| Squad cost: | 10.27M | 1996-97 fees: | 2.92M | |
| Total players: | 34 | Players in: | 12 | |
| Loaned out: | 2 | |||
| Available squad: | 32 |
| # | Name | Pos | Age | Hgt | Nat | Join | Cost | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | Robbie Slater | M | 32 | 1.80 | AUS | ? | ||
| 1 | Dave Beasant | GK | 38 | 1.93 | ENG | 342K | ||
| 2 | Jason Dodd | D | 26 | 1.80 | ENG | |||
| 3 | Francis Benali | D | 28 | 1.78 | ENG | 2001 | ||
| 5 | Barry Venison | D | 32 | 1.78 | ENG | 1995 | 900K | |
| 7 | Matt Le Tissier | M | 28 | 1.85 | ENG | 1986 | ||
| 10 | Neil Maddison | M | 27 | ENG | ||||
| 11 | Neil Heaney | F | 25 | 1.75 | ENG | 342K | ||
| 13 | Neil Moss | GK | 22 | 1.88 | ENG | |||
| 14 | Simon Charlton | D | 25 | 1.73 | ENG | 315K | ||
| 17 | Paul Tisdale | M | 24 | 1.75 | ENG | |||
| 18 | Matt Oakley | M | 19 | 1.77 | ENG | |||
| 19 | Richard Dryden | D | 28 | 1.83 | ENG | Jul | ? | |
| 23 | Darryl Flahavan | GK | 18 | 1.80 | ENG | |||
| 26 | Matthew Robinson | D | 22 | 1.83 | ENG | |||
| 27 | Steve Basham | F | 19 | 1.78 | ENG | |||
| Graham Potter | D | 22 | 1.85 | ENG | 282K | |||
| Neil Shipperley | F | 22 | 1.85 | ENG | 1.58M | |||
| Christer Warren | M | 22 | ENG | |||||
| Russell Watkinson | M | 19 | 1.83 | ENG | Sep | FREE | ||
| Gordon Watson | F | 26 | 1.78 | ENG | 1.31M | |||
| Chris Woods | GK | 37 | 1.88 | ENG | ? | |||
| Mickey Evans | F | 24 | 1.83 | IRL | 702K | |||
| 29 | Eyal Berkovic | M | 25 | 1.70 | ISR | Loan | ||
| 6 | Ken Monkou | D | 32 | 1.91 | NED | 760K | ||
| 32 | Ulrich van Gobbel | D | 26 | 1.82 | NED | Oct | ? | |
| 4 | Jim Magilton | M | 28 | 1.83 | NIR | 720K | ||
| 33 | Maik Taylor | GK | 25 | 1.93 | NIR | 675K | ||
| 22 | Claus Lundekvam | D | 24 | 1.91 | NOR | Jul | 540K | |
| 30 | Egil Ostenstad | F | 25 | 1.83 | NOR | 720K | ||
| 25 | Paul Sheerin | M | 22 | 1.78 | SCO | |||
| Ali Dia | F | 31 | SEN | Nov | ? | |||
| 15 | Alan Neilson | D | 24 | 1.85 | WAL | 1.08M | ||
| 16 | David Hughes | M | 24 | 1.80 | WAL |