Manchester City F.C.

**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.

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.

Prior to Thaksin’s takeover, the club had been listed on the specialist independent equity market PLUS (formerly OFEX)[156] since 1995. On 6 July 2007, after acquiring 75% of the shares, Thaksin de-listed the club and re-registered it as a private company.[157] By August, UKSIL had obtained over 90% of the shares and invoked its rights under the Companies Act to “squeeze out” the remaining shareholders, securing full ownership of the club. Thaksin became chairman, while his children, Panthongtae and Pintongta, were appointed as directors. Former chairman John Wardle remained on the board for a year, but resigned in July 2008 following the appointment of Nike executive Garry Cook as executive chairman in May.

## Name

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

#### 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:

### Player of the Year

|Year|Winner||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|width="1"||valign="top"|{| class="toccolours"||||
|1985–86|Kenny Clements||||||
|1986–87|Neil McNab||||||
|1987–88|Steve Redmond||||||
|1988–89|Neil McNab||||||
|1989–90|Colin Hendry||||||
|1990–91|Niall Quinn||||||
|1991–92|Tony Coton||||||
|1992–93|Garry Flitcroft||||||
|1993–94|Tony Coton||||||
|1994–95|Uwe Rösler|}|width="1"||valign="top"|{| class="toccolours"|
|1995–96|Georgi Kinkladze||||||
|1996–97|Georgi Kinkladze||||||
|1997–98|Michael Brown||||||
|1998–99|Gerard Wiekens||||||
|1999–2000|Shaun Goater||||||
|2000–01|Danny Tiatto||||||
|2001–02|Ali Benarbia||||||
|2002–03|Sylvain Distin||||||
|2003–04|Shaun Wright-Phillips||||||
|2004–05|Richard Dunne|}|width="1"||valign="top"|{| class="toccolours"|
|2005–06|Richard Dunne||||||
|2006–07|Richard Dunne||||||
|2007–08|Richard Dunne||||||
|2008–09|Stephen Ireland||||||
|2009–10|Carlos Tevez||||||
|2010–11|Vincent Kompany||||||
|2011–12|Sergio Agüero||||||
|2012–13|Pablo Zabaleta||||||
|2013–14|Yaya Touré||||||
|2014–15|Sergio Agüero|}|width="1"||valign="top"|{| class="toccolours"|
|2015–16|Kevin De Bruyne||||||
|2016–17|David Silva||||||
|2017–18|Kevin De Bruyne||||||
|2018–19|Bernardo Silva||||||
|2019–20|Kevin De Bruyne||||||
|2020–21|Rúben Dias|}|||||

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## Infobox (football club)

- **clubname**: Manchester City
- **image**: Etihad Stadium, Manchester City Football Club (Ank Kumar, Infosys) 16.jpg
- **upright**: 0.8
- **fullname**: Manchester City Football Club
- **nickname**: City, Cityzens, The Citizens, The Sky Blues
- **short name**: City
- **founded**: as St. Mark's (West Gorton)
 as Ardwick Association F.C.
 as Manchester City
- **ground**: City of Manchester Stadium, Etihad Stadium
- **capacity**: 55,017
- **owner**: City Football Group
- **chairman**: Khaldoon Al Mubarak
- **manager**: Pep Guardiola
- **current**: 2022–23 Manchester City F.C. season
- **website**: http://www.mancity.com
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