User:Mancini's Sandbox/2009–10

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Manchester City
Season 2009–10
Owner United Arab Emirates Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Chairman United Arab Emirates Khaldoon Al Mubarak
Managers Wales Mark Hughes (until 19 Dec. 2009)
Italy Roberto Mancini
Team captain Ivory Coast Kolo Touré
Home stadium City of Manchester Stadium
(a.k.a. Eastlands and CoMS)
Premier0League Fifth
League Cup Semi-final
FA Cup Fifth round
Top goalscorer League: 0 Carlos Tévez (23 goals)
(4th highest in Premier League)
All comps: Carlos Tévez (29 goals)
Season revenue € 152.8 million0(11th highest in world)
(5th highest in Premier League)
Average home
attendance 		45,512 – over 19 PL home games
(3rd highest in Premier League)
Highest home
attendance 		47,370 0v0 Tottenham Hotspur
5 May 2010
Highest away
attendance 		75,066 0v0 Manchester United
20 September 2009
Lowest home
attendance 		24,507 0v0 Fulham
23 September 2009
Lowest away
attendance 		8,861 0v0 Scunthorpe United
24 January 2010
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Results summary - all competitions
Wins Draws Losses Win %
Home 16 5 3 66.7%
Away 9 9 6 37.5%
Both 25 14 9 52.1%
Results summary - Premier League
Wins Draws Losses Win %
Home 12 4 3 63.2%
Away 6 9 4 31.6%
Both 18 13 7 47.4%

The 2009–10 season is Manchester City Football Club's eighth consecutive season playing in the Premier League, the top division of English football, and its thirteenth season since the Premier League was first created with Manchester City as one of the its original 22 founding member clubs. Overall, it is the team's 118th season playing in a division of English football, most of which have been spent in the top flight. The club started the season under the management of Mark Hughes who was controversially sacked in mid-December after the team notched up seven consecutive draws in the Premier League.[1] He was replaced by the Italian manager Roberto Mancini.

Season review[edit]

After only five months in the job at Eastlands, new manager Roberto Mancini demonstrated that he clearly deserved, and should get, more time to "mould the team to his own image."[2][3] In his first few months in the job, after succeeding Mark Hughes in December, the Italian did make some noticeable improvements to the team, such as ironing out its occasional lack of focus and cohesion in defence whilst also improving the overall mentality of the team. Yet by the end of the season it had become obvious that there was much work still to be done in order to convince some of Mancini's higher-profile players to sign up to his personal ethos.[4]

With a prolific 29 goals in his first season at the club, Carlos Tévez was widely regarded as the club's best and most important player this season,[5] with the feisty Argentinian striker becoming an almost talismanic figurehead, not just for the team on the field of play and the fans in the stands, but also with regard to the whole zeitgeist associated with this new era in the club's history. Unfortunately for City, this campaign saw too many of his team mates failing to match his high work rate and fecund output.[6] There were a number of players who flattered to deceive this season, with the most notable of them being the previous season's fan's favourite and top scorer, Robinho. The Brazilian's second season in English football proved to be a disastrous one for both the "marquee signing" and the Mark who signed him, with his January loan out to Brazilian club Santos for the remainder of the season[7] only serving to emphasise the magnitude of his failure to deliver on the pitch anything remotely comparable to what he had already received in his bank account.

The loss in the team's last home game of the season to fellow rivals for landing one of the Premier League's "Top Four" elite slots, Tottenham Hotspur, in what had been dubbed by the media beforehand as the "Champions League play-off" game, was considered by many observers to be the Manchester club's defining moment of the season.[3] Breaking the established stranglehold of the "Big Four" had been, and still is, one of the ambitions of the club's new wealthy owners, yet the players they expensively accumulated to achieve this feat failed to deliver, if only marginally so. However, one of the positives for City to be taken from this season's campaign will be that the club reached its first major semi-final since 1981 (albeit with the most expensive squad ever assembled to try to win the Carling Cup) before finally succumbing to the eventual trophy winners and bitter rivals from across the city, Manchester United.[8][9] The City team also notched up some highly noteworthy victories over the other "Top Four" incumbents, Chelsea[10][11] and Arsenal.[12][13]

In fact, Manchester City earned itself the distinction of being the only team to do the "league double" over the team that ultimately achieved the "league and cup double" this season. So as much as the season may have seemed like yet another false dawn to the ever-faithful and loyal City fans,[14] the club is in reality "a work in progress"[15][16] that appears to still be on course to arrive where it ultimately wants to be,[17][18][19] and with more new signings in the close season, will presumably get even closer to achieving its very ambitious agenda next season. Given that the club is building its team from a much weaker base than Chelsea did under Roman Abramovich (viz. Chelsea had already finished fourth in the Premier League in the 2002–03 season before Abramovich purchased the club in June 2003) progress will naturally be somewhat slower despite the vast wealth of City's current ownership. So this season's campaign should still be considered to be a successful one for City, regardless of the fact that the team narrowly missed its main goal of qualifying for an opportunity to play in the Champions League in 2010–11.[3]

Team kit[edit]

For this season the shirt sponsor for all of the club's kits was Etihad Airways which replaced the previous season's sponsor, Thomas Cook. There was also a change in the supplier of those kits for this season, with Nike owned Umbro replacing the previous season's supplier, Le Coq Sportif. As a result of the switch from its prior French kit supplier to the Greater Manchester-based Umbro, all of the club's previous season's team and goalkeeper kits were essentially replaced with new ones for this season. The overall sky blue color of the first team kit was retained but the style and trim if this strip was significantly changed. Completely new away and third team kits were introduced, while a new all green goalkeeper strip replaced the previous season's gold and black strip as the primary one for use by the stoppers, with a newly styled and trimmed variant of the old gold and black strip now becoming the secondary strip for use by the keepers in away fixtures.

The new all black away team kit came with gold vertical shoulder trim on the front that enabled the kit to be color coordinated with the gold and black goalkeeper strip, although it was sometimes also used with the all green goalkeeper strip. This gold and black color scheme was, according to its designer David Blanch,[20] intended to be symbolic of the globe covered with bees (representing the world, to all parts of which the goods of the city are exported) that is featured on the city of Manchester coat of arms. That is because the Manchester City teams in the past have established the unique tradition of always wearing this crest on their shirts when playing at Wembley (or in a major cup final elsewhere) as a symbol of their pride in representing the city of Manchester at a major sporting event. In heraldic terms, the bee is symbolic of a hive of industry, and even today the Manchester bee is often used all by itself as a shorthand emblem for the city of Manchester.

The red and black diagonal sash across the white shirts of the new third team kit was intended as a nostalgic re-mastering of the original sashed strip worn by the City team back in the seventies,[21] while that original design had, in its turn, been a nod back at the classic red and black striped shirts with black shorts that had originally been introduced by coach Malcolm Allison in imitation of A.C. Milan's strip, and which was frequently worn in its cup ties by the successful trophy-winning City team of the late sixties and early seventies.

Home (version 1)
Home (version 2)
Away (version 1)
Away (version 2)
Third
Goalkeeper strip 1
Goalkeeper strip 2

Kit usage[edit]

Numbers denote: "number of home games : number of away or neutral venue games"
X indicates potential home fixtures where away and third team kits are usually never used

Table information current as of the end of the season

Last updated: 24 April 2011.
Source: All video highlights for corresponding season 2009-10 games on MCFC OWS



This season in context[edit]

Prior to this season, the history of Manchester City's performance in the English football league hierarchy since the creation of the Premier League in 1992 is summarised by the following timeline chart – which commences with the last season (1991-92) of the old Football League First Division (from which the Premier League was formed).

Premier LeagueFootball League Division OnePremier LeagueFootball League Division OneFootball League Division TwoFootball League Division OnePremier LeagueFootball League First Division




Friendly games[edit]

Pre-season[edit]

11 July 2009 1860 Munich Germany 1 – 1 England Manchester City Rottach-Egern, Germany
Ludwig 30' Report & video 60' Bojinov Attendance: 3,000
Vodacom Challenge[edit]
18 July 2009 First round Orlando Pirates South Africa 2 – 0 England Manchester City Polokwane, South Africa
14:00 (local time) Thwala 35' (pen)
Mongala 55'
Kanono Yellow card 90'		 MCFC report
Football365 report
YouTube video		 Yellow card 45' Bellamy
Yellow card 45' Petrov		 Stadium: Peter Mokaba Stadium
Attendance: 26,000
Referee: Alex Tiyeho (Namibia)
21 July 2009 First round Kaizer Chiefs South Africa 0 – 1 England Manchester City Durban, South Africa
19:15 (local time) MCFC report
Football365 report
MCFC video		 Yellow card 44' Caicedo
45+2' Ireland
Yellow card 54' Barry		 Stadium: Kings Park Stadium
Attendance: 45,000
Referee: Welington Kaoma (Zambia)
25 July 2009 Final Kaizer Chiefs South Africa 1 – 0 England Manchester City Pretoria, South Africa
14:00 (local time) Ntuka 42' MCFC report
Football365 report		 Stadium: Loftus Versfeld Stadium
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Rajindraparsad Seechurn (Mauritius)


1 August 2009 Barnsley England 1 – 1 England Manchester City Barnsley, England
15:00 BST Bogdanovic 84' MCFC report
MCFC video		 87' Petrov Stadium: Oakwell Stadium
Attendance: 13,611
Referee: Jonathan Moss (West Yorkshire)
5 August 2009 Rangers Scotland 3 – 2 England Manchester City Glasgow, Scotland
19:45 BST Novo 19'
Davis 54'
Weir 90+2'		 MCFC report
MCFC video		 27' Ireland
52' Petrov		 Stadium: Ibrox Stadium
Attendance: 35,120
Referee: Craig Thomson (Paisley)
8 August 2009 Manchester City England 2 – 1 Scotland Celtic Manchester, England
15:00 BST Barry 16'
Bellamy 51'		 MCFC report
MCFC video		 23' Killen Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium
Attendance: 29,023
Referee: Martin Atkinson (Yorkshire)


Mid-season[edit]

Joan Gamper Trophy[edit]
19 August 2009 Barcelona Spain 0 – 1 England Manchester City Barcelona, Spain
21:15 BST MCFC report
FC Barcelona report
YouTube video		 27' Petrov Stadium: Camp Nou
Attendance: 94,123
Referee: David Miranda Torres (Catalonia)
Emirates Foundation Cup[edit]
12 November 2009 United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 1 – 0 England Manchester City Abu Dhabi, UAE
16:00 GMT Al-Shehhi 9' (pen.) MCFC report
YouTube video		 Stadium: Sheikh Zayed Stadium
Attendance: 26,000
Referee: Mohamed Omar Al Saeedi (UAE)



Competitive games[edit]

Premier League[edit]

Position in final standings[edit]

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
3 Arsenal 38 23 6 9 83 41 +42 75 Qualification for the Champions League group stage
4 Tottenham Hotspur 38 21 7 10 67 41 +26 70 Qualification for the Champions League play-off round
5 Manchester City 38 18 13 7 73 45 +28 67 Qualification for the Europa League play-off round[a]
6 Aston Villa 38 17 13 8 52 39 +13 64
7 Liverpool 38 18 9 11 61 35 +26 63 Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round[b]
Source: Premier League
Notes:
  1. ^ Since Manchester United won the League Cup and then qualified for the Champions League, their spot in the Europa League was passed down to the 6th-placed team. The 6th-placed Aston Villa was coincidentally also the League Cup runners-up.
  2. ^ Originally Portsmouth qualified for the third qualifying round of the Europa League as the FA Cup runners-up, replacing the winners, Champions League-qualified Chelsea. However, they failed to apply for a UEFA licence. Therefore, Liverpool as the best placed team not qualified for the European competitions took their place.

Results summary[edit]

Overall Home Away
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L GF GA GD W D L GF GA GD
38 18 13 7 73 45  +28 67 12 4 3 41 20  +21 6 9 4 32 25  +7

Last updated: 9 May 2010 (end of season).
Source: Premier League results 2009-10



Results by round[edit]

Round1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738
GroundAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAAAHHAHHAHHA
ResultWWWWLWDDDDDDDWDLWWWWLWLWDDWDWLWWWLDWLD
Position25434545646666686654566544455554445555
Updated to match(es) played on 9 May 2010 (end of season). Source: Premier League results 2009-10
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Individual match reports[edit]

1
Blackburn Rovers England0 – 2England Manchester City
BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 3' Adebayor
90+1' Ireland
Attendance: 29,584
Referee: Mike Dean
2
Manchester City England1 – 0England Wolverhampton Wanderers
Adebayor 17' BBC Sport report
Guardian report
Attendance: 47,287
Referee: Lee Mason
3
Portsmouth England0 – 1England Manchester City
BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 30' Adebayor
Attendance: 17,826
Referee: Howard Webb
4
Manchester City England4 – 2England Arsenal
Richards 19'
Bellamy 73'
Adebayor 79'
Wright-Phillips 84'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 62' van Persie
87' Rosický
Attendance: 47,339
5
Manchester United England4 – 3England Manchester City
Rooney 2'
Fletcher 49', 80'
Owen 90+6'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 16' Barry
52', 90' Bellamy
Attendance: 75,066
6
Manchester City England3 – 1England West Ham United
Tévez 5', 61'
Petrov 31'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 24' Cole
Attendance: 42,745
Referee: Chris Foy
7
Aston Villa England1 – 1England Manchester City
Dunne 15' BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 67' Bellamy
Attendance: 37,924
Referee: Mike Dean
8
Wigan Athletic England1 – 1England Manchester City
N'Zogbia 45+1' BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 47' Petrov
Attendance: 20,005
Referee: Alan Wiley
9
Manchester City England2 – 2England Fulham
Lescott 53'
Petrov 60'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 62' Duff
68' Dempsey
Attendance: 44,906
Referee: Kevin Friend
10
Birmingham City England0 – 0England Manchester City
BBC Sport report
Guardian report
Attendance: 21,462
Referee: Mike Dean
11
Manchester City England3 – 3England Burnley
Wright-Phillips 42'
Touré 54'
Bellamy 57'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 18' Alexander
31' Fletcher
86' McDonald
Attendance: 47,205
12
Liverpool England2 – 2England Manchester City
Škrtel 50'
Benayoun 77'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 69' Adebayor
76' Ireland
Attendance: 44,164
Referee: Phil Dowd
13
Manchester City England1 – 1England Hull City
Wright-Phillips 45+1' BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 82' (pen.) Bullard
Attendance: 46,382
Referee: Lee Probert
14
Manchester City England2 – 1England Chelsea
Adebayor 37'
Tévez 56'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 8' (o.g.) Adebayor
Attendance: 47,348
Referee: Howard Webb
15
Bolton Wanderers England3 – 3England Manchester City
Klasnić 11', 53'
Cahill 43'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 28', 77' Tévez
45+2' Richards
Attendance: 22,735
16
Tottenham Hotspur England3 – 0England Manchester City
Kranjčar 37', 90+3'
Defoe 54'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report
Attendance: 35,891
Referee: Alan Wiley
17
Manchester City England4 – 3England Sunderland
Santa Cruz 4', 69'
Tévez 12' (pen.)
Bellamy 35'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 16' Mensah
24' Henderson
62' Jones
Attendance: 44,735
18
Manchester City England2 – 0England Stoke City
Petrov 27'
Tévez 45+3'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report
Attendance: 47,325
Referee: Lee Mason
19
Wolverhampton Wanderers England0 – 3England Manchester City
BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 33', 86' Tévez
69' Garrido
Attendance: 28,957
Referee: Mike Jones
20
Manchester City England4 – 1England Blackburn Rovers
Tévez 7', 49', 90+1'
Richards 39'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 71' Pedersen
Attendance: 40,292
Referee: Chris Foy
21
Everton England2 – 0England Manchester City
Pienaar 36'
Saha 45+3'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report
Attendance: 37,378
22
Manchester City England2 – 0England Portsmouth
Adebayor 39'
Kompany 45+1'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report
Attendance: 44,015
23
Hull City England2 – 1England Manchester City
Altidore 31'
Boateng 54'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 59' Adebayor
Attendance: 24,999
Referee: Phil Dowd
24
Manchester City England2 – 0England Bolton Wanderers
Tévez 31' (pen.)
Adebayor 73'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report
Attendance: 42,016
Referee: Mike Jones
25
Stoke City England1 – 1England Manchester City
Whelan 72' BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 86' Barry
Attendance: 26,778
Referee: Alan Wiley
26
Manchester City England0 – 0England Liverpool
BBC Sport report
Guardian report
Attendance: 47,203
Referee: Peter Walton
27
Chelsea England2 – 4England Manchester City
Lampard 42', 90+1' (pen.) BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 45+1', 76' (pen.) Tévez
51', 87' Bellamy
Attendance: 41,814
Referee: Mike Dean
28
Sunderland England1 – 1England Manchester City
Jones 9' BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 90+1' A. Johnson
Attendance: 41,398
Referee: Chris Foy
29
Fulham England1 – 2England Manchester City
Murphy 75' (pen.) BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 7' Santa Cruz
36' Tévez
Attendance: 25,359
Referee: Lee Probert
30
Manchester City England0 – 2England Everton
BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 33' Cahill
85' Arteta
Attendance: 45,708
Referee: Peter Walton
31
Manchester City England3 – 0England Wigan Athletic
Tévez 72', 75', 84' BBC Sport report
Guardian report
Attendance: 43,534
32
Burnley England1 – 6England Manchester City
Fletcher 71' BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 4', 45' Adebayor
5' Bellamy
7' Tévez
20' Vieira
58' Kompany
Attendance: 21,330
Referee: Alan Wiley
33
Manchester City England5 – 1England Birmingham City
Tévez 38' (pen.) 40'
Adebayor 43'
Onuoha 74'
Adebayor 88'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report
Guardian live text		 42' Jerome
Attendance: 45,209
Referee: Phil Dowd
34
Manchester City England0 – 1England Manchester United
BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 90+3' Scholes
Attendance: 47,019
35
Arsenal England0 – 0England Manchester City
BBC Sport report
Observer report
Guardian report
Guardian match facts
Attendance: 60,086
Referee: Mike Dean
36
Manchester City England3 – 1England Aston Villa
Tévez 41' (pen.)
Adebayor 43'
Bellamy 89'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 16' Carew
Attendance: 47,102
37
Manchester City England0 – 1England Tottenham Hotspur
BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 82' Crouch
Attendance: 47,370
Referee: Steve Bennett
38
West Ham United England1 – 1England Manchester City
Boa Morte 18' BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 21' Wright-Phillips
Attendance: 34,989
Referee: Howard Webb


League Cup[edit]

Second round[edit]

Crystal Palace England0 – 2England Manchester City
BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 50' Wright-Phillips
72' Tévez
Attendance: 14,725
Referee: Darren Deadman

Third round[edit]

Manchester City England(1) 2 – 1 (1)England Fulham
Barry 52'
Touré 111'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 34' Gera
Attendance: 24,507

Fourth round[edit]

Manchester City England5 – 1England Scunthorpe United
Ireland 3'
Santa Cruz 37'
Lescott 55'
Tévez 71'
M. Johnson 76'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 25' Forte
Attendance: 36,358
Referee: Mark Oliver

Fifth round[edit]

Manchester City England3 – 0England Arsenal
Tévez 50'
Wright-Phillips 69'
Weiss 89'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report
MCFC video
Attendance: 46,015
Referee: Chris Foy

Semi-Final[edit]

First leg[edit]
Manchester City England2 – 1England Manchester United
Tévez 42' (pen.), 65' BBC Sport report
Guardian report
Guardian live text		 17' Giggs
Attendance: 46,067
Referee: Mike Dean
Second leg[edit]
Manchester United England3 – 1England Manchester City
Scholes 57'
Carrick 71'
Rooney 90+2'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report
Guardian live text		 76' Tévez
Attendance: 74,576
Referee: Howard Webb

Manchester United won 4–3 on aggregate.

FA Cup[edit]

Third round[edit]

Middlesbrough England0 – 1England Manchester City
BBC Sport report
Observer report
Guardian report		 45' Benjani
Attendance: 12,474

Fourth round[edit]

Scunthorpe United England2 – 4England Manchester City
Hayes 29'
Boyata 69' (o.g.)		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report
Guardian live text		 3' Petrov
45' Onuoha
57' Sylvinho
84' Robinho
Attendance: 8,861
Referee: Kevin Friend

Fifth round[edit]

Manchester City England1 – 1England Stoke City
Wright-Phillips 11' BBC Sport report
Observer report
Guardian report
Guardian live text		 57' Fuller
Attendance: 28,019
Fifth round replay[edit]
Stoke City England(1) 3 – 1 (1)England Manchester City
Kitson 79'
Shawcross 95'
Tuncay 99'		 BBC Sport report
Guardian report		 81' Bellamy
Attendance: 21,813
Referee: Steve Bennett



Playing statistics[edit]

Appearances (Apps.) numbers are for appearances in competitive games only
Apps. numbers denote: Total no. of games played (No. of games played as a substitute)
Red card numbers denote: No. of second yellow cards / No. of straight red cards
** indicates retroactive 3-match ban by F.A. for violent conduct towards Robin van Persie in PL game against Arsenal at Eastlands on 12 Sep. 2009
*** indicates retroactive 3-match ban by F.A. for violent conduct towards Glenn Whelan in PL game against Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium on 16 Feb. 2010

No. Pos. Player League FA Cup League Cup Total Discipline
Apps. Goals Apps. Goals Apps. Goals Apps. Goals
1 GK Republic of Ireland Shay Given 350(0) 30(0) 60(0) 440(0) 2
2 DF England Micah Richards 230(4) 3 20(0) 40(0) 290(4) 3 4
3 DF England Wayne Bridge 230(0) 20(0) 30(0) 280(0) 2
4 DF England Nedum Onuoha 100(5) 1 20(0) 1 10(1) 130(6) 2
5 DF Argentina Pablo Zabaleta 270(4) 40(1) 40(0) 350(5) 12 1/–
6 MF England Michael Johnson 010(1) 10(1) 1 020(2) 1
7 MF Republic of Ireland Stephen Ireland 220(6) 2 30(0) 50(1) 1 300(7) 3
8 MF England Shaun Wright-Phillips 30 (11) 4 20(1) 1 60(0) 2 38 (12) 7 2
10 FW Brazil Robinho 100(4) 10(0) 1 10(0) 120(4) 1
11 MF England Adam Johnson 160(2) 1 160(2) 1 1
12 GK England Stuart Taylor 10(0) 010(0)
14 FW Paraguay Roque Santa Cruz 19 (13) 3 20(2) 10(0) 1 22 (15) 4 1
15 DF Spain Javier Garrido 090(2) 1 10(0) 20(0) 120(2) 1 2
16 DF Brazil Sylvinho 100(4) 30(1) 1 20(1) 150(6) 1 3
17 MF Bulgaria Martin Petrov 170(9) 4 40(1) 1 10(1) 22 (11) 5
18 MF England Gareth Barry 340(0) 2 30(1) 60(0) 1 430(1) 3 5
19 DF England Joleon Lescott 190(1) 1 20(0) 40(0) 1 250(1) 2 1
Sold DF Republic of Ireland Richard Dunne 020(0) 020(0) 1
24 MF France Patrick Vieira 130(5) 1 10(1) 140(6) 1 2 ***
25 FW Togo Emmanuel Adebayor 260(1) 14 20(0) 30(1) 310(2) 14 1 –/1 **
27 FW Zimbabwe Benjani Mwaruwari 020(1) 20(0) 1 20(2) 060(3) 1
28 DF Ivory Coast Kolo Touré (c) 310(0) 1 10(0) 30(0) 1 350(0) 2 1
32 FW Argentina Carlos Tévez 350(3) 23 10(1) 60(0) 6 420(4) 29 7
33 DF Belgium Vincent Kompany 250(4) 2 30(0) 40(1) 320(5) 2 3
34 MF Netherlands Nigel de Jong 340(4) 30(0) 50(1) 420(5) 9
37 GK Faroe Islands Gunnar Nielsen 010(1) 010(1)
38 GK Hungary Márton Fülöp 030(0) 030(0)
39 FW Wales Craig Bellamy 320(6) 10 30(2) 1 50(1) 400(9) 11 7 1/–
40 MF Slovakia Vladimir Weiss 10(0) 30(3) 1 040(3) 1
44 DF Belgium Dedryck Boyata 030(2) 20(0) 20(0) 070(2) 1
45 DF Republic of Ireland Greg Cunningham 020(2) 10(1) 030(3) 1
48 MF Norway Abdisalam Ibrahim 010(1) 10(0) 020(1)
52 FW England Alex Tchuimeni-Nimely 010(1) 010(1)
TOTALS 73 7 15 95 68 2/1

Information current as of 9 May 2010 (end of season)

Last updated: 25 April 2011.
Source: (for players and positions) Season 2009-10 First Team Squad 00(for squad numbers) Season 2009-10 Squad Numbers 00(for actual stats.) All match reports in Competitive games section above



Goal scorers[edit]

Player Premier League League Cup FA Cup All competitions
Argentina Carlos Tévez 23 6 29
Togo Emmanuel Adebayor 14 14
Wales Craig Bellamy 10 1 11
England Shaun Wright-Phillips 4 2 1 7
Bulgaria Martin Petrov 4 1 5
Paraguay Roque Santa Cruz 3 1 4
England Gareth Barry 2 1 3
Republic of Ireland Stephen Ireland 2 1 3
England Micah Richards 3 3
Belgium Vincent Kompany 2 2
England Joleon Lescott 1 1 2
England Nedum Onuoha 1 1 2
Ivory Coast Kolo Touré 1 1 2
Spain Javier Garrido 1 1
England Adam Johnson 1 1
England Michael Johnson 1 1
Zimbabwe Benjani Mwaruwari 1 1
Brazil Robinho 1 1
Brazil Sylvinho 1 1
France Patrick Vieira 1 1
Slovakia Vladimir Weiss 1 1

Information current for all games played as of 9 May 2010 (end of season)


Awards[edit]

Premier League Player of the Month award[edit]

Awarded monthly to the player that was chosen by a panel assembled by the Premier League's sponsor

Month Player Club
December [23] Argentina Carlos Tévez Manchester City


PFA Fans' Player of the Month award[edit]

Awarded monthly to four players - one in each of the Premier League plus the three divisions of the Football League - those players being the ones that receive the most votes cast for that league in a poll conducted each month on the PFA's OWS (http://www.givemefootball.com)

Month Player Club
March [24] Argentina Carlos Tévez Manchester City


LMA Performance of the Week award[edit]

Awarded on a weekly basis to the Premier League or Football League team that a five-man LMA adjudication panel deems to have performed in some outstanding manner

Week ending Awarded to For performance in
5 March 2010 [25] Manchester City Chelsea 2 – 4 Manchester City


Etihad Player of the Month awards[edit]

Awarded to the player in each category that receives the most votes in a poll conducted each month on the MCFC OWS

Month First Team Reserve Team Academy
August/September [26] Wales Craig Bellamy England David Ball England Tom Smith
October [27] Bulgaria Martin Petrov Republic of Ireland Donal McDermott Norway Omar Elabdellaoui
November [28] Republic of Ireland Shay Given England James Poole England Sean Tse
December [29] Argentina Carlos Tévez N/A
January [30] Argentina Carlos Tévez N/A
February [31] Belgium Vincent Kompany N/A
March [32] England Adam Johnson N/A
April [33] Argentina Carlos Tévez N/A


Etihad / OSC Player of the Year awards[edit]

Player Season 2009–10 awards [34] Notes
Argentina Carlos Tévez OSC Player of the Year OSC = Official Supporters Club
Belgium Dedryck Boyata OSC Young Player of the Year
Argentina Carlos Tévez Players' Player of the Year
England Adam Johnson Goal of the Season Sunderland 1 – 1 Manchester City
14 March 2010
Wales Craig Bellamy Performance of the Season Manchester United 4 – 3 Manchester City
20 September 2009
England Shaun Wright-Phillips Community Player of the Year



Transfers and loans[edit]

Transfers in[edit]


Transfers out[edit]

Loans in[edit]


Loans out[edit]


See also[edit]



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