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The stadium, known simply as Academy Stadium, was inaugurated by students of the Manchester Metropolitan University, who played the first official games on the pitch on 14 December 2014. [5] Academy Stadium is home to the men's Elite Development Squad and other senior academy teams, as well as to Manchester City Women , who also play select ...
Pitch invasion after Manchester City's 3–2 Premier League title victory over Queens Park Rangers in 2012. The first public football match at the stadium was a friendly between Manchester City and Barcelona on 10 August 2003. Manchester City won the game 2–1, with Nicolas Anelka scoring the first ever goal in the stadium. [90] [91]
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 to Manchester City. It has been the club's home since the end of the 2002–03 season , when City moved from Maine Road . [ 175 ]
Etihad Campus is an area of Sportcity, Manchester which is mostly owned and operated by Manchester City.The campus includes the Etihad Stadium, the City Football Academy (CFA) training facility and club world headquarters, [1] and undeveloped land adjacent to both of these facilities.
It has hosted the AAA Championships and Paralympic World Cup, and was the reserve home ground of the Manchester City reserve team prior to moving to Ewen Fields in June 2010. It also served as the home of the Manchester City Ladies' side until their move to the adjacent Academy Stadium in the Etihad Campus in 2014.
Hilton Manchester Deansgate is a hotel in Manchester city centre, England. The hotel is housed within the 169 m (554 ft) tall, 47-storey mixed-use skyscraper Beetham Tower, also known as the Hilton Tower. [1] From 2006 to 2018, the skyscraper was the tallest building in Greater Manchester and outside London in the United Kingdom.
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.
Manchester City are one of thirteen English football clubs to have won European and worldwide titles, in City's case the 1969–70 Cup Winners' Cup, 2022–23 Champions League, 2023 Super Cup, and 2023 Club World Cup. The club's first entry into European competition occurred in 1968, as a result of winning the Football League Championship.