List of Manchester City F.C. players

Alan Oakes holds the record for Manchester City league appearances, having played 565 matches between 1959 and 1976.

[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.

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.

The following information applies to both of the tables listed in the next section of this article: Order Legend Nationality Club career Position The following information applies only to the table of "Historic players" listed in the next section: Appearances and Goals Statistics sourcing Currency The following information applies only to the table of "Contemporary players" listed in the next section: Appearances and goals Statistics sourcing Currency 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.

Source: [citation needed] This is a list of City's official club captains, who are currently appointed via a vote of players and staff.

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] 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.

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.

Players who won all of their England caps playing for Manchester City are indicated in bold font.

All of these players are listed in italics font in the pair of tables presented in the main section of this article.

the National Football Museum Hall of Fame) and are listed according to the year of their induction within the various categories: Last updated: 5 May 2023.

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.

the Scottish Football Museum Hall of Fame) and are listed according to the year of their induction within the appropriate category: Last updated: 1 January 2016.

Richard Dunne played for the club for nine years between 2000–2009, making 352 appearances and scoring 8 goals. He won the Player of the Year award four times, the club record, since equalled by Kevin De Bruyne , and is currently a coach in the club's Academy.
Niall Quinn made 244 appearances for the club between 1990 and 1996, scoring a total of 77 goals. He was voted Player of the Year in 1991 and is an inductee of both the National Hall of Fame and the club's own Hall of Fame.
Two young men dressed in sportswear hold a large trophy aloft. The man on the right has a blue and white scarf wrapped around his head.
Samir Nasri and Sergio Agüero won two and five Premier League titles with Manchester City, respectively.
David Silva won four Premier Leagues titles, two FA Cups and five League Cups with Manchester City between 2010 and 2020.
Kevin De Bruyne has won the most titles of any Manchester City player (17 to date); has a record equalling four club player of the year awards; and is the club's leading assist provider since joining in 2016.
Shaun Goater appeared 211 times for City between 1998 and 2003, scoring 103 goals. In season 2001–02 he scored 32 goals making him 1 of only 6 players to have scored 30+ goals in a season since World War 2.
Former German POW Bernhard Carl "Bert" Trautmann kept goal for the club between 1949 and 1964. Famous for having played through to the end of the 1956 FA Cup final despite sustaining a broken neck, he has now acquired an almost legendary status at the club. This sculpture of him at the Manchester City Museum celebrates his prowess.
Trevor Francis will always be remembered in Britain as the first £1 million player. £1.18m is the actual amount Nottingham Forest paid Birmingham City in 1979. Two years later he moved to Maine Road for an even larger fee, but his time spent wearing sky blue was plagued with injuries and he was sold to Sampdoria by a cash-strapped City at the end of his first season. City fans that saw him play (when not injured) rate his skill and flair as highly as any player that has worn the club's shirt.
Iconic Celtic defender Billy McNeill managed the club between 1983 and 1986, securing promotion back to the top flight in his second season in charge.
Dubbed the "Welsh Wizard" by his admirers, Billy Meredith made 394 appearances for the club in two separate spells with the Blues between 1894–1906 and 1921–1924, scoring a total of 151 goals.