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City's first recorded game was played on 13 November 1880 under the guise of St Mark's (West Gorton). [1] The name represented their recent founding as a church youth social group and their home district in an era when football was just beginning to boom in popularity; the proliferation of local amateur teams led to the practice of appending home locations onto teams' names to avoid confusion.
Manchester: The Greatest City. Polar Publishing. Clayton, David (2002). Everything under the Blue Moon: the complete book of Manchester City FC - and more!. Edinburgh: Mainstream publishing. ISBN 1-84018-687-9. Murray, Chris (2002). Attitude Blue: Manchester City F.C. and P.L.C. Manchester: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 0-9520520-9-1.
In November 1880, St. Mark's Anglican Church in West Gorton, inspired by the same ideology and to win young men back to the church, set up a football team which later became Manchester City F.C. [7] St. Mary's Church, Southampton set up a team in 1885, which later became Southampton Football Club. [8]
In the 1930s, Manchester City reached two consecutive FA Cup finals, losing to Everton in 1933, before claiming the Cup by beating Portsmouth in 1934. [9] During the 1934 cup run, Manchester City broke the record for the highest home attendance of any club in English football history, as 84,569 fans packed Maine Road for a sixth round FA Cup tie against Stoke City in 1934—a record which ...
Notre-Dame-des-Victoires, Quebec City, built 1687–1723, later extensively rebuilt, Possibly the oldest church building in Canada (Roman Catholic) Zion Church, Jakarta, Indonesia, the church was built in 1695, the oldest standing church structure in the city.
Manchester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, [1] [a] in Manchester, England, is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, seat of the Bishop of Manchester and the city's parish church. It is on Victoria Street in Manchester city centre and is a grade I listed building.
St. Bridget is the oldest parish in Manchester and was formed in 1859, followed by St. James in 1874. The post-World War II housing boom led to the creation of Assumption in 1955 and St ...
The City of Manchester Stadium in east Manchester, known as the Etihad Stadium since 2011 for sponsorship reasons, is on a 200-year lease from Manchester City Council to Manchester City. It has been the club's home since the end of the 2002–03 season , when City moved from Maine Road . [ 175 ]