In the summer of 1965, the management team of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison was appointed. Malcolm Allison holds the League Cup trophy aloft after victory in 1970 during City's most successful eraĪfter relegation to the Second Division in 1963, the future looked bleak with a record low home attendance of 8,015 against Swindon Town in January 1965. The 1956 final, in which Manchester City beat Birmingham City 3–1, is one of the most famous finals of all-time, and is remembered for City goalkeeper Bert Trautmann continuing to play on after unknowingly breaking his neck. Twenty years later, a City team inspired by a tactical system known as the Revie Plan reached consecutive FA Cup finals again, in 19 just as in the 1930s, they lost the first one, to Newcastle United, and won the second. The club won the First Division title for the first time in 1937, but were relegated the following season, despite scoring more goals than any other team in the division. 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 still stands to this day. 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. The Manchester City team which won the FA Cup in 1904 A fire at Hyde Road destroyed the main stand in 1920, and in 1923 the club moved to their new purpose-built stadium at Maine Road in Moss Side.Ī group of thirteen men, eleven in association football attire typical of the early twentieth century and two in suits. In the seasons following the FA Cup triumph, the club was dogged by allegations of financial irregularities, culminating in the suspension of seventeen players in 1906, including captain Billy Meredith, who subsequently moved across town to Manchester United. They went on to claim their first major honour on 23 April 1904, beating Bolton Wanderers 1–0 at Crystal Palace to win the FA Cup City narrowly missed out on a League and Cup double that season after finishing runners-up in the League but City became the first club in Manchester to win a major honour.
City gained their first honours by winning the Second Division in 1899 with it came promotion to the highest level in English football, the First Division.
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