Full name | Manchester City Football Club | |||
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Nickname(s) | City, Cityzens, The Citizens, The Sky Blues | |||
Short name | City | |||
Founded | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". 1880 Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". 1887 as Ardwick Association F.C. 16 April 1894 as Manchester City | as St. Mark's (West Gorton)|||
Ground | Etihad Stadium (capacity: 55,017) | |||
Owner | City Football Group | |||
Chairman | Khaldoon Al Mubarak | |||
Manager | Pep Guardiola | |||
League | Premier League | |||
2019–20 | Premier League, 2nd of 20 | |||
Website | Club home page | |||
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Manchester City Football Club is a rich English football club. The club is coached by Pep Guardiola and the team is currently playing in the English Premier League.
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. 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 City 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.
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