Manchester City (blue) in action against Wigan Athletic in the FA Cup, January 2006

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Manchester City

Manchester City Football Club is an English football club based in the city of Manchester. Formed in 1880 as West Gorton (St. Marks), it went on to become Ardwick A.F.C. in 1887 before finally becoming Manchester City F.C. in 1894. more...

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The club has won the League Championship twice, the FA Cup four times, the League Cup twice and the European Cup Winners Cup once. Manchester City's most successful period came in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when it acquired several trophies under the management team of Joe Mercer and assistant Malcolm Allison, and with great players such as Colin Bell.

In more recent years, the club has fallen on harder times, and has not won a major honour since 1976. The club's decline led to relegation twice in three years in the 1990s, meaning it spent one year in the third tier of English football. However, the club has since regained its FA Premier League status, putting City back in the top flight, the division in which it spent the majority of its history. The club enjoys a large fanbase, regularly attracting more than 40,000 fans to its home ground, the City of Manchester Stadium.

History

Manchester City were founded as West Gorton (St. Marks) in 1880 by two wardens of St. Mark's Church in Gorton, a district in east Manchester. In 1887 they moved to a new ground at Hyde Road, in Ardwick just to the east of the city centre, and were renamed Ardwick A.F.C. to reflect their new location. Ardwick joined the Football League as founding members of the Second Division in 1892. Financial troubles in the 1893-94 season led to a reorganisation within the club, and Ardwick were reformed as Manchester City F.C.

City gained their first honours by winning the Second Division in 1899; with it came promotion to highest level in English football, the First Division. They went on to claim their first major honour on 23 April 1904, beating Bolton Wanderers 1-0 at Crystal Palace to win the FA Cup; City narrowly missed out on a League and Cup double that season after finishing runners-up in the League. In the seasons following the FA Cup triumph, the club was dogged by allegations of financial irregularities, culminating in the suspension of seventeen players in 1906, including captain Billy Meredith. A fire at Hyde Road destroyed the main stand in 1920, and in 1923 the club moved to Maine Road in Moss Side.

In the 1930s Manchester City reached two consecutive FA Cup finals, losing to Everton in 1933, before claiming the Cup by beating Portsmouth in 1934. The club won the First Division title for the first time in 1937, but were relegated the following season, despite scoring more goals than any other team in the division. 20 years later, a City team inspired by a tactical system known as the Revie Plan reached consecutive FA Cup finals again, in 1955 and 1956; just as in the 1930s, they lost the first one and won the second. The 1956 final, in which Manchester City beat Birmingham City 3-1, is one of the most famous finals of all-time, and is remembered for City goalkeeper Bert Trautmann continuing to play on after breaking his neck.