Manchester City Football Club is 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), it became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894. The club's home ground is the City of Manchester Stadium in east Manchester, to which it moved in 2003, having played at Maine Road since 1923.

The club has two nicknames the Citizens which is from the name "City"; historically "citizen" meant "inhabitant of a city". The other nickname is the Sky Blues which comes from the colour of their home kit which is sky blue shirts with white shorts.

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