Salford City

2025–26 season
Owner	Project 92 Limited
Head coach	Karl Robinson
Stadium	Moor Lane
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The2025–26 season is the 86th season in the history ofSalford City Football Club and their seventh consecutive season inLeague Two. In addition to thedomestic league, the club are also participating in theFA Cup, theEFL Cup, and theEFL 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	CAM	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]
21 August 2025	CB	Michael Rose	Stoke City		[10]
22 August 2025	CDM	Matt Butcher	Wycombe Wanderers	Free transfer	[11]
26 August 2025	CB	Brandon Cooper	Leyton Orient		[12]
1 September 2025	CF	Daniel Udoh	Wycombe Wanderers	£325,000	[13][14]
1 October 2025	GK	Mackenzie Chapman	Blackpool	Free	[15]
17 October 2025	LW	Fabio Borini	Sampdoria		[16]

Date	Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Ref.
25 June 2025	RW	Junior Luamba	Carlisle United	Undisclosed	[17]
4 August 2025	CF	Will Wright	Liverpool	£200,000	[18][19]

Income: £200,000

Date	Pos.	Player	From	Date until	Ref.
24 July 2025	GK	Matt Young	Sunderland	31 May 2026	[20]
29 August 2025	CF	Nicolás Siri	Montevideo City Torque		[21]

Date	Pos.	Player	To	Date until	Ref.
10 July 2025	CF	Robbie Cleary	Kerry	31 December 2025	[22]
13 September 2025	LB	Kevin Berkoe	Rochdale	20 November 2025[a]	[23][24]
6 November 2025	CF	Harry Showman	Atherton Collieries	4 December 2025	[25]
11 November 2025	GK	Mackenzie Chapman	St Albans City	9 December 2025	[26]
12 November 2025	RB	Tosin Olopade	Spalding United	10 December 2025	[27]

Date	Pos.	Player	Subsequent club	Join date	Ref.
30 June 2025	CF	Marcus Dackers	Kilmarnock	1 July 2025	[28][29]
	CM	Liam Humbles	Rochdale		[28][30]
	RM	Jon Taylor	Radcliffe		[28][31]
	CB	Curtis Tilt	Bradford City		[32][33]
	CM	Jacob Hamman	Witton Albion	29 July 2025	[28][34]
	RB	Liam Shephard	Newport County	6 August 2025	[28][35]
	CF	Conor McAleny	Harrogate Town	8 August 2025	[28][36]
	GK	James Carr			[28]
	LM	Ben Collins			[28]
	RW	Sandro Da Costa			[28]
	CM	Jez Davies			[28]
		Matty Lund			[28]
	CF	Callum Morton			[28]
	DM	Ryan Watson			[28]

Date	Pos.	Player	Contracted until	Ref.
31 May 2025	CM	Alfie Bairstow	Undisclosed[a]	[37]
	LB	Ruben Butt		[37]
	CM	Bruno Padovani		[37]

On 23 May, Salford City announced they would begin pre-season with a fixture againstWitton Albion.^[38] Three weeks later, three further friendlies were confirmed againstCurzon Ashton,Chester andAshton United.^[39][40] Two home friendlies were next added, againstBlackpool andStockport County.^[41] On 13 June, the club announced their full pre-season schedule with the addition offFC United of Manchester andYork City added.^[42] A replacement friendly for the cancelled fixture was confirmed to be againstWarrington Rylands.^[43]

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On 26 June, theLeague Two fixtures were announced.^[46]

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Salford were drawn at home toLincoln City in the first round^[49] and toLeyton Orient in the second round.^[50][51]

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Salford were drawn againstStockport County,Wigan Athletic andWolverhampton Wanderers U21 in the group stage.^[52] After winning the group, City were drawn at home toRotherham United in the round of 32.^[53][54]

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Wigan Athletic v Salford City

2 September 2025North Group A	Wigan Athletic	0–2	Salford City	Wigan
19:00BST	Graham 29'Greenhalgh 90+2'	Report	Turton 50' Bird 67' Stockton 81'	Stadium:Brick Community Stadium Attendance: TBA Referee: Richard Eley

As of match played 15 November 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	14	0	14+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
2	DF	CGO	Loick Ayina	2	0	0 +1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	0
3	DF	ENG	Kevin Berkoe	1	0	0 +0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
4	MF	ENG	Ossama Ashley	8	1	5 +3	1	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
5	DF	SCO	Michael Rose	4	0	3 +0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
6	DF	ENG	Ollie Turton	18	1	10+3	0	1+0	0	0+1	0	3+0	1
7	MF	WAL	Ben Woodburn	18	2	10+4	2	0+1	0	1+0	0	2+0	0
8	MF	ENG	Jorge Grant	17	1	11+2	1	1+0	0	0+1	0	1+1	0
9	FW	ENG	Cole Stockton	13	3	6 +4	1	1+0	0	0+0	0	1+1	2
10	MF	NED	Kelly N'Mai	10	2	5 +3	1	1+0	1	0+1	0	0+0	0
11	FW	ENG	Jay Bird	11	1	3 +5	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	2+0	1
12	DF	ENG	Tom Edwards	7	0	1 +4	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	1+0	0
14	FW	ENG	Kadeem Harris	18	3	16+0	3	0+1	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
15	DF	WAL	Brandon Cooper	13	0	7 +2	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	3+0	0
16	FW	ITA	Fabio Borini	5	0	0 +3	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	1+0	0
17	MF	ENG	Josh Austerfield	18	1	7 +6	0	0+1	0	1+0	0	3+0	1
18	MF	ENG	Matt Butcher	15	1	8 +4	1	1+0	0	0+0	0	2+0	0
19	DF	TAN	Haji Mnoga	9	0	6 +1	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	0
21	DF	SLE	Kallum Cesay	20	3	16+0	2	1+0	0	1+0	0	0+2	1
22	DF	NGA	Adebola Oluwo	18	2	14+1	2	1+0	0	1+0	0	1+0	0
23	FW	NGA	Daniel Udoh	11	4	10+0	4	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
27	FW	URU	Nicolás Siri	6	0	0 +4	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	2+0	0
29	DF	ENG	Luke Garbutt	21	2	16+0	2	0+1	0	1+0	0	0+3	0
30	FW	ENG	Kyrell Malcolm	6	0	0 +3	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	2+0	0
32	MF	AUS	Jai Curran-Nicholls	2	0	0 +0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+2	0
33	GK	ENG	Mark Howard	7	0	2 +0	0	1+0	0	1+0	0	3+0	0
34	MF	ENG	Ruben Butt	4	2	0 +1	0	0+0	0	0+1	0	1+1	2
35	MF	ENG	Bruno Padovani	1	1	0 +0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+0	1
36	DF	ENG	Jacob Lara	2	0	0 +0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	1+1	0
39	MF	ENG	Alfie Bairstow	1	0	0 +0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	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	14	0	6 +5	0	1+0	0	1+0	0	1+0	0
47	FW	ENG	Riley Carroll	1	0	0 +0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	0

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