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MCFC 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	Gareth Taylor
League	Professional Development League
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MCFC Elite Development Squad
Full name	Manchester City Elite Development Squad
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	Paul Harsley
League	Professional U23 Development League
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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.

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 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 MCFC official first team squad consists of about 40 players, which is why the EDS players' squad numbers start in the region of the middle forties.

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 August 2018^[8]^[9]

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

No.	Position	Player
36	GK	Curtis Anderson
50	DF	Eric García
51	FW	Nabil Touaizi
61	MF	Felix Nmecha
64	DF	Joel Latibeaudiere
66	MF	Iker Pozo
71	DF	Jeremie Frimpong
72	MF	Tom Dele-Bashiru
73	FW	Benjamín Garré
77	DF	Cameron Humphreys

No.	Position	Player
80	FW	Lorenzo Gonzalez
81	MF	Claudio Gomes
82	MF	Adrián Bernabé
83	FW	Ian Carlo Poveda
84	FW	Rabbi Matondo
85	DF	Colin Rösler
87	GK	Tom Scott
89	MF	Taylor Richards
90	DF	Tyreke Wilson
91	DF	Nathanael Ogbeta

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
38	MF	Douglas Luiz (at Girona until 30 June 2019)
39	MF	Jack Harrison (at Leeds United until 30 June 2019)
57	MF	Aaron Nemane (at Tubize until 30 June 2019)
58	DF	Charlie Oliver (at Brentford until 1 January 2019)
62	MF	Brandon Barker (at Preston North End until 30 June 2019)^[10]
65	MF	Matthew Smith (at FC Twente until 30 June 2019)
67	MF	Paolo Fernandes (at NAC Breda until 30 June 2019)
68	FW	Thierry Ambrose (at Lens until 30 June 2019)
76	MF	Manu García (at Toulouse until 30 June 2019)
79	DF	Edward Francis (at Almere City until 30 June 2019)
—	DF	Pablo Marí (at Deportivo de La Coruña until 30 June 2019)

No.	Position	Player
—	DF	Erik Palmer-Brown (at NAC Breda until 30 June 2019)
—	MF	Ernest Agyiri (at Tubize until 30 June 2019)
—	MF	Daniel Arzani (at Celtic until 30 June 2020)
—	MF	Uriel Antuna (at FC Groningen until 30 June 2019)
—	MF	Luke Brattan (at Melbourne City until 30 June 2019)
—	MF	Anthony Cáceres (at Melbourne City until 30 June 2019)
—	MF	Mix Diskerud (at Ulsan Hyundai until 30 June 2019)
—	MF	Yangel Herrera (at New York City until 31 December 2018)
—	MF	Luka Ilić (at NAC Breda until 30 June 2019)
—	MF	Collins Tanor (Hobro IK until 30 June 2019)
—	FW	Thomas Agyepong (at Hibernian until 30 June 2019)

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	present

Academy

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.^[11]

History

The club's first youth team was set up by Albert Alexander in the 1920s,^[12] 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^[13] 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^[14] The club also launched an instructional video website aimed at helping the new skills of prospective footballers^[15]