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	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]
7 January 2026	CB	Zach Awe	Southampton	Undisclosed	[17]
9 January 2026	CF	Ryan Graydon	Fleetwood Town	£400,000[c]	[18][19]

Date	Pos.	Player	To	Fee	Ref.
25 June 2025	RW	Junior Luamba	Carlisle United	Undisclosed	[20]
4 August 2025	CF	Will Wright	Liverpool	£200,000	[21][22]
23 January 2026	RB	Tosin Olopade	Spalding United	Undisclosed	[23]
2 February 2026	LB	Kevin Berkoe	Shrewsbury Town		[24]

Income: £200,000

Date	Pos.	Player	From	Date until	Ref.
24 July 2025	GK	Matt Young	Sunderland	31 May 2026	[25]
29 August 2025	CF	Nicolás Siri	Montevideo City Torque		[26]
2 February 2026	CB	Alfie Dorrington	Tottenham Hotspur		[27]
	CF	Princewill Ehibhatiomhan	Southampton		[28]

Date	Pos.	Player	To	Date until	Ref.
10 July 2025	CF	Robbie Cleary	Kerry	31 December 2025	[29]
13 September 2025	LB	Kevin Berkoe	Rochdale	20 November 2025[a]	[30][31]
6 November 2025	CF	Harry Showman	Atherton Collieries	11 February 2026[b]	[32][33]
11 November 2025	GK	Mackenzie Chapman	St Albans City	9 December 2025	[34]
12 November 2025	RB	Tosin Olopade	Spalding United	10 December 2025	[35]
2 December 2025	CM	Brad Mundy	Trafford	11 January 2026	[36][37]
5 December 2025	CM	Jai Curran-Nicholls	Marine	4 January 2026	[38]
14 January 2026	GK	Mackenzie Chapman	Hyde United	11 February 2026	[39]
	CM	Alfie Henderson	Morpeth Town		[39]

Date	Pos.	Player	Subsequent club	Join date	Ref.
30 June 2025	CF	Marcus Dackers	Kilmarnock	1 July 2025	[40][41]
	CM	Liam Humbles	Rochdale		[40][42]
	RM	Jon Taylor	Radcliffe		[40][43]
	CB	Curtis Tilt	Bradford City		[44][45]
	RW	Sandro Da Costa	Wythenshawe	25 July 2025	[40]
	CM	Jacob Hamman	Witton Albion	29 July 2025	[40][46]
	RB	Liam Shephard	Newport County	6 August 2025	[40][47]
	LM	Ben Collins	Southport	7 August 2025	[40][48]
	CF	Conor McAleny	Harrogate Town	8 August 2025	[40][49]
	CM	Jez Davies	Peterborough Sports	20 September 2025	[40][50]
	CF	Callum Morton	Bristol Rovers	28 November 2025	[40][51]
	GK	James Carr			[40]
	CM	Matty Lund			[40]
	DM	Ryan Watson			[40]

Date	Pos.	Player	Contracted until	Ref.
31 May 2025	CM	Alfie Bairstow	Undisclosed[a]	[52]
	LB	Ruben Butt		[52]
	CM	Bruno Padovani		[52]
27 January 2026	CF	Fabio Borini	30 June 2026	[53]
4 February 2026	LB	Luke Garbutt	30 June 2027	[54]

On 23 May, Salford City announced they would begin pre-season with a fixture against Witton Albion.^[55] Three weeks later, three further friendlies were confirmed against Curzon Ashton, Chester and Ashton United.^[56][57] Two home friendlies were next added, against Blackpool and Stockport County.^[58] On 13 June, the club announced their full pre-season schedule with the addition off FC United of Manchester and York City added.^[59] A replacement friendly for the cancelled fixture was confirmed to be against Warrington Rylands.^[60]

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On 26 June, the League Two fixtures were announced.^[63]

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Salford were drawn at home to Lincoln City in the first round,^[72] home to Leyton Orient in the second round,^[73][74] home to Swindon Town in the third round^[75][76] and away to Manchester City in the fourth round.^[77]

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Salford were drawn against Stockport County, Wigan Athletic and Wolverhampton Wanderers U21 in the group stage.^[80] After winning the group, City were drawn at home to Rotherham United in the round of 32.^[81][82]

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Wigan Athletic v Salford City

2 September 2025 North Group A	Wigan Athletic	0–2	Salford City	Wigan
19:00 BST	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 14 February 2026

Players with no appearances are not included on the list; italics indicate loaned in player

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	30	0	27+0	0	3+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
2	DF	CGO	Loick Ayina	3	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+2	0
3	DF	ENG	Kevin Berkoe	9	0	0+6	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	2+0	0
4	MF	ENG	Ossama Ashley	13	1	5+7	1	0+1	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	34	2	22+4	1	3+1	0	0+1	0	3+0	1
7	MF	WAL	Ben Woodburn	25	2	12+7	2	2+1	0	1+0	0	2+0	0
8	MF	ENG	Jorge Grant	32	2	23+2	2	3+1	0	0+1	0	1+1	0
9	FW	ENG	Cole Stockton	20	4	10+6	1	1+0	0	0+0	0	2+1	3
10	MF	NED	Kelly N'Mai	25	7	17+3	5	4+0	2	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	8	0	1+4	0	0+0	0	1+0	0	2+0	0
14	FW	ENG	Kadeem Harris	22	4	19+0	4	1+1	0	1+0	0	0+0	0
15	DF	WAL	Brandon Cooper	24	0	14+4	0	2+1	0	0+0	0	3+0	0
16	FW	ITA	Fabio Borini	16	2	1+11	1	0+2	1	0+0	0	1+1	0
17	MF	ENG	Josh Austerfield	33	3	16+8	2	3+1	0	1+0	0	4+0	1
18	MF	ENG	Matt Butcher	32	2	13+12	2	2+2	0	0+0	0	2+1	0
19	DF	TAN	Haji Mnoga	19	0	12+2	0	3+0	0	0+0	0	0+2	0
21	DF	SLE	Kallum Cesay	33	6	26+1	4	2+0	1	1+0	0	1+2	1
22	DF	NGA	Adebola Oluwo	27	4	22+1	4	2+0	0	1+0	0	1+0	0
23	FW	NGA	Daniel Udoh	27	7	23+0	7	1+3	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
24	DF	ENG	Alfie Dorrington	2	0	1+0	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
25	FW	ENG	Princewill Ehibhatiomhan	2	0	0+1	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
26	FW	IRL	Ryan Graydon	7	3	5+0	1	2+0	2	0+0	0	0+0	0
27	FW	URU	Nicolás Siri	8	1	0+5	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	3+0	1
28	FW	ENG	Zach Awe	3	0	0+2	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
29	DF	ENG	Luke Garbutt	37	4	29+0	3	3+1	1	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	3	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+3	0
33	GK	ENG	Mark Howard	8	0	2+0	0	1+0	0	1+0	0	4+0	0
34	MF	ENG	Ruben Butt	6	2	0+2	0	0+0	0	0+1	0	2+1	2
35	MF	ENG	Bruno Padovani	2	1	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	2+0	1
36	DF	ENG	Jacob Lara	3	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	2+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	29	0	13+9	0	3+1	0	1+0	0	2+0	0
47	FW	ENG	Riley Carroll	1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+1	0