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, 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 club adopted their sky blue home shirts in 1894 in the first season of the club's current iteration, and have been used ever since. Manchester City entered the Football League in 1892, and won their first major honour with the FA Cup in 1904. The club had its first major period of success in the late 1960s, winning the League, European Cup Winners Cup, FA Cup and League Cup under the management of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison.
Full name | Manchester City Football Club |
Nickname(s) | City, Cityzens, The Citizens, The Sky Blues |
Short name | City |
Founded | 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton), 1887 as Ardwick Association F.C, April 16, 1894 as Manchester City |
Ground | Etihad Stadium |
Ground Capacity | 55,017 |
Owner | City Football Group |
Chairman | Khaldoon Al Mubarak |
Manager | Pep Guardiola |
League | Premier League |
2015–16 | Premier League, 4th |
Website | Club home page |
Sobre Manchester City
Originally founded as St. Mark's (West Gorton), this English soccer club had a strong run in the 1960s and 1970s, winning multiple domestic titles.
Conquista de Manchester City
On March 3, 1934, the club set what became a long standing record for highest attendance in an English soccer game with 84,569 fans in attendance for their matchup against Stoke City.
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