English Premiership

Manchester City Football Club is an English Premier League football club who play at the City of Manchester Stadium.

The first known competitive fixture was played in November 1880, when the side was known as St. Mark's (West Gorton) , they then became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 before changing their name to Manchester City Football Club in 1894. The club's most successful period was in the late 1960s and early 1970s when they won the League Championship, the FA Cup, the League Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup under the management team of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison and with players including Colin Bell, Mike Summerbee and Francis Lee.

Since winning the League Cup in 1976, the club has failed to win any major honours. The club's decline led to relegation twice in three years in the 1990s, spending the 1998–99 season in the third tier of English football. The club has since regained top flight status, the level at which they have spent the majority of their history.

See also: Manchester City F.C. Reserves and Academy

Out on loan

Retired numbers

Main article: Retired numbers in football

Since 2003, Manchester City have not issued the squad number 23. It was retired in memory of Marc-Vivien Foé, who was on loan to the club from Lyon at the time of his death on the field of play whilst playing for Cameroon in the 2003 Confederations Cup.

Hall of Fame

See also: List of Manchester City F.C. players

The following players are members of Manchester City's Hall of Fame, and are listed according to the year of their Manchester City first-team debut (year in parentheses):

• pre-1920: Billy Meredith (1894), Tommy Johnson (1919)
• 1920s: Sam Cowan (1924), Eric Brook (1928), Fred Tilson (1928)
• 1930s: Frank Swift (1933), Peter Doherty (1936)
• 1940s: Roy Clarke (1946), Bert Trautmann (1949)
• 1950s: Ken Barnes (1950), Roy Paul (1950), Alan Oakes (1958)
• 1960s: Neil Young (1961), Mike Summerbee (1965), Colin Bell (1966), Tony Book (1966), Francis Lee (1967), Joe Corrigan (1967)
• 1980s: Paul Lake (1987)
• 1990s: Niall Quinn (1990), Uwe Rösler (1994)

Management team

Club records

• Record League victory — 11–3 v. Lincoln City (23 March 1895, most goals scored) 10–0 v. Darwen (18 February 1899, widest margin of victory)
• Record FA Cup victory — 12–0 v. Liverpool Stanley (4 October 1890)
• Record League defeat — 0–8 v. Burton Wanderers (26 December 1894), 0–8 v. Wolverhampton Wanderers (23 December 1933), 1–9 v. Everton (3 September 1906), 2–10 v. Small Heath (17 March 1893)
• Record FA Cup defeat — 0–6 v. Preston North End (30 January 1897), 2–8 v. Bradford Park Avenue (30 January 1946)
• Highest home attendance — 84,569 v. Stoke City (3 March 1934)
• Most League appearances — 561 + 3 sub, Alan Oakes 1958–76
• Most appearances overall — 676 + 4 sub, Alan Oakes 1958–76
• Most goals scored overall — 177, Eric Brook 1928–40
• Most goals scored in a season — 38, Tommy Johnson 1928–29
• Record transfer fee paid — £32.5 million to Real Madrid for Robinho, September 2008 (also current British record)
• Record transfer fee received — £23 million from Chelsea for Shaun Wright-Phillips, July 2005

See also

• Manchester City L.F.C.

References

• Buckley, Andy; Burgess, Richard (2000). Blue Moon Rising: The Fall and Rise of Manchester City . Bury: Milo. ISBN 0-9530847-4-4.  
• Gardner, Peter (1970). The Manchester City Football Book No. 2 . London: Stanley Paul. ISBN 0-09-103280-6.  
• Inglis, Simon (1987). The Football Grounds of Great Britain (2nd ed.) . London: Collins Willow. ISBN 0-00-218249-1.  
• James, Gary (2002). Manchester: The Greatest City . Polar Publishing. ISBN 1-899538-09-7.  
• James, Gary (2005). The Official Manchester City Hall of Fame . Hamlyn. ISBN 0-600-61282-1.

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