Manchester City F.C.

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This article is about the men's football club. For the women's football club, see
Manchester City W.F.C. For the Sierra Leonean football club, see Manchester City
F.C. (Sierra Leone).
Manchester City
A rounded badge depicting a shield containing a ship, the Lancashire Rose, and the
three rivers of Manchester.
Full name Manchester City Football Club
Nickname(s) Citizens, Sky Blues, City
Short name MCFC, Man City
Founded 1880; 140 years ago as St. Mark's (West Gorton)
16 April 1894; 126 years ago as Manchester City[1]
Ground City of Manchester Stadium
Capacity 55,017[2]
Owner City Football Group
Chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak
Manager Pep Guardiola
League Premier League
2018�19 Premier League, 1st of 20 (champions)
Website Club website

Home colours

Away colours

Third colours
Current season
Manchester City Football Club is an English football 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 City of Manchester
Stadium in east Manchester, to which it moved in 2003, having played at Maine Road
since 1923.

Manchester City entered the Football League in 1899, and won their first major
honor with the FA Cup in 1904. It had its first major period of success in the late
1960s, winning the League, 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, which eventually saw them relegated as far down as third tier of
English football by the end of the 1997�98 season. They since regained promotion to
the top tier in 2001�02 and have remained a fixture in the Premier League since
2002�03. In 2008, Manchester City was purchased by Abu Dhabi United Group for ?210
million and received considerable financial investment.

The club have won six domestic league titles. Under the management of Pep Guardiola
they won the Premier League in 2018 becoming the only Premier League team to attain
100 points in a single season. In 2019, they won four trophies, completing an
unprecedented sweep of all domestic trophies in England and becoming the first
English men's team to win the domestic treble.[3] Manchester City's revenue was the
fifth highest of a football club in the world in the 2018�19 season at �568.4
million.[4] 2019, Forbes estimated the club was the fifth most valuable in the
world at $2.69 billion,[5] however the sale of a 10% stake in the club's parent
company City Football Group on 27 November 2019 for $500 million values them
significantly higher.[6]

Contents
1 History
1.1 League history
2 Club badge and colours
2.1 Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors
2.2 Kit deals
3 Players
3.1 Current squad
3.1.1 Out on loan
3.1.2 Other players with first-team appearances
3.2 Retired numbers
3.3 Player of the Year
4 Halls of Fame
4.1 Manchester City Hall of Fame
4.2 National Football Museum Hall of Fame
4.3 Scottish Football Museum Hall of Fame
4.4 Welsh Sports Hall of Fame
5 Non-playing staff
5.1 Corporate hierarchy
5.2 Management hierarchy
5.3 Notable managers
6 Supporters
7 Ownership and finances
7.1 City Football Group
8 Stadium
9 Honours
9.1 Domestic
9.1.1 Leagues
9.1.2 Cups
9.2 European
9.3 Doubles and Trebles
10 Club records
11 See also
12 Bibliography
13 References
14 External links