Manchester City Football Club, also known simply as City or the Cityzens, is a football club

based in east Manchester, England. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton), it
became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894. The
club's home ground is the City of Manchester Stadium in east Manchester, to which it moved
in 2003, having played at Maine Road since 1923.
Manchester City first played in the top-tier of the Football League in 1899 and won their first
major honour with the FA Cup in 1904. The club's most successful period was from 1968 to
1970, when it won the League Championship, FA Cup, League Cupand European Cup
Winners' Cup, under the management team of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison. After losing
the 1981 FA Cup Final, the club went through a period of decline, culminating in relegation to
the third tier of English football for the only time in its history in 1998. Having regained
their Premier League status in the early 2000s, Manchester City was purchased in 2008
by Abu Dhabi United Group for £210 million, receiving considerable investment. The club won
the Premier League in 2012, 2014 and, most recently in 2018, also becoming the first Premier
League team to attain 100 points in a single season.
Manchester City has the fifth-highest revenue in football, at €527.7 million in 2016–
17.[4] Forbes magazine ranks it as the world's fifth-most valuable football club,
worth US$2.47 billion.[5] In 2015, a 13.79% stake purchase of the club's parent company, City
Football Group (CFG), by the CITIC Group for £265 million valued it at $3 billion.[6