Games played by Academy players since CFA was opened in 2012

[domalino]

Amazing how far it's come in 11 years. Looks like 2023/24 will be the first time in a long time that academy players will represent the club over 100 times over the season.


22/23 - 99 (Foden 48, Rico 23, Palmer 25, Wilson Esbrand 2, Charles 1)

21/22 - 75 (Foden 45, Palmer 11, McAtee 6, Delap 3, CJ Egan-Riley 3, Mbete 3, Edozie 1, Burns 1, Knight 1, Wilson Esbrand 1)

20/21 - 67 (Foden 50, Doyle 4, THB 4, Delap 3, F Nmecha 2, Palmer 2, Gomes 1, Bernabe 1)

19/20 - 60 (Foden 38, Angelino 12, THB 4, Doyle 3, Bernabe 3)

18/19 - 40 (Foden 26, Muric 5, Brahim 4, Gomes 2, Felix Nmecha 1, Bernabe 1, Poveda 1)

17/18 - 28 (Foden 10, Brahim 10, Tosin 4, Lukas Nmecha 3, Tom Dele-Bashiru 1)

16/17 - 17 (A Garcia 8, Tosin 3, Maffeo 3, Angelino 2, Diaz 1)

15/16 - 16 (Celina 4, Garcia 4, Humphreys 2, Faupala 1, Tosin 1, Barker 1, Angelino 1, Evans 1, A Garcia 1)

December 2014 - CFA officially opened.

14/15 - 11 (Micah 1, Pozo 4, Boyata 11)

13/14 - 21 (Micah 10, Boyata 6, Rony Lopes 4, Huws 1)

September 2012 - CFA announced.

12/13 - 17 (Micah 8, Denis Suarez 1, Rekik 1, Helan 1, Razak 5, Rony Lopes 1)


I didn't include players who arrived at 18 and/or playing professionally for another club. Iheanacho, Garcia, Perrone etc.

And if anyone wants to compare to the gold standard - Pep's 2011/12 Barcelona team had 584 appearances from La Masia players.

 

[twosips]

Cracking post mate, cheers for sharing. Used to be very critical of academy involvement but ive not been bothered for a long time as it just *felt* better and much more reasonable, especially considering how good City are these days too. It's lovely to see it mapped out like that. I'll share on socials if you don't mind!

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

Any chance we can get how much they made in sales since it opened against each year as well? @BlueBrain any idea? just from the CFA, not CFG

 

[jamesha]

Really good post which does show a steady progression. It would be really interesting to see these stats from the point at which City first had a youth team. My guess is that the 88/89 promotion season would have the most appearances by youth team players ever - 293 by my count.

 

[KCblue]

Think at least half of those in 15/16 were in the one match at Stamford Bridge lol. Pelegrini playing away to Chelsea with Faupala up top

 

[Goater=Legend]

There were some players during the Pellegrini era that should of played more senior football, they was kept around playing u21s too long.

Puts to bed the 'Pep doesn't play academy players myth'

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Emyr Huws wow not heard that name in a good while. I had high hopes for him.

 

[Oystercatcher28]

Be interesting to see how many CFA players are playing league football across European leagues. Could easily quadruple that and significantly has improved football across many clubs.

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

Forgotten about some of them. Bernabe, can't think of another EDS player that was hyped up as much as him

 

[shroom]

Forgotten about some of them. Bernabe, can't think of another EDS player that was hyped up as much as him

Adrian Bernarbe was on the subs bench for the Spain u21s that lost to Eng in the Euros, fyi, Parma property