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Manchester City Football Club is an English Premier League played in the City of Manchester Stadium. Founded in 1880, St. Mark's (West Gorton), who was Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887, its name went 1894th
The most successful period was the end of 1960 and early 1970, when he won the m88 championship, FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners Executive Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison was followed, and the players Colin Bell and Francis Lee, Mike Summerbee.
After winning the League Cup in 1976 the club won the honor. Autumn club was twice within three years after the end of 1990, spending 1998% at the third tier of English football in the first and only season in its 117-year history. The club once again the top-class status, the level at which he spent most of its history.
Reserves and Academy
reserves the right to the Premier Reserve League North and the Manchester Senior Cup, the organization sent a team to the reserves since 1892, when he played for the reserve call from Lancashire. Reserves are the world champions in connection with 1901/02.They left Lancashire Lancashire in 1911 and joined the Central League institution. Reserves in the Central League game until 2000, won three times in periods 1977-1978, 1986-1987 and 1999-2000.
Manchester City Academy is responsible for the development of young people in the club to develop young players for the future. Groups of young people's club was founded in 1920, Albert Alexander, who is known as " m88 Team was founded. Since 1951, participated in the A-team in the Lancashire League against teams from the reserves and youth clubs in the North West. Since 1955 is the rebirth of the team, "B" team, especially young players from this team, "" race Lancashire League Second Division. The current team of the Academy had 34 graduates in 1998, mainly on Shaun Wright-Phillips. 14 of these players are still in the club, and gave the last two years, eight graduates .
Club crest and colours
Colors of Manchester City at home is the sky blue and white. Set the traditional and the colors were brown, or (late 1960) the red and black, but can be used in recent years, various colors. Origin for the home team colors are not clear, but there is no evidence that the association used the blue since 1892 or earlier. Famous presents the football clubs Manchester City in 1940 shows has been published that West Gorton (San Marcos), originally in scarlet and black, and reports in 1884 in black and white jerseys described the team played on the beginning of the club on the other side of the church runs. Colors Red and Black is certainly a former assistant Malcolm Allison, who believes the adoption of wonderful colors of the city of Milan convince .
The current club crest was 1997, when the previous record is not entitled to register a trade mark was adopted. The flag on the crest of Manchester-based and consists of a plate in front of an eagle. The ship is a memorial plaque at the top represents the Manchester Ship Canal and three diagonal stripes at the bottom of three rivers in the city. The underside of the plate with the slogan Proel Pride, which translates to fight Pride in America. Before the eagle and shield, three stars, purely decorative.
The city has already spent two arms of a shirt. The first, in 1970, was about the projects that have been used in official documents of the club since mid-1960 based. It was a round disk as the disk of a circle, the name of the association. In 1972, he was by transformation, which replaces the bottom of the screen replaces a red rose of Lancashire. to play at Manchester City in the great cup final, the first rule is not used, but T-shirts, logo is on the crest of Manchester City was a symbol of pride, is an important event in Manchester. This practice goes back to the days when m88 T-shirts, the players do not use any signs, but the entire history of the club.
