Manchester City F.C.

Manchester City
Nama penuhManchester City Football Club
GelaranThe Citizens (Cityzens)[1][2]
The Blues
The Sky Blues
Nama pendekMan City
City
Diasaskan1880; 144 tahun yang lalu (1880) sebagai St. Mark's (Gorton Barat)
16 April 1894; 130 tahun yang lalu (1894-04-16) sebagai Manchester City[3]
StadiumStadium Bandar Raya Manchester
(Kapasiti: 53,400[4])
PemilikCity Football Group Limited
PengerusiKhaldoon Al Mubarak
PengurusPep Guardiola
LigaLiga Perdana Inggeris
2023–24Liga Perdana Inggeris, No.1 daripada 20 (Juara)
Tapak sesawangLaman kelab
Warna tuan rumah
Warna tempat lawan
Warna ketiga
Musim semasa

Kelab Bola Sepak Manchester City (atau ringkasnya Man City F.C.) ialah kelab bola sepak profesional yang berpangkalan di Manchester, England, yang bersaing dalam Liga Perdana Inggeris, kedudukan teratas dalam bola sepak Inggeris. Ditubuhkan pada tahun 1880 sebagai St. Mark's (West Gorton), mereka menjadi Ardwick Association Football Club pada tahun 1887 dan Manchester City pada tahun 1894. Padang rumah kelab ini ialah Stadium City of Manchester, kini dikenali sebagai Stadium Etihad di timur Manchester, tempat mereka berpindah pada tahun 2003, setelah bermain di Maine Road sejak 1923. Manchester City menerima pakai baju rumah berwarna biru langit pada tahun 1894, musim pertama dengan nama semasa.[5] Sepanjang sejarahnya, kelab itu telah memenangi sepuluh kejuaraan liga, tujuh Piala FA Inggeris, lapan Piala EFL, tujuh Perisai Komuniti FA, satu Liga Juara-Juara UEFA, satu Piala Pemenang Eropah, satu Piala Super UEFA dan satu Piala Dunia Kelab FIFA.

Manchester City telah memasuki Liga Kejohanan Bola Sepak Inggeris pada tahun 1899 dan memenangi kejuaraan pertama mereka Piala FA pada tahun 1904. Mereka menempuh tempoh kejayaan besar pada akhir 1960-an dengan memenangi Liga, Piala FA dan Piala Liga di bawah pengurusan Joe Mercer dan Malcolm Allison. Setelah kalah dalam Perlawanan Akhir Piala FA 1981, kelab tersebut mengalami tempoh kejatuhan yang menyebabkan mereka tersingkir ke peringkat ketiga dalam bola sepak Inggeris menjelang akhir musim 1997-98. Mereka memperoleh kenaikan ke peringkat teratas pada 2001-02 dan masih kekal dalam Liga Perdana sejak 2002-03. Pada tahun 2008, Manchester City telah dibeli oleh Kumpulan Kesatuan Abu Dhabi yang berjumlah £210 juta dan menerima pelaburan kewangan yang besar.

Kelab tersebut telah memenangi enam gelaran liga domestik. Di bawah pengurusan Pep Guardiola, mereka memenangi Liga Perdana pada 2018 dan menjadi satu-satunya pasukan Liga Perdana yang berjaya mencapai 100 mata dalam satu musim. Pada tahun 2019, mereka memenangi empat trofi dan menyempurnakan semua trofi domestik di England dan menjadi pasukan lelaki Inggeris pertama yang memenangi treble domestik.[6] Pendapatan Manchester City adalah antara kelima tertinggi daripada kelab bola sepak di dunia pada musim 2018-19 dengan jumlah pendapatannya sebanyak €568.4 juta.[7] Pada tahun 2019, Forbes menganggarkan kelab tersebut adalah kelima paling bernilai di dunia yang bernilai $2.69 bilion[8] namun penjualan 10% kepentingan dalam syarikat induk kelab City Football Group pada 27 November 2019 untuk $500 juta nilai mereka jauh lebih tinggi.[9]

Sejarah

Fifteen men posing across three rows. Eleven of the men are wearing a football kit with a Maltese Cross on the breast. The other four are wearing suits and top hats.
St. Marks (Gorton) in 1884 – the reason for the cross pattée on the shirts is now unknown[10]

City gained their first honours by winning the Second Division in 1899; with it came promotion to the highest level in English football, the First Division. They went on to claim their first major honour on 23 April 1904, beating Bolton Wanderers 1–0 at Crystal Palace to win the FA Cup; City narrowly missed out on a League and Cup double that season after finishing runners-up in the League but City became the first club in Manchester to win a major honour.[11] In the seasons following the FA Cup triumph, the club was dogged by allegations of financial irregularities, culminating in the suspension of seventeen players in 1906, including captain Billy Meredith, who subsequently moved across town to Manchester United.[12] A fire at Hyde Road destroyed the main stand in 1920, and in 1923 the club moved to their new purpose-built stadium at Maine Road in Moss Side.[13]

A group of thirteen men, eleven in association football attire typical of the early twentieth century and two in suits. A trophy sits in front of them
The Manchester City team which won the FA Cup in 1904

In the 1930s, Manchester City reached two consecutive FA Cup finals, losing to Everton in 1933, before claiming the Cup by beating Portsmouth in 1934.[14] During the 1934 cup run, Manchester City broke the record for the highest home attendance of any club in English football history, as 84,569 fans packed Maine Road for a sixth round FA Cup tie against Stoke City in 1934 – a record which still stands to this day.[15] The club won the First Division title for the first time in 1937, but were relegated the following season, despite scoring more goals than any other team in the division.[16] Twenty years later, a City team inspired by a tactical system known as the Revie Plan reached consecutive FA Cup finals again, in 1955 and 1956; just as in the 1930s, they lost the first one, to Newcastle United, and won the second. The 1956 final, in which Manchester City beat Birmingham City 3–1, saw City goalkeeper Bert Trautmann continuing to play on after unknowingly breaking his neck.[17]

After being relegated to the Second Division in 1963, the future looked bleak with a record low home attendance of 8,015 against Swindon Town in January 1965.[18] In the summer of 1965, the management team of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison was appointed. In the first season under Mercer, City won the Second Division title and made important signings in Mike Summerbee and Colin Bell.[19] Two seasons later, in 1967–68, Manchester City claimed the League Championship for the second time, clinching the title on the final day of the season with a 4–3 win at Newcastle United and beating their close neighbours Manchester United into second place.[20] Further trophies followed: City won the FA Cup in 1969, before achieving European success by winning the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1970, beating Górnik Zabrze 2–1 in Vienna.[21] City also won the League Cup that season, becoming the second English team to win a European trophy and a domestic trophy in the same season.

The club continued to challenge for honours throughout the 1970s, finishing one point behind the league champions on two occasions and reaching the final of the 1974 League Cup.[22] One of the matches from this period that is most fondly remembered by supporters of Manchester City is the final match of the 1973–74 season against arch-rivals Manchester United, who needed to win to have any hope of avoiding relegation. Former United player Denis Law scored with a backheel to give City a 1–0 win at Old Trafford and confirm the relegation of their rivals.[23][24] The final trophy of the club's most successful period to date was won in 1976, when Newcastle United were beaten 2–1 in the League Cup final.

Chart of yearly table positions of City in the Football League.

A long period of decline followed the success of the 1960s and 1970s. Malcolm Allison rejoined the club to become manager for the second time in 1979, but squandered large sums of money on unsuccessful signings, such as Steve Daley.[25] A succession of managers then followed – seven in the 1980s alone. Under John Bond, City reached the 1981 FA Cup final but lost in a replay to Tottenham Hotspur. The club were twice relegated from the top flight in the 1980s (in 1983 and 1987), but returned to the top flight again in 1989 and finished fifth in 1991 and 1992 under the management of Peter Reid.[26] However, this was only a temporary respite, and following Reid's departure Manchester City's fortunes continued to fade. City were co-founders of the Premier League upon its creation in 1992, but after finishing ninth in its first season they endured three seasons of struggle before being relegated in 1996. After two seasons in Division One, City fell to the lowest point in their history, becoming the second ever European trophy winners to be relegated to their country's third league tier, after 1. FC Magdeburg of Germany.

After relegation, the club underwent off-the-field upheaval, with new chairman David Bernstein introducing greater fiscal discipline.[27] Under manager Joe Royle, City were promoted at the first attempt, achieved in dramatic fashion in a play-off against Gillingham. A second successive promotion saw City return to the top division, but this proved to have been a step too far for the recovering club, and in 2001 City were relegated once more. Kevin Keegan replaced Royle as manager in the close season, and achieved an immediate return to the top division as the club won the 2001–02 Division One championship, breaking club records for the number of points gained and goals scored in a season in the process.[28] The 2002–03 season was the last at Maine Road, and included a 3–1 derby victory over rivals Manchester United, ending a run of 13 years without a derby win.[29] City also qualified for European competition for the first time in 25 years. In the 2003 close season, the club moved to the new City of Manchester Stadium. The first four seasons at the stadium all resulted in mid-table finishes. Former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson became the club's first manager from overseas when appointed in 2007.[30] After a bright start, performances faded in the second half of the season, and Eriksson was sacked in June 2008.[31] Eriksson was replaced by Mark Hughes two days later on 4 June 2008.[32]

By 2008, the club was in a financially precarious position. Thaksin Shinawatra had taken control of the club a year before, but his political travails saw his assets frozen.[33] Then, in August 2008, the club was purchased by the Abu Dhabi United Group. The takeover was immediately followed by a flurry of bids for high-profile players; the club broke the British transfer record by signing Brazilian international Robinho from Real Madrid for £32.5 million.[34] There wasn't a huge improvement in performance compared to the previous season despite the influx of money however, with the team finishing tenth, although they did well to reach the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup. During the summer of 2009, the club took transfer spending to an unprecedented level, with an outlay of over £100 million on players Gareth Barry, Roque Santa Cruz, Kolo Touré, Emmanuel Adebayor, Carlos Tevez and Joleon Lescott.[35] In December 2009, Mark Hughes – who had been hired shortly before the change in ownership but was originally retained by the new board – was replaced as manager by Roberto Mancini.[36] City finished the season in fifth position in the Premier League, narrowly missing out on a place in the Champions League, and competed in the UEFA Europa League in season 2010–11.[37]

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

Continued investment in players followed in successive seasons, and results began to match the upturn in player quality. City reached the 2011 FA Cup Final, their first major final in over 30 years, after defeating derby rivals Manchester United in the semi-final,[38] the first time they had knocked their rival out of a cup competition since 1975. They defeated Stoke City 1–0 in the final, securing their fifth FA Cup, the club's first major trophy since winning the 1976 League Cup. In the same week, the club qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the first time since 1968 with a 1–0 Premier League win over Tottenham Hotspur.[39] On the last day of the 2010–11 season, City beat out Arsenal for third place in the Premier League, thereby securing qualification directly into the Champions League group stage.[40]

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

Strong performances continued to follow in the 2011–12 season, with the club beginning the following season in commanding form, including beating Tottenham 5–1 at White Hart Lane and humbling Manchester United by a 6–1 scoreline in United's own stadium. Although the strong form waned halfway through the season, and City at one point fell eight points behind their arch rivals with only six games left to play, a slump by United allowed the blue side of Manchester to draw back level with two games to go, setting up a thrilling finale to the season with both teams going into the last day equal on points. Despite City only needing a home win against a team in the relegation zone, they fell a goal behind by the end of normal time, leading some of United's players to finish their game celebrating in the belief that they had won the league. Two goals in injury time – including one scored almost five minutes after normal time had elapsed – resulted in an almost-literal last-minute title victory, City's first in 44 years, and became only the fifth team to win the Premier League since its creation in 1992. In the aftermath that followed, the event was described by media sources from the UK and around the world as the greatest moment in Premier League history.[41][42] The game was also notable for former player Joey Barton's sending off, where he committed three separate red card-able incidents on three different players in the space of only a couple of seconds, resulting in a 12-match ban.[43]

The following season City failed to capitalise on the gains made in the first two full seasons of Mancini's reign. While City rarely seemed likely to drop below second in the table, they posed little title challenge all season. In the Champions League, the club was eliminated at the group stage for a second successive season, while a second FA Cup final in three seasons ended in a 1–0 defeat to relegated Wigan Athletic.[44] Mancini was dismissed two days later, ostensibly as he had failed to reach his targets for the season,[45] but BBC Sports Editor David Bond reported he had been sacked for his poor communication and relationships with players and executives.[46] In his place was appointed the Chilean Manuel Pellegrini.[47]

In Pellegrini's first season, City won the League Cup[48] and regained the Premier League title on the last day of the season.[49] However, City's league form was less impressive in the next couple of years and by 2016 they were finishing in their lowest position since 2010. Pellegrini's reign was ended despite a further League Cup win; and the club's best ever finish in the Champions League.[50]

Pep Guardiola, former manager of Barcelona and Bayern Munich, is the current manager, who has been in charge since the dismissal of Pellegrini in 2016.[51] Under Guardiola, Manchester City won the 2017–18 Premier League title with the highest points total in Premier League history and broke numerous other club and English league records along the way.[52] They also won the EFL Cup that year and Sergio Agüero became the club's all time leading goalscorer.[53]

Guardiola then guided the club in 2018–19 to retain their Premier League and EFL Cup titles; the first time in Manchester City's history that the club had completed any successful title defence. The team then went on to also win the FA Cup and so complete an unprecedented treble of English domestic men's titles.[54] On 14 February 2020, the club were banned from all UEFA club competitions for the 2020–21 and 2021–22 seasons and fined €30 million by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body due to breaches of the UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations.[55] However, the decision is pending appeal by Manchester City to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.[56]

League history

L1 = Level 1 of the football league system; L2 = Level 2 of the football league system; L3 = Level 3 of the football league system.

Club badge and colours

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

Manchester City's home colours are sky blue and white. Traditional away kit colours have been either maroon or (from the 1960s) red and black; however, in recent years several different colours have been used. The origins of the club's home colours are unclear, but there is evidence that the club has worn blue since 1892 or earlier. A booklet entitled Famous Football Clubs – Manchester City published in the 1940s indicates that West Gorton (St. Marks) originally played in scarlet and black, and reports dating from 1884 describe the team wearing black jerseys bearing a white cross, showing the club's origins as a church side.[57] The red and black away colours used infrequently yet recurrently come from former assistant manager Malcolm Allison, who believed that adopting the colours of A.C. Milan would inspire City to glory.[58] Allison's theory worked, with City winning the 1969 FA Cup Final, 1970 League Cup Final and the 1970 European Cup Winners' Cup Final in red and black stripes as opposed to the club's home kit of sky blue.

City have previously worn three other badges on their shirts, prior to their current badge which was implemented in 2016. The first, introduced in 1970, was based on designs which had been used on official club documentation since the mid-1960s. It consisted of a circular badge which used the same shield as the current badge, inside a circle bearing the name of the club. In 1972, this was replaced by a variation which replaced the lower half of the shield with the red rose of Lancashire.

On occasions when Manchester City played in a major cup final, the club wore shirts bearing a badge of the arms of the City of Manchester, as a symbol of pride in representing the city at a major event. This practice originated from a time when the players' shirts did not normally bear a badge of any kind.[59] The club has since abandoned the practice; for the 2011 FA Cup Final, its first in the 21st century, City used the usual badge with a special legend, but the Manchester coat of arms was included as a small monochrome logo in the numbers on the back of players' shirts.[60]

A new club badge was adopted in 1997, as a result of the previous badge being ineligible for registration as a trademark. This badge was based on the arms of the city of Manchester, and consisted of a shield in front of a golden eagle. The eagle is an old heraldic symbol of the city of Manchester; a golden eagle was added to the city's badge in 1958 (but has since been removed), representing the growing aviation industry. The shield features a ship on its upper half representing the Manchester Ship Canal, and three diagonal stripes in the lower half symbolise the city's three rivers – the Irwell, the Irk and the Medlock. The bottom of the badge bears the motto "Superbia in Proelio", which translates as "Pride in Battle" in Latin. Above the eagle and shield are three stars, which are purely decorative.

On 15 October 2015, following years of criticism from the fans over the design of the 1997 badge,[61] the club announced they intended to carry out a fan consultation on whether to disregard the club badge and institute a new design.[61] After the consultation, the club announced in late November 2015 the current club badge would be replaced in due course by a new version which would be designed in the style of the older, circular variants.[62] A design purporting to be the new badge was unintentionally leaked two days early prior to the official unveiling on 26 December 2015 by the IPO when the design was trademarked on 22 December.[63] The new design was officially unveiled at the club's home match on 26 December against Sunderland.[64]

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Period Kit supplier Shirt sponsor (chest) Shirt sponsor (sleeve)
1974–1982 Umbro No sponsor No sponsor
1982–1984 Saab
1984–1987 Philips
1987–1997 Brother
1997–1999 Kappa
1999–2002 Le Coq Sportif Eidos
2002–2003 First Advice
2003–2004 Reebok
2004–2007 Thomas Cook
2007–2009 Le Coq Sportif
2009–2013 Umbro Etihad Airways
2013–2017 Nike
2017–2019 Nexen Tire
2019– Puma

Kit deals

Kit supplier Period Announcement date Intended contract duration Value Notes
Umbro
2009–2013
4 June 2009
2009–2019 (10 years) Around £2.5m per year[65] Umbro contract transferred to parent company Nike in 2013
Nike
2013–2019
4 May 2012
2013–2019 (6 years) Around £20m per year[66]
Puma
2019–2029
28 February 2019
July 2019 – July 2029 (10 years) Around £65m per year[67]

Pemain

Manchester City players before a UEFA Champions League match in 2017. (Top row, left to right: Ederson, Walker, De Bruyne, Fernandinho, Stones, Otamendi. Bottom row, left to right: Agüero, Sané, David Silva, Fabian Delph (no longer at club), Jesus)

Current squad

Sehingga 25 January 2020[68]

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No. Pos. Negara Pemain
2 DF England Kyle Walker
5 DF England John Stones
6 DF Belanda Nathan Aké
8 MF Croatia Mateo kovačić
9 FW Norway Erling Haaland
10 FW England Jack Grealish
11 MF Belgium Jérémy Doku
16 MF Sepanyol Rodri
17 MF Belgium Kevin De Bruyne
18 GK Jerman Stefan Ortega
19 MF Jerman İlkay Gündoğan
No. Pos. Negara Pemain
20 MF Portugal Bernardo Silva
24 DF Croatia Joško Gvardiol
25 DF Templat:Country data SUİ Manuel Akanji
26 MF Brazil Savinho
27 MF Portugal Matheus Nunes
31 GK Brazil Ederson
33 GK England Scott Carson (on loan from Derby County)
47 MF England Phil Foden
50 DF Sepanyol Eric García

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:

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No. Pos. Negara Pemain
12 DF Sepanyol Angeliño (at RB Leipzig until 30 June 2020)
24 DF England Tosin Adarabioyo (at Blackburn Rovers until 30 June 2020)[69]
34 DF Belanda Philippe Sandler (at Anderlecht until 30 June 2020)
43 FW Jerman Lukas Nmecha (at Middlesbrough until 30 June 2020)
No. Pos. Negara Pemain
49 GK Kosovo Arijanet Muric (at Nottingham Forest until 30 June 2020)[70]
75 MF Sepanyol Aleix García (at Royal Excel Mouscron until 30 June 2020)[69]
81 MF Perancis Claudio Gomes (at PSV Eindhoven until 30 June 2020)[71]
MF England Patrick Roberts (at Middlesbrough until 30 June 2020)

Other players with first-team appearances

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No. Pos. Negara Pemain
61 MF England Felix Nmecha [72]
69 MF England Tommy Doyle
No. Pos. Negara Pemain
78 DF England Taylor Harwood-Bellis
82 MF Sepanyol Adrián Bernabé [73]

Retired numbers

Since 2003, Manchester City have not issued the squad number 23. It was retired in memory of Marc-Vivien Foé, who was on loan to the club from Lyon at the time of his death on the field of play while playing for Cameroon in the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup.[74]

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No. Pos. Negara Pemain
23 MF Cameroon 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 Republik Ireland Niall Quinn
1991–92 England Tony Coton
1992–93 England Garry Flitcroft
1993–94 England Tony Coton
1994–95 Jerman Timur Uwe Rösler
 
Year Winner
1995–96 Georgia (negara) Georgi Kinkladze
1996–97 Georgia (negara) Georgi Kinkladze
1997–98 England Michael Brown
1998–99 Belanda Gerard Wiekens
1999–2000 Bermuda Shaun Goater
2000–01 Australia Danny Tiatto
2001–02 Algeria Ali Benarbia
2002–03 Perancis Sylvain Distin
2003–04 England Shaun Wright-Phillips
2004–05 Republik Ireland Richard Dunne
 
Year Winner
2005–06 Republik Ireland Richard Dunne
2006–07 Republik Ireland Richard Dunne
2007–08 Republik Ireland Richard Dunne
2008–09 Republik 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 Sepanyol David Silva
2017–18 Belgium Kevin De Bruyne
2018–19 Portugal Bernardo Silva

Source:[75][76][77][78][79]

Halls of Fame

Manchester City Hall of Fame

The following former Manchester City players and managers are inductees in the Manchester City F.C. Hall of Fame, and are listed according to the year of their induction:

National Football Museum Hall of Fame

The following former Manchester City players and managers are inductees in the English Football Hall of Fame (a.k.a. the National Football Museum Hall of Fame) and are listed according to the year of their induction within the various categories:

Kemas kini terakhir: 11 November 2018.
Rujukan: About the Football Hall of Fame

Scottish Football Museum Hall of Fame

The following former Manchester City players and managers are inductees in the Scottish Football Hall of Fame (a.k.a. the Scottish Football Museum Hall of Fame) and are listed according to the year of their induction within the various categories:

Kemas kini terakhir: 30 March 2011.
Rujukan: list of SFM Hall of Fame inductees

Welsh Sports Hall of Fame

The following former Manchester City players are inductees in the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame and are listed according to the year of their induction:

Non-playing staff

Chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak

Corporate hierarchy

Position Name
Chairman Emiriah Arab Bersatu Khaldoon Al Mubarak
Director Republik Rakyat China Ruigang Li
Chief Executive Officer Sepanyol Ferran Soriano
Global Technical Director of the City Football Group Sepanyol Rodolfo Borrell
non-executive director Emiriah Arab Bersatu Mohamed Al Mazrouei
non-executive director England Simon Pearce
non-executive director England John Macbeath
non-executive director Amerika Syarikat Marty Edelman
non-executive director Itali Alberto Galassi
managing director of the City Football Academy England Brian Marwood

Management hierarchy

Current City manager Pep Guardiola
Position Name
Director of Football Sepanyol Txiki Begiristain
Head Coach Sepanyol Pep Guardiola
Assistant Coach England Brian Kidd
Assistant Coach Sepanyol Rodolfo Borrell
Goalkeeping coach Sepanyol Xabier Mancisidor
Head of Academy England Jason Wilcox
Under-21 EDS manager England Paul Harsley
Under-21 GK coach Wales Andy Mulliner
Under-18 Academy Team Manager Wales Gareth Taylor
Under-18 Academy Assistant Manager England John Mullin
Under-18 GK coach England Richard Wright
Chief scout Itali Carlo Cancellieri

Notable managers

Manchester City managers to have won major honours. Table correct as of 2 February 2020[85][86]
Name From To Games Wins Draws Loss Win % Honours
1902 1906 &&&&&&&&&&&&0150.&&&&&0150 &&&&&&&&&&&&&089.&&&&&089 &&&&&&&&&&&&&022.&&&&&022 &&&&&&&&&&&&&039.&&&&&039 &&&&&&&&&&&&&059.33000059.33 1904 FA Cup
1932 1946 &&&&&&&&&&&&0352.&&&&&0352 &&&&&&&&&&&&0158.&&&&&0158 &&&&&&&&&&&&&071.&&&&&071 &&&&&&&&&&&&0123.&&&&&0123 &&&&&&&&&&&&&044.89000044.89 1934 FA Cup
1936–37 First Division
1950 1963 &&&&&&&&&&&&0592.&&&&&0592 &&&&&&&&&&&&0220.&&&&&0220 &&&&&&&&&&&&0127.&&&&&0127 &&&&&&&&&&&&0245.&&&&&0245 &&&&&&&&&&&&&037.16000037.16 1956 FA Cup
1965 1971 &&&&&&&&&&&&0340.&&&&&0340 &&&&&&&&&&&&0149.&&&&&0149 &&&&&&&&&&&&&094.&&&&&094 &&&&&&&&&&&&&097.&&&&&097 &&&&&&&&&&&&&043.82000043.82 1967–68 First Division
1969 FA Cup
1970 European Cup Winners' Cup
1970 League Cup
1973 1980 &&&&&&&&&&&&0269.&&&&&0269 &&&&&&&&&&&&0114.&&&&&0114 &&&&&&&&&&&&&075.&&&&&075 &&&&&&&&&&&&&080.&&&&&080 &&&&&&&&&&&&&042.38000042.38 1976 League Cup
2009 2013 &&&&&&&&&&&&0191.&&&&&0191 &&&&&&&&&&&&0113.&&&&&0113 &&&&&&&&&&&&&038.&&&&&038 &&&&&&&&&&&&&040.&&&&&040 &&&&&&&&&&&&&059.16000059.16 2011 FA Cup
2011–12 Premier League
2012 FA Community Shield
2013 2016 &&&&&&&&&&&&0167.&&&&&0167 &&&&&&&&&&&&0100.&&&&&0100 &&&&&&&&&&&&&028.&&&&&028 &&&&&&&&&&&&&039.&&&&&039 &&&&&&&&&&&&&059.88000059.88 2014 League Cup
2013–14 Premier League
2016 League Cup
2016 Incumbent &&&&&&&&&&&&0213.&&&&&0213 &&&&&&&&&&&&0153.&&&&&0153 &&&&&&&&&&&&&030.&&&&&030 &&&&&&&&&&&&&030.&&&&&030 &&&&&&&&&&&&&071.83000071.83 2018 League Cup
2017–18 Premier League
2018 FA Community Shield
2019 League Cup
2018–19 Premier League
2019 FA Cup
2019 FA Community Shield

Supporters

Since moving to the City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester City's average attendances have been in the top six in England,[87] usually in excess of 40,000. Even in the late 1990s, when the club were relegated twice in three seasons and playing in the third tier of English football (then Division Two, now Football League One), home attendances were in the region of 30,000, compared to an average for the division of fewer than 8,000.[88] Research carried out by Manchester City in 2005 estimates a fanbase of 886,000 in the United Kingdom and a total in excess of 2 million worldwide, although since the purchase of the club by Sheikh Mansour and the club's recent trophies, that figure has ballooned to many times that size.[89]

Manchester City's officially recognised supporters club is the Manchester City F.C. Supporters Club (1949), formed from a merger of two existing organisations in 2010: the Official Supporters Club (OSC) and the Centenary Supporters Association (CSA).[90] There have been several fanzines published by supporters; the longest running is King of the Kippax and it is the only one still published.[91] The City fans' song of choice is a rendition of "Blue Moon", which despite its melancholic theme is belted out with gusto as though it were a heroic anthem. City supporters tend to believe that unpredictability is an inherent trait of their team, and label unexpected results "typical City".[92][93] Events that fans regard as "typical City" include City's being the only reigning English champions ever to be relegated (in 1938), the only team to score and concede over 100 goals in the same season (1957–58),[94] or the more recent example that City were the only team to beat Chelsea in the 2004–05 Premier League, yet in the same season City were knocked out of the FA Cup by Oldham Athletic, a team two divisions lower.

Manchester City's biggest rivalry is with neighbours Manchester United, against whom they contest the Manchester derby. Before the Second World War, when travel to away games was rare, many Mancunian football fans regularly watched both teams even if considering themselves "supporters" of only one. This practice continued into the early 1960s but as travel became easier, and the cost of entry to matches rose, watching both teams became unusual and the rivalry intensified. A common stereotype is that City fans come from Manchester proper, while United fans come from elsewhere. A 2002 report by a researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University found that while it was true that a higher proportion of City season ticket holders came from Manchester postcode areas (40% compared to United's 29%), there were more United season ticket holders, the lower percentage being due to United's higher overall number of season ticket holders (27,667 compared to City's 16,481). The report noted that since the compiling of data in 2001, the number of both City and United season ticket holders had risen; expansion of United's ground and City's move to the City of Manchester Stadium have caused season ticket sales to increase further.[95] Man City also has a very notable rivalry with that of Liverpool F.C.[96]

In the late 1980s, City fans started a craze of bringing inflatable objects to matches, primarily oversized bananas. One disputed explanation for the craze is that in a match against West Bromwich Albion chants from fans calling for the introduction of Imre Varadi as a substitute mutated into "Imre Banana". Terraces packed with inflatable-waving supporters became a frequent sight in the 1988–89 season as the craze spread to other clubs (inflatable fish were seen at Grimsby Town), with the phenomenon reaching a peak at City's match at Stoke City on 26 December 1988, a match declared by fanzines as a fancy dress party.[97] In 2010, City supporters adopted an exuberant dance, dubbed The Poznań, from fans of Polish club Lech Poznań.[98]

Ownership and finances

The holding company of Manchester City F.C., Manchester City Limited, is a private limited company, with approximately 54 million shares in issue. The club has been in private hands since 2007, when the major shareholders agreed to sell their holdings to UK Sports Investments Limited (UKSIL), a company controlled by former Thailand prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. UKSIL then made a formal offer to buy the shares held by several thousand small shareholders.

Prior to the Thaksin takeover, the club was listed on the specialist independent equity market PLUS (formerly OFEX),[99] where it had been listed since 1995. On 6 July 2007, having acquired 75% of the shares, Thaksin de-listed the club and re-registered it as a private company.[100] By August UKSIL had acquired over 90% of the shares, and exercised its rights under the Companies Act to "squeeze out" the remaining shareholders, and acquire the entire shareholding. Thaksin Shinawatra became chairman of the club and two of Thaksin's children, Pintongta and Oak Chinnawat also became directors. Former chairman John Wardle stayed on the board for a year, but resigned in July 2008 following Nike executive Garry Cook's appointment as executive chairman in May.[101] The club made a pre-tax loss of £11m in the year ending 31 May 2007, the final year for which accounts were published as a public company.[102]

Thaksin's purchase prompted a period of transfer spending at the club,[103] spending in around £30 million,[104] whereas over the previous few seasons net spending had been among the lowest in the division. A year later, this investment was itself dwarfed by larger sums. On 1 September 2008, Abu Dhabi-based Abu Dhabi United Group Investment and Development Limited completed a takeover of Manchester City. The deal, worth a reported £200 million, was announced on the morning of 1 September. It sparked various transfer "deadline-day" rumours and bids such as the club's attempt to gazump Manchester United's protracted bid to sign Dimitar Berbatov from Tottenham Hotspur for a fee in excess of £30 million.[105][106] Minutes before the transfer window closed, the club signed Robinho from Real Madrid for a British record transfer fee of £32.5 million.[107] The wealth of the new owners meant that in the summer of 2009, the club was able to finance the purchase of several experienced international players prior to the new season, spending more than any other club in the Premier League.[108]

City Football Group

Created in the 2013–14 season to manage the global footballing interests of Abu Dhabi United Group, the City Football Group (CFG) is an umbrella corporation owning stakes in a network of global clubs for the purposes of resource sharing, academy networking and marketing. Through the City Football Group, City owns stakes in a number of clubs:

On 23 January 2014 it was announced that Manchester City had partnered with the Australian rugby league franchise Melbourne Storm, purchasing a majority stake in A-League team Melbourne City FC. On 5 August 2015, CFG bought out the Storm and acquired full ownership of the team.[110]
On 20 May 2014 it was announced that Manchester City had partnered with the Japanese Automotive company Nissan to become a minority shareholder in Yokohama based J-League side, Yokohama F. Marinos.
On 21 May 2013 it was announced that Manchester City had partnered with the American baseball franchise the New York Yankees to introduce the 20th Major League Soccer expansion team, New York City FC as its majority shareholder. The club began play in the 2015 Major League Soccer season.
On 5 April 2017, CFG confirmed the purchase of Uruguayan second division team Club Atlético Torque.
On 23 August 2017 it was announced that the City Football Group had acquired 44.3% of Segunda División side Girona FC. Another 44.3% was held by the Girona Football Group, led by Pere Guardiola, brother of Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola.
City Football Group was announced as majority stakeholder of Mumbai City on Thursday 28 November 2019 after acquiring 65% of the club. Mumbai City FC is the professional football club based in Mumbai, competing in the Indian Super League.

Stadium

City of Manchester Stadium – the home of Manchester City since 2003

The City of Manchester Stadium in east Manchester, known as the Etihad Stadium since 2011 for sponsorship reasons, is on a 200-year lease from Manchester City Council. It has been City's home since the end of the 2002–03 season, when the club moved from Maine Road.[116] Before moving to the stadium, Manchester City spent in excess of £30 million to convert it to football use. The pitch was lowered, adding another tier of seating around it, and a new North Stand built.[117] The inaugural match at the new stadium was a 2–1 win over Barcelona in a friendly match.[118] A 7,000-seat third tier on the South Stand was completed in time for the start of the 2015–16 football season. Current capacity stands at 55,097. A North Stand third tier has planning approval and work on it is expected to begin by 2017, increasing capacity to around 61,000.[119]

After playing home matches at five stadiums between 1880 and 1887, the club settled at Hyde Road Football Stadium, its home for 36 years.[120] A fire destroyed the Main Stand in 1920, and the club moved to the 84,000 capacity Maine Road three years later. Maine Road, nicknamed the "Wembley of the North" by its designers, hosted the largest-ever crowd at an English club ground when 84,569 attended an FA Cup tie against Stoke City on 3 March 1934.[121] Though Maine Road was redeveloped several times over its 80-year lifespan, by 1995 its capacity was restricted to 32,000, prompting the search for a new ground which culminated in the move to the City of Manchester Stadium in 2003.

Honours

Based on trophy count, Manchester City are one of the most successful teams in England - their twenty-five major domestic and European honours make them the fifth most decorated side in England.

The club's first major trophy was the 1904 FA Cup,[122] though they had previously won three Manchester Cups before that point.[123] Their first top division league title came in the 1936–37 season,[10] with the first Community Shield won in the following August.[10] Their first League Cup and European trophy both came at the end of the 1969–70 season, the two trophies also constituting their first trophy double.[10] In 2018–19 Manchester City became the first team to claim all of the major English trophies available in a single season, winning not just the Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup but also the Community Shield.[124]

Manchester City jointly hold the record for most second division titles with Leicester City, both clubs having won the league on seven occasions.[125] Their first victory was in 1898–99, and the most recent in 2001–02.[10]

Domestic

Leagues

Cups

European

Doubles and Trebles

Club records

UEFA club coefficient ranking

Sehingga 30 August 2019 [137]
Rank Team Points
4 Jerman Bayern Munich 104.000
5 Itali Juventus 99.000
6 England Manchester City 95.000
7 Perancis Paris Saint-Germain 86.000
8 England Liverpool 85.000

See also

Bibliography

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  • James, Gary (2005). The Official Manchester City Hall of Fame. Hamlyn. ISBN 0-600-61282-1.
  • James, Gary (2006). Manchester City – The Complete Record. Derby: Breedon. ISBN 1-85983-512-0.
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  • Ward, Andrew (1984). The Manchester City Story. Derby: Breedon. ISBN 0-907969-05-4.

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