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Reading
Reading
Full name Reading Football Club
Nickname(s) The Royals
The Biscuitmen
The Ding
Founded 1871
Ground Madejski Stadium
(Capacity: 24,161)
Owner Flag of China Dai Yongge
Head Coach Flag of Republic of Ireland Noel Hunt
Current League League One 
2023–24 League One, 17th
Website Club home page
Reading 2024-25 homeReading 2024-25 awayReading 2024-25 third
Football current event Current season

Reading Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Reading in the Royal County of Berkshire, that plays in the EFL League One. The club competed in the 2012–13 Premier League season, having gained promotion at the end of the 2011–12 season, after winning the Championship. Reading are competing in the Championship again this season having been relegated after one year back in the top flight.

Reading are nicknamed The Royals, due to Reading's location in the Royal County of Berkshire, though they were previously known as The Biscuitmen, due to the town's association with Huntley and Palmers. Established in 1871, the club is one of the oldest teams in England, but did not join The Football League until 1920, and had never played in the top tier of English football league system before the 2006–07 season.

The club played at Elm Park for 102 years between 1896 to 1998. The club moved in 1998 to the new Madejski Stadium, which is named after the club's Co chairman Sir John Madejski.

The club holds the record for the number of successive league wins at the start of a season, with a total of 13 wins at the start of the 1985–86 Third Division campaign and also the record for the number of points gained in a professional league season with 106 points in the 2005–06 Football League Championship campaign. Reading finished eighth in their first ever season as a top flight club.

Players[]

As of 10 January 2025

First-team squad[]

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Flag of England David Button
2 DF Flag of Ghana Kelvin Abrefa
3 DF Flag of Montserrat Jeriel Dorsett
4 MF Flag of Cameroon Ben Elliott
5 MF Flag of Scotland Michael Craig
6 DF Flag of England Harlee Dean
7 FW Flag of England Harvey Knibbs
8 MF Flag of Wales Charlie Savage
9 FW Flag of Nigeria Kelvin Ehibhatiomhan
10 FW Flag of England Sam Smith
14 MF Flag of Zimbabwe Tivonge Rushesha
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 DF Flag of Ghana Andy Yiadom (captain)
19 FW Flag of England Jayden Wareham
20 FW Flag of Wales Chem Campbell (on loan from Wolverhampton Wanderers)
22 GK Flag of Portugal Joel Pereira
24 DF Flag of New Zealand Tyler Bindon
27 DF Flag of Senegal Amadou Mbengue
28 MF Flag of Guinea-Bissau Mamadi Camará
29 MF Flag of England Lewis Wing (vice-captain)
30 DF Flag of England Andre Garcia
31 GK Flag of Jamaica Coniah Boyce-Clarke
37 FW Flag of Nigeria Adrian Akande

Out on loan[]

No. Pos. Nation Player
21 GK Flag of Australia Dean Bouzanis (at Stevenage until January 2025)
48 GK Flag of England Matthew Rowley (at Tonbridge Angels until end of the season)

Under-21 squad[]

Main article:Reading F.C. Under-23s and Academy
As of 25 October 2024
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 DF Flag of Republic of Ireland John Clarke
26 FW Flag of Malta Basil Tuma
32 DF Flag of England Abraham Kanu
34 DF Flag of England Louie Holzman
35 MF Flag of Belgium Jack Senga
36 DF Flag of Republic of Ireland John Ryan
38 DF Flag of England Michael Stickland
39 DF Flag of England Ashqar Ahmed
40 MF Flag of England Charlie Wellens
No. Pos. Nation Player
41 GK Flag of England Tom Norcott
42 DF Flag of England Boyd Beacroft
43 FW Flag of England Jeremiah Okine-Peters
44 MF Flag of England Tyler Sackey
46 MF Flag of New Zealand Jacob Hammond-Chambers-Borgnis
47 MF Flag of England Shay Spencer
49 MF Flag of England Emmanuel Osho
50 MF Flag of England Joseph Barough
51 GK Flag of England Harrison Rhone

Under-18 squad[]

Main article:Reading F.C. Under-23s and Academy
As of 9 October 2024
No. Pos. Nation Player
45 MF Flag of England Kiyan Coke-Miles-Smith
52 DF Flag of England Sam Harrison
53 DF Flag of Ghana Phillip Duah
54 MF Flag of England T'Shay Saint-Louis
GK Flag of England James Sharlott
GK Flag of England Matthew Pullinger
GK Flag of England Josh Welland
DF Flag of England Dajara Martin
DF Flag of England Jacob Neptune
DF Flag of England Kai Source
DF Flag of England Ryan Zie
No. Pos. Nation Player
DF Flag of England Ryan Beacroft
MF Flag of England Maddox McMillan
MF Flag of England Henry Agyekum
MF Flag of England Callum Fuller-Thompson
MF Flag of England Dare Bailey
MF Flag of Algeria Aaron Nour
MF Flag of England Jerae Jones
MF Flag of England Luke Howard
MF Flag of England Carter Bowdery
MF Flag of England Denim Nnamudi
FW Flag of England Verell George

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Lumley · Carroll · Holmes · Hutchinson · McIntyre · Dann · Long · Hendrick · João · 10 T. Ince · 11 Méïté · 12 Rahman · 14 Ejaria · 15 Azeez · 16 Tetek · 17 Yiadom · 18 Guinness-Walker · 19 Fornah · 21 Bouzanis · 22 Loum · 23 Hoilett · 24 Sarr · 27 Mbengue · 28 Camará · 30 Abrefa · 33 Jo.Clarke · 34 Holzman · 35 Ehibhatiomhan · 36 Craig · 37 Leavy · 42 Melvin-Lambert · 48 Tuma ·

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Reading Football Club - Managers

Sefton (1897–1901) • Sharp (1901–02) • Matthews (1902–20) • Marshall (1920) • Jack Smith (1920–22) • The Board (1922–23) • Chadwick (1923–25) • Bray (1925–26) • Wylie (1926–31) • Joe Smith (1931–35) • Butler (1935–39) • Cochrane (1939) • Edelston (1939–47) • Drake (1947–52) • Jack Smith (1952–55) • May & Carter (1955c) • Johnston (1955–63) • Bentley (1963–69) • Henderson (1969c) • Mansell (1969–72) • Wallbanks (1972c) • Hurley (1972–77) • Evans (1977–84) • Branfoot (1984–89) • Chatterley (1989c) • Porterfield (1989–91) • Niedzwiecki (1991c) • Haselden (1991c) • McGhee (1991–94) • Gooding & Quinn (1994–97) • Bullivant (1997–98) • Burns (1998–99) • Pardew (1999–2003) • Dillon (2003c) • Coppell (2003–09) • Rodgers (2009) • McDermott (2009–13) • Dolan (2013c) • Adkins (2013–14) • Clarke (2014–15) • Kuhl (2015c) • McDermott (2015–16) • Stam (2016–18) • Clement (2018) • Marshall (2018c) • Gomes (2018–19) • Bowen (2019–20) • Paunović (2020–22) • Ince & Gilkesc (2020) • Ince (2022–23) • Hunti (2023) • Sellés (2023–)

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