Manchester City F.C. EDS and Academy

Manchester City is represented at Reserve level for football by the Elite Development Squad, also referred to as just the Elite Squad, ^[1] or EDS, a predominantly Under-23 side that replaced the previous (more senior) Reserve team in a move to focus on youth development post-academy. The club is represented at the Under-18 level by the Manchester City Academy team.

City currently hold the 2023–24 FA Youth Cup.

Elite Development Squad

Man City Elite Development Squad

Full name	Manchester City Elite Development Squad
Founded	2009
Ground	Academy Stadium Sportcity, Manchester, England
Capacity	7,000 (5,000 seated)
Chairman	Khaldoon Al Mubarak
Manager	Ben Wilkinson
League	Professional Development League
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

The Elite Development Squad ^[2] have played in the Under 21 Premier League ^[3] since the 2012–13 season and previously played in the Premier Reserve League North. Starting with the 2011–12 season, the EDS competed in the NextGen Series competition, ^[4] a Champions League format tournament only open to a select group of 'Under-19' teams located in western Europe. ^[5] The NextGen Series organisers invited the 16 teams competing in the inaugural season of this new competition based on which clubs were considered to have the best academies in Europe. ^[6] At the time, the EDS continued to play fixtures in both the Manchester Senior Cup and Lancashire Senior Cup plus several other matches and tournaments such as the Central League Cup.

In 2016-17 the U-21 Premier League was renamed as Premier League 2 and the age limit was raised to U-23. City won their first title at this level in the 2020–21 season and retained their title in 2021–22.

The UEFA Youth League launched in 2013–14, replacing the NextGen series, as a U-19 competition for the youth teams of Champions League participants and national champions at U-18 level. Teams fielded by City in this competition were therefore a hybrid of their EDS and academy squads. Their best performance to date has been a semi-final appearance in 2017–18.

Manchester City has fielded a reserve team since 1892 when the reserves played in the Lancashire Combination. The reserves were champions of the Lancashire Combination in 1901–02. ^[7] The club left the Lancashire Combination in 1911 to join the Central League upon its formation. The City reserve team then played in the Central League until 2000, winning it on three occasions in the 1977–78, 1986–87 and 1999–2000 seasons. In 2006, the club re-entered the Central League – now the Pontin's League (West) – but this time in order to provide games for the 'Under-17' age group of players.

In recent seasons, Manchester City has purchased, registered and loaned young international players as part of their development strategy for the City Football Group. Although these players are officially Manchester City players, they have never made competitive appearances for City's senior or youth teams and may in future be transferred out before doing so. ^[8] In 2022, FIFA have implemented new rules which will now restrict loans of this nature. ^{[9] [10]}

Home ground

The EDS play all of their home fixtures at the Joie Stadium.

Squad numbers

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 current MCFC official first team squad consists of only about 20 players, however, the EDS players' squad numbers traditionally 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).

Current squad

As of 3 September 2024 ^{[11] [12]}

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 DF   ENG Issac Smith 56 MF   ENG Jacob Wright 57 MF   HUN Michael Okeke 60 FW   ENG Tai Sodje 64 MF   ENG Isaiah Dada-Mascoll 65 FW   ENG Will Dickson 66 DF   ENG Jahmai Simpson-Pusey 68 DF   ENG Max Alleyne

No. Pos. Nation Player 77 FW   ENG Justin Oboavwoduo 81 FW   ENG Jaden Heskey 85 FW   GER Farid Alfa-Ruprecht 95 DF   ENG Lakyle Samuel 99 MF   SCO Emilio Lawrence — FW   ENG Divin Mubama

EDS players out on loan

These are EDS players who have previously made competitive appearances for the Manchester City Academy, EDS or First Team, or have been brought with the explicit intention to join the first team in future. ^[13]

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 (at Sparta Rotterdam until 30 June 2025) 50 MF   ENG Kian Breckin(at Crewe Alexandra until 30 June 2025) 70 DF   ENG Jadel Katongo (at Peterborough United until 30 June 2025) 73 FW   ENG Joel Ndala (at PSV Eindhoven until 30 June 2025) 74 DF   FIN Tomas Galvez (at LASK until 30 June 2025) 76 MF   ESP Mahamadou Susoho (at Peterborough United until 30 June 2025) [14]

No. Pos. Nation Player 79 DF   ENG Luke Mbete (at Northampton Town until 30 June 2025) 86 DF   ENG Callum Doyle (at Norwich City until 30 June 2025) 88 GK   ENG True Grant (at Buxton until 30 June 2025) 94 DF   ENG Finley Burns (at Hull City until 30 June 2025)

City Football Group players

These are Manchester City players who are usually on loan as part of the CFG development strategy, are yet to make a competitive appearance for the club's Academy, EDS or First Team, or are over the age of 23.

On loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 39 DF   BRA Yan Couto (on loan at Borussia Dortmund until 30 June 2025) 78 DF   BFA Issa Kaboré (on loan at Benfica until 30 June 2025) — FW   ARG Claudio Echeverri (at River Plate until 31 December 2024)

Reserve/EDS Manager history

Manager	From	To	Honours
Tony Book	1986	1996	1987 Central League
Asa Hartford	1996	2004	2000 Central League, 2001 Manchester Senior Cup
Steve Wigley	2004	2006	2005 Manchester Senior Cup
Frankie Bunn	2006	2007
Kenny Jackett	2007	2007	2007 Manchester Senior Cup
Ian Miller	2007	2008	2008 Central League
Glyn Hodges	2008	2009
Andy Welsh	2009	2012	2010 Manchester Senior Cup
Attilio Lombardo	2012	2013
Patrick Vieira	2013	2016	2015 Premier League International Cup
Simon Davies	2016	2018
Paul Harsley	2018	2020
Enzo Maresca	2020	2021	2021 Premier League 2
Brian Barry-Murphy	2021	2024	2022 and 2023 Premier League 2
Ben Wilkinson	2024	present

Academy

Man City Academy

Full name	Manchester City Academy
Nickname(s)	The Citizens, City, The Boy Blues
Ground	Academy Stadium Sportcity, Manchester, England
Capacity	7,000 (5,000 seated)
Chairman	Khaldoon Al Mubarak
Manager	Oliver Reiss
League	Professional Development League
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Manchester City's Academy is responsible for youth development at the club, with the goal of developing young players for the future. The academy is one of the most revered in the country and since its new incarnation in 1998, it has produced more professional players than any other Premier League club. ^[15]

History

The club's first youth team was set up by Albert Alexander in the 1920s, ^[16] 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 84 players for Manchester City's first team, 38 of whom have gained full international honours, including England internationals Shaun Wright-Phillips, Micah Richards, Joey Barton, Daniel Sturridge, Phil Foden, Cole Palmer and Rico Lewis.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 who's had a successful career at Burnley and Brentford, Jadon Sancho at Borussia Dortmund and Manchester United, Kelechi Iheanacho at Leicester and Kieran Trippier formerly at Burnley, Spurs, Atlético Madrid and now at Newcastle United.

Present day

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 ^[17] 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 ^[18] The club also launched an instructional video website aimed at helping the new skills of prospective footballers ^[19]

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, ^[20] the campus was opened on 8 December 2014, ^[21] and has since become the base for all senior and youth Manchester City men's and women's teams.

Squad numbers

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.

Current squad

As of 24 July 2024 ^{[22] [23]}

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 53 DF   ENG Ezra Carrington 54 DF   ENG Sebastian Naylor 55 DF   ENG Harrison Parker 58 MF   MEX Alex Alcalá 59 MF   ENG Charlie Gray 61 DF   ENG Kaden Braithwaite 63 MF   ENG Divine Mukasa 69 GK   WAL Max Hudson 72 GK   ENG Oliver Whatmuff 80 GK   ENG Spike Brits 83 FW   ENG Reigan Heskey 84 GK   ENG Jack Wint 89 DF   ENG Matthew Henderson-Hall 90 DF   ENG Kian Noble 91 DF   ENG Stephen Mfuni 92 GK   ENG Finley Grigg 98 FW   ENG Matthew Warhurst — DF   ENG Leke Drake — DF   ENG Dante Headley — DF   ENG Charlie Holt — DF   WAL Jayden Lienou

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF   WAL Rhys Thomas — DF   ENG Oliver Tevenan — MF   ENG Daniel Batty — MF   ENG Seth Chingwaro — MF   ENG Femi Fapetu — MF   ENG Finley Gorman — MF   ENG Tyrese Noubissie — MF   ENG Floyd Samba — MF   ENG Tyrone Samba — FW   ENG Christian Dunbar-McDonald — FW   ENG Luca Fletcher — FW   ENG Kylan Midwood — FW   SCO Ashton Muir 48 FW   ENG Brooklyn Nfonkeu — FW   ENG Timeo Whisker

Academy Manager history

Manager	From	To	Honours
Neil McNab	1994	1997
Jim Cassell	1997	2009	2008 Youth Cup
Steve Eyre	2009	2011
Adam Sadler	2011	2013
Jason Wilcox	2013	2016	2015–16 Professional U18 Development League
Lee Carsley	2016	2017
Gareth Taylor	2017	2020	2018–19 & 2019–20 U18 Premier League Cup
Carlos Vicens	2020	2021	2020 FA Youth Cup, 2020–21 Professional U18 Development League
Ben Wilkinson	2021 [24]	2024	2021–22 and 2022–23 Professional U18 Development League , 2024 FA Youth Cup
Oliver Reiss	2024	present

Academy graduates (1998–present)

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 1 September 2022 ^{[25] [26] [27]}

Retired from playing or unattached players

Player	Level [a]	Main other clubs played for	Born	International Honours	Debut	Manager
Shaun Wright-Phillips	1	Chelsea, QPR, New York Red Bulls, Phoenix Rising	London	Full England Caps	Age 17 v Burnley, 24 Aug. 1999 [29]	Joe Royle
Terry Dunfield	1	Bury, Macclesfield, Shrewsbury, Toronto	Vancouver	Full Canada Caps	Age 19 v Chelsea, 11 May 2001 [30]
Chris Shuker	1	Barnsley, Tranmere, Morecambe, Port Vale	Liverpool		Age 19 v Notts County, 11 Sep. 2001 [31]	Kevin Keegan
Dickson Etuhu	1	Preston, Norwich, Fulham	Kano	Full Nigeria Caps	Age 19 v Birmingham City, 15 Sep. 2001 [32]
Leon Mike	2	Aberdeen	Manchester	England U18	Age 19 v Portsmouth, 16 Nov. 2001 [33]
Chris Killen	2	Oldham, Hibernian, Celtic, Chongqing	Wellington	Full New Zealand Caps	Age 20 v Rotherham United, 24 Nov. 2001 [34]
Tyrone Mears	1	Preston, Derby, Burnley, Bolton, Seattle Sounders FC	Manchester	Full Jamaican Caps	Age 19 v Nottingham Forest, 30 Mar. 2002 [35]
Joey Barton	1	Newcastle, QPR, Marseille, Burnley	Liverpool	Full England Cap	Age 21 v Bolton Wanderers, 5 Apr. 2003 [36]
Stephen Jordan	1	Burnley, Fleetwood, Chorley	Liverpool		Age 21 v Bolton Wanderers, 5 Apr. 2003 [37]
Willo Flood	1	Cardiff, Dundee Utd, Aberdeen	Dublin	Ireland U21	Age 18 v Total Network Solutions, 28 Aug. 2003 [38]
Glenn Whelan	1	Sheffield Wednesday, Stoke City, Aston Villa, Fleetwood Town, Bristol Rovers	Dublin	Full Ireland Caps	Age 19 v Total Network Solutions, 28 Aug. 2003 [39]
Stephen Elliott	1	Sunderland, Wolves, Preston, Hearts	Dublin	Full Ireland Caps	Age 20 v Bolton Wanderers, 21 Feb. 2004 [40]
Bradley Wright-Phillips	1	Southampton, Plymouth, Charlton, New York Red Bulls	London	England U20	Age 19 v Barnsley, 21 Sep. 2004 [41]
Nedum Onuoha	1	Sunderland, QPR, Real Salt Lake	Warri	England U21	Age 18 v Arsenal, 24 Oct. 2004 [42]
Jonathan D'Laryea	4	Mansfield, Gainsborough Trinity	Manchester		Age 19 v Arsenal, 24 Oct. 2004 [43]
Lee Croft	1	Norwich, Derby, Oldham, St.Johnstone	Wigan	England U20	Age 19 v Bolton Wanderers, 7 Mar. 2005 [44]
Stephen Ireland	1	Aston Villa, Stoke	Cork	Full Ireland Caps	Age 19 v Bolton Wanderers, 18 Sep. 2005 [45]	Stuart Pearce
Micah Richards	1	Aston Villa	Birmingham	Full England Caps	Age 17 v Arsenal, 22 Oct. 2005 [46]
Ishmael Miller	1	West Brom, Nottingham Forest, Middlesbrough, Huddersfield	Manchester	England U21	Age 19 v Wigan Athletic, 18 Mar. 2006 [47]
Michael Johnson	1		Manchester	England U21	Age 18 v Wigan Athletic, 21 Oct. 2006 [48]
Daniel Sturridge	1	Chelsea, Liverpool, Trabzonspor	Birmingham	Full England Caps	Age 17 v Reading, 3 Feb. 2007 [49]
Shaleum Logan	1	Tranmere Rovers, Brentford, Aberdeen, Cove Rangers	Manchester	—	Age 19 v Bristol City, 29 Aug. 2007 [50]	Sven-Göran Eriksson
Kelvin Etuhu	1	Barnsley, Bury, Carlisle	Kano	—	Age 19 v Norwich City, 25 Sep. 2007 [51]
Sam Williamson	1	Wrexham	Manchester	—	Age 20 v Portsmouth, 20 Apr. 2008 [52]
Vladimír Weiss	1	Rangers, Espanyol, Lekhwiya, Al-Gharafa, Slovan Bratislava	Bratislava	Full Slovakia Caps	Age 19 v Bolton Wanderers, 24 May 2009 [53]	Mark Hughes
Javan Vidal	1	Aberdeen, Tamworth, Wrexham, Bradford (Park Avenue)	Manchester	England U20	Age 21 v West Bromwich Albion, 22 Sep. 2010 [54]	Roberto Mancini
Alex Nimely	1	Coventry City	Monrovia	England U20	Age 18 v Burnley, 3 Apr. 2010 [55]
Chris Chantler	1	Carlisle United, Kilmarnock, F.C. United, Spennymoor Town, Ossett United	Manchester	—	Age 20 v Juventus, 16 Dec. 2010 [56]
Abdul Razak	1	AFC United, IK Sirius, Örgryte	Abidjan	Full Ivory Coast Caps	Age 18 v West Bromwich Albion, 5 Feb. 2011
Reece Wabara	2	Oldham, Doncaster	Birmingham	England U20	Age 19 v Bolton Wanderers, 22 May 2011 [57]
Jérémy Hélan	2	Sheffield Wednesday	Paris	France U19	Age 20 v Aston Villa, 25 Sep. 2012
Emyr Huws	2	Huddersfield Town, Ipswich Town	Llanelli	Full Wales Caps	Age 20 v Blackburn Rovers, 15 Jan. 2014
David Faupala	1	Zorya Luhansk, Apollon Limassol	Bully-les-Mines	France U18	Age 19 v Chelsea, 21 Feb. 2016	Manuel Pellegrini

Active players

Player	Level [b]	Current Club	Born	International Honours	Debut	Manager
Kasper Schmeichel	1	Celtic	Copenhagen	Full Denmark Caps	Age 19 v West Ham United, 11 Aug. 2007 [58]	Sven-Göran Eriksson
Ched Evans	1	Preston North End	Rhyl	Full Wales Caps	Age 18 v Norwich City, 25 Sep. 2007 [59]
Dedryck Boyata	1	Club Brugge	Brussels	Full Belgium Caps	Age 19 v Middlesbrough, 2 Jan. 2010 [60]	Roberto Mancini
Abdisalam Ibrahim	1	Free Agent	Mogadishu	Full Norway Caps	Age 18 v Scunthorpe United, 24 Jan. 2010 [61]
Greg Cunningham	1	Galway United	Galway	Full Ireland Caps	Age 18 v Scunthorpe United, 24 Jan. 2010 [62]
Ben Mee	1	Brentford	Manchester	England U21	Age 20 v West Bromwich Albion, 22 Sep. 2010 [63]
John Guidetti	1	AIK	Stockholm	Full Sweden Caps	Age 18 v West Bromwich Albion, 22 Sep. 2010 [64]
Ryan McGivern	1	Newry City	Newry	Full Northern Ireland Caps	Age 21 v Sunderland, 3 Apr. 2011 [65]
Karim Rekik	1	Al Jazira	Rotterdam	Full Netherlands Caps	Age 16 v Birmingham City, 21 Sep. 2011
Luca Scapuzzi	2	Caratese	Milan	—	Age 20 v Birmingham City, 21 Sep. 2011
Denis Suárez	1	Villarreal	Vigo	Full Spain Cap	Age 17 v Wolverhampton Wanderers, 26 Oct. 2011
Rony Lopes	1	Braga	Belém de Maria	Full Portugal Cap	Age 17 v Watford, 5 Jan. 2013
José Ángel Pozo	1	Karmiotissa	Málaga	Spain U21	Age 18 v Sheffield Wednesday, 24 Sep. 2014	Manuel Pellegrini
Kelechi Iheanacho	1	Sevilla	Imo State	Full Nigeria Caps	Age 18 v Watford, 29 Aug. 2015
Manu García	1	Aris Thessaloniki	Oviedo	Full Spain Cap	Age 17 v Sunderland, 22 Sep. 2015
George Evans	2	Wrexham	Cheadle	England U20	Age 20 v Sunderland, 22 Sep. 2015
Bersant Celina	1	AIK	Prizren	Full Kosovo Caps	Age 19 v Norwich, 9 Jan. 2016
Angeliño	1	Roma	Coristanco	Spain U21	Age 19 v Aston Villa, 30 Jan. 2016
Cameron Humphreys	2	Rotherham United	Manchester	England U19	Age 17 v Aston Villa, 30 Jan. 2016
Aleix García	1	Bayer Leverkusen	Ulldecona	Full Spain Caps	Age 18 v Chelsea, 21 Feb. 2016
Tosin Adarabioyo	1	Chelsea	Manchester	England U19	Age 18 v Chelsea, 21 Feb. 2016
Brandon Barker	2	Free Agent	Manchester	England U20	Age 19 v Chelsea, 21 Feb. 2016
Pablo Maffeo	1	RCD Mallorca	Sant Joan Despi	Spain U21	Age 19 v Steaua București, 24 Aug. 2016	Pep Guardiola
Brahim Díaz	1	Real Madrid	Málaga	Full Spain Cap Full Morocco Caps	Age 17 v Swansea, 21 Sep. 2016
Phil Foden	1	Manchester City	Stockport	Full England Caps	Age 17 v Feyenoord, 21 Nov. 2017
Lukas Nmecha	1	Wolfsburg	Hamburg	Full Germany Caps	Age 19 v Leicester City, 19 Dec. 2017
Tom Dele-Bashiru	2	Watford	Manchester	Nigeria U23	Age 18 v Leicester City, 19 Dec. 2017
Claudio Gomes	2	Palermo	Argenteuil	France U20	Age 18 v Chelsea, 5 Aug. 2018
Arijanet Muric	1	Ipswich Town	Zürich	Full Kosovo Caps	Age 19 v Oxford United, 25 Sep. 2018
Adrián Bernabé	1	Parma	Barcelona	Spain U23	Age 17 v Oxford United, 25 Sep. 2018
Eric García	1	Barcelona	Barcelona	Full Spain Caps	Age 17 v Leicester City, 18 Dec. 2018
Ian Poveda	1	Sunderland	London	Full Columbia Caps	Age 18 v Burton Albion, 23 Jan. 2019
Felix Nmecha	1	Borussia Dortmund	Hamburg	Full Germany Cap	Age 18 v Burton Albion, 23 Jan. 2019
Taylor Harwood-Bellis	1	Southampton	Stockport	England U21	Age 17 v Preston North End, 24 Sep. 2019
Tommy Doyle	1	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Manchester	England U21	Age 18 v Southampton, 29 Oct. 2019
Liam Delap	1	Ipswich Town	Winchester	England U21	Age 17 v AFC Bournemouth, 24 Sep. 2020
Cole Palmer	1	Chelsea	Manchester	Full England Caps	Age 18 v Burnley, 30 Sep. 2020
Samuel Edozie	1	Anderlecht (on loan from Southampton)	London	England U20	Age 18 v Leicester City, 7 Aug. 2021
Ben Knight	3	Real Murcia	Cambridge	England U18	Age 19 v Leicester City, 7 Aug. 2021
CJ Egan-Riley	1	Burnley	Manchester	England U19	Age 18 v Wycombe Wanderers, 21 Sep. 2021
Luke Mbete	2	Northampton Town (on loan from Manchester City)	London	England U21	Age 18 v Wycombe Wanderers, 21 Sep. 2021
Finley Burns	2	Hull City (on loan from Manchester City)	London	England U20	Age 18 v Wycombe Wanderers, 21 Sep. 2021
Josh Wilson-Esbrand	1	Manchester City	London	England U21	Age 18 v Wycombe Wanderers, 21 Sep. 2021
Roméo Lavia	1	Chelsea	Brussels	Full Belgium Cap	Age 17 v Wycombe Wanderers, 21 Sep. 2021
James McAtee	1	Manchester City	Salford	England U21	Age 18 v Wycombe Wanderers, 21 Sep. 2021
Rico Lewis	1	Manchester City	Manchester	Full England Caps	Age 17 v AFC Bournemouth, 13 Aug. 2022
Shea Charles	1	Sheffield Wednesday (on loan from Southampton)	Manchester	Full Northern Ireland Caps	Age 19 v Brentford, 28 May 2023
Oscar Bobb	1	Manchester City	Oslo	Full Norway Caps	Age 20 v Fulham, 3 Sep. 2023
Micah Hamilton	2	Middlesbrough	Manchester	England U16	Age 20 v Red Star Belgrade, 13 Dec. 2023
Mahamadou Susoho		Peterborough United (on loan from Manchester City)	Granollers	Spain U18	Age 18 v Red Star Belgrade, 13 Dec. 2023
Jacob Wright		Manchester City	Manchester	England U18	Age 18 v Huddersfield, 7 Jan. 2024
Nico O'Reilly		Manchester City	Manchester	England U18	Age 19 v Manchester United, 10 Aug. 2024
Kaden Braithwaite		Manchester City	Manchester	—	Age 16 v Watford, 24 Sep. 2024
Jahmai Simpson-Pusey	1	Manchester City	Huddersfield	England U18	Age 18 v Tottenham Hotspur, 30 Oct. 2024

Honours

Elite Development Squad

• Premier League 2
  • Winners (3): 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23
• 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

Academy

• FA Youth Cup
  • Winners (4): 1986, 2008, 2020, 2024
• U-18 Professional Development League
  • Northern Division Champions(10) 1997–98, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23
  • National Champions:(4) 2015–16, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23
• U-18 Premier League Cup
  • Winners (2): 2018–19, ^[66] 2019–20

Notes

1. Highest level determined from ^[28]
2. Highest level determined from ^[28]

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38. "The Graduates: No.10 Willo Flood". mancity.com. (Manchester City Football Club). 9 October 2011. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
39. "The Graduates: No.11 Glenn Whelan". mancity.com. (Manchester City Football Club). 10 October 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
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48. "The Graduates: No.20 Michael Johnson". mancity.com. (Manchester City Football Club). 18 October 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
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50. "The Graduates: No.23 Shaleum Logan". mancity.com. (Manchester City Football Club). 20 October 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
51. "The Graduates: No.24 Kelvin Etuhu". mancity.com. (Manchester City Football Club). 20 October 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
52. "The Graduates: No.26 Sam Williamson". mancity.com. (Manchester City Football Club). 25 October 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
53. "The Graduates: No.27 Vladimír Weiss". mancity.com. (Manchester City Football Club). 7 November 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
54. "The Graduates: No.32 Javan Vidal". mancity.com. (Manchester City Football Club). 9 November 2011. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
55. "The Graduates: No.31 Alex Nimely". mancity.com. (Manchester City Football Club). 9 November 2011. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
56. "The Graduates: No.35 Chris Chantler". mancity.com. (Manchester City Football Club). 14 November 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
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59. "The Graduates: No.25 Ched Evans". mancity.com. (Manchester City Football Club). 25 October 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
60. "The Graduates: No.28 Dedryck Boyata". mancity.com. (Manchester City Football Club). 7 November 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
61. "The Graduates: No.29 Abdisalam Ibrahim". mancity.com. (Manchester City Football Club). 8 November 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
62. "The Graduates: No.30 Greg Cunningham". mancity.com. (Manchester City Football Club). 8 November 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
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64. "The Graduates: No.34 John Guidetti". mancity.com. (Manchester City Football Club). 10 November 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
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External links

• Manchester City official website – Academy
• Manchester City Official website – Cityecademy
• The Manchester City academy way – These Football Times (2016)