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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.

Name 
 1880-1887 St Mark's (West Gorton)
 1887–1894 Ardwick F.C.
 1894–present Manchester City F.C.

Players

Current squad
Current squad

Out on loan 
The following players have previously made a league or cup appearance for Manchester City and are currently on loan at other teams:

Other players with first-team appearances

Retired numbers

Player of the Year 

Source:

References 

1880 establishments in the United Kingdom
Premier League clubs
Sport in Manchester
Football clubs in Greater Manchester
Manchester United Football Club (F.C.) is a football club that plays in the Premier League. They play their home games at Old Trafford which is in Greater Manchester.

Matt Busby led the club to lots of success by using the youth players until the Munich air disaster in 1958, where many United footballers and staff died. Sir Alex Ferguson led the club to many titles, including the treble (Premier League, FA Cup, and Champions League), from 1986 to 2013, when he retired. The club has 3 UEFA Champions League titles, 20 league titles, 12 FA Cups, and a FIFA Club World Cup.

History 
Manchester United are the most successful club in England and have won 20 league titles, which is more than any other team. They have also won 12 FA Cups and 3 European Cups.
The club started as Newton Heath L&YR F.C. in 1878. All of the team worked at Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway depot at Newton Heath. After nearly closing in 1902, John Henry Davies took over and changed the club's name to Manchester United F.C.. Manchester United made Matt Busby their manager after World War II. Matt Busby used the youth team to get new players, and this was very successful. The club won the Football League in 1956 and 1957. The success was stopped by the Munich air disaster in 1958, when eight of the club's players died. It was thought that the club might close, but it did not. They won the Football League in 1965 and 1967, and the European Cup in 1968.

Sir Alex Ferguson era

Recent history
Recent history

2013 - 2018 
David Moyes was made manager in 2013. In April 2014, he was sacked by the club and club legend Ryan Giggs became player-manager (when a player is also the manager at the same time). They finished in 7th place. In 2014, Louis Van Gaal took over. He led United to a 4th-place finish. In 2015, after winning 3-0 against Sunderland, Man United reached 1st place for the first time in over two years. However, after losing 0-3 to Arsenal, they dropped to 3rd place. Van Gaal was sacked at the end of the season and José Mourinho replaced him. He then led the club to a League Cup and Europa League victory in the 2016–17 season. Mourinho was sacked in December 2018 because of poor results and replaced by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
2018 - Present 
Since Mourinho was fired in the middle of the season, United brought in a temporary manager for the rest of the season. A former player, Ole Gunnar Solksjaer moved from his position at Molde to manage Manchester United. Under Solksjaer, United won 14 of their remaining 19 games that season. This good run meant they qualified for UEFA Champions League that season. United made Solksjaer their permanent manager in March 2019.

Honours

Domestic

League 
 First Division (until 1992) and Premier League: 20
1907–08, 1910–11, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1964–65, 1966–67, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2012–13 

 Second Division: 2
 1935–36, 1974–75
Cups 
 FA Cup: 12
 1908–09, 1947–48, 1962–63, 1976–77, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1989–90, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1998–99, 2003–04, 2015-16
 League Cup: 5
 1991–92, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2016/17
 FA Charity/Community Shield: 20 (16 outright, 4 shared)
 1908, 1911, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1965*, 1967*, 1977*, 1983, 1990*, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013 (* shared)

European 
 European Cup/UEFA Champions League: 3
 1967–68, 1998–99, 2007–08
 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1
 1990–91
 UEFA Super Cup: 1
        1991
 UEFA Europa League
 2017

Worldwide 
 WORLD CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 
 1999
 FIFA Club World Cup: 1 2008

 Doubles and Trebles 
 Doubles:League and FA Cup: 2 1993–94, 1995–96
 League and League Cup: 1 2008–09
 European Double (League and European Cup): 1 2007–08
 "The Treble" (League, FA Cup and European Cup): 1'''
1998–99

League position 

*Bold indicates a place of third or higher.

Former position

Grounds
Grounds 

The Old Trafford became the club's home ground in 1909, and the stadium was constructed to a capacity of 77,000. In the Second World War, bombings damaged the stadium. While the stadium was being fixed, they played "home" games at Manchester City's Maine Road. The stadium was converted to an all-seater stadium in 1993 for safety reasons, but the capacity fell to 44,000. In 1995, expansions in the North Stand raised the capacity to 55,000. In the middle of 1999, the East and West Stands were expanded to give the stadium a capacity of 67,000. Then between 2005 and 2006 8,000 more seats were added to make a capacity of 75,000.

Players

First-team squad

On loan

Rivalries 
United has many rivalries including Liverpool, Manchester City, Leeds United and Arsenal. Their most intense rivalry is with "The Citizens" (Manchester City). This is because both clubs are from Manchester and each time they play against each other it is called the Manchester Derby.
Club records 
 Record League victory: 10-1 v Wolverhampton, Division 1, 15 October 1892
 Record Premiership victory: 9-0 v Ipswich Town, 4 March 1995
 Record European Cup victory: 10-0 v Anderlecht, European Champion Clubs' Cup, Preliminary Round, 26 September 1956
 Record European Cup (Champions League era) victory: 7-1 v A.S. Roma, 10 April 2007
 Record home win 10-0 v R.S.C. Anderlecht, 26 September 1956
 Record away win: 8-1 v Nottingham Forest, 6 February 1999
 Record League defeat: 0-7 v Blackburn Rovers, Division 1, 10 April 1926 / v Aston Villa, Division 1, 27 December 1930 / v Wolves, Division 2, 26 December 1931
 Record Cup defeat: 1-7 v Burnley, FA Cup, 1st Round, 13 February 2020
 Record 'Home' attendance: 83,250 v Arsenal, Division 1, Maine Road, 7 January 1948
 Record League attendance (at Old Trafford): 76,998 v Arsenal, April 2008
 Longest unbeaten run: 45 (all competitions), 24 December 1998 to 3 October 1999
 Most appearances: 900 - Ryan Giggs
 Most League appearances: 606 - Bobby Charlton
Most goals scored: 250 - Wayne Rooney
 Most League goals: 199 - Bobby Charlton
 Most League goals in a season: 32 - Dennis Viollet, Division 1, 1959-60
 Most goals in a season in all competitions: 46 - Denis Law, 1963-64
 Most goals scored in a match: 6 - George Best v Northampton Town, 7 February 1970 / Harold Halse v Swindon Town, 25 September 1911
 Most goals scored in European competition: 38 - Ruud van Nistelrooy
 Goals in consecutive league matches: 10 consecutive matches - Ruud van Nistelrooy, 22 March 2003 to 23 August 2003
 Highest transfer fee paid: £59.7 million - Angel Di Maria (from Real Madrid)
 Most League goals in a season (by team): 103 (1956/57, 1958/59)
 Most points in a 42-game season: 92 - 1993/94
 Most points in a 38-game Season: 91 - 1999/2000
 Most capped player: 129 - Peter Schmeichel - Denmark
 Fastest goal: 15 seconds - Ryan Giggs v Southampton, Premiership, 18 November 1995
 Fastest four goals: 13 minutes - Ole Gunnar Solksjær v Nottingham Forest, Premiership, 6 February 1999
Related pages 
 List of Manchester United F.C. players

Notes

References 

1878 establishments in England
Middlesbrough Football Club, is an English football club. Their stadium is the Riverside Stadium.

The club plays in the Premier League. The manager is Chris Wilder.

League position

Former position

Players

Current squad 
As of 16 March 2009.

Players out on loan 
As of 16 March 2009.

References 

1876 establishments in England
English football clubs
Middlesbrough
Newcastle United Football Club is an English football club in Newcastle upon Tyne. Newcastle play in the Premier League. Currently managed by Eddie Howe since 2021.

Board

Bids to Buy Newcastle (2021) 
Bin Zayed Group’s managing director Midhat Kidwai had bid to buy the club. Ashley rejected his offer. He placed another one once again in 2021. Ashley once again rejected his offer. Kidwai once again place an offer but Staveley stepped in and placed an offer alongside PIF’s governor Al-Rumayyan and Reuben.

History 
Newcastle United was formed in 1892 after the two rival clubs Newcastle West End and Newcastle East End grouped together. They have played their matches at the ground St.James' Park ever since. This ground holds 52,000 people, and is one of the biggest in England. It is located just inside the centre of Newcastle.
Newcastle originally played in red shirts and white shorts. In fact, there was a kit clash in their very first League match, away to the then-named Woolwich Arsenal. The home side wore red, so Newcastle played in their change kit of black and white stripes. A permanent switch to black and white soon followed, most likely to reduce kit clashes, and perhaps as a further attempt to appease West End fans. The decision was taken in 1894, as the minutes from the club meeting reveal: ‘It was agreed that the Club’s colours should be changed from red shirts and white knickers to black and white shirts (two inch stripe) and dark knickers.’.

On the 24th day of May 2009 which was also the last day of the season, Newcastle were relegated to the second tier of English football, the Coca-Cola Championship. They returned to the top flight of English football, winning the Championship in the 2009/10 season. In the 2010/11 season, they finished mid-table. The club then went on to finish 5th place in the 2011/12 season.
On 17 July 2019, former Sunderland manager Steve Bruce was made manager on a three-year contract. Bruce oversaw 13th and 12th-placed finishes during his first two seasons in charge, both of which were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. On 7 October 2021, after 14 years as owner, Ashley sold the club to a new group of owners. The group was made up of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, RB Sports & Media and PCP Capital Partners.

The club 
Traditionally the loudest support for the club came from the Gallowgate End - a stand in St. James' Park. This stand is where Alan Shearer once used to watch Newcastle play when he was a child.

The record transfer fee the club has paid is £17 million (around $30 million) for Michael Owen, in August 2005. Alan Shearer was the previous record transfer at £15 million, which was also the world's largest transfer fee when he signed in 1996.
The Newcastle United's number 9 shirt is one of the most famous shirts in the world. Legends such as Hughie Gallacher, Malcolm McDonald, Jackie Milburn and Alan Shearer have worn the famous shirt.

League position

Former position

References

Premier League clubs
Organisations based in Newcastle upon Tyne
1892 establishments in England
Portsmouth F.C. is an English football club. They play in EFL League One. Their home stadium is called Fratton Park.

Portsmouth's manager is John Mousinho. The most famous manager was probably Harry Redknapp who took the team to an FA Cup victory in 2008 which subsequently got the team into the UEFA Europa League (then called the UEFA Cup) for the first time. The club has since been hit with financial problems and see themselves in the fourth tier of English football.

They have a big rivalry with a team called Southampton F.C. They are also from Hampshire.

League position

Former position 

English football clubs
Portsmouth
1898 establishments in England
Organisations based in Hampshire
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is an English football club. The club plays in the Premier League. Their current stadium is The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in north London. The captain of Tottenham Hotspur is Son Hueng-min and vice-captains are Cristian Romero and James Maddison. The club's most common nickname is Spurs. Other nicknames include The Lilywhites and COYS.

Famous Tottenham Hotspur players include Pat Jennings, Paul Gascoigne, Glenn Hoddle, Dave Mackay, Gary Lineker, Danny Blanchflower, Teddy Sheringham and Jimmy Greaves. They have many rivals in London, but their most famous rivals are Arsenal. Tottenham were the first winners of the UEFA Cup tournament, and the first team in the 20th century to achieve the league and cup double. In the 2016–17 Premier League, they finished in 2nd position and earned a place in the European Champions League. They reached the Champions League Final in the 2018–2019 season but ultimately lost 0–2 to Liverpool.
There is also a Tottenham Hotspur women's football club.

First-team squad

Name 
1882–1884 Hotspur F.C.
1884–present Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

League position 
21/22 ||[[English Premier
League|Premier League]]||4th

References 

1882 establishments in England
Premier League clubs
Derby County Football Club is an English football club. The club plays in the Football League Championship.

History

Early years

The club was formed in 1884 by players from Derbyshire County Cricket Club who wanted something to do in the winter. They started out by playing at the Racecourse Ground, Derby.

The Rams, as Derby County are known, were one of the first members of The Football League when it started in 1888. Back in 1895 the club moved to a new stadium, The Baseball Ground.  It was  called this because baseball had been played there much earlier beforehand, and it became their home for the next 102 years.  When they moved, Derby County had changed their club colours to the black and white they still use today at matches.

In 1898, Derby got to their first FA Cup final, but lost. The same happened again in 1899 and 1903. Derby's went down to the Football League's Second Division for the first time in 1907, but they came back up to the First Division in 1911.
In 1914, they were relegated again, but won the Second Division the next year to get promoted. World War I meant that they had to wait until 1919 to play First Division football again. After just two seasons, they were relegated yet again in 1921.

After Derby's next promotion in 1926 the club got much better, and were one of the top teams from the late 1920s all the way through to the 1939-1940 season, which was interrupted when  World War II broke out.

FA Cup win
The FA Cup restarted in the 1945-1946 season. Derby got to the final again, but this time they beat Charlton Athletic 4-1 to win the Cup. Some people had thought the reason Derby kept losing in the FA Cup was that they were cursed by gypsies, as the Baseball Ground was built on the site of a gypsy camp. Some players even thought so, and before the final they asked the gypsies to lift the curse.
The Football League began again the next season, but Derby did not play well and were relegated in 1953. Things went from bad to worse and in 1955 they were relegated to the Football League Third Division (North) for the first time in their history.  Derby were too good for that league though, and finished second at the first try.  Then they did even better next season by finishing first, and going back up to the top division.

The Clough years
The Clough years

In 1967, Brian Clough took over Derby County with Peter Taylor helping him.  Derby were back in Division Two, but Clough got them promoted to the First Division in 1969.  He led them to their first ever Championship in 1972. Derby could not win the title again the next season, but they did get to the semi-finals of the European Cup, but they lost to Juventus.  A lot of people in England thought after the match that the Italian club had paid money to the referee as a bribe.  This was never proved.  Clough left the club after an argument with Derby's chairman Sam Longson.  Clough later became manager of Nottingham Forest F.C., where he went on to win a First Division championship and two European Cups.

After Clough

Derby won the league again in 1974-1975, this time with Dave Mackay as manager. He used to play for the club, as captain, under Clough.  When Mackay left in 1976, Derby got slowly worse until they went down in 1980.
Derby's stay in the Second Division was not a happy one and they were relegated to the Football League Third Division in 1984.  It was exactly 100 years since the club formed, and just nine years after their last Championship.

The club made Arthur Cox manager. After a two-year stay in the Third Division, they were promoted to the Second Division.  They won that league the next year, going back up to the First Division in 1987.

The club managed to finish 5th in 1989, but it was owned by businessman Robert Maxwell, who was having money problems.  He stopped spending money on new players, and sold the club not long before his death.  The club was relegated back to the Second Division in 1991 (which changed its name to the First Division a year later when the First Division clubs left to form the FA Premier League).

Jim Smith became Derby's manager in 1995.  Before the end of the season, Smith took the Rams   up to the Premier League for the first time.
Back to the Premier League and relegation to the Championship

Derby County did well in the 1996-97 season, finishing 12th in the final table with international  players like Aljosa Asanovic and Igor Stimac playing well. The club moved into the new 33,000-seat Pride Park Stadium for the 1997-98 season, and went on to finish ninth.  Next year they did even better, finishing eighth, but the season after that Derby struggled, and finished 16th. Another bad season followed in 2000-01, as Derby finished 17th in the Premiership - just one place clear of going down.

Jim Smith left the club in October 2001 and his assistant manager Colin Todd took over.  He kept his job for just 3 months before he was sacked. At the end of January 2002, John Gregory got the manager's job. Derby started well, but then lost seven of their last eight matches and were relegated again after six seasons in a row in the Premiership.
It was a bad time to go down.  Money owed to the Football League teams by the TV company ITV Digital was never paid, and Derby were one of the clubs to suffer worst.  They had to sell their best players and rebuild a team with mostly very young players.  They finished 18th after a difficult season.  In late March, Gregory was suspended and George Burley came in as a temporary manager. At the end of the season Gregory was sacked and Burley took over fully.  Owner Lionel Pickering lost control of the club and a new board of John Sleightholme, Jeremy Keith and Steve Harding came in.  Derby finished 20th in the 2003-2004 First Division campaign, but did much better in the 2004-05 season and finished 4th in the Division which was now called the Football League Championship.  This meant they won a promotion play-off spot, but lost in the semi-finals to Preston North End. Soon after losing, Burley left
.  Derby then employed Phil Brown for a short period who was then replaced by the Academy Coach, Terry Westley, who kept the club up in the 2005-06 season.
Before the final game of the 2005-06 season a local consortium led by Peter Gadsby, took over the Rams and gave the manager's job to Billy Davies, who left Preston after compensation was agreed by both clubs for his services.  The new changes and fresh activity in the transfer market promise a bright future for this founder member of the football league.

Following a poor start to the 2007-2008 season which saw Derby achieve just one win in 14 matches Billy Davies left Derby County FC. Derby were promoted to the Premier League after defeating West Bromwich Albion 1-0 in the finals of the promotion playoffs.

Famous players
Famous players

Many people think the best Rams player ever was Steve Bloomer, one of the highest scoring players in the history of English football.  He played for Derby from the late 19th century to just before the First World War. Other top players include the FA Cup winners Peter Doherty, Jackie Stamps and Raich Carter. In more recent years players like Roy McFarland, Archie Gemmill, Colin Todd, Kevin Hector, Steve Powell, Ron Webster, Alan Hinton and Dave Mackay played in the championship winning sides. More recently, the England goalkeeper Peter Shilton, Stefano Eranio and Igor Stimac all played for the Rams. Bobby Davison was also a favourite of Rams fans.  Recent famous players also include locally born Matthew Debyshire who has achieved some degree or recognition at Blackburn Rovers but has expressed desire to play a more successful clubs like Tottenham Hotspurs.

Local rivals
Local rivals

Derby County's main rivals are Nottingham Forest, who are based in Nottingham, a city just a few miles north-east of Derby. Leicester City, also based in the East Midlands, come a close second.  Fans from the north of Derbyshire often dislike Sheffield Wednesday or Leeds United.

Honours

 Football League First Division
 Champions, 1971-1972, 1974-75
 Runners-up, 1895-96, 1929-30, 1935-36, 1995-96
 Football League Championship Playoffs
 Winners, 2006-2007
 Football League Second Division
 Champions, 1911-12, 1914-15, 1968-69, 1986-87
 Runners-up, 1925-26
 Football League Third Division (North)
 Champions, 1956-57
 Runners-up, 1955-56
 FA Cup
 Winners, 1945-46
 Runners-up, 1897-98, 1898-99, 1902-03
 Charity Shield
 Winners, 1975-76
 Texaco Cup
 Winners, 1971-72
 Watney Cup
 Winners, 1970-71
 Anglo-Italian Cup
 Runners-up, 1992-93

League position

Former position

Club records
Club records

 Best Win: 12-0 (at home to Finn Harps F.C., UEFA Cup, First Round, First Leg, September 15, 1976)
 Worst Loss: 11-2 (away to Everton, FA Cup, First Round, January 18, 1890)
 Biggest Crowd: 41,826 (against Tottenham Hotspur, Football League First Division, September 20, 1969)
 Top Goal-Scorer: Steve Bloomer (292 league goals)
 Most Games: Kevin Hector (486 matches)
 Promotions: First team to gain promotion to the English Premiership at the new Wembley Stadium (2006-2007)

Managers
Managers

 Harry Newbould (1896-1906)
 Jimmy Methven (1906-1922)
 Cecil Potter (1922-1925)
 George Jobey (1925-1941)
 Ted Manger (1944-1946)
 Stuart McMillan (1946-1953)
 Jack Barker (1953-1955)
 Harry Storer (1955-1962)
 Tim Ward (1962-1967)
 Brian Clough (1967-1973)
 Dave Mackay (1973-1976)
 Colin Murphey (1976-1977)
 Tommy Docherty (1977-1979)
 Colin Addison (1979-1982)
 John Newman (1982)
 Peter Taylor (1982-1984)
 Roy McFarland (1984)
 Arthur Cox (1984-1993)
 Roy McFarland (1993-1995)
 Jim Smith (1995-2001)
 Colin Todd (2001-2002)
 John Gregory (2002-2003)
 George Burley (2003-2005)
 Phil Brown (2005-2006)
 Billy Davies (2006-2007)
 Paul Jewell (2007-2008)
 Nigel Clough (2009-2013)
 Steve McLaren (2013-2015)
 Paul Clement (2015-2016)
 Nigel Pearson (2016-2016)
 Steve McLaren (2016-2017)
 Gary Rowett (2017-2018)
 Frank Lampard (2018-2019)
 Philip Cocu (2019-2020)
 Wayne Rooney (2020-present)

References
References

Other websites
 Official site
 Unofficial Derby County Fans Forum 
 Unofficial site  by the Derby Evening Telegraph
 Derby County-Mad
 We Are The Rams website
 Ramsportal 
 RamZone 
 RamsTrust  - supporters' trust

English football clubs
1884 establishments in England
Ipswich Town Football Club (Ipswich Town) is an English football club.  It is based in Ipswich, Suffolk County.  The club was founded in 1878. The club's home stadium is Portman Road.

Ipswich Town currently play in the EFL Championship, having been promoted from the EFL League One in 2023, after 4 years in the division. The club has won the Football League First Division once, in 1962 and the FA Cup in 1978.  They have also been successful in European football. They won the UEFA Cup in 1981 and remain undefeated at Home in UEFA competitions.  The current chairman of the club is Mike O'Leary. The current manager is Kieran McKenna.  Two of the club's previous managers, Sir Alf Ramsey and Sir Bobby Robson, have gone on to manage the England national football team. George Burley went on to manage the Scotland national football team. Ipswich Town remains the only team since the 1800s to win the top tier of the English football league at the first attempt.
History 
Ipswich Town F.C. was started as an amateur team in 1878 and was called "Ipswich A.F.C." The club played a lot of games in the local area and won several cup competitions. In 1936, they became a professional club and joined a league called the "Southern League" which they won in their first season.  In 1938, they were elected to join The Football League and played in "Division Three (South)" until the end of the 1954 season, when they were promoted to "Division Two".
In 1961, Ipswich Town won their division and were promoted to the highest level of English football, "Division One".  The club went on to win this division the next season.  This let them play in European football competition, The European Cup the following season.  Two years later, they were sent back to "Division Two" where they stayed for four years before being promoted to "Division One" again, in 1968.  Soon after, Bobby Robson became the manager of the club and led them to success in both English and European football.  In 1978 Ipswich won the FA Cup at Wembley Stadium, beating Arsenal F.C. 1–0.  Further success came in 1981 when Ipswich defeated Dutch team AZ Alkmaar.
Bobby Robson was asked to become manager of the England national football team in 1982 so he left the club.  Ipswich did not do well in the following seasons and were relegated to "Division Two" in 1986.  They remained here until 1991 when they won the division and promotion into the new English Premier League.  Three seasons followed, including a 9–0 defeat by Manchester United F.C.in their last season, along with Crystal Palace's loss to Liverpool the joint biggest defeat in Premier League history.  In 1995 Ipswich were relegated once again and stayed in second division of English football until they were promoted in 2001 after they beat Barnsley in the play-offs at Wembley 4–2.
In their first season in the Premier League, Ipswich finished fifth; This meant they qualified to play in the UEFA Cup the next season.  Although the club played well in the European competition, they were poor in the Premier League. At the end of that season they finished bottom and were relegated to Division One, now called Football League Championship.  Ipswich were relegated to League One after the 18/19 season, finishing last in the championship.

Colors and crest 
One of Ipswich Town's nicknames is The Blues.  This is because the traditional kit the players wear is usually mostly blue.  When Ipswich play against other teams who also wear blue, they change to an alternative kit, sometimes called an "away" kit.  The "away" kit has been different colours including orange, white, red and black vertical stripes. Currently, the away kit is plain white.
The crest which is on the shirts and shorts of the kit shows a horse, with one hoof resting on a football.  Underneath the horse is a river—this represents the River Orwell which flows through the town.

Stadium 

Ipswich Town play their home games at a stadium called Portman Road.  The club started playing games here in 1884.  The stadium can hold over 30,000 people.  Outside the ground there are statues of both Bobby Robson and Sir Alf Ramsey.

In 2003, England played a game against Croatia at Portman Road.  England won the game 3–1.  The England youth team has also played at the stadium several times.

Other sports have been played at Portman Road, including athletics, hockey and American football.  The stadium has also been used for events other than sports.  It was first used for concerts in 1990 by Tina Turner,  and subsequently in following years by Elton John, R.E.M., Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Rod Stewart.

Supporters
Supporters 

Local fans call the team "Town" because it is a shortened version of the team name.  Some people also call Ipswich the "Tractor Boys". This nickname is used a lot by newspapers.  Many Ipswich fans use this name as a joke rather than letting it be an insult.

The main rival of Ipswich Town is Norwich City who are based in Norfolk. When these two teams play, the game is called the "East Anglian derby". The derby is usually referred to as the 'Old Farm' derby, a take on the 'Old Firm' derby played in Scotland between Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers (now 'The Rangers').

Records 
Mick Mills holds the record for Ipswich league appearances.  He played 591 matches between 1966 and 1982. The club's top league goalscorer is Ray Crawford, who scored 203 goals between 1958 and 1969.  Ted Phillips holds the record for the most goals scored in a season, 41 in the 1956–57 season.  Allan Hunter has played the most international games while at the club, making 47 appearances for Northern Ireland.
The club's widest victories in the league have been their 7–0 wins against Portsmouth in 1964, against Southampton in 1974 and against West Bromwich Albion in the First Division in 1976. Their biggest defeats in the league were 10–1 against Fulham in 1963 and 9–0 against Manchester United in 1995.

The highest number of people to watch Ipswich at Portman Road is 38,010 for a sixth round FA Cup match against Leeds United on 8 March 1975.

The largest amount of money received for an Ipswich player is £6.5 million, from Newcastle United for Kieron Dyer in July 1999.  The most the club has spent on a player was £4.75 million for Matteo Sereni from Sampdoria in July 2001.

Managers 
Kieran Mckenna is the manager of Ipswich Town. He replaced Paul Cook. Cook joined Ipswich Town in 2021, after Paul Lambert. Lambert' moved to Ipswich Town from Stoke City in the Premier League, where he spent 4 months in charge.
Two managers of Ipswich Town have gone on to become the manager of the England national football team. The first was Sir Alf Ramsey. He also won the World Cup for England in 1966. The second was Sir Bobby Robson who got England to the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup. George Burley became manager of the Scotland national football team in January 2008, for 22 months.

Honors 

Ipswich Town won the top division once (when it was called Division One) in 1962.  The club has won the FA Cup once, in 1978, when they defeated Arsenal F.C. 1–0. The club has also won the UEFA Cup once in 1981.

League position

Former positions

References 

English football clubs
Ipswich
1878 establishments in England
Sunderland Association Football Club is an English football club. They are from the city of Sunderland.

The club played in the Premier League in the 2005/2006 season, they finished bottom. They played in the Football League Championship in 2006/2007, but were promoted back to the Premiership for 2007/08 under manager Roy Keane.

Sunderland AFC were created in 1879 and joined the Football League in 1891. They have won the league six times. The last time Sunderland won the league was in 1936. Sunderland have won the FA Cup two times, in 1937 and 1973.

For 99 years, Sunderland played their home games at Roker Park. In 1997 they moved, and now play their home games at the Stadium of Light. The stadium holds 49,000 people.

Seasons

Notes

References 

Premier League clubs
Sunderland
West Bromwich Albion Football Club (West Brom, WBA) is an English football club. The club plays in the Championship. Their home stadium is called the Hawthorns. 

Albion were one of the founding members of The Football League in 1888 and have spent the majority of their existence in the top tier of English football. They have been champions of England once, in 1919–20, but have had more success in the FA Cup, with five wins. The first came in 1888, the year the league was founded, and the most recent in 1968, their last major trophy. They also won the Football League Cup at the first attempt in 1966. The club's longest consecutive period in the top division was between 1949 and 1973, and from 1986 to 2002 they spent their longest ever period out of the top division. The 2011–12 season will be their sixth season in the Premier League since 2002. The Hawthorns is a stadium on a hill.

Names in their history
1878-1880 West Bromwich Strollers F.C.
1880-present West Bromwich Albion F.C.

League position
League position

Former position

Other websites 
West Bromwich Albion: Official website

References

Premier League clubs
1878 establishments in England
West Ham United Football Club is an English football club.

The club plays in the Premier League. It was started in 1895 and its home stadium is the London stadium East London. The club is also called "the Hammers" and "the Irons" because it was started in a London Ironworks. Their main rivals are Millwall and other rivals are Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Arsenal 

West Ham currently are managed by David Moyes, their former care-taker manager for the 2017/18 season in Premier League.

Joint chairman David Gold has died aged 87 on 4 January 2023.

Name 
 1895-1900 Thames Ironworks F.C.
 1900-present West Ham United F.C.

League position

Former position
Former position

Notable players 
  Sir Bobby Moore, captain of England when they won the FIFA World Cup in 1966.
 Sir Geoff Hurst, who scored three goals for England in the World Cup final.
 Sir Trevor Brooking, a good player for England in the 1970/1980s.
 Paulo Di Canio an entertaining player and hero for West Ham fans.
 Carlos Tevez, Helped keep West Ham in the Premiership with a great run of form 2006/2007.
 Mark Noble, West Ham's Long time captain and Player of the decade (2009-2019)

Other websites 
 Non official Hammer blog

1895 establishments in England
Football clubs in London
Wigan Athletic Football Club is an English football club from Wigan, Greater Manchester. The club plays in the Championship, currently managed by Owen Coyle. They play their home games at the DW Stadium. In 2012-13 they won the FA Cup by beating Manchester City 1-0 and so they played in the UEFA Europa League in the season 2013/14. A few days later they were relegated from the English Premier League to the Football League Championship, becoming the first FA Cup-winning side to be relegated in the same season. Manager Roberto Martínez left the club shortly after to join Everton. Owen Coyle replaced him.

Supporters
Wigan Athletic Official Supporters Club (formally known as Wigan Athletic Supporters Travel Club) is the official supporters' association of Wigan Athletic Football Club. The supporters club are a non-profit organisation run by volunteers and meet before home matches in the South Stand Bar.
Rivalries
Since Wigan Athletic's admission to the Football League in 1978, the club has built up several rivalries, mainly with Bolton Wanderers. They also have a rivalry with Manchester City, because they are from the same city and have the same blue club color.

League position

Former position

Managers
As listed on the official Wigan Athletic website.

Honours

League
Football League Championship (English second tier)
 Runners-up (1): 2004–05Football League Second Division (English third tier)
 Winners (1): 2002–03
Football League Third Division (English fourth tier)
 Winners (1): 1996–97Football League Fourth Division Promoted (1): 1981–82

Cup
 FA Cup Winners (1): 2012-13
 League CupRunners-up (1): 2005-06
 FA Community ShieldRunners-up (1): 2013
 Football League TrophyWinners (2): 1984–85, 1998–99
 UEFA Europa League'''
Wigan's victory in the 2013 FA Cup Final qualified them for European football for the first time, earning them an automatic place in the group stage of the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League.
References

1932 establishments in the United Kingdom
1930s establishments in England
Wigan
Football clubs in Greater Manchester
Wimbledon Football Club was an English football club. The club began in Wimbledon in 1889.  In 2002 it moved to Milton Keynes and it 2004 it changed its name to Milton Keynes Dons F.C.  Many football fans in Wimbledon did not agree with the move.  They decided to start a new club there, which is called AFC Wimbledon.

The club played in the English Football League and won the FA Cup in 1988.  It was a professional football club, which means that the players get paid to play.

First move: out of Wimbledon
In 1992, the club decided that its ground at Plough Lane was too small and moved away from Wimbledon to Selhurst Park in Croydon.  This ground is owned by Crystal Palace F.C..  They stayed there for the next 12 years.
Second move: out of London, to Milton Keynes
In 2002, the club's owners decided that they wanted to move the club out of London.  Nobody really knows why they wanted to move.  They said that there were too many clubs in London, that not enough people were coming to watch the matches.  This meant that they did not collect enough money at the gate to pay everyone and that is why  they could not afford to stay.  They looked at Cardiff and Dublin before deciding to move to Milton Keynes.  Milton Keynes is a new city that is 45 miles (or 75 kilometres) north of London. When they said what they wanted to do, most of their fans stopped paying to see matches, which meant that they had even less money to pay everyone.
Before the move could happen, they had to get permission from the Football Association (the FA).  The FA is the association of all the football clubs in England.  The clubs elect a Committee to decide what to do about things.  Most things they have to decide are easy but this was not easy to decide.  Or maybe they knew what to decide but did not want to be the ones to decide it.  So they asked three clever men to study the problem and tell them what would be best to do.  These three men said that the club should be allowed to move. 

Some members of the Committee did not like this decision and tried to stop it.  But the owners of Wimbledon F.C. said that they would get a judge to decide (in a court) if anyone tried to stop them.  It costs a lot of money to go to court and whoever loses has to pay for everybody.  The other clubs would not agree to pay if this happened, so the FA had to disagree the move.
But it was already too late for the owners of Wimbledon F.C.  They had no money left. They had borrowed money from the bank to keep going but now the bank wanted its money back.  When you cannot pay back what you borrow, this is called "going bankrupt" and that is what happened.  Luckily (or unluckily, depends on your point of view), the group in Milton Keynes that first wanted them to come, still wanted them.  So this group paid back some of the money and in 2002, the club moved to Milton Keynes.  They began playing in the National Hockey Stadium, beside Milton Keynes Central railway station and stayed there for two years until their new stadium was ready (2006).
Many football fans around England did not like the idea that a club could move.  They believe that a club belongs to a town and it is not like a furniture shop that closes down in one town and opens in another town.  Another reason that they did not like it is that they would love to see their own club get into the Football League.  The only way that they can do that is if they win their regional league, then win the Football Conference.  So they felt that Milton Keynes was "jumping the queue" to get into the League.  Because of this, many fans refused to attend ("boycotted") any games they played

Milton Keynes

In 2004, the new owners changed the name to 'Milton Keynes Dons F.C.' (usually just 'MK Dons'), which combined the name of their new home ('Milton Keynes') with the nickname ('Dons') from Wimbledon.  With this, Wimbledon FC ceased to exist.
But the boycott continued. In 2006, the Football Fans Federation proposed a way forward. The most important thing for the town of Wimbledon was the trophies (cups, shields) that the club had won when it was called Wimbledon F.C. The agreement was that Milton Keynes Dons F.C. would give these trophies to Merton Borough Council, which is the local government area that contains Wimbledon.  The league history of Milton Keynes Dons F.C. would start from 2004 which is when they changed their name.  The Fans Federation would ask fans to end the boycott.  Everybody agreed and this is what has happened.  

English football clubs
1889 establishments in England
Defunct football clubs
2004 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Accrington Stanley Football Club is an English football club.

The club will play in League Two (the English fourth division) in the 2015/16 season.

They were re-founded in 1968 after going bankrupt (having no money) in 1962. They were first founded in 1921. They are thought of a hard working club but having no chance of success. Their nickname is Stanley. They play at the Interlink Express Stadium in Accrington in Lancashire, in England.

English football clubs
1921 establishments in Europe
1962 disestablishments
1968 establishments in England
1920s establishments in England
1960s disestablishments in England
A.F.C Telford United is a football club based in Telford, Shropshire, England. They are currently a member of the National League North, the sixth tier of English football.

They were founded in 2004. They are based off the original Telford United, which folded in 2004 after financial problems.

They play their home games in New Bucks Head in Wellington, which is a part of Telford.

References

English football clubs
AFC Wimbledon is an English football club from London. The club are currently in EFL League One.

AFC Wimbledon were formed in 2002 by fans angry at Wimbledon F.C. moving to Milton Keynes, 70 miles away from South London. They play at Plough Lane in London.

Wimbledon AFC
2002 establishments in England
Sheffield Football Club is a football club in England.

Sheffield F.C. is the oldest football club in the world. It was set up in 1857 in the city of Sheffield.

Unlike Sheffield United F.C. and Sheffield Wednesday F.C., it does not play in a national league.

Football clubs in Sheffield
1857 establishments in Europe
1850s establishments in the United Kingdom
The asteroid belt or main belt is a ring of small and large rocks and dust between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The biggest object in the asteroid belt is Ceres, a dwarf planet. The Kirkwood gaps separate the asteroid belt into several groups.

Most asteroids orbit at 2 to 3 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. Planets that are "inside" - or before - the asteroid belt (which means they are closer to the sun) are called inner planets. Planets that are "outside" - that is, after - the asteroid belt are called outer planets: so Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are inner planets, while Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are the outer planets.
Origin 
In 1802, shortly after discovering 2 Pallas, Heinrich Olbers suggested to William Herschel that Ceres and Pallas were fragments of a much larger planet that once occupied the Mars–Jupiter region, this planet having suffered an internal explosion or a cometary impact many million years before. This hypothesis has fallen from favor. The large amount of energy needed to destroy a planet, and with the belt's low combined mass (only about 4% of the mass of the Moon) do not support the hypothesis. Also, the significant chemical differences between the asteroids are difficult to explain if they come from the same planet. Today, most scientists accept that the asteroids never formed a planet at all.

The Solar System formed when a cloud of interstellar dust and gas collapsed under the influence of gravity to form the Sun and planetesimals, and eventually the planets. This gravitational accretion led to the formation of the rocky planets and the gas giants.
Planetesimals in the region which would become the asteroid belt were too strongly disturbed by Jupiter's gravity to form a planet. Instead they continued to orbit the Sun as before, while occasionally colliding. In regions where the velocity of the collisions was too high, the shattering of planetesimals was more common than accretion, preventing the formation of planet-sized bodies.

References 

Asteroids
Essen (; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: Esse, () is a German city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on the Ruhr River and it is near Cologne, Duisburg and Bochum. Essen has 585,000 inhabitants. Together with Dortmund, Essen is the biggest city of the Ruhr area with its 5,000,000 inhabitants. Essen is often called the shopping city (Einkaufsstadt) because there are so many malls and shops in it.

Location of Essen 

Essen is in North Rhine-Westphalia and part of the Ruhr area, where eleven cities and four districts are. The rivers Ruhr and Emscher flow through the city. The lake Baldeney is part of the Ruhr. Essen's neighbour cities are Oberhausen, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Ratingen, Heiligenhaus and Velbert in the Rhineland; and Hattingen, Bochum, Gelsenkirchen, Gladbeck and Bottrop in Westphalia. Other near cities are Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Dortmund and Münster.

Politics
Politics 

Because of the large number of coal mine workers in Essen, the SPD, the Social Democratic Party of Germany, always was very strong in Essen. During the time of National Socialism, the Nazi Party installed the mayors. But from 1999 to 2009, the Christian Democratic Party ruled the city with the mayor Dr.Wolfgang Reiniger. At the local elections of 2009, the SPD's candidate Reinhard Paß became the new mayor.
Famous things in Essen 
 Villa Hügel (the villa of the family Krupp)
 Cathedral (Münster) (head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Essen. In the Domschatzkammer, the dome treasure chamber, is the Golden Madonna of Essen)
 Old Synagogue (Alte Synagoge)
 Lichtburg (the oldest cinema of Germany)
 Zeche Zollverein (Zollverein Coal Mine, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 2001)
 Folkwang museum (a big musum with a famous music academy)
 Werden abbey (a monastery from the Order of Saint Benedict, founded in 800)
 Aalto theatre (the greatest theatre of Essen, built by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto)
 Essen philharmonic orchestra (this building, also known as Saalbau, is next to the Aalto theatre)

History of Essen
Around 850, Saint Altfrid founded the Damenstift, an abbey for women, ruled by a prince abbess. In this time the cathedral of Essen was built. In those days the name of the city was Assindia in Latin. Later it changed over Essendia and Essend to Essen. 1377 Essen became a free imperial city. At this time, Essen was just a small city in a region where few people lived. The city became more important when the Industrial Revolution began. In 1811, Friedrich Krupp founded a small steel factory in Essen which was fast growing. The city population also grew, and 80 years after the foundation of Krupp's steel work, Essen was a big city with 100,000 inhabitants. Because in the region of the Ruhr River much coal was found, many coal mines were founded in Essen and other near cities. Great industrial families like the Krupps, the Haniels and the Grillos gave money for cultural buildings like the Grillo theatre and the Folkwang museum. Because of its big industry, Essen was destroyed with bombs in the Second World War
. Many people gave their lives, and many buildings were destroyed. Not all were rebuilt after WW2. But because the coal mining industry ended mining in Essen in the 1970s (coal from abroad was getting cheaper), the city was getting poor. The Strukturwandel (structural change) saved Essen. Old collieries like Zeche Zollverein became museums or theatres. In 2003, the universities of Essen and Duisburg joined as the university Duisburg-Essen.