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Manchester City Football Club, commonly referred to as Man City or simply 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, 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.
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Man City strongly maintain their innocence and claim to have ‘a comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence’ to defend themselves, but an independent commission has found them guilty of ‘sham contracts’ and misleading accounts
City, the most successful team in England for the past 15 years and the current Premier League leader, now faces severe sanctions.
The Premier League say this ruling shows that Manchester City "systematically broke Premier League rules for nearly a decade."