1994–95 Manchester City F.C. season

Manchester City endured another torrid season which saw them struggle. Their goalscoring rate improving dramatically from 36 to 53, but they slipped one place into 17th - though still enough to achieve survival. But it was too late to save manager Brian Horton's job and he was sacked to make way for Alan Ball of Southampton.

Key striker Niall Quinn recovered from a serious knee injury but failed to make an impact on City's dismal showing, though new German striker Uwe Rösler was among the Premiership's top target men with 15 league goals. His strike partner Paul Walsh was also a frequent goalscorer, with 12 Premiership strikes.

One of the few things that gave City fans something to look forward to was the emergence of exciting young players like Garry Flitcroft, Richard Edghill and Steve Lomas. The close season arrival of Georgian midfielder Georgi Kinkladze was another exciting prospect which suggested that the dark clouds that had recently hung over Maine Road might not have cast too lengthy a shadow.

City's average attendance was significantly lower this season due to the redevelopment of the Kippax Stand, which was not complete until October 1995.

The team kit was produced by Umbro and the shirt sponsor was Brother.

True products of the nineties, the home and away kits used in the 1994–95 season were arguably over-designed. The home kit, while on the face of it a classic plain blue shirt with white shorts, in fact had a pattern inlaid in such a way as was only visible when caught by the light, which contained oversized angular Umbro diamonds over the top of each other across the front of the shirt. The away kit was intended as a tribute to the classic red and black stripes which City had worn as an away kit on a number of occasions previously, but for no apparent reason had two-tone grey shoulder stripes as well as an embossed shield which was more suited to the shape of the club's badge after its redesign in 1997 (by which point the shirt was no longer being worn) than the circular badge of the time. The third kit was a more simple white kit with dark blue pinstripes and matching shorts.

{{main|1994–95 FA Premier League}}

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;Results summary

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;Results by round

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Manchester City's score comes first{{cite web |title=Manchester City 1994-1995 Home - statto.com |url=http://www.statto.com/football/teams/manchester-city/1994-1995/results |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111126110153/http://www.statto.com/football/teams/manchester-city/1995-1996 |archive-date=26 November 2011 |url-status=dead |access-date=2012-02-28 |df=dmy-all }}

{{main|1994–95 FA Cup}}

{{main|1994–95 Football League Cup}}

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{{Fs player|no=1|nat=ENG|pos=GK|name=Tony Coton}}

{{Fs player|no=2|nat=ENG|pos=DF|name=Andy Hill}}

{{Fs player|no=3|nat=IRL|pos=DF|name=Terry Phelan}}

{{Fs player|no=4|nat=GER|pos=MF|name=Maurizio Gaudino|other=on loan from Eintracht Frankfurt}}

{{Fs player|no=5|nat=ENG|pos=DF|name=Keith Curle|other=captain}}

{{Fs player|no=6|nat=NED|pos=DF|name=Michel Vonk}}

{{Fs player|no=8|nat=ENG|pos=FW|name=Paul Walsh}}

{{Fs player|no=9|nat=IRL|pos=FW|name=Niall Quinn}}

{{Fs player|no=10|nat=ENG|pos=MF|name=Garry Flitcroft}}

{{Fs player|no=11|nat=ENG|pos=MF|name=Peter Beagrie}}

{{Fs player|no=12|nat=ENG|pos=DF|name=Ian Brightwell}}

{{Fs player|no=13|nat=WAL|pos=GK|name=Martyn Margetson}}

{{Fs player|no=14|nat=WAL|pos=FW|name=Carl Griffiths}}

{{Fs player|no=15|nat=IRL|pos=DF|name=Alan Kernaghan}}

{{Fs player|no=16|nat=ENG|pos=MF|name=Nicky Summerbee}}

{{Fs player|no=17|nat=ENG|pos=MF|name=Mike Quigley}}

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{{Fs player|no=18|nat=ENG|pos=DF|name=David Brightwell}}

{{Fs player|no=19|nat=JAM|pos=MF|name=Fitzroy Simpson}}

{{Fs player|no=21|nat=NIR|pos=MF|name=Steve Lomas}}

{{Fs player|no=22|nat=ENG|pos=DF|name=Richard Edghill}}

{{Fs player|no=23|nat=SCO|pos=MF|name=David Kerr}}

{{Fs player|no=24|nat=ENG|pos=FW|name=Adie Mike}}

{{Fs player|no=25|nat=WAL|pos=GK|name=Andy Dibble}}

{{Fs player|no=27|nat=ENG|pos=DF|name=Rae Ingram}}

{{Fs player|no=28|nat=GER|pos=FW|name=Uwe Rösler}}

{{Fs player|no=29|nat=ENG|pos=DF|name=John Foster}}

{{Fs player|no=30|nat=ENG|pos=FW|name=Steve Finney}}

{{Fs player|no=31|nat=ENG|pos=MF|name=Paul Lake}}

{{Fs player|no=32|nat=ENG|pos=GK|name=Simon Tracey|other=on loan from Sheffield United}}

{{Fs player|no=33|nat=ENG|pos=GK|name=John Burridge}}

{{Fs player|no=34|nat=ENG|pos=MF|name=Scott Thomas}}

{{Fs end}}

{{Fs start}}

{{Fs player|no=4|nat=ENG|pos=MF|name=Steve McMahon|other=to Swindon Town}}

{{Fs mid}}

{{Fs player|no=26|nat=ENG|pos=FW|name=Mike Sheron|other=to Norwich City}}

{{Fs end}}

{{Fs start}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=ENG|pos=DF|name=Chris Beech}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=ENG|pos=DF|name=Lee Crooks}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=ENG|pos=MF|name=Michael Brown}}

{{Fs mid}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=NIR|pos=MF|name=Jim Whitley}}

{{Fs player|no=|nat=IRL|pos=FW|name=Ray Kelly}}

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:Transfers in: {{loss}} £1,530,000

:Transfers out: {{gain}} £2,250,000

:Total spending: {{gain}} £720,000

:Considering only Premier League starts{{Cite web|url=http://www.11v11.com/teams/manchester-city/tab/players/season/1995|title=All Manchester City players: 1995}}

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{{fb mfs player |bg= |p=Uwe Rösler |nb=GER |n=28 |pos=CF |gs=28 |nt= }}

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• [http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/eng/1994-1995/faprem/mancity.htm Manchester City squad for 1994–95 season]

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