User talk:Mancini's Sandbox/2006–07

The 2006–07 season was Manchester City Football Club's fifth consecutive season playing in the Premier League, the top division of English football, and its tenth season since the Premier League was first created with Manchester City as one of the its original 22 founding member clubs. Overall, it was the team's 115th season playing in a division of English football, most of which have been spent in the top flight.

Team kit
For this season the shirt sponsor for all of the club's kits continued to be the previous season's sponsor, Thomas Cook, while the team kits were produced by the previous season's supplier, Reebok.

Historical league performance
Prior to this season, the history of Manchester City's performance in the English football league hierarchy since the creation of the Premier League in 1992 is summarised by the following timeline chart – which commences with the last season (1991-92) of the old Football League First Division (from which the Premier League was formed).

Friendly games
This season not all of the team's friendly games were played during the preparatory run-in to the official start of the new league campaign, with a couple of friendly games taking place during the course of the active season. The first of these games was perhaps just a "belated pre-season friendly" that was played with the season still only nine days old, while the other one against Blackpool in February was more of a mutually arranged scrimmage behind closed doors, with one of its intended purposes being to provide a "friendly competitive" tryout for the 28-year-old Belgian international striker, Émile Mpenza, who at the time the Manchester club was considering signing. This impromptu scrimmage served as a key part of Mpenza's brief trial with City and saw him perform well enough, with his scoring of the second goal in the 3-0 win, that he was subsequently signed by City two days later (his unattached free agent status permitting him to be signed outside of the January transfer window). The extemporaneous Valentine's Day friendly also gave some City players in need of match fitness, such as Didi Hamann and Stephen Jordan, a chance to get a full 90 minutes of play under their belts.

Points breakdown
Points at home: 21 Points away from home: 21

Points against "Big Four" teams: 4 Points against promoted teams: 6


 * 6 points: Fulham, Middlesbrough, West Ham United
 * 4 points: Everton, Newcastle United, Sheffield United
 * 3 points: Arsenal, Aston Villa
 * 2 points: Watford
 * 1 point: Bolton Wanderers, Charlton Athletic, Liverpool, Portsmouth
 * 0 points: Blackburn Rovers, Chelsea, Manchester United, Reading,
 * Tottenham Hotspur, Wigan Athletic

Biggest &amp; smallest
Biggest home wins: 3–1 vs. Fulham, 18 November 2006 2–0 vs. West Ham United, 23 September 2006 Biggest home defeat: 0–3 vs. Blackburn Rovers, 20 January 2007 Biggest away wins: 1–3 vs. Aston Villa, 29 November 2006 & vs. Fulham, 9 April 2007 0–2 vs. Middlesbrough, 17 March 2007 Biggest away defeat: 4–0 vs. Wigan Athletic, 21 October 2006 Biggest home attendance: 47,244 vs. Manchester United, 5 May 2007 Smallest home attendance: 35,776 vs. Fulham, 18 November 2006 Biggest away attendance: 75,858 vs. Manchester United, 9 December 2006 Smallest away attendance: 16,235 vs. Wigan Athletic, 21 October 2006

FA Cup
Information current as of 13 May 2007 (end of season)