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As of the 2022–23 season, the club holds the records for the most clean sheets in a single Premier League season with 25 in 2004–05. Chelsea have been English football champions six times. [5] Chelsea played their inaugural league fixture as part of the Football League Second Division on 2 September 1905 against Stockport County. [6]
Manchester City Football Club is an English association football club based in Manchester, which competes in the Premier League. Founded as West Gorton (St Marks) in 1880, the club after several changes of identity adopted the name 'Manchester City' in 1894. During the 1891–92 season, Manchester City joined the Football Alliance.
First FA Cup match: Chelsea v. First Grenadier Guards, first qualifying round, 7 October 1905; First FA Cup match (proper): Chelsea v. Lincoln City, first round, 12 January 1907; First League Cup match: Chelsea v. Millwall, first round, 10 October 1960; First European match: Chelsea v. BK Frem, Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, 30 September 1958
First League Cup match - Manchester City 3-0 Stockport County, second round (18 October 1960) First European match - Manchester City 0-0 Fenerbahce, European Cup first round (18 September 1968) Record league victory – 11–3 vs Lincoln City (23 March 1895, most goals scored); 10–0 vs Darwen (18 February 1899, widest margin of victory) [1]
Manchester City jointly held the record for most second division titles with Leicester City, both clubs having won the league on seven occasions, before Leicester clinched their eighth title in 2023–24. [191] Man City's first victory was in 1898–99, and the most recent in 2001–02. [14]
Manchester City face Chelsea at the Etihad in the Premier League on Saturday evening, with the hosts looking to climb above the Blues with a win (5.30pm, Sky Sports Main Event). City come into the ...
The FA Community Shield, which the winner receives.. The Football Association Community Shield (formerly the Charity Shield, up to and including the 2001 edition) is an annual association football match organised by the Football Association and presently contested between the Premier League champions and FA Cup winners.
The Manchester City team that won the FA Cup in 1904, the club's first major honour.. Manchester City were formed in 1880 as West Gorton (St. Marks). [1] At this time organised league football did not exist; ordinary matches (that today would be called friendly games) were arranged on a largely ad hoc basis and supplemented by the competitive games that cup competition required.