Manchester City squad – Football Research Archive

No team sheets for 2005/06

The archive holds team sheets only where its source publishes a full match file, so the Manchester City squad for 2005/06 is not listed. That is a gap in the data, not an empty squad. Team sheets are held for 2025/26.

Transfers 2005/06

Manchester City 2005/06: players joining, according to Wikipedia
Date	Player	From	Move
20 Jul 2005	Andy Cole	Fulham	Loan
27 Jul 2005	Darius Vassell	Aston Villa	Loan
16 Aug 2005	Hussein Yasser	Al-Sadd Club	Loan
1 Jan 2006	Tuomas Haapala	MyPa-47	Loan
30 Jan 2006	Georgios Samaras	Heerenveen	Loan
30 Jan 2006	Matthew Mills	Southampton	Loan
Not held	Kiki Musampa	Atlético Madrid	Loan
Not held	Albert Riera	Espanyol	Loan

Manchester City 2005/06: players leaving, according to Wikipedia
Date	Player	To	Move
Not held	Jon Macken	Crystal Palace	Loan
Not held	Kevin Stuhr-Ellegaard	Hertha BSC	Loan
Not held	Paul Bosvelt	Heerenveen	Loan
Not held	Christian Negouai	Standard Liège	Loan
Not held	Shaun Wright-Phillips	Chelsea	Loan
Not held	Yasser Hussein	Al-Sadd Club	Loan

According to Wikipedia: the transfer tables of the club-season article. Fees are held but not shown.

Includes data from Wikipedia (“2005–06 Manchester City F.C. season”, revision 1379704585, read 16 Oct 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikipedia is edited by volunteers; the archive treats it as a secondary source and checks it against its own records where it can.

Former players

People in this archive whose Wikidata career includes a senior spell at Manchester City that has ended
Player	Years	Matches	Goals
Nicolás González Iglesias	2025–2026	36	2
Tijjani Reijnders	2025–2026	28	5
Savinho	2024–2026	53	2
Stefan Ortega	2022–2026	25	0
Nathan Aké	2020–2026	107	6
Rodri	2019–2026	196	23
Bernardo Silva	2017–2026	304	45
John Stones	2016–2026	180	10
Kyle Walker	2017–2025	212	3
Liam Delap	2020–2024	2	0
Cole Palmer	2020–2023	19	0
Morgan Rogers	2019–2023	0	0
Roméo Lavia	2021–2022	0	0
Pedro Porro	2019–2022	0	0
Gabriel Jesus	2017–2022	159	58
Oleksandr Zinchenko	2016–2022	76	0
Tosin Adarabioyo	2016–2020	0	0
Douglas Luiz	2017–2019	0	0
Vincent Kompany	2008–2019	265	18
Enes Ünal	2015–2017	0	0
Frank Lampard	2014–2015	32	6
James Milner	2010–2015	147	13
Kieran Trippier	2009–2012	0	0
Patrick Vieira	2010–2011	28	3

Not limited to the season above, and not the club's full list: only people who appear elsewhere in this archive are listed. Years and figures are the spells' own, across all competitions, as Wikidata records them.