List of Manchester City F.C. players

rdf:langString List of Manchester City F.C. players

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rdf:langString Manchester City Football Club, then known as Ardwick, first entered the Football League in the 1892–93 season. Since that time the club's first team has competed in numerous nationally and internationally organised competitions, and all players who have played in 100 or more such matches are listed below, which encompasses all players who have been inducted into the Manchester City Hall of Fame. Also included are all winners of the Player of the Year award, which has been awarded annually since 1967 by the Manchester City Official Supporters Club based on a ballot of the supporters. Alan Oakes holds the record for Manchester City league appearances, having played 565 matches between 1959 and 1976. If all senior competitions are included, Oakes has 680. 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. Prior to Silva achieving this distinction the record had previously been held by Joe Hart (63 caps) and Colin Bell, the latter of which held the record for over 40 years with 48 England appearances between 1968 and 1975. The current squad member with the most caps is Kevin De Bruyne, who has a total of 96 caps for Belgium, of which 63 have been awarded while a City player. The Manchester City player who has been capped the most times for England in total is Frank Lampard, who was capped 106 times for England between October 1999 and June 2014, but he only played for City for one season in 2014–15 after he had retired from international duty. The Manchester City player who has been capped the most times totally internationally is Shay Given, who was capped for the Republic of Ireland 134 times from 1996 to 2016. He played for the club for two and a half seasons between 2009 and 2011. Sergio Agüero holds the Manchester City goalscoring record across all competitions, and is also the club's highest league goalscorer. These records were set between 2011 and 2021. As of 29 May 2021, Agüero's record stood at 184 league goals scored and 260 overall for City. Tommy Johnson holds the record for league goals in a single season, with 38 in 1928–29. This single season tally also means Johnson additionally holds the record for , his 38 goals in 39 appearances during 1928–29 yielding a goal scoring rate of 0.97 goals per game. The player who holds the Premier League records for the most lethal scoring rate (i.e., the highest number of goals scored per total minutes played), the most goals for a single club and the most goals for a foreign player, as well as numerous club records, is Sergio Agüero who played for City between 2011 and 2021. During the 2013–14 season, he scored 28 goals from 34 game appearances (or 0.82 goals per game), but since many of his appearances were not full 90 minute games; he actually averaged a goal for roughly every 90 minutes he was on the field, which made him not only the most efficient striker (in terms of minutes per goal) of any club in the Premier League that season — but also in the entire Premier League history.