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What nationality is former Manchester City playmaker Kevin De Bruyne, who joined the club in 2015 and left in 2025?
WhyDe Bruyne is a Belgian international and captained his country while starring as City's chief creator for a decade. -
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What is the name of Manchester City's home stadium, which has been their ground since 2003?
WhyCity moved into the City of Manchester Stadium, later renamed the Etihad Stadium, after leaving Maine Road in 2003. -
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City's 2017-18 side earned a nickname for setting an English top-flight record. What were they called?
WhyThey became the only team to reach 100 points in a Premier League season, securing the milestone with a stoppage-time winner at Southampton on the final day. -
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Manchester City reached their first-ever Champions League final in 2021, losing 1-0 to which club?
WhyChelsea beat City in the 2021 final in Porto thanks to a Kai Havertz goal, denying City European glory until 2023. -
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Which Georgian playmaker became a cult hero at Maine Road during City's turbulent mid-1990s?
WhyGeorgi Kinkladze dazzled City fans with his dribbling from 1995 to 1998, a rare highlight of the club's relegation years. -
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Yaya Toure, a midfield colossus of City's first title era, joined the club in 2010 from which side?
WhyToure arrived from Barcelona and became a goalscoring powerhouse, later sparking a saga over forgotten birthday-cake celebrations in 2014. -
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Riyad Mahrez became City's then club-record signing in 2018 when he joined from which club?
WhyCity paid around £60m to bring Mahrez from Leicester City, where he had won the 2016 Premier League title. -
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City won their first major European trophy back in 1970. Which competition was it?
WhyUnder Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison, City beat Gornik Zabrze in the final, capping a golden era that also brought the 1968 league title and 1969 FA Cup. -
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Which manager led Manchester City to the 2013-14 Premier League title, their second in three seasons?
WhyChilean Manuel Pellegrini won the league and League Cup double in his first season in charge, 2013-14. -
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City's home before the Etihad was Maine Road. For how long was it the club's home ground?
WhyCity played at Maine Road from 1923 to 2003, an 80-year stay, before moving to the City of Manchester Stadium built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. -
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Which City striker scored the goal at Southampton that took the 2017-18 side to their historic 100th point?
WhyGabriel Jesus struck deep into stoppage time on the final day to complete the unprecedented century of points. -
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Which Manchester City goalkeeper famously played the final 17 minutes of the 1956 FA Cup final win with a broken neck?
WhyA former German paratrooper and WWII prisoner of war, Trautmann's 1949 signing sparked a 20,000-strong protest before he became a club legend; an X-ray three days after the final revealed the cracked vertebrae. -
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In 2018-19 Manchester City became the first English men's club to do what?
WhyCity beat Chelsea on penalties in the League Cup final, retained the Premier League by a point from Liverpool and thrashed Watford 6-0 in the FA Cup final. -
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Mike Summerbee, a 1960s great, formed a famous attacking trio with Colin Bell and which other player?
WhyThe 'Bell-Lee-Summerbee' trio drove City's late-60s success; Francis Lee was the penalty-winning forward known for his powerful running. -
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Cult hero Shaun Goater, a fan favourite around the turn of the millennium, hailed from which unusual footballing nation?
WhyThe Bermudian striker inspired the terrace chant 'Feed the Goat and he will score' and became an icon of City's lower-league years before their resurgence. -
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Pep Guardiola was appointed Manchester City manager in 2016 after leaving which club?
WhyGuardiola spent three seasons at Bayern Munich, winning three Bundesliga titles, before taking over at City. -
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In 1998, Manchester City suffered a low point by being relegated to which level of English football?
WhyCity dropped into the third tier (then Division Two) in 1998 before bouncing back through the play-offs a year later. -
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Playmaker David Silva, a key figure of City's title-winning era, arrived in 2010 from which Spanish club?
WhyCity signed Silva from Valencia in 2010; he spent a decade at the club and was nicknamed 'Merlin' by supporters. -
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Kevin De Bruyne joined City in 2015 for what was then a club-record fee. Which club did he sign from?
WhyAfter being let go by Chelsea, De Bruyne rebuilt his reputation in the Bundesliga and City paid a then-record fee to bring him from Wolfsburg, where he'd been named the league's player of the season. -
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Dennis Tueart scored a spectacular winner in the 1976 League Cup final, City's last major trophy before a long drought. What kind of goal was it?
WhyTueart's acrobatic overhead kick beat Newcastle 2-1 at Wembley; it was City's last major silverware until the 2011 FA Cup ended a 35-year wait. -
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City's round crest, reintroduced in 2016, features a ship and a red rose. What does the ship represent?
WhyThe ship symbolises the Manchester Ship Canal, while the red rose represents Lancashire; the round badge was a fan-driven return to an older design. -
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Who was Manchester City's captain when they lifted the Champions League trophy for the first time in 2023?
WhyIlkay Gundogan wore the armband in 2022-23 and lifted the European Cup after the win over Inter Milan in Istanbul. -
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Which two managers shared the dugout during City's celebrated late-1960s golden era?
WhyMercer's calm management paired with Allison's flamboyant coaching produced the 1968 league title, 1969 FA Cup and 1970 European trophy. -
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Before the 2011-12 triumph, when had City last won the English top-flight league title?
WhyThe 1967-68 title, sealed by a 4-3 win at Newcastle, was their last before Aguero's QPR goal ended a 44-year wait for the championship. -
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Defender Ruben Dias, who transformed City's back line, joined the club in 2020 from which side?
WhyCity signed Dias from Benfica in 2020, and he was voted the Premier League's Player of the Season in his debut campaign. -
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In 1989 City beat Manchester United in a derby by a famous scoreline at Maine Road. What was it?
WhyThe 5-1 demolition in September 1989 remains one of the most cherished derby results among City supporters from the pre-takeover era. -
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Pep Guardiola won his first trophy at City in February 2018. Which one was it?
WhyHis first silverware came in the EFL Cup, a 3-0 win over Arsenal, before the Centurions sealed the league title later that spring. -
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Which Manchester City midfielder was named winner of the 2024 Ballon d'Or?
WhySpain's Rodri won the 2024 Ballon d'Or, capping a season in which he was central to City's title and Spain's Euro triumph. -
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Sergio Aguero broke City's all-time goalscoring record in 2017, surpassing a mark that had stood for 78 years. Whose record did he beat?
WhyAguero passed Eric Brook's 177 goals with his 178th, scored in a Champions League win over Napoli, and took far fewer appearances to do it. -
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Robinho was City's first marquee signing on the day of the 2008 Abu Dhabi takeover. Which club did he join from?
WhyIn the dying minutes of deadline day, City broke the British transfer record (£32.5m) to snatch the Brazilian, signalling the start of the Sheikh Mansour era. -
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Roberto Mancini's first trophy as City manager came in 2011. Which competition was it?
WhyThe 2011 FA Cup, won 1-0 over Stoke with a Yaya Toure goal, was City's first major trophy in 35 years and the springboard to the title a year later. -
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Colin Bell, one of City's greatest midfielders, earned a nickname borrowed from a famous racehorse. What was it?
WhyBell was dubbed 'Nijinsky' after the champion racehorse, a tribute to his tireless running and stamina in the late 1960s and 70s. -
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City pipped Manchester United to the 2011-12 Premier League title on which tiebreaker, with both clubs on 89 points?
WhyCity and United both finished on 89 points, but City's superior goal difference (+64 to +56) clinched the title on the final day. -
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Erling Haaland set a new single-season Premier League goal record in his debut 2022-23 campaign. How many league goals did he score?
WhyHis 36 goals broke the 38-game record of 32 set by Mohamed Salah in 2017-18; no player had scored more in an English top-flight season since Ron Davies (37) in 1966-67. -
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At exactly which minute and second did Sergio Aguero score the title-winning goal against QPR in May 2012?
Why"93:20" has entered City folklore as shorthand for the goal, scored seconds before the final whistle to clinch the club's first league title since 1968. -
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Erling Haaland joined Manchester City in 2022 from which club?
WhyCity triggered Haaland's release clause to sign him from Borussia Dortmund, where he had been a prolific goalscorer. -
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What is the nationality of striker Erling Haaland, who joined Manchester City in 2022?
WhyHaaland represents Norway at international level, having been born in Leeds to Norwegian parents. -
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Who scored the stoppage-time equaliser in the 1999 Division Two play-off final against Gillingham, a goal credited with saving the modern club?
WhyCity were 2-0 down with minutes left; Horlock pulled one back in the 90th minute and Dickov levelled deep in injury time, before Nicky Weaver's shootout saves sealed promotion. -
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In the 2023 Champions League final, who scored the only goal as City beat Inter Milan to complete the Treble?
WhyRodri's calm side-foot in the 68th minute delivered City's first European Cup and made them only the second English men's club to win the Treble. -
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What is the traditional colour of Manchester City's home shirt?
WhyCity have long been associated with their distinctive sky-blue home kit, earning them the nickname 'the Sky Blues'. -
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Elliot Anderson's £116m move to Manchester City in 2026 broke a club record previously held by which player?
WhyThe old record was £100m, paid to Aston Villa in 2021. -
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Which manager, appointed by Manchester City in 2016, led them to the 2023 Champions League title?
WhyPep Guardiola arrived in 2016 and built the most successful side in the club's history, including the 2023 Treble. -
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Jack Grealish became Britain's first £100m player when City signed him in 2021 from which club?
WhyCity paid a British-record £100m to prise Grealish from boyhood club Aston Villa in August 2021. -
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How many trophies did Pep Guardiola win across his ten years as Manchester City manager?
WhySix of them were Premier League titles, and five were League Cups. -
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Who succeeded Pep Guardiola as Manchester City manager in 2026?
WhyHe had been Guardiola's assistant at City in 2022-23 before managing in his own right. -
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Who won the 2025-26 Premier League Golden Boot?
WhyHis third, after 2022-23 and 2023-24. -
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Pep Guardiola's last match as Manchester City manager was a 2-1 home defeat on the final day of 2025-26 — to which club?
WhyThe same club had sold City their previous record signing five years earlier. -
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How many league goals did Erling Haaland score to win the 2025-26 Premier League Golden Boot?
WhyIgor Thiago of Brentford was next best on 22.
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Manchester City are the club that has lived both extremes of English football. This free Manchester City quiz spans the whole arc — from the Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison side that won the league in 1968, through the wilderness years that bottomed out in English football's third tier in 1998-99, to the Abu Dhabi takeover of 2008 and the Guardiola dynasty that redefined how the game is played in England. For decades City were Manchester's fallible, much-loved underdogs; now they are one of the defining superpowers of the modern game. The quiz covers both lives, because a real City fan knows Shaun Goater as well as they know Erling Haaland.
The moments quiz themselves. Sergio Agüero's 93:20 goal against QPR on the final day of 2011-12, winning City a first league title in 44 years with virtually the last kick of the season. The Centurions of 2017-18, the first side in English top-flight history to reach 100 points. The 2023 treble, sealed by Rodri's goal against Inter in Istanbul, and the four straight Premier League titles from 2021 to 2024 — something no English top-flight club had ever managed. And bookending it all, Pep Guardiola's farewell in the summer of 2026, walking away after a decade and twenty trophies as the most successful manager in the club's history.
Expect questions on transfers, records, managers and cult heroes alike. The easy end asks who scored at 93:20; the hard end wants Paul Dickov's 95th-minute Wembley equaliser against Gillingham in 1999, Kevin De Bruyne's decade of assists before his 2025 move to Napoli, and Nico O'Reilly's brace that beat Arsenal in the 2026 League Cup final. There are questions on Sergio Agüero's club-record 260 goals, Rodri becoming City's first Ballon d'Or winner in 2024, Erling Haaland's 36-goal debut season, and the eighth FA Cup, won 1-0 against Chelsea in May 2026 at the end of a fourth consecutive final. Difficulty is graded easy to hard, so you can settle in on the famous stuff before the deep cuts arrive.
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What nationality is former Manchester City playmaker Kevin De Bruyne, who joined the club in 2015 and left in 2025?
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Belgian. De Bruyne is a Belgian international and captained his country while starring as City's chief creator for a decade.
What is the name of Manchester City's home stadium, which has been their ground since 2003?
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Etihad Stadium. City moved into the City of Manchester Stadium, later renamed the Etihad Stadium, after leaving Maine Road in 2003.
City's 2017-18 side earned a nickname for setting an English top-flight record. What were they called?
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The Centurions. They became the only team to reach 100 points in a Premier League season, securing the milestone with a stoppage-time winner at Southampton on the final day.
Manchester City reached their first-ever Champions League final in 2021, losing 1-0 to which club?
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Chelsea. Chelsea beat City in the 2021 final in Porto thanks to a Kai Havertz goal, denying City European glory until 2023.
Which Georgian playmaker became a cult hero at Maine Road during City's turbulent mid-1990s?
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Georgi Kinkladze. Georgi Kinkladze dazzled City fans with his dribbling from 1995 to 1998, a rare highlight of the club's relegation years.
Yaya Toure, a midfield colossus of City's first title era, joined the club in 2010 from which side?
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Barcelona. Toure arrived from Barcelona and became a goalscoring powerhouse, later sparking a saga over forgotten birthday-cake celebrations in 2014.
Riyad Mahrez became City's then club-record signing in 2018 when he joined from which club?
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Leicester City. City paid around £60m to bring Mahrez from Leicester City, where he had won the 2016 Premier League title.
City won their first major European trophy back in 1970. Which competition was it?
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European Cup Winners' Cup. Under Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison, City beat Gornik Zabrze in the final, capping a golden era that also brought the 1968 league title and 1969 FA Cup.
Which manager led Manchester City to the 2013-14 Premier League title, their second in three seasons?
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Manuel Pellegrini. Chilean Manuel Pellegrini won the league and League Cup double in his first season in charge, 2013-14.
City's home before the Etihad was Maine Road. For how long was it the club's home ground?
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About 80 years. City played at Maine Road from 1923 to 2003, an 80-year stay, before moving to the City of Manchester Stadium built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Which City striker scored the goal at Southampton that took the 2017-18 side to their historic 100th point?
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Gabriel Jesus. Gabriel Jesus struck deep into stoppage time on the final day to complete the unprecedented century of points.
Which Manchester City goalkeeper famously played the final 17 minutes of the 1956 FA Cup final win with a broken neck?
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Bert Trautmann. A former German paratrooper and WWII prisoner of war, Trautmann's 1949 signing sparked a 20,000-strong protest before he became a club legend; an X-ray three days after the final revealed the cracked vertebrae.
In 2018-19 Manchester City became the first English men's club to do what?
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Win the league, FA Cup and League Cup in the same season. City beat Chelsea on penalties in the League Cup final, retained the Premier League by a point from Liverpool and thrashed Watford 6-0 in the FA Cup final.
Mike Summerbee, a 1960s great, formed a famous attacking trio with Colin Bell and which other player?
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Francis Lee. The 'Bell-Lee-Summerbee' trio drove City's late-60s success; Francis Lee was the penalty-winning forward known for his powerful running.
Cult hero Shaun Goater, a fan favourite around the turn of the millennium, hailed from which unusual footballing nation?
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Bermuda. The Bermudian striker inspired the terrace chant 'Feed the Goat and he will score' and became an icon of City's lower-league years before their resurgence.
Pep Guardiola was appointed Manchester City manager in 2016 after leaving which club?
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Bayern Munich. Guardiola spent three seasons at Bayern Munich, winning three Bundesliga titles, before taking over at City.
In 1998, Manchester City suffered a low point by being relegated to which level of English football?
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The third tier. City dropped into the third tier (then Division Two) in 1998 before bouncing back through the play-offs a year later.
Playmaker David Silva, a key figure of City's title-winning era, arrived in 2010 from which Spanish club?
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Valencia. City signed Silva from Valencia in 2010; he spent a decade at the club and was nicknamed 'Merlin' by supporters.
Kevin De Bruyne joined City in 2015 for what was then a club-record fee. Which club did he sign from?
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VfL Wolfsburg. After being let go by Chelsea, De Bruyne rebuilt his reputation in the Bundesliga and City paid a then-record fee to bring him from Wolfsburg, where he'd been named the league's player of the season.
Dennis Tueart scored a spectacular winner in the 1976 League Cup final, City's last major trophy before a long drought. What kind of goal was it?
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An overhead bicycle kick. Tueart's acrobatic overhead kick beat Newcastle 2-1 at Wembley; it was City's last major silverware until the 2011 FA Cup ended a 35-year wait.
City's round crest, reintroduced in 2016, features a ship and a red rose. What does the ship represent?
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The Manchester Ship Canal. The ship symbolises the Manchester Ship Canal, while the red rose represents Lancashire; the round badge was a fan-driven return to an older design.
Who was Manchester City's captain when they lifted the Champions League trophy for the first time in 2023?
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Ilkay Gundogan. Ilkay Gundogan wore the armband in 2022-23 and lifted the European Cup after the win over Inter Milan in Istanbul.
Which two managers shared the dugout during City's celebrated late-1960s golden era?
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Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison. Mercer's calm management paired with Allison's flamboyant coaching produced the 1968 league title, 1969 FA Cup and 1970 European trophy.
Before the 2011-12 triumph, when had City last won the English top-flight league title?
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1968. The 1967-68 title, sealed by a 4-3 win at Newcastle, was their last before Aguero's QPR goal ended a 44-year wait for the championship.
Defender Ruben Dias, who transformed City's back line, joined the club in 2020 from which side?
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Benfica. City signed Dias from Benfica in 2020, and he was voted the Premier League's Player of the Season in his debut campaign.
In 1989 City beat Manchester United in a derby by a famous scoreline at Maine Road. What was it?
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5-1. The 5-1 demolition in September 1989 remains one of the most cherished derby results among City supporters from the pre-takeover era.
Pep Guardiola won his first trophy at City in February 2018. Which one was it?
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League Cup. His first silverware came in the EFL Cup, a 3-0 win over Arsenal, before the Centurions sealed the league title later that spring.
Which Manchester City midfielder was named winner of the 2024 Ballon d'Or?
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Rodri. Spain's Rodri won the 2024 Ballon d'Or, capping a season in which he was central to City's title and Spain's Euro triumph.
Sergio Aguero broke City's all-time goalscoring record in 2017, surpassing a mark that had stood for 78 years. Whose record did he beat?
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Eric Brook. Aguero passed Eric Brook's 177 goals with his 178th, scored in a Champions League win over Napoli, and took far fewer appearances to do it.
Robinho was City's first marquee signing on the day of the 2008 Abu Dhabi takeover. Which club did he join from?
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Real Madrid. In the dying minutes of deadline day, City broke the British transfer record (£32.5m) to snatch the Brazilian, signalling the start of the Sheikh Mansour era.
Roberto Mancini's first trophy as City manager came in 2011. Which competition was it?
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FA Cup. The 2011 FA Cup, won 1-0 over Stoke with a Yaya Toure goal, was City's first major trophy in 35 years and the springboard to the title a year later.
Colin Bell, one of City's greatest midfielders, earned a nickname borrowed from a famous racehorse. What was it?
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Nijinsky. Bell was dubbed 'Nijinsky' after the champion racehorse, a tribute to his tireless running and stamina in the late 1960s and 70s.
City pipped Manchester United to the 2011-12 Premier League title on which tiebreaker, with both clubs on 89 points?
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Goal difference. City and United both finished on 89 points, but City's superior goal difference (+64 to +56) clinched the title on the final day.
Erling Haaland set a new single-season Premier League goal record in his debut 2022-23 campaign. How many league goals did he score?
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36. His 36 goals broke the 38-game record of 32 set by Mohamed Salah in 2017-18; no player had scored more in an English top-flight season since Ron Davies (37) in 1966-67.
At exactly which minute and second did Sergio Aguero score the title-winning goal against QPR in May 2012?
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93:20. "93:20" has entered City folklore as shorthand for the goal, scored seconds before the final whistle to clinch the club's first league title since 1968.
Erling Haaland joined Manchester City in 2022 from which club?
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Borussia Dortmund. City triggered Haaland's release clause to sign him from Borussia Dortmund, where he had been a prolific goalscorer.
What is the nationality of striker Erling Haaland, who joined Manchester City in 2022?
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Norwegian. Haaland represents Norway at international level, having been born in Leeds to Norwegian parents.
Who scored the stoppage-time equaliser in the 1999 Division Two play-off final against Gillingham, a goal credited with saving the modern club?
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Paul Dickov. City were 2-0 down with minutes left; Horlock pulled one back in the 90th minute and Dickov levelled deep in injury time, before Nicky Weaver's shootout saves sealed promotion.
In the 2023 Champions League final, who scored the only goal as City beat Inter Milan to complete the Treble?
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Rodri. Rodri's calm side-foot in the 68th minute delivered City's first European Cup and made them only the second English men's club to win the Treble.
What is the traditional colour of Manchester City's home shirt?
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Sky blue. City have long been associated with their distinctive sky-blue home kit, earning them the nickname 'the Sky Blues'.
Elliot Anderson's £116m move to Manchester City in 2026 broke a club record previously held by which player?
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Jack Grealish. The old record was £100m, paid to Aston Villa in 2021.
Which manager, appointed by Manchester City in 2016, led them to the 2023 Champions League title?
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Pep Guardiola. Pep Guardiola arrived in 2016 and built the most successful side in the club's history, including the 2023 Treble.
Jack Grealish became Britain's first £100m player when City signed him in 2021 from which club?
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Aston Villa. City paid a British-record £100m to prise Grealish from boyhood club Aston Villa in August 2021.
How many trophies did Pep Guardiola win across his ten years as Manchester City manager?
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20. Six of them were Premier League titles, and five were League Cups.
Who succeeded Pep Guardiola as Manchester City manager in 2026?
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Enzo Maresca. He had been Guardiola's assistant at City in 2022-23 before managing in his own right.
Who won the 2025-26 Premier League Golden Boot?
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Erling Haaland. His third, after 2022-23 and 2023-24.
Pep Guardiola's last match as Manchester City manager was a 2-1 home defeat on the final day of 2025-26 — to which club?
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Aston Villa. The same club had sold City their previous record signing five years earlier.
How many league goals did Erling Haaland score to win the 2025-26 Premier League Golden Boot?
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27. Igor Thiago of Brentford was next best on 22.
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