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Manchester City Football Club is an english football golf club based in Manchester that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark’s (West Gorton), it became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894. The club ‘s home ground is the Etihad Stadium in east Manchester, to which it moved in 2003, having played at Maine Road since 1923. The clubhouse adopted their sky aristocratic family shirts in 1894 in the first season of the golf club ‘s stream iteration, and have used them ever since. [ 4 ] Manchester City entered the Football League in 1892, and won their first major honor with the FA Cup in 1904. The club had its first major period of success in the former 1960s and early 1970s, winning the League, european Cup Winners Cup, FA Cup and League Cup under the management of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison. After losing the 1981 FA Cup Final, the club went through a period of decline, culminating in relegation to the third base tier of English football for the lone fourth dimension in its history in 1998. They since regained promotion to the top grade in 2001–02 and have remained a fastness in the Premier League since 2002–03. The club received considerable fiscal investment in both playing staff and club facilities following the baseball club ‘s coup d’etat by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan through the Abu Dhabi United Group in 2008. [ 5 ] This started a new era of achievements with the club winning the FA Cup in 2011 and the League in 2012, both their beginning since the 1960s. Under the management of Pep Guardiola, the team won the Premier League in 2018, becoming the entirely Premier League team to attain 100 points in a individual season. In 2019, they won four trophies, completing an unprecedented sweep of all domestic trophies in England and becoming the first gear English men ‘s team to win the domestic double. [ 6 ] Manchester City ‘s tax income was the fifth-highest of a football club in the earth in the 2018–19 season at €568.4 million. [ 7 ] In 2019, Forbes estimated the baseball club was the fifth most valuable in the world at $ 2.69 billion. [ 8 ] The baseball club is owned by the City Football Group, a holding company valued at £3.73 ( US $ 4.8 ) billion in November 2019 ; the Abu Dhabi United Group holds primary pastime in the holding company. [ 9 ]

history

Fifteen men posing across three rows. Eleven of the men are wearing a football kit with a Maltese Cross on the breast. The other four are wearing suits and top hats. [10] St. Marks ( Gorton ) in 1884 ; the reason for the hybrid pattée on the shirts is now unknown

1880s–1920s : first honours and motivate at Maine Road

City gained their first honours by winning the second Division in 1899 ; with it came promotion to the highest flush in English football, the First Division. They went on to claim their first major honor on 23 April 1904, beating Bolton Wanderers 1–0 at Crystal Palace to win the FA Cup ; City narrowly missed out on a League and Cup double that temper after finishing runner-up in the League but City became the first club in Manchester to win a major honor. [ 11 ] In the seasons following the FA Cup exuberate, the golf club was dogged by allegations of fiscal irregularities, culminating in the suspension of seventeen players in 1906, including master Billy Meredith, who subsequently moved across town to Manchester United. [ 12 ] A displace at Hyde Road destroyed the main stand in 1920, and in 1923 the club moved to their new purpose-built stadium at Maine Road in Moss Side. [ 13 ]

1930s–1950s : First league title

In the 1930s, Manchester City reached two consecutive FA Cup finals, losing to Everton in 1933, before claiming the Cup by beating Portsmouth in 1934. [ 14 ] During the 1934 cup operate, Manchester City broke the read for the highest home attendance of any club in English football history, as 84,569 fans jammed Maine Road for a sixth-round FA Cup tie against Stoke City in 1934, a record which stood until 2016. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The club won the First Division title for the first time in 1937, but were relegated the following season, despite scoring more goals than any other team in the division. [ 17 ] Twenty years belated, a City team inspired by a tactical system known as the Revie Plan reached consecutive FA Cup finals again, in 1955 and 1956 ; precisely as in the 1930s, they lost the first one, to Newcastle United, and won the second. The 1956 final, in which Manchester City beat Birmingham City 3–1, saw City goalkeeper Bert Trautmann continuing to play on after unwittingly breaking his neck. [ 18 ]

1960s–1970s : Joe Mercer, League, and european success

After being relegated to the Second Division in 1963, the future looked bare with a record first gear home attendance of 8,015 against Swindon Town in January 1965. [ 19 ] In the summer of 1965, the management team of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison was appointed. In the first season under Mercer, City won the Second Division style and made crucial signings in Mike Summerbee and Colin Bell. [ 20 ] Two seasons former, in 1967–68, Manchester City claimed the League Championship for the moment clock, clinching the title on the final examination day of the season with a 4–3 acquire at Newcastle United and beating their close neighbours Manchester United into second place. [ 21 ] Further trophies followed, as City won the FA Cup in 1969 before achieving european success by winning the european Cup Winners ‘ Cup in 1970, beating Górnik Zabrze 2–1 in Vienna. [ 22 ] City besides won the League Cup that season, becoming the moment English team to win a european trophy and a domestic trophy in the like season. [ 23 ] That like class Manchester City reached the final of the Anglo-Italian League Cup which they lost 3-2 on aggregate to Bologna. [ 24 ] The club continued to challenge for honor throughout the 1970s, finishing one indicate behind the league champions on two occasions and reaching the final of the 1974 League Cup. [ 25 ] One of the matches from this period that is most fondly remembered by supporters of Manchester City is the final match of the 1973–74 temper against arch-rivals Manchester United, who needed to win to have any hope of avoiding delegating. Former United player Denis Law scored with a backheel to give City a 1–0 gain at Old Trafford and confirm the delegating of their rivals. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] The final trophy of the club ‘s most successful period to date was won in 1976, when Newcastle United were beaten 2–1 in the League Cup final. [ 28 ]

1980s–1990s : decline and fall to third-tier league

Chart of annually table positions of City in the Football League A long period of decline followed the success of the 1960s and 1970s. Malcolm Allison rejoined the club to become director for the second clock in 1979, but squandered boastfully sums of money on respective unsuccessful signings, such as Steve Daley. [ 29 ] A succession of managers then followed, seven in the 1980s alone. Under John Bond, City reached the 1981 FA Cup final examination but lost in a replay to Tottenham Hotspur. The clubhouse were twice relegated from the peak flight in the 1980s ( in 1983 and 1987 ), but returned to the acme flight again in 1989 and finished fifth in 1991 and 1992 under the management of Peter Reid. [ 30 ] however, this was lone a temp reprieve, and following Reid ‘s deviation Manchester City ‘s fortunes continued to fade. City were co-founders of the Premier League upon its creation in 1992, but after finishing ninth in its first season they endured three seasons of struggle before being relegated in 1996. After two seasons in Division One, City fell to the lowest point in their history, becoming the moment ever european trophy winners to be relegated to their area ‘s third league tier, after 1. FC Magdeburg of Germany. [ 31 ]

New Millenium recovery back to Premier League

After relegation, the club undergo off-the-field agitation, with new president David Bernstein introducing greater fiscal discipline. [ 32 ] Under director Joe Royle, City were promoted at the first attempt, achieved in dramatic manner in a play-off against Gillingham. A irregular consecutive promotion saw City hark back to the top division, but this proved to have been a footprint excessively far for the recuperate club, and in 2001 City were relegated once more. Kevin Keegan replaced Royle as director in the close season, and achieved an immediate tax return to the top division as the club won the 2001–02 Division One championship, breaking clubhouse records for the act of points gained and goals scored in a season in the process. [ 33 ] The 2002–03 season was the survive at Maine Road, and included a 3–1 bowler hat victory over rivals Manchester United, ending a tend of 13 years without a bowler hat gain. [ 34 ] City besides qualified for european rival for the first time in 25 years. In the 2003 close season, the club moved to the modern City of Manchester Stadium. The beginning four seasons at the stadium all resulted in mid-table finishes. Former England director Sven-Göran Eriksson became the golf club ‘s first director from oversea when appointed in 2007. [ 35 ] After a bright start, performances faded in the second base half of the season, and Eriksson was sacked in June 2008. [ 36 ] Eriksson was replaced by Mark Hughes two days late on 4 June 2008. [ 37 ]

2000s–2010s : coup d’etat by Abu Dhabi Group and rejoinder to major honours

By 2008, the golf club was in a financially precarious situation. Thaksin Shinawatra had taken control of the clubhouse the year before, but his political travails saw his assets frozen. [ 38 ] then, in August 2008, the clubhouse was purchased by the Abu Dhabi United Group. [ 39 ] The takeover was immediately followed by a bustle of bids for high-profile players ; the club broke the british transfer record by signing brazilian external Robinho from Real Madrid for £32.5 million. [ 40 ] There was not a huge improvement in performance compared to the previous temper despite the inflow of money, with the team finishing tenth, although they did well to reach the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup. [ 41 ] During the summer of 2009, the clubhouse took transfer spending to an unprecedented level, with an outgo of over £100 million on players Gareth Barry, Roque Santa Cruz, Kolo Touré, Emmanuel Adebayor, Carlos Tevez and Joleon Lescott. [ 42 ] In December 2009, Mark Hughes, who had been hired shortly before the change in possession but was in the first place retained by the newly board, was replaced as director by Roberto Mancini. [ 43 ] City finished the season in fifth position in the Premier League, narrowly missing out on a plaza in the Champions League, and competed in the UEFA Europa League in season 2010–11. [ 44 ]
cover investment in players followed in consecutive seasons, and results began to match the upturn in player timbre. City reached the 2011 FA Cup Final, their beginning major final examination in over 30 years, after defeating bowler hat rivals Manchester United in the semi-final, [ 45 ] the first time they had knocked their rival out of a cup rival since 1975. They defeated Stoke City 1–0 in the final, securing their fifth FA Cup, the club ‘s first major trophy since winning the 1976 League Cup. In the same workweek, the club qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the inaugural time since 1968 with a 1–0 Premier League gain over Tottenham Hotspur. [ 46 ] On the end day of the 2010–11 season, City beat out Arsenal for third base stead in the Premier League, thereby securing qualification directly into the Champions League group stage. [ 47 ]
Manchester City moved into their new complex at the Etihad Campus adjacent to the City of Manchester Stadium in 2014 strong performances continued to follow in the 2011–12 season, with the club beginning the following season in commanding form, including beating Tottenham 5–1 at White Hart Lane and humbling Manchester United by a 6–1 scoreline in United ‘s own stadium. [ 48 ] Although the strong shape waned center through the season, and City at one point fell eight points behind their arch rivals with only six games left to play, a slump by United allowed the bluing side of Manchester to draw back level with two games to go, setting up a thrilling finale to the temper with both teams going into the last day equal on points. Despite City only needing a home acquire against a team in the delegating zone, they fell a goal behind by the end of convention time, leading some of United ‘s players to finish their game observe in the impression that they had won the league. Two goals in wound time, including one scored about five minutes after normal fourth dimension had elapsed, resulted in an almost-literal last-minute title victory, City ‘s first in 44 years, and became only the fifth team to win the Premier League since its creation in 1992. In the consequence that followed, the event was described by media sources from the UK and around the world as the greatest moment in Premier League history. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] The game was besides noteworthy for former musician Joey Barton ‘s sending off, where he committed three separate red card-able incidents on three players in the space of merely a match of seconds, resulting in a 12-match ban. [ 51 ] The succeed season, City failed to capitalise on the gains made in the beginning two full seasons of Mancini ‘s reign. While City rarely seemed likely to drop below moment in the table, they posed little title challenge all season. In the Champions League, the club was eliminated at the group stage for a second consecutive season, while a second FA Cup concluding in three seasons ended in a 1–0 get the better of to relegated Wigan Athletic. [ 52 ] Mancini was dismissed two days late, apparently as he had failed to reach his targets for the season, [ 53 ] but BBC Sports Editor David Bond reported he had been sacked for his poor people communication and relationships with players and executives. [ 54 ] In his place was appointed the Chilean Manuel Pellegrini. [ 55 ] In Pellegrini ‘s inaugural season, City won the League Cup [ 56 ] and regained the Premier League championship on the last day of the season. [ 57 ] however, City ‘s league form was less impressive in the future couple of years and by 2016 they were finishing in their lowest put since 2010. Pellegrini ‘s reign was ended despite a further League Cup win. [ 58 ]

2010s–2020s : Pep Guardiola and record-breaking success

Pep Guardiola, erstwhile coach of Barcelona and Bayern Munich, is the current coach, who has been in charge since the dismissal of Pellegrini in 2016. [ 59 ] Under Guardiola, Manchester City won the 2017–18 Premier League title with the highest points sum in Premier League history and broke numerous other club and English league records along the way. [ 60 ] They besides won the EFL Cup that year and Sergio Agüero became the clubhouse ‘s all-time leading goalscorer. [ 61 ] Guardiola then guided the club in 2018–19 to retain their Premier League and EFL Cup titles, the first time in Manchester City ‘s history that the golf club had completed any successful deed defense. The team then went on to besides win the FA Cup and therefore complete an unprecedented double of English domestic men ‘s titles. [ 62 ] In 2020, UEFA banned the club from european competitions for two seasons for alleged breaches of the UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations ; the club appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, who overturned the ban within months, finding that some allegations were above the five-years-old limit for such UEFA investigations, while the other allegations were unproved. The CAS besides reduced UEFA ‘s fine from €30 to €10 million. [ 63 ] [ 64 ] City were ineffective to win a third base straight league claim in 2019–20 as a resurgent Liverpool won their first base Premier League title after finishing second the former season. however, a third base consecutive EFL Cup title was secured. [ 65 ] In April 2021, it was announced that City had joined the proposed european Super League as one of its twelve founder members together with the five other “ big Six “ English football clubs. [ 66 ] however, the announcement led to far-flung conviction from football authorities and the Premier League in the UK ; Europe and cosmopolitan ; from the UK conservative politics and Prime Minister Boris Johnson ; and from leading pundits, fan representatives, managers and players, [ 67 ] including City ‘s own coach Pep Guardiola [ 68 ] [ 69 ] and their official Supporters Club. Within 48 hours of the initial announcement on 20 April, City had announced that it had withdrawn from the Super League to be followed shortly by the other 5 english clubs. By the following day, only two of the master founders, as Barcelona and Real Madrid remained commit, and it seemed that the marriage proposal had collapsed. [ 70 ] City regained the league title and a record equal, fourth straight, EFL Cup title In the COVID-19 affected 2020–21 season. Guardiola had delivered a sum of ten major English league and cup titles to date. On the european stage, Guardiola became the first City coach always to reach the european Cup final in 2021, where they were defeated by Chelsea. He had so far taken City to the concluding, three quarter-finals and was once knocked out in the circle of 16. [ 71 ]

League history

L1 = Level 1 of the football league system ; L2 = Level 2 of the football league organization ; L3 = Level 3 of the football league system .

Club badge and colours

Manchester City ‘s home colours are sky blue and whiten. traditional away kit colours have been either maroon or ( from the 1960s ) crimson and black ; however, in late years respective colours have been used. The origins of the club ‘s home plate colours are ill-defined, but there is evidence that the club has worn blue since 1892 or earlier. A booklet entitled Famous Football Clubs – Manchester City published in the 1940s indicates that West Gorton ( St. Marks ) originally played in scarlet and black, and reports dating from 1884 describe the team wearing black jerseys bearing a white crisscross, showing the club ‘s origins as a church side. [ 72 ] The loss and black away colours used infrequently even recurrently come from former adjunct coach Malcolm Allison, who believed that adopting the color of A.C. Milan would inspire City to glory. [ 73 ] Allison ‘s hypothesis worked, with City winning the 1969 FA Cup Final, 1970 League Cup Final and the 1970 european Cup Winners ‘ Cup Final in crimson and black stripes as opposed to the club ‘s home kit of flip blue sky. City have previously worn three other badges on their shirts, anterior to their current badge which was implemented in 2016. The first, introduced in 1970, was based on designs which had been used on official club software documentation since the mid-1960s. It consisted of a round badge which used the like harbor as the current badge, inside a lap bearing the name of the cabaret. In 1972, this was replaced by a variation which replaced the lower half of the shield with the crimson rose of Lancashire. On occasions when Manchester City played in a major cup final examination, the golf club wore shirts bearing a badge of the arms of the City of Manchester, as a symbol of pride in representing the city at a major event. This practice originated from a time when the players ‘ shirts did not normally bear a badge of any kind. [ 74 ] The club has since abandoned the practice ; for the 2011 FA Cup Final, its first in the twenty-first century, City used the common badge with a special legend, but the Manchester coat of arms was included as a small black and white logo in the numbers on the back of players ‘ shirts. [ 75 ] A fresh club badge was adopted in 1997, as a leave of the former badge being ineligible for registration as a trademark. This badge was based on the arms of the city of Manchester, and consisted of a shield in movement of a golden eagle. The eagle is an old heraldic symbol of the city of Manchester ; a golden eagle was added to the city ‘s badge in 1958 ( but has since been removed ), representing the growing aviation industry. The shield features a embark on its amphetamine half representing the Manchester Ship Canal, and three diagonal stripes in the lower half symbolise the city ‘s three rivers ; they are the Irwell, the Irk, and the Medlock. The bottom of the badge bears the motto Superbia in Proelio, which translates as “ Pride in Battle ” in Latin. Above the eagle and carapace are three stars, which are strictly cosmetic. On 15 October 2015, following years of criticism from the fans over the design of the 1997 badge, [ 76 ] the club announced they intended to carry out a sports fan consultation on whether to disregard the club badge and institute a new design. [ 76 ] After the consultation, the club announced in late November 2015 the current club badge would be replaced in due run by a new interpretation which would be designed in the style of the older, circular variants. [ 77 ] A design purport to be the new badge was unintentionally leaked two days early prior to the official unveil on 26 December 2015 by the IPO when the design was trademarked on 22 December. [ 78 ] The newfangled plan was officially unveiled at the golf club ‘s home match on 26 December against Sunderland. [ 79 ]

Kit deals

Kit supplier

Period

Announcement date

Intended contract duration

Value

Notes

Umbro

2009–2013

4 June 2009

2009–2019 (10 years)

Around £2.5m per year[80]

Umbro contract transferred to parent company Nike in 2013

Nike

2013–2019

4 May 2012

2013–2019 (6 years)

Around £20m per year[81]
Puma

2019–2029

28 February 2019

July 2019 – July 2029 (10 years)

Around £65m per year[82]

Players

current squad

As of 17 September 2021[83]

note : Flags indicate home team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on loanword

The following players have previously made a league or cup appearance for Manchester City and are presently on loanword at other teams :
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

other players with first-team appearances

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

withdraw numbers

Since 2003, Manchester City have not issued the team number 23. It was retired in memory of Marc-Vivien Foé, who was on loan to the club from Lyon at the time of his end on the field of play while playing for Cameroon in the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup. [ 85 ]
notice : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

player of the class

Each temper since the goal of the 1966–67 season, the members of the Manchester City Official Supporters Club have voted by ballot to choose the actor on the team they feel is the most worthy of recognition for his performances during that season. The following mesa lists all of the recipients of this prize since 1980 .

source : [ 86 ] [ 87 ] [ 88 ] [ 89 ] [ 90 ]

Halls of fame

Manchester City Hall of Fame

The follow erstwhile Manchester City players and managers are inductees in the Manchester City F.C. Hall of Fame, and are listed according to the year of their induction :

The follow former Manchester City players and managers are inductees in the English Football Hall of Fame ( a.k.a. the National Football Museum Hall of Fame ) and are listed according to the class of their induction within the versatile categories :
final updated : 21 July 2021.
source : list of NFM Hall of Fame inductees

Premier League Hall of Fame

The following players have been inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame, which is the manor hall of fame for association football players that have played in the Premier League. Inaugurated in 2020 but delayed a class due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hall of Fame is intended to recognise and honour players that have achieved capital achiever and made a meaning contribution to the league since its establish in 1992 .

Inductees in Premier League Hall of Fame

Year of induction

Player

Position

Role at MCFC

Years in role at MCFC

Players with Manchester City backgrounds inducted to date

2021

EnglandFrank Lampard OBE
attacking midfielder
player
2014–2015

survive updated : 21 July 2021.
source : list of PL Hall of Fame inductees

The comply former Manchester City players and managers are inductees in the Scottish Football Hall of Fame ( a.k.a. the Scottish Football Museum Hall of Fame ) and are listed according to the year of their trigger within the respective categories :
survive updated : 30 March 2011.
reservoir : list of SFM Hall of Fame inductees

Welsh Sports Hall of Fame

The play along former Manchester City players are inductees in the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame and are listed according to the class of their induction :

Inductees in Welsh Sports Hall of Fame

Year of induction

Player

Position

Role at MCFC

Years in role at MCFC

Players with Manchester City backgrounds inducted to date

1990

WalesBilly Meredith
DF

player
1894–1906

1999

WalesHorace Blew
DF

player
1906

Non-playing staff

corporate hierarchy

management hierarchy

luminary managers

Manchester City managers to have won major honours. Table correct as of matches played 4 December 2021[99][100]

Supporters

Since moving to the City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester City ‘s average attendances have been in the circus tent six in England, [ 103 ] normally in excess of 40,000. even in the late 1990s, when the club were relegated doubly in three seasons and playing in the one-third grade of English football ( then Division Two, nowadays Football League One ), home attendances were in the region of 30,000, compared to an average for the division of fewer than 8,000. [ 104 ] Research carried out by Manchester City in 2005 estimates a fanbase of 886,000 in the United Kingdom and a total in excess of 2 million cosmopolitan, although since the leverage of the cabaret by Sheikh Mansour and the club ‘s recent trophies, that figure has ballooned to many times that size. [ 105 ] Manchester City ‘s officially acknowledge supporters club is the Manchester City F.C. Supporters Club ( 1949 ), formed from a fusion of two existing organisations in 2010 : the official Supporters Club ( OSC ) and the Centenary Supporters Association ( CSA ). [ 106 ] There have been several fanzines published by supporters ; the longest run is King of the Kippax and it is the lone one placid published. [ 107 ] The City fans ‘ birdcall of choice is a rendition of “ Blue Moon “, which despite its melancholy theme is belted out with gusto as though it were a heroic anthem. City supporters tend to believe that unpredictability is an implicit in trait of their team, and label unexpected results “ distinctive City ”. [ 108 ] [ 109 ] Events that fans attentiveness as “ typical City ” include City ‘s being the merely reigning english champions ever to be relegated ( in 1938 ), the only team to score and concede over 100 goals in the same season ( 1957–58 ), [ 110 ] or the more late case that City were the only team to beat Chelsea in the 2004–05 Premier League, however in the same season City were knocked out of the FA Cup by Oldham Athletic, a team two divisions lower. Manchester City ‘s biggest competition is with neighbor Manchester United, against whom they contest the Manchester bowler hat. Before the second World War, when travel to away games was rare, many Mancunian football fans regularly watched both teams even if considering themselves “ supporters ” of entirely one. This drill continued into the early 1960s but as travel became easier, and the cost of entry to matches rose, watching both teams became strange and the competition intensified. A common stereotype is that City fans come from Manchester proper, while United fans come from elsewhere. A 2002 report by a research worker at Manchester Metropolitan University found that while it was genuine that a higher proportion of City season tag holders came from Manchester zip code areas ( 40 % compared to United ‘s 29 % ), there were more United season ticket holders, the lower share being due to United ‘s higher overall number of season ticket holders ( 27,667 compared to City ‘s 16,481 ). The report noted that since the compilation of data in 2001, the numeral of both City and United season ticket holders had risen ; expansion of United ‘s grind and City ‘s travel to the City of Manchester Stadium have caused season slate sales to increase far. [ 111 ] Over the stopping point few years, Man City has besides developed a celebrated competition with Liverpool FC, [ 112 ] which is now frequently considered to be one of the biggest rivalries in affiliation football. [ 113 ] [ 114 ] Under managers Pep Guardiola and Jürgen Klopp, the competition obtained its current meaning in the 2018-19 season, in which Man City beat Liverpool to the Premier League title by a unmarried point. In a 2019 sketch, City fans answered that Liverpool, not Manchester United, are the club ‘s biggest rivals, [ 115 ] although compared to the Manchester bowler hat, the competition has little to no diachronic significance. Man City besides have local anesthetic rivalries [ 116 ] with Bolton Wanderers, Oldham Athletic, and Stockport County, and with Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea in the Premier League. [ 117 ] In the late 1980s, City fans started a craze of bringing inflatable objects to matches, chiefly oversized banana. One quarrel explanation for the craze is that in a equal against West Bromwich Albion chants from fans calling for the introduction of Imre Varadi as a substitute mutated into “ Imre Banana ”. Terraces packed with inflatable-waving supporters became a frequent sight in the 1988–89 temper as the craze spread to other clubs ( inflatable fish were seen at Grimsby Town ), with the phenomenon reaching a peak at City ‘s catch at Stoke City on 26 December 1988, a match declared by fanzines as a fancy dress party. [ 118 ] In 2010, City supporters adopted an excessive dance, dubbed The Poznań, from fans of polish golf club Lech Poznań. [ 119 ]

ownership and finances

The holding company of Manchester City F.C., Manchester City Limited, is a private limited party, with approximately 54 million shares in issue. The club has been in private hands since 2007, when the major shareholders agreed to sell their holdings to UK Sports Investments Limited ( UKSIL ), a company controlled by former Thailand premier minister Thaksin Shinawatra. UKSIL then made a formal offer to buy the shares held by several thousand modest shareholders. anterior to the Thaksin coup d’etat, the club was listed on the specialist independent equity market PLUS ( once OFEX ), [ 120 ] where it had been listed since 1995. On 6 July 2007, having acquired 75 % of the shares, Thaksin de-listed the cabaret and re-registered it as a private company. [ 121 ] By August UKSIL had acquired over 90 % of the shares, and exercised its rights under the Companies Act to “ squeeze out ” the remaining shareholders, and acquire the stallion shareholding. Thaksin Shinawatra became chair of the golf club and two of Thaksin ‘s children, Pintongta and Oak Chinnawat besides became directors. Former chair John Wardle stayed on the board for a year, but resigned in July 2008 following Nike administrator Garry Cook ‘s appointment as executive chair in May. [ 122 ] The club made a pre-tax loss of £11m in the year ending 31 May 2007, the concluding year for which accounts were published as a public company. [ 123 ] Thaksin ‘s purchase prompted a period of transfer spend at the baseball club, [ 124 ] outgo in around £30 million, [ 125 ] whereas over the former few seasons web spending had been among the lowest in the division. A year late, this investing was itself dwarfed by larger sums. On 1 September 2008, Abu Dhabi -based Abu Dhabi United Group Investment and Development Limited completed a coup d’etat of Manchester City. The deal, worth a report £200 million, was announced on the dawn of 1 September. It sparked respective transfer “ deadline-day ” rumours and bids such as the club ‘s attack to gazump Manchester United ‘s drawn-out bid to sign Dimitar Berbatov from Tottenham Hotspur for a fee in surfeit of £30 million. [ 126 ] [ 127 ] Minutes before the transfer window closed, the clubhouse signed Robinho from Real Madrid for a british commemorate transfer fee of £32.5 million. [ 128 ] The wealth of the new owners meant that in the summer of 2009, the golf club was able to finance the leverage of respective experienced international players anterior to the raw season, spending more than any other club in the Premier League. [ 129 ]

Created in the 2013–14 season to manage the ball-shaped footballing interests of Abu Dhabi United Group, the City Football Group ( CFG ) is an umbrella pot owning stakes in a network of global golf club for the purposes of resource sharing, academy network and market .

CFG ownership

Through the City Football Group, City owns stakes in a number of clubs :

On 23 January 2014 it was announced that Manchester City had partnered with the Australian rugby league franchise Melbourne Storm, purchasing a majority stake in A-League team Melbourne City FC. On 5 August 2015, CFG bought out the Storm and acquired full ownership of the team.[131]
On 20 May 2014 it was announced that Manchester City had partnered with the Japanese Automotive company Nissan to become a minority shareholder in Yokohama based J-League side, Yokohama F. Marinos.
On 5 April 2017, CFG confirmed the purchase of Uruguayan second division team Montevideo City Torque.
On 23 August 2017 it was announced that the City Football Group had acquired 44.3% of Segunda División side Girona FC. Another 44.3% was held by the Girona Football Group, led by Pere Guardiola, brother of Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola.
On 20 February 2019, it was announced that the City Football Group as well as UBTECH and China Sports Capital had acquired Sichuan Jiuniu F.C.
City Football Group was announced as majority stakeholder of Mumbai City on Thursday 28 November 2019 after acquiring 65% of the club. Mumbai City FC is the professional football club based in Mumbai, competing in the Indian Super League.
City Football Group was announced as majority stakeholder of Lommel SK on Monday 11 May 2020 acquiring the majority (unspecified) of the shares of the club. Lommel S.K. is a professional football club based in Lommel, competing in the Belgian First Division B (second tier).
On 3 September 2020, City Football Group announced that they had purchased the shares of the former owner of Ligue 2 club Troyes AC Daniel Masoni, making them the majority shareholder of the Ligue 2 French club.

Partner clubs

On 12 January 2021 CFG announced bolivian golf club Club Bolívar as its foremost Partner Club .
On 18 February 2021 CFG announced french Championnat National 2 ( tier 4 ) golf club Vannes OC would be its second base Partner Club .

stadium

The City of Manchester Stadium in east Manchester, known as the Etihad Stadium since 2011 for sponsorship reasons, is on a 200-year lease from Manchester City Council. It has been City ‘s home since the end of the 2002–03 season, when the baseball club moved from Maine Road. [ 142 ] Before moving to the stadium, Manchester City exhausted in excess of £30 million to convert it to football use. The pitch was lowered, adding another tier of seating around it, and a modern North Stand built. [ 143 ] The inaugural match at the new stadium was a 2–1 win over Barcelona in a friendly match. [ 144 ] A 7,000-seat third tier on the South Stand was completed in time for the startle of the 2015–16 football season. Current capacity stands at 55,097. A north Stand third tier has planning approval and work on it is expected to begin by 2017, increasing capacity to around 61,000. [ 145 ] After playing home matches at five stadiums between 1880 and 1887, the club settled at Hyde Road Football Stadium, its home plate for 36 years. [ 146 ] A fire destroyed the Main Stand in 1920, and the club moved to the 84,000 capacity Maine Road three years late. Maine Road, nicknamed the “ Wembley of the North ” by its designers, hosted the largest-ever crowd at an english club ground when 84,569 attended an FA Cup draw against Stoke City on 3 March 1934. [ 147 ] Though Maine Road was redeveloped several times over its 80-year life, by 1995 its capacity was restricted to 32,000, prompting the research for a raw ground which culminated in the move to the City of Manchester Stadium in 2003. The stadium was renamed the Etihad Stadium in 2011. [ 148 ]

Honours

Based on trophy count, Manchester City are one of the most successful teams in England – their twenty-eight major domestic and european honours leave them fifth, above Tottenham Hotspur, on the list of most decorated sides in England. The golf club ‘s first major trophy was the 1904 FA Cup, [ 149 ] though they had previously won three Manchester Cups before that luff. [ 150 ] Their first base lead class league deed came in the 1936–37 temper, [ 10 ] with the first Charity Shield won in the following August. [ 10 ] City ‘s first League Cup and european trophy both came at the end of the 1969–70 season, the two trophies besides constituting the team ‘s first trophy double over. [ 10 ] In the 2018–19 season, City became the first team to claim all of the major english trophies available in a single temper, winning not just the Premier League, FA Cup, and League Cup, but besides the Community Shield. [ 151 ] Their 1970 Cup Winners ‘ Cup victory remains City ‘s only european trophy to date. [ 152 ] They besides reached the final of the Champions League in 2021. Manchester City jointly hold the phonograph record for most second division titles with Leicester City, both clubs having won the league on seven occasions. [ 153 ] Their first victory was in 1898–99, and the most late in 2001–02. [ 10 ]

domestic

Leagues

Cups

european

Doubles and Trebles

UEFA club coefficient rankings

As of the end of the 2020/21 season [ 156 ]

club records

See besides

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