| Squad cost: | 45.2M | 1997-98 fees: | 12.19M | |
| Total players: | 35 | Players in: | 5 | |
| Loaned out: | 3 | |||
| Available squad: | 32 |
| # | Name | Pos | Age | Hgt | Nat | Join | Cost | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peter Schmeichel | GK | 34 | 1.96 | DEN | 675K | ||
| 3 | Denis Irwin | D | 32 | 1.73 | IRL | 630K | ||
| 4 | David May | D | 28 | 1.84 | ENG | 1.89M | ||
| 5 | Ronny Johnsen | D | 29 | 1.90 | NOR | 2M | ||
| 6 | Gary Pallister | D | 33 | 1.93 | ENG | 2.34M | ||
| 8 | Nicky Butt | M | 23 | 1.78 | ENG | |||
| 9 | Andy Cole | F | 26 | 1.75 | ENG | 8.64M | ||
| 10 | Teddy Sheringham | F | 32 | ENG | 4.77M | |||
| 12 | Phil Neville | D | 21 | 1.80 | ENG | |||
| 21 | Henning Berg | D | 28 | 1.83 | NOR | 6.75M | ||
| 22 | Erik Nevland | F | 20 | 1.78 | NOR | ? | ||
| 23 | Ben Thornley | F | 23 | 1.72 | ENG | |||
| 24 | John O'Kane | D | 23 | 1.78 | ENG | |||
| 28 | Phil Mulryne | M | 20 | 1.75 | NIR | |||
| 31 | John Curtis | D | 19 | 1.78 | ENG | |||
| 35 | Wes Brown | D | 18 | 1.84 | ENG | |||
| 37 | Jonathan Greening | M | 19 | 1.80 | ENG | 675K | ||
| 38 | Danny Higginbotham | D | 19 | 1.85 | GIB | |||
| Nick Culkin | GK | 19 | 1.90 | ENG | ||||
| Alex Notman | F | 18 | 1.70 | SCO | ||||
| Kevin Pilkington | GK | 24 | 1.85 | ENG | ||||
| Ronnie Wallwork | M | 20 | 1.78 | ENG | ||||
| 13 | Brian McClair | F | 34 | 1.78 | SCO | 1987 | 1.08M | |
| 15 | Karel Poborsky | M | 26 | 1.75 | CZE | 1996 | 3.6M | |
| 17 | Raymond der van Gouw | GK | 35 | 1.91 | NED | |||
| Chris Casper | D | 23 | 1.83 | ENG | 1993 | |||
| 14 | Jordi Cruyff | M | 24 | 1.84 | NED | 1996 | 2.25M | |
| 34 | Michael Twiss | M | 20 | 1.80 | ENG | 1997 | ||
| 32 | Mike Clegg | D | 20 | 1.73 | ENG | |||
| 7 | David Beckham | M | 23 | 1.83 | ENG | 1993 | ||
| 16 | Roy Keane | M | 26 | 1.80 | IRL | 1993 | 7.65M | |
| 20 | Ole Gunnar Solskjaer | F | 25 | 1.79 | NOR | 1996 | 2.25M | |
| 2 | Gary Neville | D | 23 | 1.80 | ENG | 1994 | ||
| 18 | Paul Scholes | M | 23 | 1.68 | ENG | 1994 | ||
| 11 | Ryan Giggs | M | 24 | 1.79 | WAL | 1991 |