Manchester City F.C.

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Full name	Manchester City Football Club
Nickname(s)	City,Blue cityzens Cityzens,Shitty City,115FC,[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; 130 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	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

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, in which they have committed One Hundred and Fifteen Financial Fair Play breaches.

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, and have committed 115 FFP Breaches from 2009 to 2018.^[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 Shitty 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.

1. ↑ "Cityzens at Home". ManCity.com. Manchester City FC. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
2. ↑ On 16 April 1894, the name was changed to Manchester City.
3. ↑ "Premier League Handbook 2020/21" (PDF). Premier League. p. 26. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
4. ↑ "Man City set sights on trophies". 2 September 2008.