2025–26 Swansea City A.F.C. season

Swansea City
2025–26 season
Owner(s)Swansea Football LLC (majority)
Nigel Morris (14.04%)
Swansea City Supporters Society Ltd (7.59%)
Chief executiveTom Gorringe
Head coachAlan Sheehan
StadiumSwansea.com Stadium
Championship15th
FA CupThird Round
EFL CupSecond Round
Top goalscorerLeague:
Ronald (1)
All:
Ronald (2)
Highest home attendance15,816 (v. Sheffield United, Championship, 16 August 2025)
Lowest home attendance5,095 (v. Crawley Town, EFL Cup, 12 August 2025)
Average home league attendance15,816

The 2025–26 season is the 114th season in the history of Swansea City Association Football Club and their eighth consecutive season in the Championship. In addition to the domestic league, the club would also participate in the FA Cup, and the EFL Cup.

Transfers and contracts

In

Date Pos. Player From Fee Ref.
1 June 2025[a] LW Sweden Zeidane Inoussa Sweden BK Häcken Undisclosed [1]
1 June 2025[b] CF Scotland Bobby Wales Scotland Kilmarnock Compensation [2]
5 June 2025 CB Scotland Blair McKenzie[c] Scotland Aberdeen Undisclosed [3]
1 July 2025[d] Australia Cameron Burgess England Ipswich Town Free [4]
1 July 2025[e] Cape Verde Ricardo Santos England Bolton Wanderers [5]
4 July 2025 CM Northern Ireland Ethan Galbraith England Leyton Orient £1,500,000 [6][7]
10 July 2025 CF Wales Caleb Demery[c] Wales Briton Ferry Llansawel Undisclosed [8]
8 August 2025 GK England Evan Anderson England Brentford Free [9]
England Paul Farman England Barrow [10]
20 August 2025 CDM New Zealand Marko Stamenić England Nottingham Forest Undisclosed [11]
Expenditure: Decrease £1,500,000 (not inc. any undisclosed transfers)
  1. ^ The transfer was announced on 5 May, and would become official on June 1 once the transfer window has reopened
  2. ^ The transfer was announced on 18 May, and would become official on June 1 once the transfer window has reopened
  3. ^ a b Signed initially for the Under-21s
  4. ^ The transfer was announced on 14 June, and would become official on July 1 once his contract at Ipswich had expired
  5. ^ The transfer was announced on 6 June, and would become official on July 1 once his contract at Bolton had expired

Out

Date Pos. Player To Fee Ref.
17 June 2025 CF Ukraine Mykola Kukharevych Slovakia Slovan Bratislava Undisclosed [12]
1 August 2025 England Jerry Yates England Luton Town [13]

Loaned in

Date Pos. Player From Date until Ref.
6 August 2025 CB England Kaelan Casey England West Ham United 31 May 2026 [14]
14 August 2025 CM Ivory Coast Malick Yalcouyé England Brighton & Hove Albion 31 May 2026 [15]

Loaned out

Date Pos. Player To Date until Ref.
14 July 2025[a] GK Wales Kit Margetson Wales Connah's Quay Nomads 31 May 2026 [16]
23 July 2025 CB England Jack Fanning Wales Briton Ferry Llansawel 31 December 2025 [17]
28 July 2025 CAM Wales Ben Lloyd Wales Newport County 1 January 2026 [18]
31 July 2025 RW France Florian Bianchini England Portsmouth 31 May 2026 [19]
8 August 2025 DM Wales Jacob Cook Wales Connah's Quay Nomads [20]
  1. ^ The loan was announced on 20 June, and would become official on July 14

Released/Out of contract

Date Pos. Player Subsequent club Join date Ref.
30 June 2025 CB England Harry Darling England Norwich City 1 July 2025 [21][22]
GK Wales Ben Hughes England Cambridge United [23][24]
RB Wales Osian Williams Wales Baglan Dragons 18 July 2025 [23][25]
LB Indonesia Nathan Tjoe-A-On Netherlands Willem II 21 July 2025 [26][27]
CF England Sammy Henia-Kamau England Hull City 31 July 2025 [23][28]
RW Guyana Maliq Cadogan [23]
RB Republic of Ireland Cyrus Christie [29]
CB England Richard Faakye [23]
AM Wales Aidan Higgins [23]
CB Wales Kiel Higginson [23]
GK Scotland Jon McLaughlin [29]
LB Denmark Kristian Pedersen [29]
GK Wales Sam Seager [23]
CM Wales Joe Allen
Retired
 [30]
RB England Kyle Naughton [31]
22 July 2025 GK England Nathan Broome England Bolton Wanderers 22 July 2025 [32]

New contract

Date Pos. Player Contract until Ref.
24 June 2025 CB England Jack Fanning 30 June 2026 [33]
11 July 2025 CM Wales Ramon Rees-Siso 30 June 2027[a][b] [34]
14 July 2025 DM Wales Callum Deacon 30 June 2026[a][b] [35]
16 July 2025 RB Wales Thomas Searle Undisclosed[a] [36]
19 July 2025 RW England Josh Pescatore 30 June 2027[a][b] [37]
25 July 2025 CF Wales Morgan Bates 30 June 2027[b] [38]
28 July 2025 CAM Wales Ben Lloyd 30 June 2027 [18]
  1. ^ a b c d First professional contract
  2. ^ a b c d Option of an additional year

Pre-season and friendlies

On 30 April, Swansea City announced they would face Exeter City in a pre-season testimonial for Pierce Sweeney.[39] A week-long training camp in Murcia was also confirmed, along with a friendly against Stevenage.[40] A third friendly was later added, against Cheltenham Town.[41] On 19 June, a home friendly against Ligue 1 side Lorient was announced.[42]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

12 July 2025 Friendly Swansea City 5–0 Kidderminster Harriers Fairwood
15:00 BST
Report Stadium: Fairwood Training Ground
Attendance: 0 (behind-closed-doors)
19 July 2025 Friendly Swansea City 3–2 Stevenage San Pedro del Pinatar, Spain
12:00 CEST
Report
Stadium: Pinatar Arena
23 July 2025 Friendly Cheltenham Town 2–1 Swansea City Cheltenham
19:00 BST
Report
Stadium: Whaddon Road
Attendance: 1,820 (905 away)
Referee: John Durkin
26 July 2025 Friendly Exeter City 1–0 Swansea City Exeter
13:00 BST
Report Stadium: St James Park
Attendance: 3,948 (626 away)
2 August 2025 Friendly Swansea City 1–3 Lorient Landore
15:00 BST
Report
Stadium: Swansea.com Stadium
Attendance: 6,063
Referee: Iwan Griffith

Competitions

Overall record

Competition First match Last match Starting round Record
Pld W D L GF GA GD Win %
Championship 9 August 2025 Matchday 1 2 1 0 1 1 1 +0 050.00
FA Cup Third round 0 0 0 0 0 0 +0 !—
EFL Cup 12 August 2025 First round 1 1 0 0 3 1 +2 100.00
Total 3 2 0 1 4 2 +2 066.67

Last updated: 16 August 2025
Source: Soccerway

Championship

Main article: 2025–26 EFL Championship

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
13 Portsmouth 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3
14 Watford 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 3
15 Swansea City 2 1 0 1 1 1 0 3
16 Millwall 2 1 0 1 2 4 −2 3
17 Ipswich Town 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 2
Updated to match(es) played on 17 August 2025. Source: EFL Official Website
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results; 5) Wins; 6) Away goals; 7) Penalty points (sec 9.5); 8) Number of 12-point sending off offences; 9) Play-off (only if needed to determine promotion/relegation)[43]

Results summary

Overall Home Away
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L GF GA GD W D L GF GA GD
2 1 0 1 1 1  0 3 1 0 0 1 0  +1 0 0 1 0 1  −1

Source: Soccerway

Results by round

Round12
GroundAH
ResultLW
Position2115
Updated to match(es) played on 16 August 2025. Source: Soccerway
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

On 26 June, the Championship fixtures were released.[44]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

9 August 2025 1 Middlesbrough 1–0 Swansea City Middlesbrough
15:00 BST
Report
Stadium: Riverside Stadium
Attendance: 26,036 (685 away)
Referee: Farai Hallam
16 August 2025 2 Swansea City 1–0 Sheffield United Landore
15:00 BST
Report
Stadium: Swansea.com Stadium
Attendance: 15,816
Referee: Thomas Kirk
23 August 2025 3 Swansea City v Watford Landore
12:30 BST Stadium: Swansea.com Stadium
Note: Fixture was originally scheduled for a 15:00 kick-off, but was moved live Sky Sports broadcasting.[45]
30 August 2025 4 Sheffield Wednesday v Swansea City Owlerton
15:00 BST Stadium: Hillsborough Stadium
13 September 2025 5 Swansea City v Hull City Landore
15:00 BST Stadium: Swansea.com Stadium
20 September 2025 6 Birmingham City v Swansea City Bordesley
12:30 BST Stadium: St. Andrew's
Note: Fixture was originally scheduled for a 15:00 kick-off, but was moved live Sky Sports broadcasting.[45]
27 September 2025 7 Swansea City v Millwall Landore
12:30 BST Stadium: Swansea.com Stadium
Note: Fixture was originally scheduled for a 15:00 kick-off, but was moved live Sky Sports broadcasting.[45]

EFL Cup

Main article: 2025–26 EFL Cup

Swansea were drawn at home to Crawley Town in the first round[46][47] and to Plymouth Argyle in the second round.[48][49]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Fixtures

12 August 2025 First round Swansea City 3–1 Crawley Town Landore
19:00 BST
Report
Stadium: Swansea.com Stadium
Attendance: 5,095
Referee: Benjamin Speedie
26 August 2025 Second round Swansea City v Plymouth Argyle Landore
19:45 BST Stadium: Swansea.com Stadium

Statistics

Appearances and goals

As of match played 15 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
1 GK England ENG Andy Fisher 1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 1+0 0
2 DF England ENG Joshua Key 2 0 2+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
4 MF Scotland SCO Jay Fulton 2 0 1+1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
5 DF Wales WAL Ben Cabango 2 0 2+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
7 MF Sweden SWE Melker Widell 3 0 0+2 0 0+0 0 1+0 0
8 MF Ivory Coast CIV Malick Yalcouyé 1 0 1+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
9 FW Slovenia SVN Žan Vipotnik 2 0 0+1 0 0+0 0 1+0 0
10 FW South Korea KOR Eom Ji-sung 3 0 2+0 0 0+0 0 0+1 0
14 DF England ENG Josh Tymon 3 0 2+0 0 0+0 0 1+0 0
15 DF Australia AUS Cameron Burgess 3 0 2+0 0 0+0 0 1+0 0
17 MF Portugal POR Gonçalo Franco 3 0 2+0 0 0+0 0 0+1 0
20 FW Wales WAL Liam Cullen 2 0 2+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
22 GK Chile CHI Lawrence Vigouroux 2 0 2+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
24 FW Scotland SCO Bobby Wales 2 1 0+1 0 0+0 0 0+1 1
26 DF England ENG Kaelan Casey 2 0 0+1 0 0+0 0 1+0 0
27 FW Sweden SWE Zeidane Inoussa 3 0 0+2 0 0+0 0 1+0 0
30 MF Northern Ireland NIR Ethan Galbraith 3 1 2+0 0 0+0 0 1+0 1
31 MF Wales WAL Oli Cooper 1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 1+0 0
35 FW Brazil BRA Ronald 3 2 2+0 1 0+0 0 1+0 1
41 DF Wales WAL Sam Parker 1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 1+0 0
45 MF Wales WAL Cameron Congreve 1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+1 0
46 DF England ENG Arthur Parker 1 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+1 0

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