Manchester City Football Club is a professional football club based in Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League. 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. The club is one of the most successful in English football, having won ten league titles, seven FA Cups, eight 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.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 2001–02 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. 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 all four domestic trophies. 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.