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Manchester City
Full nameManchester City Football Club
Nickname(s)City, The Citizens, The Sky Blues
Foondit1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton)
1894 as Manchester City[1]
GroundCity of Manchester Stadium
Ground Capacity47,405[2]
AwnerCity Football Group
ChairmanKhaldoon Al Mubarak
ManagerPep Guardiola
LeaguePremier League
2022–23Premier League, 1st o 20 (champions)
WabsteidClub wabsteid

Manchester City Football Club is an Inglis fitbaw club who play in the Premier League an at the City of Manchester Stadium. Foondit in 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton), they became Ardwick Association Footbll Club in 1887 afore changin their name tae Manchester City Football Club in 1894.

The club's maist successful period wis in the late 1960s an early 1970s when they wan the League Championship, the FA Cup, the League Cup an European Cup Winners' Cup unner the management team o Joe Mercer an Malcolm Allison an wi players includin Colin Bell, Mike Summerbee an Francis Lee.

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Footnotes
  1. On 16 April 1894, the name was changed to Manchester City.
  2. "Premier League Handbook Season 2013/14" (PDF). Premier League. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 31 Januar 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
  3. a b Up until 1992, the top division of English football was the Football League First Division; since then, it has been the FA Premier League. At the same time, the Second Division was renamed the First Division, and the Third Division was renamed the Second Division.