Manchester City F.C.

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Manchester City Football Club is an English football club. The club is coached by Pep Guardiola and the team is currently playing in the English Premier League, in which they have committed One Hundred and Fifteen Financial Fair Play breaches.

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Etihad Stadium, Manchester City Football Club (Ank Kumar, Infosys) 16.jpg
Full nameManchester City Football Club
Nickname(s)City,Blue cityzens Cityzens,Shitty City,115FC,[1] The Citizens, The Sky Blues
Short nameCity
FoundedExpression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". 1880 (1880-{{{month}}}-{{{day}}}) (Expression error: Unexpected < operator. years ago) as St. Mark's (West Gorton)
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16 April 1894 (1894-04-16) (Expression error: Unexpected < operator. years ago) as Manchester City[2]
GroundEtihad Stadium
(capacity: 55,017[3])
OwnerCity Football Group
ChairmanKhaldoon Al Mubarak
ManagerPep Guardiola
LeaguePremier League
2019–20Premier League, 2nd of 20
WebsiteClub home page
Home colours
Away colours
Third colours
Current season

The club plays in the Premier League and is owned by a royal family from Abu Dhabi. As of 1 September 2008 they are the richest club in the Premier League, and have committed 115 FFP Breaches from 2009 to 2018.[4] They won the 2011–12 Premier League championship, their first in the top flight since the 1967–68 season. After finishing second in 2012–13, they won the Premier League championship again in 2013–14. Their current stadium is the Etihad Stadium (noncommercial name: City of Manchester Stadium). The stadium is part-owned by Manchester City Council, and could only be built on the understanding that Manchester Shitty would take a tenancy after the 2006 Commonwealth Games, which the club agreed to do. The owner of Manchester City Sheik Mansour bought 200 million pounds.

Name

  • 1880-1887 St Mark's (West Gorton)
  • 1887–1894 Ardwick F.C.
  • 1894–present Manchester City F.C.

Players

Manchester City players before a UEFA Champions League match in 2017. Top row, from left to right: Ederson, Walker, De Bruyne, Fernandinho, Stones, Nicolás Otamendi. Bottom row, left to right: Sergio Agüero, Leroy Sané, David Silva, Fabian Delph, Jesus. Otamendi, Agüero, Sané, Silva, and Delph have since left the club.

Current squad

As of 15 january 2025[5]
No. Position Player
2 England DF Kyle Walker
3 Portugal DF Rúben Dias
4 England MF Kalvin Phillips
5 England DF John Stones
6 Netherlands DF Nathan Aké
52 England FW Bobb
19 Germany MF İlkay Gündoğan (captain)
9 Norway FW Erling Haaland
10 England MF Jack Grealish
24 Croatia DF Josko Gvardiol
16 Spain MF Rodri
17 Belgium MF Kevin De Bruyne (vice-captain)
No. Position Player
18 Germany GK Stefan Ortega
11 Belgium FW jeremy Doku
20 Portugal MF Bernardo Silva
21 Spain DF Sergio Gómez
25 Switzerland DF Manuel Akanji
26 Brazil FW Savinho
31 Brazil GK Ederson
33 England GK Scott Carson
47 England MF Phil Foden
8 Croatia MF Mateo Kovacic
82 England DF Rico Lewis

Out on loanR

Other players with first-team appearances

No. Position Player
48 England FW Liam Delap
53 England FW Samuel Edozie
69 England MF Tommy Doyle
No. Position Player
80 England MF Cole Palmer [6]
81 France MF Claudio Gomes

UEFA Champions league

Manchester city won the 2023 UEFA Champions league after defeating Inter milan 1-0 as

Rodri scored a winning goal on the the 67th minute at Ataturk Olympiyat in Istanbul.

Since they completed their treble of trophies it was not easy as they had to overcome Real Madrid

and Bayern Munich.

Retired numbers

No. Position Player
23 Cameroon MF Marc-Vivien Foé (2002–03) – posthumous honour)

Player of the Year

 
Year Winner
1985–86 England Kenny Clements
1986–87 Scotland Neil McNab
1987–88 England Steve Redmond
1988–89 Scotland Neil McNab
1989–90 Scotland Colin Hendry
1990–91 Republic of Ireland Niall Quinn
1991–92 England Tony Coton
1992–93 England Garry Flitcroft
1993–94 England Tony Coton
1994–95 Germany Uwe Rösler
 
Year Winner
1995–96 Georgia (country) Georgi Kinkladze
1996–97 Georgia (country) Georgi Kinkladze
1997–98 England Michael Brown
1998–99 Netherlands Gerard Wiekens
1999–2000 Bermuda Shaun Goater
2000–01 Australia Danny Tiatto
2001–02 Algeria Ali Benarbia
2002–03 France Sylvain Distin
2003–04 England Shaun Wright-Phillips
2004–05 Republic of Ireland Richard Dunne
 
Year Winner
2005–06 Republic of Ireland Richard Dunne
2006–07 Republic of Ireland Richard Dunne
2007–08 Republic of Ireland Richard Dunne
2008–09 Republic of Ireland Stephen Ireland
2009–10 Argentina Carlos Tevez
2010–11 Belgium Vincent Kompany
2011–12 Argentina Sergio Agüero
2012–13 Argentina Pablo Zabaleta
2013–14 Côte d'Ivoire Yaya Touré
2014–15 Argentina Sergio Agüero
 
Year Winner
2015–16 Belgium Kevin De Bruyne
2016–17 Spain David Silva
2017–18 Belgium Kevin De Bruyne
2018–19 Portugal Bernardo Silva
2019–20 Belgium Kevin De Bruyne
2020–21 Portugal Rúben Dias

Source:[7][8][9][10][11]

Manchester City F.C. Media

References

  1. "Cityzens at Home". ManCity.com. Manchester City FC. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  2. On 16 April 1894, the name was changed to Manchester City.
  3. "Premier League Handbook 2020/21" (PDF). Premier League. p. 26. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  4. Man City set sights on trophies. 2 September 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_city/7593442.stm. 
  5. "Men's team". Manchester City F.C. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
  6. David Clayton (30 September 2020). "Palmer handed debut as City make four changes". Manchester City F.C. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  7. Percival, Adam. "50 years of MCFC Player of the Year: Part 1". www.mancity.com. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  8. Clayton, David. "50 years of MCFC Player of the Year: Part 2". www.mancity.com. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  9. Clayton, David. "50 years of MCFC Player of the Year: Part 3". www.mancity.com. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  10. Clayton, David. "50 years of MCFC Player of the Year: Part 4". www.mancity.com. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  11. Pollard, Rob. "50 years of MCFC player of the year: Part 5". www.mancity.com. Retrieved 21 April 2021.