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.Manchester City have won the English 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.In the early 1980s City experienced a period of turbulent decline culminating 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 the premier league premieres for the first time. However, the achievement of this club does not improve, even the City must be relegated back to the second level up to 2 times, while in the FA Cup since the start of the Premier League, City's best achievement only until 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 club officially became the property of an ambitious Thai billionaire and also former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. However, Thaksin's ownership did not last long because of allegations of corruption cases in his country, finally in September 2008 Thaksin sold ownership of the club to businessmen who are also members of the Abu Dhabi royal family, the 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.
