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Manchester City Football Club is a professional football club based in Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton), they became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894.
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. [9] 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 ...
The figure in brackets is the number of international caps gained while a Manchester City player. It excludes caps earned by players while on loan from City to other clubs. Players are listed in alphabetical order by country and by name. Sources (where not otherwise indicated): for UEFA nations [55] for other nations [56]
However, City's good form soon returned and they notably beat their closest rivals Manchester United 3–0 at Old Trafford in the season's first derby match and achieved the biggest winning margin so far by defeating Bournemouth 6–1 at home. The latter game included four assists and a goal from Doku, who set a new club record, equalled the ...
Manchester City have defeated Everton on 73 different occasions in the league, more times than they have defeated any other club in league fixtures – City have played Everton 180 times. Manchester City have drawn more matches with Manchester United than with any other club; out of the 168 league matches between the two teams, 52 have finished ...
In 2022–23, City became only the fifth club to win three successive top-flight titles in England, following Huddersfield Town (1924–26), Arsenal (1933–35), Liverpool (1982–84) and Manchester United, who did it twice under Sir Alex Ferguson (1999-2001 and 2007–09).
City then embarked on a nine-match unbeaten run from early November after the Europa League loss against Lech Poznań to 20 December. The unbeaten run started with two goalless home draws against Manchester United and Birmingham City, in which Mancini was pinpointed in the media for his "defensive" tactics. [95]
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.