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Manchester City F.C.

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.

Manchester City
Etihad Stadium, Manchester City Football Club (Ank Kumar, Infosys) 16.jpg
Full nameManchester City Football Club
Nickname(s)City, Cityzens,[1] The Citizens, The Sky Blues
Short nameCity
FoundedExpression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". 1880 (1880-{{{month}}}-{{{day}}}) (Error: Need valid year, month, day years ago) as St. Mark's (West Gorton)
Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". 1887 (1887-{{{month}}}-{{{day}}}) (Error: Need valid year, month, day years ago) as Ardwick Association F.C.
16 April 1894 (1894-04-16) (130 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.[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 City 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

Main page: List of 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 10 September 2022[5]
No. Position Player
2   DF Kyle Walker
3   DF Rúben Dias
4   MF Kalvin Phillips
5   DF John Stones
6   DF Nathan Aké
7   DF João Cancelo
8   MF İlkay Gündoğan (captain)
9   FW Erling Haaland
10   MF Jack Grealish
14   DF Aymeric Laporte
16   MF Rodri
17   MF Kevin De Bruyne (vice-captain)
No. Position Player
18   GK Stefan Ortega
19   FW Julián Álvarez
20   MF Bernardo Silva
21   DF Sergio Gómez
25   DF Manuel Akanji
26   FW Riyad Mahrez
31   GK Ederson
33   GK Scott Carson
47   MF Phil Foden
80   MF Cole Palmer
82   DF Rico Lewis

Out on loan

The following players have previously made a league or cup appearance for Manchester City and are currently on loan at other teams:

No. Position Player
49   GK Arijanet Muric (at Adana Demirspor until 30 June 2022)
78   DF Taylor Harwood-Bellis (at Anderlecht until 30 June 2022)
No. Position Player
96   FW Ben Knight (at Crewe Alexandra until 30 June 2022)

Other players with first-team appearances

Main page: Manchester City F.C. EDS and Academy
No. Position Player
48   FW Liam Delap
53   FW Samuel Edozie
69   MF Tommy Doyle
No. Position Player
80   MF Cole Palmer [6]
81   MF Claudio Gomes

Retired numbers

See also: List of retired numbers in association football
No. Position Player
23   MF Marc-Vivien Foé (2002–03) – posthumous honour)

Player of the Year

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



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