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Manchester City Football Club, commonly referred to as Man City, is a professional football club based in Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's (West Gorton), they 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 they moved in 2003, having played at Maine Road since 1923. Manchester City adopted their sky blue home shirts in 1894, the first season with the current name. The club is one of the most successful in English football, having won ten league titles, eight FA Cups, nine League Cups, seven FA Community Shields, one UEFA Champions League, one European Cup Winners' Cup, one UEFA Super Cup and one FIFA Club World Cup. The club joined the Football League in 1892, and won their first major honour, the FA Cup, in 1904. Manchester City had its first major period of success in the late 1960s and early 1970s, winning the league title, FA Cup, League Cup, and European Cup Winners Cup under the management of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison. After losing the 1981 FA Cup final, the club went through a period of decline, being relegated to the third tier of English football for the only time in their history in 1998. They regained promotion to the top tier in 1999–2000 and have remained in the Premier League since 2002–03. Manchester City received major financial investment after its August 2008 takeover by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan through the Abu Dhabi United Group, starting a new era of success. They won the FA Cup in 2011 and the Premier League in 2012, their first since the 1960s, then another league title in 2014. Under Pep Guardiola, City won the league in 2018 with a record 100 points, and in 2018–19 became the first English men's team to win a domestic treble, claiming the three main domestic trophies as well as the Community Shield. They then won four consecutive league titles from 2020–21 to 2023–24. City reached their first Champions League final in 2021, losing to Chelsea, before winning the competition for the first time in 2023, becoming the second English club to complete a continental treble. The club topped the UEFA rankings in 2023. Manchester City topped the Deloitte Football Money League at the end of the 2021–22 season, making it the football club with the highest revenue in the world, approximated at €731 million. In 2022, Forbes estimated the club was the sixth-most valuable in the world, worth $4 billion. Manchester City are owned by City Football Group Limited, a holding company valued at £3 ($4 ) billion in November 2019 and majority-owned by the Abu Dhabi United Group.