Manchester City Football Club Manchester City Football Club are an English football club based in Manchester that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton), they became Ardwick Association Football ...

is an English professional

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club based in

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, that currently plays in the

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. The following list covers the period from 1891 (when the club, then known as ''Ardwick'', joined the

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) to the present day. It details the club's achievements in senior league and cup competitions, and the top scorers for each season. The club was renamed ''Manchester City F.C.'' in 1894, and moved to

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in 1923. Since 2003, they have played at the City of Manchester Stadium. Manchester City's biggest rivals are Manchester United; they compete against each other in the

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. A more recent

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with

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has overshadowed the derby in recent years due to both City and Liverpool directly competing for the titles against each other.

Background

Manchester City were formed in 1880 as ''West Gorton (St. Marks)''. At this time organised league football did not exist; ordinary matches (that today would be called friendly games) were arranged on a largely ad hoc basis and supplemented by the competitive games that

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required. No complete record of the club's matches prior to 1891 survives. In 1890, the club entered the

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for the first time, but withdrew in the second qualifying round. The following season, they joined the

and in 1892 were elected to the newly formed

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. In 1894, the club restructured, changing its name to ''Manchester City'' in the process. City first reached the highest division of English league football in

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. Since then City have undergone a further 22 promotions and relegations, though the majority of their history has been spent in the top division of English football. The club has won the League Championship /

nine times, the FA Cup seven times, the Football League / EFL Cup eight times, the Community Shield / Charity Shield six times, the

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and the

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each once for a total of 32 official titles. In 1970,

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and

victories were both achieved in the same season, making Manchester City only the second English club (

Leeds United Leeds United Football Club is a professional football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire in England. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest level of England's football league system, and plays its home matches at Elland Road ...

were the first in 1968) to achieve a domestic cup and European cup

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within the same year, and the first English club to do so within the same season. The Blues were also the last team to win the English league championship with a team consisting entirely of players of English nationality (many of whom were also native Mancunians). They are, as of 2022, the only English club to win all major domestic honours in the same season (in 2018–19). In 2023 they became only the second English team to complete the continental treble. ManchesterCityFC League Performance

As of the end of the 2022–23 season, Manchester City have played 5,603 competitive matches. In that time the club has spent 94 seasons in the top division of English football, 26 seasons in the second, and one season in the third.

Seasons

:''Table correct as of 10 June 2023.''

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