As of 16 January 2009, according to combined sources on the official website.

No. Position Player 1 GK Edwin van der Sar 2 DF Gary Neville (captain) 3 DF Patrice Evra 4 MF Owen Hargreaves 5 DF Rio Ferdinand 6 DF Wes Brown 7 MF Cristiano Ronaldo 8 MF Anderson 9 FW Dimitar Berbatov 10 FW Wayne Rooney 11 MF Ryan Giggs (vice-captain) 12 GK Ben Foster 13 MF Park Ji-Sung 14 MF Zoran Tošić 15 DF Nemanja Vidić 16 MF Michael Carrick 17 MF Nani

No. Position Player 18 MF Paul Scholes 19 FW Danny Welbeck 20 DF Fábio 21 DF Rafael 22 DF John O'Shea 23 DF Jonny Evans 24 MF Darren Fletcher 28 MF Darron Gibson 29 GK Tomasz Kuszczak 30 MF Lee Martin 32 FW Carlos Tévez (rights owned by MSI) 34 MF Rodrigo Possebon 39 DF James Chester 40 GK Ben Amos 41 FW Federico Macheda 42 DF Richard Eckersley 45 FW Febian Brandy

On loan

No. Position Player 25 DF Danny Simpson (at Blackburn Rovers until 30 June 2009) 26 FW Manucho (at Hull City until 30 June 2009) 31 FW Fraizer Campbell (at Tottenham Hotspur until 30 June 2009) 33 MF Sam Hewson (at Hereford United until 6 April 2009) 35 MF Tom Cleverley (at Leicester City until 30 June 2009)

No. Position Player 36 MF David Gray (at Plymouth Argyle until 30 June 2009) 37 DF Craig Cathcart (at Plymouth Argyle until 30 June 2009) 38 GK Ron-Robert Zieler (at Northampton Town until 31 January 2009) – GK Tom Heaton (at Cardiff City until 30 June 2009)