Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 11, 2006



Manchester City Football Club are an English Premier League football club based in Manchester. Founded in 1880, they have won the League Championship twice, the FA Cup four times, the League Cup twice and the European Cup Winners' Cup once. Manchester City's most successful period came in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when they acquired several trophies under the management team of Joe Mercer and assistant Malcolm Allison and with great players such as Colin Bell, Francis Lee and Mike Summerbee. In more recent years, the club have fallen on harder times, and have not won a major honour since 1976. The club's decline culminated in getting relegated twice in three years in the 1990s, meaning Manchester City spent one year in the third tier of English football. However, they have since regained their FA Premier League status, putting them back in the top flight, the division in which they have spent the majority of their history. The team enjoy a large fanbase, regularly attracting more than 40,000 spectators to their home ground, the City of Manchester Stadium. (More...)

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