Global InformationMelbourne City FC information
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| Full name | Melbourne City Football Club | |||
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| Nickname(s) | City, Hearts, Heart, City Boys, City Blues | |||
| Founded | 12 June 2009 (as Melbourne Heart) | |||
| Ground | AAMI Park | |||
| Capacity | 30,050 | |||
| Owner | City Football Group | |||
| Chairman | Khaldoon Al Mubarak | |||
| Head coach | Aurelio Vidmar | |||
| League | A-League Men | |||
| 2022–23 | 1st of 12 (premiers) | |||
| Website | Club website | |||
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Melbourne City Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in the south–eastern Melbourne suburb of Cranbourne East but playing matches in Melbourne CBD, that competes in A-League, the highest division of soccer in Australia, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL).[1]
Founded in 2009 as Melbourne Heart, the club competed under that name from its inaugural 2010–11 season until they were rebranded in mid-2014 by the City Football Group (CFG), in partnership with Holding M.S. Australia.[2] In August 2015, City Football Group, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi United Group, bought out the Holding M.S. Australia consortium to have 100% ownership of the club.[3]
Since forming in 2009, Melbourne City has claimed three A-League Men premierships and one championship, as well as one Australia Cup title (in 2016).
Melbourne City is run from the City Football Academy, a facility located within the Casey Fields sports precinct, in the south-east Melbourne suburb of Cranbourne East.[4] The club plays home matches at Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, commercially known as AAMI Park, a 30,050 seat multi-use venue in Melbourne's City Centre. The club also has an affiliated youth team which competes in both the A-Leagues Youth (league has not been held since 2019) and in VPL1, which serves as the second tier of Victorian football, as well as a senior women's team which competes in the A-League Women.
- ^ "A-League owners to be offered far longer licences by Football Federation Australia". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 28 October 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
- ^ "Manchester City buy A-League's Melbourne Heart". The Guardian. 23 January 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
- ^ John Stensholt (2 August 2015). "Manchester City buy out wealthy Melbourne City investors". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
- ^ "Melbourne City FC to move into Casey Fields". casey.vic.gov.au. 15 December 2020.