Manchester City

Manchester City Football Club, known as Manchester City, is a football club from the city of Manchester, England, which plays in the Premier League. It was founded on 23 November 1880 under the name St. Mark's (West Gorton), then was renamed Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and finally, on 16 April 1894, adopted its current name. The club has played its matches at the Etihad Stadium since 2003, having played at Maine Road since 1923. The club adopted its sky blue home shirt in 1894 in the first season of the current version of the club, and it has been used ever since. In terms of trophies won, it is the fourth most successful club in English football.

Manchester City joined the Football League in 1892 and won its first official trophy with the FA Cup in 1904. Nevertheless, the club enjoyed its greatest period of success in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when it won the First Division league championship, the FA Cup, the League Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup under the management first of Joe Mercer and then of Malcolm Allison. After losing the 1981 FA Cup final, the club went through a period of decline, which culminated in relegation to the third tier of English football in 1998.

After regaining its place in the Premier League in 2002, on 1 September 2008 Abu Dhabi United Group for Development and Investment, an Emirati investment group with Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan as majority shareholder, took control of the club for around 250 million euros, taking over from the former prime minister of Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra, until then the owner of the entity. Since the arrival of the new owners, the club has won a total of 17 official titles, among which eight Premier League titles stand out (2012, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024), in addition to playing a UEFA Champions League final for the first time in 2021, where it lost 1-0 to Chelsea F. C. It played its second UEFA Champions League final in 2023, where it beat Inter Milan 1-0, thereby winning its first title in the competition and its second international title after 53 years. In 2019, it won four trophies, completing an unprecedented sweep of most of the domestic trophies in England and becoming the first English men's team to win the domestic treble. In total, Manchester City has won ten league titles, seven FA Cups, eight League Cups, seven Community Shields, one Cup Winners' Cup, one Champions League, one UEFA Super Cup and one Club World Cup.

Together with Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea, they are the only teams in the United Kingdom that belong to the group of 31 clubs in the world that have won the highest world championship of football clubs. City achieved this on 22 December 2023 when it was crowned champion of the 2023 Club World Cup, played in Saudi Arabia, by defeating the Copa Libertadores de América representative, Fluminense of Brazil, 4-0 at King Abdullah Stadium.

Financially, the club is one of the richest in the world; at the end of the 2013-2014 season, it was the sixth club with the highest revenue according to the auditing firm Deloitte's Football Money League, with an estimate of €414.4 million. Likewise, Forbes magazine rated it the fifth most valuable club in the world as of 2015. It maintains a rivalry with its Manchester neighbor, Manchester United, with whom it plays the so-called Manchester Derby: The Citizens against The Red Devils. It has a women's team that has also stood out at the local level since 2016; it is also the owner of several football clubs around the world such as Melbourne City of Australia, New York City of the United States, and Montevideo City Torque of Uruguay. It also has interests in Girona of Spain and Yokohama Marinos of Japan, but in these cases they are minority or shared stakes.