2025–26 Middlesbrough F.C. season

Middlesbrough

2025–26 season
Owner	Steve Gibson
Chairman	Steve Gibson
Head Coach	Rob Edwards
Stadium	Riverside Stadium
Championship	2nd
Top goalscorer	Delano Burgzorg Dael Fry Hayden Hackney Alfie Jones (1 goal each)
Home colours Away colours

The 2025–26 season is the 150th season in the history of Middlesbrough Football Club and their ninth consecutive season in the Championship. In addition to the domestic league, the club are also participating in the FA Cup and the EFL Cup.

Prior to the season starting, Rob Edwards was appointed as the new head coach on a three-year contract.^[1]

Date	Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Ref.
1 July 2025	GK	Owen Foster	Hull City	Bosman	[2]
4 July 2025	CB	Archie Baptiste	Tottenham Hotspur		[3]
25 July 2025	CF	Jayden Carbon	Oxford City	Undisclosed	[4]
	CB	Jack Daley	Newcastle Blue Star	Free transfer	[5]
		Alfie Jones	Hull City	£3,000,000	[6][7]
29 July 2025	DM	Abdoulaye Kanté	Troyes	£2,610,000	[8][9]
4 August 2025	RB	Callum Brittain	Blackburn Rovers	£3,500,000	[10][11]
13 August 2025	RW	Sontje Hansen	NEC Nijmegen	£3,000,000	[12][13]

Expenditure: ≈ £12,110,000 (all fees converted into GBP)

Date	Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Ref.
20 June 2025	GK	Zach Hemming	Chesterfield	£150,000	[14][15]
26 June 2025	CF	Josh Coburn	Millwall	£5,000,000	[16][17]
13 August 2025	CB	Rav van den Berg	Köln	£11,200,000	[18][19][20]

Income: £16,350,000

Date	Pos.	Player	From	Date until	Ref.
19 August 2025	CM	Sverre Nypan	Manchester City	31 May 2026	[21]

Date	Pos.	Player	Subsequent club	Join date	Ref.
30 June 2025	CB	Jack Hannah	Queen of the South	1 July 2025	[22][23]
	CM	Jack Stott			[22][24]
	CB	Cain Sykes	South Shields		[22][25]
	RB	Terrell Agyemang			[22]
	RB	Anfernee Dijksteel			[22]
	RB	George Gitau			[22]
	CM	Jonny Howson			[26]
	CB	Afonso Lindo			[22]
	CB	Alfie Myers-Smith			[22]
	CF	Daniel Nkrumah			[22]
	RB	Nathan Simpson			[22]
	LW	Pharrell Willis			[22]

On 27 May, Middlesbrough announced their first pre-season friendly, against Rangers.^[27] A week later, a second fixture was confirmed, against Hartlepool United.^[28] A third trip was later added against Bradford City.^[29] A home friendly was later announced, against Deportivo La Coruña.^[30] On 4 July, a trip to Mansfield Town was added.^[31]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

On 26 June the Championship fixtures were announced, with Middlesbrough hosting Swansea City on the opening weekend.^[33]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

Middlesbrough were drawn at home to Doncaster Rovers in the first round.^[35][36]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

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	ENG	Callum Brittain	3	0	2+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
5	DF	ENG	Alfie Jones	3	1	2+0	1	0+0	0	1+0	0
6	DF	ENG	Dael Fry	3	1	2+0	1	0+0	0	0+1	0
7	MF	ENG	Hayden Hackney	3	1	2+0	1	0+0	0	0+1	0
9	FW	SCO	Tommy Conway	3	0	2+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
10	FW	SUR	Delano Burgzorg	3	1	1+1	1	0+0	0	1+0	0
11	FW	ENG	Morgan Whittaker	3	0	2+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
12	DF	ENG	Luke Ayling	3	0	2+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
17	FW	ENG	Micah Hamilton	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	0
18	MF	USA	Aidan Morris	3	0	2+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	0
20	MF	IRL	Finn Azaz	1	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
21	FW	FIN	Marcus Forss	2	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+1	0
22	FW	AUS	Samuel Silvera	2	0	2+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
23	GK	AUS	Tom Glover	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
27	FW	NED	Sontje Hansen	1	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
28	MF	ENG	Law McCabe	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
30	DF	BRA	Neto Borges	3	0	0+2	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
31	GK	ENG	Sol Brynn	2	0	2+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
40	DF	ENG	George McCormick	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
42	MF	CIV	Abdoulaye Kanté	3	0	1+1	0	0+0	0	1+0	0