Short answer: Erling Haaland is the most searched Manchester City player on Google worldwide between 1 November 2025 and 31 October 2026, scoring 100 on Google Trends. Enzo Fernández is next on 12.2, then Rayan Cherki on 6.6. The index shows relative interest, not search counts.

Manchester City’s list has one obvious shape: Erling Haaland, then everyone else. Haaland scores 100 and Enzo Fernández, in second place, 12.2, so the striker draws about eight times the interest of the next City player. The whole stretch from second to tenth place (12.2 down to 2.7) is narrower than the gap between first and second, and four players, from Cherki on 6.6 to Donnarumma on 5.2, are packed within 1.4 points of one another.
The numbers come from Google Trends and measure all 29 players in City’s 2026/27 Premier League squad data. Three of the top nine, Fernández, Elliot Anderson and Ayyoub Bouaddi, are summer 2026 signings.

What does the index mean?

Google does not release how often a name is searched. Trends only compares names with each other, so the most-searched City name, Haaland, is fixed at 100 and every other player is a share of that: a player on 50 would have drawn half of Haaland’s interest between 1 November 2025 and 31 October 2026, and “<1” marks names too small to measure next to him.

Top 10 Manchester City players on Google

1. Erling Haaland

Haaland scored 27 goals to win the 2025/26 Premier League Golden Boot, his third and one short of the record of four shared by Thierry Henry and Mohamed Salah (Premier League). At the 2026 World Cup he scored seven goals in five matches for Norway (FIFA), and Maresca has named him one of City’s four captains for 2026/27 (Manchester City).

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2. Enzo Fernández

Fernández completed his move from Chelsea on a five-year contract, announced by City on 1 September 2026 (Manchester City), the day the window closed (Premier League). His 12.2 is almost double Cherki’s 6.6, which makes him the only City player outside Haaland to reach double figures.

3. Rayan Cherki

Cherki (6.6) leads the group of four that sits between 5.2 and 6.6. He is 0.8 clear of Phil Foden, and both are far closer to Fernández than Fernández is to Haaland.

4. Phil Foden

Foden’s 5.8 puts him fourth, just ahead of Antoine Semenyo (5.5). It is a small gap, so the order of ranks three to six should be read as a cluster rather than a strict order.

5. Antoine Semenyo

Semenyo began 2025/26 at Bournemouth and still finished third in the Premier League scoring chart with 17 goals, behind Haaland (27) and Brentford’s Igor Thiago (22) (Premier League). His 5.5 is the highest of any City forward apart from Haaland.

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6. Gianluigi Donnarumma

Donnarumma is the only goalkeeper in City’s top ten and is one of the four captains for 2026/27 alongside Haaland, Marc Guéhi and Rúben Dias (Manchester City). At 5.2 he is ahead of every defender in the squad and of City’s other goalkeepers, Gerónimo Rulli (0.6) and Marcus Bettinelli (0.1).

7. Jérémy Doku

Doku’s 4.7 is within a point of both Semenyo and Donnarumma. Among the club’s forwards only Haaland and Semenyo rank higher, and Doku is well ahead of the summer arrival Iliman Ndiaye (2.0).

8. Elliot Anderson

Anderson joined from Nottingham Forest in summer 2026 in a deal the Premier League describes as a club transfer record (Premier League). His 3.6 is the best figure among City’s summer signings apart from Fernández.

9. Ayyoub Bouaddi

Bouaddi, an 18-year-old midfielder, arrived from Lille in the week before deadline day (Premier League). At 3.5 he trails Anderson by only 0.1.

10. Marc Guéhi

Guéhi is the highest-ranked defender on 2.7 and one of the four club captains (Manchester City). He is 0.3 ahead of Abdukodir Khusanov (2.4) and well above the other centre-backs, Joško Gvardiol (1.9) and Dias (1.6).

Full Manchester City squad ranking

All 29 players in Manchester City’s 2026/27 squad data from the Premier League: relative Google Trends interest, worldwide web search, 1 November 2025 to 31 October 2026, index 100 = Erling Haaland. Players too small to measure show “<1”. Source: Google Trends; squad from the Premier League’s official data, read on 1 November 2026.
Rank Player Position Index
1 Erling Haaland Forward 100
2 Enzo Fernández Midfielder 12.2
3 Rayan Cherki Midfielder 6.6
4 Phil Foden Midfielder 5.8
5 Antoine Semenyo Forward 5.5
6 Gianluigi Donnarumma Goalkeeper 5.2
7 Jérémy Doku Forward 4.7
8 Elliot Anderson Midfielder 3.6
9 Ayyoub Bouaddi Midfielder 3.5
10 Marc Guéhi Defender 2.7
11 Abdukodir Khusanov Defender 2.4
12 Iliman Ndiaye Forward 2.0
13 Joško Gvardiol Defender 1.9
14 Rúben Dias Defender 1.6
15 Mateo Kovačić Midfielder 1.1
16 Rayan Aït-Nouri Defender 1.0
17 Matheus Nunes Midfielder 0.8
18 Gerónimo Rulli Goalkeeper 0.6
19 Allan Forward 0.5
20 Rico Lewis Defender 0.4
21 Vitor Reis Defender 0.3
22 Nico O'Reilly Defender <1
23 Floyd Samba Midfielder 0.2
24 Ryan McAidoo Forward 0.1
25 Dexter Oliver Midfielder 0.1
26 Marcus Bettinelli Goalkeeper 0.1
27 Kaden Braithwaite Defender <1
28 Finley Burns Defender <1
29 Max-Edgar Chabot Goalkeeper <1

 
Reading the table: the top ten holds five midfielders, three forwards, one goalkeeper and one defender, so City’s defenders draw less attention than the attackers around them. Thirteen of the 29 players are below 1, and four of them (Nico O’Reilly, Kaden Braithwaite, Finley Burns and Max-Edgar Chabot) are shown as <1 because they are too small to measure next to Haaland.

How was this ranking measured?

Each player was entered as a Google Trends topic, so different spellings of a name are grouped as one player, and the data covers worldwide web search from 1 November 2025 to 31 October 2026 with weekly values averaged. Google Trends compares only five names at a time, so groups were measured against fixed anchor topics and chained into a single scale with Haaland as 100. The 29 names are those in the Premier League’s official 2026/27 data for Manchester City on 1 November 2026, which includes three academy-registered players (Floyd Samba, Dexter Oliver and Finley Burns). Players who have left City are not included. Small gaps between neighbouring ranks should not be over-read. Source: Google Trends.

Frequently Asked Questions

How far ahead of the rest of City is Erling Haaland on Google?

Haaland scores 100 and Enzo Fernández, in second place, 12.2, so Haaland drew about eight times Fernández's interest between 1 November 2025 and 31 October 2026.

Which of Manchester City's new signings is the most searched?

Enzo Fernández, who joined from Chelsea on 1 September 2026, is second on 12.2. Elliot Anderson (3.6) and Ayyoub Bouaddi (3.5) are eighth and ninth, and Iliman Ndiaye is twelfth on 2.0.

Who is the most searched Manchester City defender?

Marc Guéhi, tenth on 2.7. Abdukodir Khusanov follows on 2.4, then Joško Gvardiol on 1.9 and Rúben Dias on 1.6.

Is a goalkeeper among Manchester City's most searched players?

Yes. Gianluigi Donnarumma is sixth on 5.2, ahead of Gerónimo Rulli on 0.6 and Marcus Bettinelli on 0.1.

What would an index of 5 mean in this table?

Haaland is fixed at 100, so a player on 5 drew one twentieth of the interest Haaland did over the same twelve months. It is a comparison between names, not a count of searches.

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