| Squad cost: | 22.34M | 1997-98 fees: | 6.72M | |
| Total players: | 33 | Players in: | 11 | |
| Loaned out: | 4 | |||
| Available squad: | 29 |
| # | Name | Pos | Age | Hgt | Nat | Join | Cost | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Beardsley | F | 37 | 1.73 | ENG | Loan | |||
| Richard Jobson | D | 35 | 1.85 | ENG | FREE | |||
| Ian Bishop | M | 33 | 1.75 | ENG | ? | |||
| Eddie McGoldrick | M | 33 | 1.78 | IRL | 405K | |||
| 27 | Nigel Clough | M | 32 | ENG | 1.53M | |||
| Alan Kernaghan | D | 31 | IRL | 1993 | 2.16M | |||
| Ian Brightwell | D | 30 | 1.78 | ENG | ||||
| Uwe Rosler | F | 29 | 1.85 | GER | 900K | |||
| Murtaz Shelia | D | 29 | GEO | Oct | ? | |||
| Kakhaber Tskhadadze | D | 29 | 1.87 | GEO | Jan | ? | ||
| Shaun Goater | F | 28 | 1.82 | BER | 360K | |||
| Kit Symons | D | 27 | 1.85 | WAL | 1.35M | |||
| Ged Brannan | M | 26 | 1.83 | ENG | 810K | |||
| Neil Heaney | F | 26 | 1.75 | ENG | 576K | |||
| Mikhail Kavelashvili | F | 26 | 1.80 | GEO | 1996 | 1.8M | ||
| Martyn Margetson | GK | 26 | 1.83 | WAL | ? | |||
| Nicky Summerbee | M | 26 | 1.80 | ENG | 2.03M | |||
| Paul Dickov | F | 25 | SCO | FREE | ||||
| Kevin Horlock | M | 25 | 1.83 | NIR | 1.69M | |||
| Gerard Wiekens | D | 25 | 1.81 | NED | Jul | 408K | ||
| Giorgi Kinkladze | M | 24 | GEO | 3.6M | ||||
| Richard Edghill | D | 23 | 1.75 | ENG | ||||
| Lee Bradbury | F | 22 | 1.83 | ENG | 4.05M | |||
| Lee Briscoe | D | 22 | 1.80 | ENG | Loan | |||
| Martin Phillips | M | 22 | 1.68 | ENG | 675K | |||
| Tony Scully | M | 22 | 1.70 | IRL | ||||
| Lee Crooks | M | 20 | 1.88 | ENG | ||||
| Nicky Weaver | GK | 19 | 1.91 | ENG | FREE | |||
| Jeff Whitley | M | 19 | 1.75 | NIR | ||||
| Michael Brown | GK | 18 | 1.86 | SCO | ||||
| Gary Mason | M | 18 | 1.73 | SCO | 1997 | |||
| Tommy Wright | F | 13 | 1.83 | ENG | ||||
| Jamie Pollock | F | 6 | 1.70 | SCO |