Manchester City F.C.

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Manchester City
Full name	Manchester City Football Club
Nickname(s)	City, The Citizens, The Sky Blues
Founded	1880, as St. Mark's (West Gorton) 16 April 1894, as Manchester City
Ground	City of Manchester Stadium (Capacity: 55,097)
Owner	Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Chairman	Khaldoon Al Mubarak
Manager	Pep Guardiola
Current League	Premier League
2015-16	Premier League, 4th
Website	Club home page
Current season

Manchester City Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Manchester. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton), they became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894. The club has played at the City of Manchester Stadium since 2003, having played at Maine Road from 1923. The club's most successful period was in the late 1960s and early 1970s when they won the League Championship, FA Cup, League Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup under the management team of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison.

After losing the 1981 FA Cup Final, the club went through a period of decline, culminating in relegation to the third tier of English football for the only time in their history in 1998. Having regained Premier League status, the club was purchased in 2008 by Abu Dhabi United Group and became one of the wealthiest in the world. In 2011, Manchester City qualified for the UEFA Champions League and won the FA Cup. In 2012, the club won the Premier League, their first league title for 44 years. They won the title again in 2014.

Players

As of 23 April 2017.

First team squad

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK Claudio Bravo 3 DF Bacary Sagna 4 DF Vincent Kompany (captain) 5 DF Pablo Zabaleta (vice-captain) 6 MF Fernando 7 MF Raheem Sterling 8 MF İlkay Gündoğan 9 FW Nolito 10 FW Sergio Agüero 11 DF Aleksandar Kolarov 13 GK Willy Caballero 15 MF Jesús Navas 17 MF Kevin De Bruyne

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF Fabian Delph 19 MF Leroy Sané 21 MF David Silva 22 DF Gaël Clichy 24 DF John Stones 25 MF Fernandinho 30 DF Nicolás Otamendi 33 FW Gabriel Jesus 42 MF Yaya Touré 53 DF Tosin Adarabioyo 54 GK Angus Gunn 72 FW Kelechi Iheanacho 75 MF Aleix García

On loan

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 FW Wilfried Bony (at Stoke City until 30 June 2017) 20 DF Eliaquim Mangala (at Valencia until 30 June 2017) 27 FW Patrick Roberts (at Celtic until 30 June 2017) 28 DF Jason Denayer (at Sunderland until 30 June 2017) 29 FW Marlos Moreno (at Deportivo La Coruña until 30 June 2017)

No. Pos. Nation Player 35 MF Oleksandr Zinchenko (at PSV Eindhoven until 30 June 2017) 50 DF Pablo Maffeo (at Girona until 30 June 2017) 69 DF Angeliño (at Mallorca until 30 June 2017) GK Joe Hart (at Torino until 30 June 2017) MF Samir Nasri (at Sevilla until 30 June 2017)

Other Manchester City players with first-team appearances

No. Pos. Nation Player 36 MF Bruno Zuculini (at Hellas Verona until 30 June 2017) 51 FW David Faupala (at Chesterfield until 30 April 2017) 55 MF Brahim Diaz 59 MF Bersant Celina (at Twente until 30 June 2017)

No. Pos. Nation Player 62 MF Brandon Barker (at NAC Breda until 30 June 2017) 76 MF Manu García (at NAC Breda until 30 June 2017) 77 DF Cameron Humphreys-Grant

Club alumni

Former players

Main article: Manchester City F.C. players

Managers

Main article: Manchester City F.C. managers

Club honours

Domestic league

• First Division/Premier League
  • Winners (3): 1936–37, 1967–68, 2011–12

• Second Division/First Division
  • Winners (7): 1898–99, 1902–03, 1909–10, 1927–28, 1946–47, 1965–66, 2001–02

• Third Division Play-offs
  • Winners (1): 1998–99

Domestic cup

• FA Cup
  • Winners (5): 1904, 1934, 1956, 1969, 2011

• Football League Cup
  • Winners (2): 1970, 1976

• FA Community Shield
  • Winners (4): 1937, 1968, 1972, 2012

European competition

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
  • Winners (1): 1970

External links

• Official website
• Manchester City at ScoreShelf