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Manchester City

2009–10 season
Owner	Abu Dhabi United Group
Chairman	Khaldoon Al Mubarak
Manager	Mark Hughes (until 19 December) Roberto Mancini (from 19 December)
Stadium	City of Manchester Stadium
Premier League	5th
FA Cup	Fifth round
League Cup	Semi-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Carlos Tevez (23) All: Carlos Tevez (29)
Highest home attendance	45,356 vs Tottenham Hotspur (5 May 2010)
Lowest home attendance	37,876 vs Fulham (23 September 2009)
Average home league attendance	44,870
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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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 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 sacked in mid-December after the team drew seven consecutive matches in the Premier League. He was replaced by the Italian manager Roberto Mancini.

Season review

New manager Roberto Mancini began the season with only five months in the job at Eastlands.

With a prolific 29 goals in his first season at the club, Carlos Tevez was widely regarded as the club's best and most important player this season. The previous season's fan's favourite and top scorer, Robinho, was less successful, and in January he was loaned out to Brazilian club Santos for the remainder of the season 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 team lost its 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. Breaking the established stranglehold of the "Big Four" had been one of the ambitions of the club's new wealthy owners. However, one of the positives of the season's campaign was that the club reached its first major semi-final since 1981 before finally succumbing to the eventual trophy winners, Manchester United. The City team also notched up some highly noteworthy victories over the other "Top Four" incumbents, Chelsea and Arsenal.

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.

Kit

Supplier: Umbro / Sponsor: Etihad Airways

Home

Home alt.

Away

Away alt.

Third

Goalkeeper 1

Goalkeeper 2

Kit information

For the 2009–10 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 colour of the first team kit was retained but the style and trim of 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 goalkeepers, with a newly styled and trimmed variant of the old gold and black strip which became the secondary strip for use by the goalkeepers 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 colour-coordinated with the gold and black goalkeeper strip, although it was sometimes also used with the all-green goalkeeper strip. This gold and black colour scheme was, according to its designer David Blanch, intended to be symbolic of the globe covered with bees (representing the world, to all parts of which the goods of the city were exported) that was featured on the city of Manchester coat of arms. That was 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 was symbolic of a hive of industry, and even today the Manchester bee was 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 in the 1970s, 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 Milan's strip, and which was frequently worn in its cup ties by the successful trophy-winning City team of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Historical league performance

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).

Friendly games

Pre-season

11 July 2009	1860 München	1–1	Manchester City	Rottach-Egern, Germany
	Ludwig 30'	Report & video	60' Bojinov	Attendance: 3,000

Vodacom Challenge

18 July 2009 First round	Orlando Pirates	2–0	Manchester City	Polokwane, South Africa
14:00 (local time)	Thwala 35' (pen.) Mongala 55' Kanono  90'	MCFC report Football365 report YouTube video	45' Bellamy  45' Petrov	Stadium: Peter Mokaba Stadium Attendance: 26,000 Referee: Alex Tiyeho (Namibia)

21 July 2009 First round	Kaizer Chiefs	0–1	Manchester City	Durban, South Africa
19:15 (local time)		MCFC report Football365 report MCFC video	44' Caicedo 45+2' Ireland  54' Barry	Stadium: Kings Park Stadium Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Welington Kaoma (Zambia)

25 July 2009 Final	Kaizer Chiefs	1–0	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	1–1	Manchester City	Barnsley, England
15:00 BST	Bogdanović 84'	MCFC report MCFC video	87' Petrov	Stadium: Oakwell Stadium Attendance: 13,611 Referee: Jonathan Moss (West Yorkshire)

5 August 2009	Rangers	3–2	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	2–1	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

Joan Gamper Trophy

19 August 2009	Barcelona	0–1	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

12 November 2009	United Arab Emirates	1–0	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

Premier League

Position in final standings

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

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

Results by round

Matches

15 August 2009 1	Blackburn Rovers	0–2	Manchester City	Blackburn
15:00 BST		BBC Sport report Guardian report	3' Adebayor 90+1' Ireland	Stadium: Ewood Park Attendance: 29,584 (7,448 away) Referee: Mike Dean

22 August 2009 2	Manchester City	1–0	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Manchester
15:00 BST	Adebayor 17'	BBC Sport report Guardian report		Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 47,287 (2,809 away) Referee: Lee Mason

30 August 2009 3	Portsmouth	0–1	Manchester City	Portsmouth
13:30 BST		BBC Sport report Guardian report	30' Adebayor	Stadium: Fratton Park Attendance: 17,826 (2,085 away) Referee: Howard Webb

12 September 2009 4	Manchester City	4–2	Arsenal	Manchester
15:00 BST	Richards 19' Bellamy 73' Adebayor 79' Wright-Phillips 84'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	62' Van Persie 87' Rosický	Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 47,339 (2,846 away) Referee: Mark Clattenburg

20 September 2009 5	Manchester United	4–3	Manchester City	Manchester
13:30 BST	Rooney 2' Anderson  36' Vidić  43' Fletcher 49', 80' Owen 90+6'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	16' Barry Tevez  27' 52', 90',  58' Bellamy	Stadium: Old Trafford Attendance: 75,066 (3,051 away) Referee: Martin Atkinson

28 September 2009 6	Manchester City	3–1	West Ham United	Manchester
20:00 BST	Tevez 5', 61' Petrov 31'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	24' Cole	Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 42,745 (1,100 away) Referee: Chris Foy

5 October 2009 7	Aston Villa	1–1	Manchester City	Birmingham
20:00 BST	Dunne 15'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	67' Bellamy	Stadium: Villa Park Attendance: 37,924 (2,874 away) Referee: Mike Dean

18 October 2009 8	Wigan Athletic	1–1	Manchester City	Wigan
16:00 BST	N'Zogbia 45+1'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	47' Petrov	Stadium: DW Stadium Attendance: 20,005 (4,631 away) Referee: Alan Wiley

25 October 2009 9	Manchester City	2–2	Fulham	Manchester
15:00 GMT	Lescott 53' Petrov 60'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	62' Duff 68' Dempsey	Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 44,906 (595 away) Referee: Kevin Friend

7 November 2009 11	Manchester City	3–3	Burnley	Manchester
15:00 GMT	Wright-Phillips 42' Touré 54' Bellamy 57'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	18' (pen.) Alexander 31' Fletcher 86' McDonald	Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 47,205 (2,838 away) Referee: Stuart Attwell

21 November 2009 12	Liverpool	2–2	Manchester City	Liverpool
12:45 GMT	Carragher  17' Škrtel 50' Lucas  63' Benayoun 77'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	Ireland 69' Adebayor 72'	Stadium: Anfield Attendance: 44,164 (2,964 away) Referee: Phil Dowd

28 November 2009 13	Manchester City	1–1	Hull City	Manchester
15:00 GMT	Wright-Phillips 45+1'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	82' (pen.) Bullard	Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 46,382 (2,358 away) Referee: Lee Probert

5 December 2009 14	Manchester City	2–1	Chelsea	Manchester
17:30 GMT	Adebayor 37' Tevez 56'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	8' (o.g.) Adebayor	Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 47,348 (2,846 away) Referee: Howard Webb

12 December 2009 15	Bolton Wanderers	3–3	Manchester City	Bolton
15:00 GMT	Klasnić 11', 53' Cahill 43'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	28', 77' Tevez 45+2' Richards	Stadium: Reebok Stadium Attendance: 22,735 (4,634 away) Referee: Mark Clattenburg

16 December 2009 16	Tottenham Hotspur	3–0	Manchester City	London
20:00 GMT	Kranjčar 37', 90+3' Defoe 54'	BBC Sport report Guardian report		Stadium: White Hart Lane Attendance: 35,891 (1,696 away) Referee: Alan Wiley

19 December 2009 17	Manchester City	4–3	Sunderland	Manchester
15:00 GMT	Santa Cruz 4', 69' Tevez 12' (pen.) Bellamy 35'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	16' Mensah 24' Henderson 62' Jones	Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 44,735 (2,696 away) Referee: Andre Marriner

26 December 2009 18	Manchester City	2–0	Stoke City	Manchester
15:00 GMT	Petrov 27' Tevez 45+3'	BBC Sport report Guardian report		Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 47,325 (2,844 away) Referee: Lee Mason

28 December 2009 19	Wolverhampton Wanderers	0–3	Manchester City	Wolverhampton
19:45 GMT		BBC Sport report Guardian report	33', 86' Tevez 69' Garrido	Stadium: Molineux Attendance: 28,957 (2,691 away) Referee: Mike Jones

11 January 2010 20	Manchester City	4–1	Blackburn Rovers	Manchester
20:00 GMT	Tevez 7', 49', 90+1' Richards 39'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	71' Pedersen	Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 40,292 (821 away) Referee: Chris Foy

16 January 2010 21	Everton	2–0	Manchester City	Liverpool
17:30 GMT	Pienaar 36' Saha 45+3'	BBC Sport report Guardian report		Stadium: Goodison Park Attendance: 37,378 (2,626 away) Referee: Andre Marriner

31 January 2010 22	Manchester City	2–0	Portsmouth	Manchester
13:30 GMT	Adebayor 39' Kompany 45+1'	BBC Sport report Guardian report		Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 44,015 (701 away) Referee: Martin Atkinson

6 February 2010 23	Hull City	2–1	Manchester City	Kingston upon Hull
15:00 GMT	Altidore 31' Boateng 54'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	59' Adebayor	Stadium: KC Stadium Attendance: 25,000 (2,452 away) Referee: Phil Dowd

9 February 2010 24	Manchester City	2–0	Bolton Wanderers	Manchester
19:45 GMT	Tevez 31' (pen.) Adebayor 73'	BBC Sport report Guardian report		Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 42,016 (985 away) Referee: Mike Jones

16 February 2010 25	Stoke City	1–1	Manchester City	Stoke-on-Trent
19:45 GMT	Whelan 72'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	86' Barry	Stadium: Britannia Stadium Attendance: 26,778 (2,242 away) Referee: Alan Wiley

27 February 2010 27	Chelsea	2–4	Manchester City	London
12:45 GMT	Lampard 42', 90+1' (pen.)	BBC Sport report Guardian report	45+1', 76' (pen.) Tevez 51', 87' Bellamy	Stadium: Stamford Bridge Attendance: 41,814 (1,454 away) Referee: Mike Dean

14 March 2010 28	Sunderland	1–1	Manchester City	Sunderland
16:00 GMT	Jones 9'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	90+1' A. Johnson	Stadium: Stadium of Light Attendance: 41,398 (1,845 away) Referee: Chris Foy

21 March 2010 29	Fulham	1–2	Manchester City	London
15:00 GMT	Murphy 75' (pen.)	BBC Sport report Guardian report	7' Santa Cruz 36' Tevez	Stadium: Craven Cottage Attendance: 25,359 (1,686 away) Referee: Lee Probert

24 March 2010 30	Manchester City	0–2	Everton	Manchester
19:45 GMT		BBC Sport report Guardian report	33' Cahill 85' Arteta	Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 45,708 (2,846 away) Referee: Peter Walton

29 March 2010 31	Manchester City	3–0	Wigan Athletic	Manchester
20:00 BST	Tevez 72', 75', 84'	BBC Sport report Guardian report		Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 43,534 (601 away) Referee: Stuart Attwell

3 April 2010 32	Burnley	1–6	Manchester City	Burnley
17:30 BST	Fletcher 71'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	4', 45' Adebayor 5' Bellamy 7' Tevez 20' Vieira 58' Kompany	Stadium: Turf Moor Attendance: 21,330 (2,339 away) Referee: Alan Wiley

11 April 2010 33	Manchester City	5–1	Birmingham City	Manchester
16:00 BST	Tevez 38' (pen.), 40' Adebayor 43', 88' Onuoha 74'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	42' Jerome	Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 45,209 (1,193 away) Referee: Phil Dowd

17 April 2010 34	Manchester City	0–1	Manchester United	Manchester
12:45 BST		BBC Sport report Guardian report	90+3' Scholes	Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 47,019 (2,596 away) Referee: Martin Atkinson

1 May 2010 36	Manchester City	3–1	Aston Villa	Manchester
15:00 BST	Tevez 41' (pen.) Adebayor 43' Bellamy 89'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	16' Carew	Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 47,102 Referee: Mark Clattenburg

5 May 2010 37	Manchester City	0–1	Tottenham Hotspur	Manchester
20:00 BST		BBC Sport report Guardian report	82' Crouch	Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 47,370 Referee: Steve Bennett

9 May 2010 38	West Ham United	1–1	Manchester City	London
16:00 BST	Boa Morte 18'	BBC Sport report Guardian report	21' Wright-Phillips	Stadium: Boleyn Ground Attendance: 34,989 Referee: Howard Webb

FA Cup

2 January 2010 Third round	Middlesbrough	0–1	Manchester City	Middlesbrough
15:00		BBC Sport report MCFC report	45' Benjani	Stadium: Riverside Stadium Attendance: 12,474 Referee: Stuart Attwell

24 January 2010 Fourth round	Scunthorpe United	2–4	Manchester City	Scunthorpe
16:00	Hayes 29' Boyata 69' (o.g.)	BBC Sport report	3' Petrov 45' Onuoha 57' Sylvinho 84' Robinho	Stadium: Glanford Park Attendance: 8,861 Referee: Kevin Friend

13 February 2010 Fifth round	Manchester City	1–1	Stoke City	Manchester
17:15	Wright-Phillips 11'	BBC Sport report MCFC report	57' Fuller	Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 28,019 Referee: Mark Clattenburg

24 February 2010 Fifth round Replay	Stoke City	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Manchester City	Stoke-on-Trent
19:45	Kitson 79' Shawcross 95' Tuncay 99'	BBC Sport report MCFC report	Bellamy 81'	Stadium: Britannia Stadium Attendance: 21,813 Referee: Steve Bennett

League Cup

27 August 2009 Second round	Crystal Palace	0–2	Manchester City	London
20:00		BBC Sport report MCFC report	50' Wright-Phillips 72' Tevez	Stadium: Selhurst Park Attendance: 14,725 Referee: Darren Deadman

23 September 2009 Third round	Manchester City	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Fulham	Manchester
20:00	Barry 52' Touré 111'	BBC Sport report	34' Gera	Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 24,507 Referee: Stuart Attwell

28 October 2009 Fourth round	Manchester City	5–1	Scunthorpe United	Manchester
19:45	Ireland 3' Santa Cruz 37' Lescott 55' Tevez 71' M. Johnson 76'	BBC Sport report MCFC report	25' Forte	Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 36,358 Referee: Michael Oliver

2 December 2009 Fifth round	Manchester City	3–0	Arsenal	Manchester
19:45	Tevez 50' Wright-Phillips 69' Weiss 89'	BBC Sport report		Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 46,015 Referee: Chris Foy

19 January 2010 Semi-finals	Manchester City	2–1	Manchester United	Manchester
20:00 (Rescheduled)	Tevez 42' (pen.), 65'	BBC Sport report MCFC report	17' Giggs	Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 46,067 Referee: Mike Dean
Note: This match was originally scheduled to be played on 6 January, but both semi-final legs were subsequently rescheduled due to heavy snow.

27 January 2010 Semi-finals	Manchester United	3–1 (4–3 agg.)	Manchester City	Manchester
20:00 (Rescheduled)	Scholes 57' Carrick 71' Rooney 90+2'	BBC Sport report MCFC report	Tevez 76'	Stadium: Old Trafford Attendance: 74,576 Referee: Howard Webb

Squad information

Source:

Playing statistics

Appearances (Apps.) numbers are for appearances in competitive games only including sub appearances
Red card numbers denote: Numbers in parentheses represent red cards overturned for wrongful dismissal.

No.	Nat.	Player	Pos.	Premier League				FA Cup				League Cup				Total
				Apps				Apps				Apps				Apps
1		Shay Given	GK	35		2		3				6				44		2
2		Micah Richards	DF	23	2	2		2		1		4		1		29	2	4
3		Wayne Bridge	DF	23		2		2				3				28		2
4		Nedum Onuoha	DF	10	1			2	1			1				13	1
5		Pablo Zabaleta	DF	27		9	1	4		1		4		2		35		12	1
6		Michael Johnson	MF	1								1	1			2	1
7		Stephen Ireland	MF	22	2			3				5	1			30	3
8		Shaun Wright-Phillips	MF	30	4	2		2	1			6	2			38	7	2
10		Robinho	FW	10				1	1	1		1				12	1	1
11		Adam Johnson	MF	16	1	1										16	1	1
12		Stuart Taylor	GK					1								1
14		Roque Santa Cruz	FW	19	3	1		2				1	1			22	4	1
15		Javier Garrido	DF	9	1	1		1		1		2				12	1	2
16		Sylvinho	DF	10		2		3	1	1		2				15	1	3
17		Martin Petrov	MF	16	4			3	1			1				20	5
18		Gareth Barry	MF	34	2	4		3		1		6	1			43	3	5
19		Joleon Lescott	DF	18	1	1		2				4	1			24	2	1
22		Richard Dunne	DF	2												2
24		Patrick Vieira	MF	13	1	2		1								14	1	2
25		Emmanuel Adebayor	FW	26	14	1		2			1	3				31	14	1	1
27		Benjani	FW	2				2	1			2				6	1
28		Kolo Touré	DF	31	1	1		1				3	1			35	2	1
32		Carlos Tevez	FW	35	23	6		1				6	6	1		42	29	7
33		Vincent Kompany	DF	25	2	2		3				4		1		32	2	3
34		Nigel de Jong	MF	34		7		3				5		2		42		9
37		Gunnar Nielsen	GK	1												1
38		Márton Fülöp	GK	3												3
39		Craig Bellamy	FW	32	10	5	1	3	1	1		5		1		40	11	7
40		Vladimír Weiss	MF					1				3	1			4	1
44		Dedryck Boyata	DF	3		1		2				2				7		1
45		Greg Cunningham	DF	2				1		1						3		1
48		Abdisalam Ibrahim	MF	1				1								2
52		Alex Nimely	FW	1												1
Own goals					0				0				0				0
Totals					73	52	2		7	8	1		15	9	0		95	69	3

Goalscorers

Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted alphabetically by surname when total goals are equal.

Awards

Premier League Player of the Month award

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

Month	Player	Club
December	Carlos Tevez	Manchester City

PFA Fans' Player of the Month award

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	Carlos Tevez	Manchester City

LMA Performance of the Week award

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

Etihad Player of the Month awards

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	Craig Bellamy	David Ball	Tom Smith
October	Martin Petrov	Donal McDermott	Omar Elabdellaoui
November	Shay Given	James Poole	Sean Tse
December	Carlos Tevez	N/A
January	Carlos Tevez	N/A
February	Vincent Kompany	N/A
March	Adam Johnson	N/A
April	Carlos Tevez	N/A

Etihad / OSC Player of the Year awards

Player	Season 2009–10 awards	Notes
Carlos Tevez	OSC Player of the Year	OSC = Official Supporters Club
Dedryck Boyata	OSC Young Player of the Year
Carlos Tevez	Players' Player of the Year
Adam Johnson	Goal of the Season Archived 22 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine	Sunderland 1 – 1 Manchester City 14 March 2010
Craig Bellamy	Performance of the Season Archived 23 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine	Manchester United 4 – 3 Manchester City 20 September 2009
Shaun Wright-Phillips	Community Player of the Year

Transfers and loans

Transfers in

First team Date Pos. Player From club Transfer fee 1 July 2009 MF Gareth Barry Aston Villa £12,000,000 1 July 2009 FW Roque Santa Cruz Blackburn Rovers £18,000,000 1 July 2009 GK Stuart Taylor Aston Villa Free 13 July 2009 FW Carlos Tevez Manchester United £25,500,000 18 July 2009 FW Emmanuel Adebayor Arsenal £25,000,000 29 July 2009 DF Kolo Touré Arsenal £16,000,000 24 Aug 2009 DF Sylvinho Barcelona Free 25 Aug 2009 DF Joleon Lescott Everton £22,000,000 8 Jan 2010 MF Patrick Vieira Internazionale Free 1 Feb 2010 MF Adam Johnson Middlesbrough Undisc.

Reserves & Academy Date Pos. Player From club Transfer fee 1 July 2009 GK Loris Karius VfB Stuttgart Undisc. 1 July 2009 DF Nils Zander Schalke 04 Undisc. 29 Aug 2009 MF Joan Ángel Román Espanyol Undisc. Sep. 2009 GK David González Huracán Trial Jan. 2010 GK David González Huracán Free

Transfers out

First team Exit Date Pos. Player To club Transfer fee 1 July 2009 DF Danny Mills Retired 1 July 2009 FW Daniel Sturridge Chelsea Tribunal 1 July 2009 FW Darius Vassell Ankaragücü Released 1 July 2009 MF Dietmar Hamann MK Dons Released 1 July 2009 DF Michael Ball Released 1 July 2009 DF Gláuber São Caetano Released 10 July 2009 MF Gelson Fernandes Saint-Étienne Undisc. 24 July 2009 FW Ched Evans Sheffield United £3,000,000 30 July 2009 MF Elano Galatasaray £8,000,000 14 Aug 2009 GK Kasper Schmeichel Notts County Undisc. 1 Sep 2009 DF Tal Ben Haim Portsmouth Free 2 Sep 2009 DF Richard Dunne Aston Villa £6,000,000

Reserves & Academy Exit Date Pos. Player To club Transfer fee 1 July 2009 DF Matthew Brown Released 1 July 2009 FW Ian Daly Aris Released 1 July 2009 GK Gregory Hartley Released 1 July 2009 GK Richard Martin Yeovil Town Released 1 July 2009 MF Ben Morris F.C. United Released 1 July 2009 DF Chris Ramsey Released 1 July 2009 MF Angelos Tsiaklis F.C. United Released 1 July 2009 MF Berna Hovath Released 1 July 2009 DF Peter Varga Released 1 July 2009 MF Adrian Cieslewicz Wrexham Released 1 July 2009 DF Igor Paldan Released 1 July 2009 MF Gary Nolan F.C. United Released 1 July 2009 MF Joe Clegg Witton Albion Released 1 Aug 2009 DF Curtis Obeng Wrexham Released 1 Jan 2010 DF Clayton McDonald Walsall Released

Loans in

First team Start date End date Pos. Player From club 27 Apr 2010 9 May 2010 GK Márton Fülöp Sunderland

Reserves & Academy Start date End date Pos. Player From club 14 Oct 2009 31 Jan 2010 FW J. Cullinane Swansea City

Loans out

First team Start date End date Pos. Player To club 1 July 2009 31 May 2010 GK Joe Hart Birmingham City 7 July 2009 21 Jan 2010 FW Jô Everton 23 July 2009 1 Jan 2010 FW Felipe Caicedo Sporting CP 24 July 2009 31 May 2010 DF Shaleum Logan Tranmere Rovers 30 July 2009 31 May 2010 FW Valeri Bojinov Parma 22 Aug 2009 31 May 2010 MF Kelvin Etuhu Cardiff City 9 Jan 2010 31 May 2010 FW Felipe Caicedo Málaga 21 Jan 2010 30 June 2010 FW Jô Galatasaray 25 Jan 2010 31 May 2010 MF Vladimír Weiss Bolton Wanderers 28 Jan 2010 4 Aug 2010 FW Robinho Santos 1 Feb 2010 15 May 2010 FW Benjani Sunderland

Reserves & Academy Start date End date Pos. Player To club 7 Aug 2009 7 Nov 2009 MF Donal McDermott Chesterfield 29 Aug 2009 31 May 2010 DF Ryan McGivern Leicester City 1 Sep 2009 15 Dec 2009 DF Clayton McDonald Walsall 2 Nov 2009 2 Jan 2010 MF Adam Clayton Carlisle United 2 Jan 2010 31 May 2010 MF Paul Marshall Aberdeen 19 Jan 2010 31 May 2010 MF Adam Clayton Carlisle United 26 Jan 2010 31 May 2010 MF Donal McDermott Scunthorpe United 1 Feb 2010 5 Mar 2010 DF Javan Vidal Derby County 9 Feb 2010 11 Mar 2010 DF Kieran Trippier Barnsley 24 Mar 2010 12 June 2010 GK Tobias Johansen Kongsvinger 25 Mar 2010 31 May 2010 FW James Poole Bury 15 Apr 2010 31 May 2010 FW John Guidetti IF Brommapojkarna

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