2025–26 Bristol City F.C. season

The 2025–26 season is the 128th season in the history of Bristol City Football Club and their eleventh consecutive season in the Championship. In addition to the domestic league, the club also participate in the FA Cup and the EFL Cup.

Prior to the season starting, the club appointed Gerhard Struber as the new head coach on a three-year contract.^[1] Later in the month, the club announced the appointment of Bernd Eibler as assistant coach.^[2]

Date	Pos	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Ref.
1 July 2025	FW	Yū Hirakawa	Machida Zelvia	Undisclosed	[3][4]
	FW	Emil Riis Jakobsen	Preston North End	Free	[5][6]
	GK	Joe Lumley	Southampton	Free	[7][8]
	MF	Adam Randell	Plymouth Argyle	Undisclosed	[9][10]

Date	Pos	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Ref.
30 June 2025	FW	Tim Ap Sion	Free agent	Released	[11]
	GK	Stefan Bajic	Free agent	Released	[11]
	MF	Ayman Benarous	Plymouth Argyle	Free[a]	[11][12]
	MF	Kai Churchley	Merthyr Town	Free[b]	[11][13]
	DF	Kal Naismith	Luton Town	Free[c]	[11][14]
	MF	Marley Rose	Free agent	Released	[11]
	DF	Romani Rowe	Free agent	Released	[11]
	FW	Nahki Wells	Luton Town	Free[d]	[15][16]
	DF	Callum Wood	Free agent	Released	[11]
1 July 2025	MF	Taylor Gardner-Hickman	Birmingham City	£1,500,000	[17][18]
	FW	Seb Palmer-Houlden	Gillingham	Undisclosed	[19][20]
23 July 2025	MF	Marcus McGuane	Huddersfield Town	Undisclosed	[21][22]

Date	Pos	Player	Loaned from	Until	Ref.
28 July 2025	GK	Radek Vítek	Manchester United	31 May 2026	[23]

Date	Pos.	Player	Loaned to	Until	Ref.
1 July 2025	MF	Jed Meerholz	Aldershot Town	1 January 2026	[24]
4 July 2025	GK	Ben Clark	Weymouth	31 May 2026	[25]
7 July 2025	DF	Taine Anderson	Cheltenham Town		[26]
6 August 2025	FW	Luke Skinner	Weston-super-Mare	1 January 2026	[27]

Date	Pos	Player	Contracted until	Ref.
First team
18 June 2025	FW	Josh Stokes	30 June 2028	[28][29]
23 June 2025	DF	Rob Atkinson		[30][31]
1 July 2025	GK	Lewis Thomas	30 June 2027	[32]
Academy
10 June 2025	DF	Josh Campbell-Slowey	30 June 2028	[33][34]
24 June 2025	FW	Leo Pecover	Undisclosed	[35]
25 June 2025	GK	Joe Duncan	30 June 2027	[36]
28 July 2025	FW	Olly Thomas	30 June 2026	[37]
29 July 2025	DF	Raphael Araoye		[38]
30 July 2025	DF	Taine Anderson	30 June 2028	[39]

On 4 June, Bristol City announced their first pre-season fixture against Milton Keynes Dons.^[40] Six days later, three more fixtures were confirmed against Bournemouth, Newport County and Cheltenham Town.^[41] A fifth fixture was later added, against Plymouth Argyle.^[42] On 10 July, a home friendly against Rayo Vallecano was announced.^[43]

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On 26 June, the fixtures were released.^[46]

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Bristol City were drawn at home to Milton Keynes Dons in the first round^[48][47] and away to Fulham in the second round.^[49][50]

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As of match played 16 August 2025

Players with no appearances are not included on the list

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Championship		FA Cup		EFL Cup
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
2	DF	SCO	Ross McCrorie	2	1	2+0	1	0+0	0	0+0	0
4	MF	ENG	Adam Randell	3	0	2+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
5	DF	ENG	Robert Atkinson	2	0	2+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
6	MF	ENG	Max Bird	2	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+1	0
7	FW	JPN	Yū Hirakawa	3	1	2+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	1
9	FW	FRA	Fally Mayulu	1	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
10	MF	ENG	Scott Twine	3	2	2+0	2	0+0	0	1+0	0
11	MF	ALB	Anis Mehmeti	3	1	2+0	1	0+0	0	1+0	0
12	MF	IRL	Jason Knight	3	1	2+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	1
13	GK	ENG	Joe Lumley	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
14	DF	KEN	Zak Vyner	3	0	2+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
16	DF	ENG	Robert Dickie	2	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
17	MF	IRL	Mark Sykes	3	0	0+2	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
18	FW	DEN	Emil Riis Jakobsen	3	0	2+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	0
19	DF	ENG	George Tanner	3	0	2+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
20	FW	ENG	Sam Bell	1	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
23	GK	CZE	Radek Vítek	2	0	2+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
25	FW	ITA	Ephraim Yeboah	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
26	MF	ENG	Josh Stokes	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	0
30	FW	IRL	Sinclair Armstrong	3	0	0+2	0	0+0	0	0+1	0
31	MF	ENG	Elijah Morrison	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0