History and achievements
The story of the team from Manchester starts in 1880 when St Mark’s club was founded in Gorton, the area in east Manchester, and 14 years later the club was reformed as Manchester City. The nicknames of the club are the Sky Blues, the Blues, the Citizens. The home stadium of the club since 2002 is the City of Manchester stadium where team moved from Maine Road.
In the 1900s the club played in the First Division and gained its first trophy outperforming Bolton in the FA Cup Final in 1904. The second time the Citizens claimed the Cup was in 1934 and it was the same year that Manchester City set the record for home attendance of any club in the history of English football gathering 84,569 supporters for a match against Stoke City.
Three years later the team celebrated a victory in the First Division, though the following season City faced dropping in a class and played in the Second Division. The most glorious spell for the club started in the mid-1960s when in 1968 Manchester City achieved the first place in the League, won the 1969 FA Cup and enjoyed their first triumph in the European stage taking the 1970 European Cup Winners cup. After the victory in the 1976 final in the FA Cup against Newcastle a gradual slump started during which the team was fluctuating between Division One and Division Two.
Manchester City is one of the founder-members of the Premier League in 1992, yet it was the year 2003 when the club fought its way to the top League, beating Manchester United for the first time in 13 years and qualifying for UEFA competition the following season.
Unbelievable quark of fate changed the club’s destiny in 2008 when Abu Dhabi United Group purchased City and spent huge sums of money signing such players as Gaël Clichy, Sergio Agüero, Stefan Savić, Samir Nasri, Edin Džeko and Owen Hargreaves. The blues competed in the FA Cup Final in 2011 and defeated Stoke City 1-0, taking their first trophy since 1969. The 2011/2012 Premier League saw the most dramatic finish of the season with a last-minute goal scored by Sergio Aguero in the clash between Manchester City and QPR that secured the club the long-awaited title. The League title in 2012 was a starting point of the Citizens’ renaissance and in 2014 they repeated that success under Manuel Pellegrini.
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Club top players
№ | Name and surname | Role | Ranking | Age | Weight | Height | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Claudio Bravo | goalkeeper |
6 849 |
41 years | 84 kg | 184 cm | Chile |
2 | David Silva | midfielder |
298 |
38 years | 67 kg | 170 cm | Spain |
3 | Fernandinho | midfielder |
223 |
38 years | 67 kg | 176 cm | Brazil |
4 | Kyle Walker | defender |
34 |
33 years | 178 cm | England | |
5 | Ilkay Gündogan | midfielder |
25 |
33 years | 76 kg | 180 cm | Germany |
6 | Raheem Sterling | midfielder |
21 |
29 years | 65 kg | 170 cm | England |
7 | Riyad Mahrez | forward |
1 |
33 years | 62 kg | 179 cm | Algeria |
8 | John Stones | defender |
0 |
29 years | England | ||
9 | Nicolás Otamendi | defender |
0 |
36 years | 75 kg | 183 cm | Argentina |
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