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

Full name	Manchester City Football Club
Nickname(s)	City, Cityzens,[1] The Citizens, The Sky Blues
Short name	City
Founded	1880; 145 years ago (1880) as St. Mark's (West Gorton) 1887; 138 years ago (1887) as Ardwick Association F.C. 16 April 1894; 131 years ago (1894-04-16) as Manchester City[2]
Ground	Etihad Stadium
Capacity	55,017[3]
Owner	City Football Group
Chairman	Khaldoon Al Mubarak
Manager	Pep Guardiola
League	Premier League
2023–24	Premier League, 1st of 20 (champions)
Website	http://www.mancity.com
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.

Prior to Thaksin’s takeover, the club had been listed on the specialist independent equity market PLUS (formerly OFEX)[156] since 1995. On 6 July 2007, after acquiring 75% of the shares, Thaksin de-listed the club and re-registered it as a private company.[157] By August, UKSIL had obtained over 90% of the shares and invoked its rights under the Companies Act to “squeeze out” the remaining shareholders, securing full ownership of the club. Thaksin became chairman, while his children, Panthongtae and Pintongta, were appointed as directors. Former chairman John Wardle remained on the board for a year, but resigned in July 2008 following the appointment of Nike executive Garry Cook as executive chairman in May.

Name

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

Players

Main article: 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]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF  England Kyle Walker 3 DF  Portugal Rúben Dias 4 MF  England Kalvin Phillips 5 DF  England John Stones 6 DF  Netherlands Nathan Aké 7 DF  Portugal João Cancelo 8 MF  Germany İlkay Gündoğan (captain) 9 FW  Norway Erling Haaland 10 MF  England Jack Grealish 14 DF  Spain Aymeric Laporte 16 MF  Spain Rodri 17 MF  Belgium Kevin De Bruyne (vice-captain)

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 GK  Germany Stefan Ortega 19 FW  Argentina Julián Álvarez 20 MF  Portugal Bernardo Silva 21 DF  Spain Sergio Gómez 25 DF  Switzerland Manuel Akanji 26 FW  Algeria Riyad Mahrez 31 GK  Brazil Ederson 33 GK  England Scott Carson 47 MF  England Phil Foden 80 MF  England Cole Palmer 82 DF  England 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:
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 49 GK  Kosovo Arijanet Muric (at Adana Demirspor until 30 June 2022) 78 DF  England Taylor Harwood-Bellis (at Anderlecht until 30 June 2022)

No. Pos. Nation Player 96 FW  England Ben Knight (at Crewe Alexandra until 30 June 2022)

Other players with first-team appearances

Main article: Manchester City F.C. EDS and Academy

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 48 FW  England Liam Delap 53 FW  England Samuel Edozie 69 MF  England Tommy Doyle

No. Pos. Nation Player 80 MF  England Cole Palmer [6] 81 MF  France Claudio Gomes

Retired numbers

See also: List of retired numbers in association football

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 MF  Cameroon 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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