lee	England	1971–72	35	46	0.76	148	[prolific 12]
Shaun Goater	Bermuda	2001–02	32	46	0.70	103	[prolific 13]
Sergio Agüero	Argentina	2011–12	30	48	0.63	260	[prolific 14]
		2014–15	32	42	0.76		[prolific 15]
		2016–17	33	45	0.73		[prolific 16]
		2017–18	30	39	0.77		[prolific 17]
		2018–19	32	46	0.70		[prolific 18]
Raheem Sterling	England	2019–20	31	52	0.60	131	[prolific 19]
Erling Haaland	Norway	2022–23	52	53	0.98	83	[prolific 20]
		2023–24	31	36	0.86		[prolific 21]

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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 (just sort the list instead based on the contents of the third column). 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.

* Parenthetical number represents total substitute appearances included in larger total appearances tally for those players for whom substitution is applicable.

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.

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Year Winner 1961 No award 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 Tony Book 1968 Colin Bell 1969 Glyn Pardoe 1970 Francis Lee

Year Winner 1971 Mike Doyle 1972 Mike Summerbee 1973 Mike Summerbee 1974 Mike Doyle 1975 Alan Oakes 1976 Joe Corrigan 1977 David Watson 1978 Joe Corrigan 1979 Asa Hartford 1980 Joe Corrigan

Year Winner 1981 Paul Power 1982 Tommy Caton 1983 Kevin Bond 1984 Mick McCarthy 1985 Paul Power 1986 Kenny Clements 1987 Neil McNab 1988 Steve Redmond 1989 Neil McNab 1990 Colin Hendry

Year Winner 1991 Niall Quinn 1992 Tony Coton 1993 Garry Flitcroft 1994 Tony Coton 1995 Uwe Rösler 1996 Giorgi Kinkladze 1997 Giorgi Kinkladze 1998 Michael Brown 1999 Gerard Wiekens 2000 Shaun Goater

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Year Winner 2001 Danny Tiatto 2002 Ali Benarbia 2003 Sylvain Distin 2004 Shaun Wright-Phillips 2005 Richard Dunne 2006 Richard Dunne 2007 Richard Dunne 2008 Richard Dunne 2009 Stephen Ireland 2010 Carlos Tevez

Year Winner 2011 Vincent Kompany 2012 Sergio Agüero 2013 Pablo Zabaleta[12] 2014 Yaya Touré[13] 2015 Sergio Agüero[14] 2016 Kevin De Bruyne 2017 David Silva 2018 Kevin De Bruyne[15] 2019 Bernardo Silva[16] 2020 Kevin De Bruyne[17]

Year Winner 2021 Rúben Dias[18] 2022 Kevin De Bruyne[19] 2023 Erling Haaland[20]

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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 mancity.com 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 142 occasions to 54 individual players. The player awarded the most times is current current club vice-captain, Kevin De Bruyne. De Bruyne is also the only player to date to have been awarded it four times in a single season (2015–16). 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

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Player	No. Awards	Date of first award	Date of last award
Kevin De Bruyne	17	Sep-15	Jan-24
Sergio Agüero	12	Feb-12	Jan-20
David Silva	10	Oct-10	Mar-18
Riyad Mahrez	8	Oct-18	Jan-23
Raheem Sterling	5	Aug-16	Oct-19
Bernardo Silva	5	Dec-18	Nov-21
Vincent Kompany	5	Dec-08	Feb-16
Joe Hart	5	Feb-08	Mar-15
Edin Džeko	4	Jan-11	Jan-14
Carlos Tevez	4	Dec-09	Mar-13
Yaya Touré	4	Apr-11	Dec-16
Erling Haaland	4	Aug-22	Oct-23
James Milner	3	Nov-11	Jan-15
Samir Nasri	3	Mar-12	Nov-13
Pablo Zabaleta	3	Jan-09	Jan-13
11 players	2
28 players	1

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Last updated: 11 April 2024.
Source: http://mancity.com

A number of former Manchester City players and managers have been inducted into the club's own Hall of Fame (which was inaugurated in 2004) as well as the national football Halls of Fame of both Scotland (also inaugurated in 2004) and England / Wales (inaugurated in 2002). All of the honoured inductees in one of these three football halls of fame (listed below), 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:

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Inductees in MCFC Hall of Fame
Year of induction	Player	Position	Role at MCFC	Years in role at MCFC	Notes
	Manchester City players who were the inaugural inductees in October 2004
2004[21]	Billy Meredith	right winger	player	1894–1906 1921–1924	also see NFM Hall of Fame
	Tommy Johnson	centre forward & inside left	player	1919–1930
	Eric Brook	left winger	player	1928–1939
	Frank Swift	goalkeeper	player	1933–1949	also see NFM Hall of Fame
	Peter Doherty	inside left	player	1936–1945	also see NFM Hall of Fame
	Roy Clarke	left winger	player	1947–1958	Lifetime achievement award
	Bert Trautmann, OBE	goalkeeper	player	1949–1964	also see NFM Hall of Fame
	Roy Paul	half back	player	1950–1957
	Mike Summerbee	centre forward & right winger	player	1965–1975	also see NFM Hall of Fame
	Tony Book	right back	player manager interim mgr.	1966–1974 1974–1979 1973 1980 1989 1993
	Colin Bell, MBE	attacking midfielder	player	1966–1979	also see NFM Hall of Fame
	Francis Lee, CBE	forward	player chairman	1967–1974 1994–1998	also see NFM Hall of Fame
	Joe Corrigan	goalkeeper	player	1967–1983
	Paul Lake	midfielder / defender	player	1987–1996
	Niall Quinn, (Honorary) MBE	forward	player	1990–1996	also see NFM Hall of Fame
	Manchester City players and teams inducted since 2004
2005[22]	Sam Cowan	centre half	player manager	1924–1935 1946–1947
	Ken Barnes	wing half	player	1950–1961	Lifetime achievement award
	Alan Oakes	midfielder	player	1958–1976
	Joe Mercer, OBE	left half	manager	1965–1971	Outstanding achievement award also see NFM Hall of Fame
	Malcolm Allison	centre half	assistant mgr. manager	1965–1971 1971–1973 1979–1980	Outstanding achievement award also see NFM Hall of Fame
2006[23]	Ernie Toseland	right winger	player	1928–1938
	Johnny Hart	inside forward	player manager	1947–1960 1973	Lifetime achievement award
	Manchester City 1956 0000FA Cup-winning team	not applicable			en masse induction
	Mike Doyle	centre half & defensive midfielder	player	1965–1978
	Shaun Goater	forward	player	1998–2003	Cult hero award
2008[24]	Fred Tilson	centre forward	player	1928–1939
	Neil Young	inside left & left winger	player	1961–1972
	Alex Williams, MBE	goalkeeper	player	1980–1986	Lifetime achievement award
2009[25]	Uwe Rösler	forward	player	1994–1998

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Last updated: 1 January 2016.
Source: list of MCFC Hall of Fame inductees

National Football Museum Hall of Fame

The following former Manchester City players and managers are inductees in the English Football Hall of Fame (a.k.a. the National Football Museum Hall of Fame) and are listed according to the year of their induction within the various categories:

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Inductees in NFM Hall of Fame
Year of induction	Player	Position	Role at MCFC	Years in role at MCFC
	Players with Manchester City backgrounds inducted to date
2002	Peter Doherty	inside left	player	1936–1945
	Denis Law, CBE	forward & midfielder	player	1960–1961 1973–1974
	Kevin Keegan, OBE	forward	manager	2001–2005
2003	Peter Schmeichel, MBE	goalkeeper	player	2002–2003
	Alan Ball, MBE	attacking midfielder	manager	1995–1996
2005	Bert Trautmann, OBE	goalkeeper	player	1949–1964
	Colin Bell, MBE	attacking midfielder	player	1966–1979
2007	Billy Meredith	right winger	player	1894–1906 1921–1924
	Peter Beardsley	midfielder	player	1998
	Mark Hughes	forward	manager	2008–2009
2009	Frank Swift	goalkeeper	player	1933–1949
2010	Francis Lee, CBE	forward	player	1967–1974
2013	Mike Summerbee	forward	player	1965–1975
2014	Trevor Francis	centre forward	player	1981–1982
	Patrick Vieira	holding midfielder	player EDS manager	2010–2011 2011–2015
2015	Stuart Pearce, MBE	left back	player coach manager	2001–2002 2002–2005 2005–2007
	Sun Jihai	defender	player	2002–2008
2016	David Seaman MBE	goalkeeper	player	2003–2004
2017	Frank Lampard OBE	attacking midfielder	player	2014–2015
2020	Justin Fashanu	centre forward	player	1989
2023	Vincent Kompany	centre half	player	2008–2019
	Managers with Manchester City backgrounds inducted to date
2002	Sir Matt Busby, CBE, KCSG	inside right & right half	player	1928–1936
2004	Don Revie, OBE	centre forward	player	1951–1956
2005	Howard Kendall	attacking midfielder	manager	1989–1990
2009	Joe Mercer, OBE	left half	manager	1965–1971
	Malcolm Allison	centre half	assistant mgr. manager	1965–1971 1971–1973 1979–1980
	Manchester City "Football Foundation Community Champions" inducted to date
2007	Niall Quinn, (Honorary) MBE	forward	player	1990–1996
	Manchester City teams inducted to date
2009	Manchester City 1967–70	not applicable

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Last updated: 5 May 2023.
Source: list of NFM Hall of Fame inductees