Kamis, 03 Agustus 2017
Manchester City Football Club (also known as Man City or The Citizens) is a professional football club from England who plays in the English Premier League. The club is a city club with Manchester United and is headquartered at Etihad Stadium, Manchester.
The first match was played in November 1880. At that time it was still called St. Mark's (West Gorton). In 1887 it changed its name to Ardwick A.F.C, and in 1894 became Manchester City F.C.
Manchester City have won the English Premier League four times, FA Cup 5 times, English League Cup 4 times and European Cup Winners Cup 1. The club's most successful period occurred in the late 1960s and early 1970s. At that time City was under the care of manager Joe Mercer with his assistant Malcolm Allison and several players such as Colin Bell, Mike Summerbee and Francis Lee.
Beginning in the 1980s the City experienced a period of turbulent decline that culminated in relegation to the third level of the English football league system in 1998 for the first time in their history. By the time the English Premier League was first formed in 1992, City was one of its founders. But the club's achievements have not improved, and even City have to be relegated back to the second level up to 2 times, while in the FA Cup since the English Premier League rollout, City's best achievement only reached the quarter-finals.
After ending the league in the 2006-07 season at fourteenth position, the next season the club's achievements began to creep up. In mid-2007 the official club belongs to an ambitious Thai billionaire, who is also a former Thai Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra. But Thaksin's holdings did not last long. Accused of a corruption case in his country, finally in September 2008 Thaksin sold ownership of the club to a businessman who is also a member of the royal family of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan then spent hundreds of millions of pounds to buy top class players to become competitive. Success followed in 2011, Manchester City qualified for UEFA Champions League and won the FA Cup. This success reached its peak by winning the English Premier League 2011-12.
The Manchester City's Squad :
