Manchester City F.C. Reserves and Academy

MCFC Elite Development Squad

Full name	Manchester City Elite Development Squad
Nickname(s)	The Citizens, City, The Boy Blues
Ground	Academy Stadium Sportcity Manchester
Capacity	7,000 (5,000 seated)
Chairman	Khaldoon Al Mubarak
Manager	Simon Davies
League	UEFA Youth League and 2015–16 Professional U21 Development League
Home colours Away colours

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-21' 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.

Elite Development Squad

The Elite Development Squad^[2] from season 2012–13 plays in the Under 21 Premier League^[3] 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] The EDS will continue 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.

Manchester City have 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.

Home ground

The EDS currently play all of their home fixtures at the CFA Academy stadium in Manchester.

Squad numbers

The squad numbers depicted for the EDS players in this article are 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 high thirties.

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 19 January 2016^[8]

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

No. Position Player 50 DF Pablo Maffeo 51 FW David Faupala 52 MF Kean Bryan 53 DF Tosin Adarabioyo 59 MF Bersant Celina 61 MF James Horsfield 62 MF Brandon Barker 67 DF Mathias Bossaerts 73 MF George Glendon 74 DF Ellis Plummer 75 MF Sinan Bytyqi 76 MF Manuel Garcia

No. Position Player 77 DF Cameron Humphreys 82 MF Aleix García Serrano 85 MF Denzeil Boadu 87 MF Jorge Intima 88 GK Angus Gunn — GK Billy O'Brien — GK Kjetil Haug — DF Ashley Smith-Brown — DF Sam Tattum — MF Brahim Diaz — MF Aaron Nemane — FW Thierry Ambrose

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player 37 MF Jack Byrne (at SC Cambuur until 30 June 2016) 48 GK Ian Lawlor (at Bury until 30 June 2016)[9] 55 MF Olivier Ntcham (at Genoa until 30 June 2017) 66 MF Seko Fofana (at SC Bastia until 30 June 2016) 83 FW Enes Ünal (at Genk until 30 June 2017)

No. Position Player — MF Bismark Adjei-Boateng (at Strømsgodset Toppfotball until 1 January 2016) — MF Yaw Yeboah (at Lille OSC until 30 June 2016) — MF Divine Naah (at NAC Breda until 30 June 2016) — FW Thomas Agyepong (at FC Twente until 30 June 2016) — DF Chidiebere Nwakali (at IK Start until 31 December 2016)

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	present

Academy

MCFC Academy

Full name	Manchester City Academy
Nickname(s)	The Citizens, City, The Boy Blues
Ground	Academy Stadium Sportcity Manchester
Capacity	7,000 (5,000 seated)
Chairman	Khaldoon Al Mubarak
Manager	Jason Wilcox
League	Premier Academy League
Home colours Away 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.^[10] To date, the club has produced 15 graduates who have received full international call-ups from their various countries; 14 that have represented their respective countries at the 'Under-21' or 'Under-20' level; 35 who have progressed on to become City first team players at some point; and more than 60 that are currently playing professional league football.^[10] Carrington is responsible for such graduates as Micah Richards, Michael Johnson, QPR's Nedum Onuoha and Shaun Wright-Phillips, Fulham's Dickson Etuhu and Stoke City's Glenn Whelan and Stephen Ireland.

History

The club's first youth team was set up by Albert Alexander in the 1920s,^[11] 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 the Academy has produced 35 first team players, 15 of whom have gained full international honours, including England internationals Shaun Wright-Phillips, Micah Richards and Joey Barton. 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 Glenn Whelan building a successful career at Sheffield Wednesday and now Stoke City and Dickson Etuhu similarly making his career at Fulham

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^[12] 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^[13] The club also launched an instructional video website aimed at helping the new skills of prospective footballers^[14]

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 team-sheeted to play for the MCFC first team in either a friendly or competitive game. When these players represent the MCFC Academy team in this season's Premier Academy League fixtures they wear shirt numbers assigned exclusively to the Academy players.

Current squad

As explained for the EDS player roster above, dual-squad players listed on the Academy roster below are identified with an asterisk.

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

No. Position Player GK Charlie Albinson GK Daniel Grimshaw DF Lewis Blackshaw DF Callum Bullock DF Joe Coveney DF Demeaco Duhaney DF Ash Kigbu DF Josh Murray DF Charlie Oliver DF Nathaniel Oseni MF Rodney Kongolo

No. Position Player MF Sadou Diallo MF Jacob Davenport MF Javairo Dilrosun MF Emanuel Vasi MF Marcus Wood MF Will Patching MF Paolo Fernandes FW Isaac Buckley FW Zackarias Faour FW Joe Hardy 28 FW Hadi Ramadan

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	present

Academy graduates (1998–present)

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

Updated 30 June 2015

Player	Current Club	Born	International Honours	Debut	Manager
Shaun Wright-Phillips	New York Red Bulls	London	Full England Caps	Age 17 v Burnley, 24 Aug. 1999[15]	Joe Royle
Terry Dunfield	Free Agent	Vancouver	Full Canada Caps	Age 19 v Chelsea, 11 May 2001[16]
Chris Shuker	Tranmere Rovers	Liverpool		Age 19 v Notts County, 11 Sep. 2001[17]	Kevin Keegan
Dickson Etuhu	AIK Fotboll	Kano	Full Nigeria Caps	Age 19 v Birmingham City, 15 Sep. 2001[18]
Leon Mike	Retired	Manchester		Age 19 v Portsmouth, 16 Nov. 2001[19]
Chris Killen	Tuen Mun SA	Wellington	Full New Zealand Caps	Age 20 v Rotherham United, 24 Nov. 2001[20]
Tyrone Mears	Seattle Sounders FC	Manchester	Full Jamaican Caps	Age 19 v Nottingham Forest, 30 Mar. 2002[21]
Joey Barton	Burnley	Liverpool	Full England Cap	Age 21 v Bolton Wanderers, 5 Apr. 2003[22]
Stephen Jordan	Fleetwood Town	Liverpool		Age 21 v Bolton Wanderers, 5 Apr. 2003[23]
Willo Flood	Aberdeen	Dublin	Ireland U21	Age 18 v The New Saints, 28 Aug. 2003[24]
Glenn Whelan	Stoke City	Dublin	Full Ireland Caps	Age 19 v The New Saints, 28 Aug. 2003[25]
Stephen Elliott	Free Agent	Dublin	Full Ireland Caps	Age 20 v Bolton Wanderers, 21 Feb. 2004[26]
Bradley Wright-Phillips	New York Red Bulls	London	England U20	Age 19 v Barnsley, 21 Sep. 2004[27]
Nedum Onouha	Queens Park Rangers	Warri	England U21	Age 18 v Arsenal, 24 Oct. 2004[28]
Jonathan D'Laryea	North Ferriby United	Manchester		Age 19 v Arsenal, 24 Oct. 2004[29]
Lee Croft	Oldham Athletic	Wigan	England U20	Age 19 v Bolton Wanderers, 7 Mar. 2005[30]
Stephen Ireland	Stoke City	Cork	Full Ireland Caps	Age 19 v Bolton Wanderers, 18 Sep. 2005[31]	Stuart Pearce
Micah Richards	Aston Villa	Birmingham	Full England Caps	Age 17 v Arsenal, 22 Oct. 2005[32]
Ishmael Miller	Huddersfield Town	Manchester	England U21	Age 19 v Wigan Athletic, 18 Mar. 2006[33]
Michael Johnson	Retired	Manchester	England U21	Age 18 v Wigan Athletic, 21 Oct. 2006[34]
Daniel Sturridge	Liverpool	Birmingham	Full England Caps	Age 17 v Reading, 3 Feb. 2007[35]
Kasper Schmeichel	Leicester City	Copenhagen	Full Denmark Caps	Age 19 v West Ham United, 11 Aug. 2007[36]	Sven-Göran Eriksson
Shaleum Logan	Aberdeen	Manchester		Age 19 v Bristol City, 29 Aug. 2007[37]
Kelvin Etuhu	Bury	Kano		Age 19 v Norwich City, 25 Sep. 2007[38]
Ched Evans	Free Agent	Rhyl	Full Wales Caps	Age 18 v Norwich City, 25 Sep. 2007[39]
Sam Williamson	Free Agent	Manchester		Age 20 v Portsmouth, 20 Apr. 2008[40]
Vladimír Weiss	Lekhwiya SC	Bratislava	Full Slovakia Caps	Age 19 v Bolton Wanderers, 24 May 2009[41]	Mark Hughes
Dedryck Boyata	Celtic	Brussels	Full Belgium Caps	Age 19 v Middlesbrough, 2 Jan. 2010[42]	Roberto Mancini
Abdisalam Ibrahim	Veria FC	Mogadishu	Norway U21	Age 18 v Scunthorpe United, 24 Jan. 2010[43]
Greg Cunningham	Preston	Galway	Full Ireland Caps	Age 18 v Scunthorpe United, 24 Jan. 2010[44]
Alex Nimely	Port Vale	Monrovia	Liberia U20 / England U20	Age 18 v Burnley, 3 Apr. 2010[45]
Javan Vidal	Wrexham	Manchester	England U20	Age 21 v West Bromwich Albion, 22 Sep. 2010[46]
Ben Mee	Burnley	Manchester	England U21	Age 20 v West Bromwich Albion, 22 Sep. 2010[47]
John Guidetti	Celta de Vigo	Stockholm	Full Sweden Caps	Age 18 v West Bromwich Albion, 22 Sep. 2010[48]
Chris Chantler	Kilmarnock	Manchester		Age 20 v Juventus, 16 Dec. 2010[49]
Abdul Razak	Free Agent	Abidjan	Full Ivory Coast Caps	Age 18 v West Bromwich Albion, 5 Feb. 2011
Ryan McGivern	Port Vale	Newry	Full Northern Ireland Caps	Age 21 v Sunderland, 3 Apr. 2011[50]
Reece Wabara	Doncaster Rovers	Birmingham	England U20	Age 19 v Bolton Wanderers, 22 May 2011[51]
Karim Rekik	Olympique de Marseille	Rotterdam	Full Netherlands Cap	Age 16 v Birmingham City, 21 Sep. 2011
Luca Scapuzzi	Calcio Como	Milan		Age 20 v Birmingham City, 21 Sep. 2011
Denis Suárez	Villareal CF	Vigo	Spain U19 European Championship winner	Age 17 v Wolverhampton Wanderers, 26 Oct. 2011
Jérémy Hélan	Sheffield Wednesday	Paris	France U19	Age 20 v Aston Villa, 25 Sep. 2012
Marcos Lopes	AS Monaco	Belém de Maria	Portugal U21	Age 17 v Watford, 5 Jan. 2013
Emyr Huws	Wigan Athletic	Llanelli	Full Wales Cap	Age 20 v Blackburn Rovers, 15 Jan. 2014	Manuel Pellegrini
José Ángel Pozo	Almeria	Málaga	Spain U19	Age 18 v Sheffield Wednesday, 24 Sep. 2014
Kelechi Iheanacho	Manchester City	Imo State	Full Nigeria Cap	Age 18 v Watford, 29 Aug. 2015
Manu García	Manchester City	Oviedo	Spain U18	Age 17 v Sunderland, 22 Sep. 2015
George Evans	Reading	Cheadle, Greater Manchester	England U20	Age 20 v Sunderland, 22 Sep. 2015
Bersant Celina	Manchester City	Prizren	Norway U21	Age 19 v Norwich, 9 Jan. 2016
Angeliño	Manchester City	Coristanco	Spain U17	Age 19 v Aston Villa, 30 Jan. 2016
Cameron Humphreys	Manchester City	Manchester	England U17	Age 17 v Aston Villa, 30 Jan. 2016
Aleix García	Manchester City	Ulldecona	Spain U18	Age 18 v Chelsea, 21 Feb. 2016
Tosin Adarabioyo	Manchester City	Manchester	England U19	Age 18 v Chelsea, 21 Feb. 2016
David Faupala	Manchester City	Bully-les-Mines	France U18	Age 19 v Chelsea, 21 Feb. 2016
Brandon Barker	Manchester City	Manchester	England U20	Age 19 v Chelsea, 21 Feb. 2016

Honours

Elite Development Squad

• 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 (2): 1986, 2008
• U-18 Professional Development League
  • Northern Division Champions: 2015-16
  • National Champions: 2015-16

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24. "The Graduates: No.10 Willo Flood". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 9 October 2011. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
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26. "The Graduates: No.12 Stephen Elliott". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 10 October 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
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29. "The Graduates: No.15 Jonathan D'Laryea". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 12 October 2011. Retrieved 13 October 2011.
30. "The Graduates: No.16 Lee Croft". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 12 October 2011. Retrieved 13 October 2011.
31. "The Graduates: No.17 Stephen Ireland". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 13 October 2011. Retrieved 13 October 2011.
32. "The Graduates: No.18 Micah Richards". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 13 October 2011. Retrieved 13 October 2011.
33. "The Graduates: No.19 Ishmael Miller". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 13 October 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
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35. "The Graduates: No.21 Daniel Sturridge". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 19 October 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
36. "The Graduates: No.22 Kasper Schmeichel". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 19 October 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
37. "The Graduates: No.23 Shaleum Logan". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 20 October 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
38. "The Graduates: No.24 Kelvin Etuhu". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 20 October 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
39. "The Graduates: No.25 Ched Evans". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 25 October 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
40. "The Graduates: No.26 Sam Williamson". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 25 October 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
41. "The Graduates: No.27 Vladimír Weiss". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 7 November 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
42. "The Graduates: No.28 Dedryck Boyata". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 7 November 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
43. "The Graduates: No.29 Abdisalam Ibrahim". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 8 November 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
44. "The Graduates: No.30 Greg Cunningham". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 8 November 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
45. "The Graduates: No.31 Alex Nimely". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 9 November 2011. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
46. "The Graduates: No.32 Javan Vidal". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 9 November 2011. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
47. "The Graduates: No.33 Ben Mee". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 10 November 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
48. "The Graduates: No.34 John Guidetti". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 10 November 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
49. "The Graduates: No.35 Chris Chantler". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 14 November 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
50. "The Graduates: No.36 Ryan McGivern". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 14 November 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
51. "The Graduates: No.37 Reece Wabara". mcfc.co.uk. (Manchester City Football Club). 15 November 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2011.

External links

• Manchester City official website - Academy
• Manchester City Official website - Cityecademy