2025–26 Salford City F.C. season

Salford City

2025–26 season
Owner	Project 92 Limited
Head coach	Karl Robinson
Stadium	Moor Lane
Home colours Away colours

The 2025–26 season is the 86th season in the history of Salford City Football Club and their seventh consecutive season in League Two. In addition to the domestic league, the club are also participating in the FA Cup, the EFL Cup, and the EFL Trophy.

Date	Pos.	Player	From	Fee	Ref.
5 June 2025	RB	Kallum Cesay	Wealdstone	Undisclosed	[1]
26 June 2025	CF	Jay Bird	Exeter City		[2]
1 July 2025[a]	CB	Loick Ayina	Huddersfield Town	Free	[3]
1 July 2025[b]		Adebola Oluwo	Barnet		[4]
2 July 2025		Luca Jackson	Burnley		[5]
10 July 2025	AM	Jorge Grant	Heart of Midlothian		[6]
22 July 2025	GK	Mark Howard	Wrexham		[7]
24 July 2025	RW	Kadeem Harris	Carlisle United		[8]
8 August 2025	RB	Ollie Turton	Huddersfield Town		[9]

Date	Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Ref.
25 June 2025	RW	Junior Luamba	Carlisle United	Undisclosed	[10]
4 August 2025	CF	Will Wright	Liverpool	£200,000	[11][12]

Income: £200,000

Date	Pos.	Player	From	Date until	Ref.
24 July 2025	GK	Matt Young	Sunderland	31 May 2026	[13]

Date	Pos.	Player	To	Date until	Ref.
10 July 2025	CF	Robbie Cleary	Kerry	31 December 2025	[14]

Date	Pos.	Player	Subsequent club	Join date	Ref.
30 June 2025	CF	Marcus Dackers	Kilmarnock	1 July 2025	[15][16]
	CM	Liam Humbles	Rochdale		[15][17]
	RM	Jon Taylor	Radcliffe		[15][18]
	CB	Curtis Tilt	Bradford City		[19][20]
	CM	Jacob Hamman	Witton Albion	29 July 2025	[15][21]
	RB	Liam Shephard	Newport County	6 August 2025	[15][22]
	CF	Conor McAleny	Harrogate Town	8 August 2025	[15][23]
	GK	James Carr			[15]
	LM	Ben Collins			[15]
	RW	Sandro Da Costa			[15]
	CM	Jez Davies			[15]
		Matty Lund			[15]
	CF	Callum Morton			[15]
	DM	Ryan Watson			[15]

Date	Pos.	Player	Contracted until	Ref.
31 May 2025	CM	Alfie Bairstow	Undisclosed[a]	[24]
	LB	Ruben Butt		[24]
	CM	Bruno Padovani		[24]

On 23 May, Salford City announced they would begin pre-season with a fixture against Witton Albion.^[25] Three weeks later, three further friendlies were confirmed against Curzon Ashton, Chester and Ashton United.^[26][27] Two home friendlies were next added, against Blackpool and Stockport County.^[28] On 13 June, the club announced their full pre-season schedule with the addition off FC United of Manchester and York City added.^[29] A replacement friendly for the cancelled fixture was confirmed to be against Warrington Rylands.^[30]

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On 26 June, the League Two fixtures were announced.^[33]

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Salford were drawn against Stockport County, Wigan Athletic and Wolverhampton Wanderers U21 in the group stage.^[35]

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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		League Two		FA Cup		EFL Cup		EFL Trophy
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	ENG	Matty Young	3	0	3+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
2	DF	CGO	Loick Ayina	1	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
6	DF	ENG	Ollie Turton	3	0	2+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	0	0+0	0
7	MF	WAL	Ben Woodburn	4	1	2+1	1	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
8	MF	ENG	Jorge Grant	4	0	3+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	0	0+0	0
9	FW	ENG	Cole Stockton	2	0	1+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
10	MF	NED	Kelly N'Mai	3	1	1+1	1	0+0	0	0+1	0	0+0	0
11	FW	ENG	Jay Bird	4	0	2+1	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
12	DF	ENG	Tom Edwards	4	0	1+2	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
14	FW	ENG	Kadeem Harris	4	1	3+0	1	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
17	MF	ENG	Josh Austerfield	4	0	3+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
21	DF	SLE	Kallum Cesay	4	0	3+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
22	DF	ENG	Adebola Oluwo	4	1	3+0	1	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
29	DF	ENG	Luke Garbutt	4	1	3+0	1	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
30	FW	ENG	Kyrell Malcolm	4	0	0+3	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
33	GK	ENG	Mark Howard	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
34	DF	ENG	Ruben Butt	2	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+1	0	0+0	0
42	FW	ENG	Harry Showman	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	0	0+0	0
45	DF	ENG	Rosaire Longelo	4	0	3+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0