Confirmed shirt numbers for 2023/24

Manchester City come into the brand new marketing campaign because the workforce to beat on three completely different fronts after successful the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League in 2022/23.

As is at all times the case with the Cityzens, the summer time has been understated and environment friendly to this point. Sales and signings are carried out with little or no saga and fanfare, with Ilkay Gundogan’s departure being one thing of an anomaly.

They have added Mateo Kovacic from Chelsea to bolster midfield in Gundogan’s absence, however extra signings are anticipated to reach within the close to future. Sales are additionally very potential with a lot of gamers being linked away.

As it stands, listed below are Man City’s squad numbers for the 2023/24 marketing campaign.

Man City haven’t obtained a single senior participant listed on their web site with out an assigned squad quantity, with Kovacic already having been handed a reasonably outstanding squad quantity.

Squad numbers topic to alter throughout pre-season.

There are a number of first rate numbers nonetheless accessible at Man City, though the primary shirt must go to a backup goalkeeper given Ederson is ready together with his quantity and definitely first alternative.

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The main two guidelines with regards to squad numbers within the Premier League is {that a} participant’s quantity should be distinctive throughout the workforce and between 1 and 99. Zero just isn’t allowed.

Also following custom, goalkeepers typically occupy numbers one and 13.

There are varied traditions at play which recommend first-team gamers take numbers between 1 and 30, however that is one thing gamers and golf equipment are more and more keen to disregard. Man City teenager Rico Lewis has worn the very best quantity, with 82 within the 2022/23 marketing campaign.

Premier League gamers are solely allowed to alter their squad quantity throughout pre-season or if one is bought or loaned to a different membership within the January switch window.

Clubs should submit their confirmed squad listing – together with shirt numbers – by a specified deadline every year and numbers can’t be modified thereafter. In 2021 that deadline was 1 September.

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