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, in which they have committed One Hundred and Fifteen Financial Fair Play breaches.

Manchester Shitty

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Full name	Manchester City Football Club
Nickname(s)	City,Blue cityzens Cityzens,Shitty City,115FC, The Citizens, The Sky Blues
Short name	City
Founded	1880 (1880-{{{month}}}-{{{day}}}) as St. Mark's (West Gorton) 1887 (1887-{{{month}}}-{{{day}}}) as Ardwick Association F.C. 16 April 1894 (1894-04-16) as Manchester City
Ground	Etihad Stadium (capacity: 55,017)
Owner	City Football Group
Chairman	Khaldoon Al Mubarak
Manager	Pep Guardiola
League	Premier League
2019–20	Premier League, 2nd of 20
Website	Club home page
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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. 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

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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

No. Position Player 2 DF Kyle Walker 3 DF Rúben Dias 4 MF Kalvin Phillips 5 DF John Stones 6 DF Nathan Aké 52 FW Bobb 19 MF İlkay Gündoğan (captain) 9 FW Erling Haaland 10 MF Jack Grealish 24 DF Josko Gvardiol 16 MF Rodri 17 MF Kevin De Bruyne (vice-captain)

No. Position Player 18 GK Stefan Ortega 11 FW jeremy Doku 20 MF Bernardo Silva 21 DF Sergio Gómez 25 DF Manuel Akanji 26 FW Savinho 31 GK Ederson 33 GK Scott Carson 47 MF Phil Foden 8 MF Mateo Kovacic 82 DF Rico Lewis

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 81 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

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

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Manchester City F.C. Media

• St Marks 1884.jpg

  St. Marks (Gorton) in 1884 – the reason for the cross pattée on the shirts is now unknown.

• ManchesterCityFC League Performance.svg

  Chart of yearly table positions of City in the Football League

• Manchester City pitch invasion.JPG

  Manchester City supporters invade the pitch following their 2011–12 Premier League title victory.

• Centre d'entraînement Manchester City 20-02-15.jpg

  Manchester City moved into their new complex at the Etihad Campus adjacent to the City of Manchester Stadium in 2014.

• A6-EYE Etihad A332 FRA Manchester City Livery (39956611433).jpg

  Manchester City's stadium and shirt have been sponsored by Etihad Airways since 2009.

• Chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak

• Josep Guardiola 0525.jpg

  Pep Guardiola has been the manager of the club since 2016.

• Manchester United v Manchester City, 6 November 2021 (15).jpg

  The Manchester derby in the Premier League, 6 November 2021