A Premier League football club in east Manchester that runs men's, women's and academy teams, a large community charity, and a growing sports and events campus around the Etihad Stadium.
Manchester City is a professional football club with a men's team, a women's team and an academy. Its home is the Etihad Stadium in east Manchester, which sits on the wider Etihad Campus, and its training and youth development base is the City Football Academy next door. The Academy Stadium there holds 7,000 people and is used by the women's team and the elite development squad. The club's group website says the academy has more than 170 male and female players, aged under-9 to under-18.
The club began in 1880 as St Mark's (West Gorton), became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887, and took the name Manchester City in 1894. It played at Maine Road until 2003 and then moved to the stadium it uses today. In its April 2026 purpose report, the club says its purpose has not changed since its early days: "to improve lives through football". The report sets four goals: sustainability, health ("empower healthier lives through football"), inclusion ("everyone thrives, feels safe and belongs in football") and education (better educational attainment, life skills and vocational training through football). The report does not list a separate set of corporate values.
Everything the sources describe is in Great Britain, and most of it is in and around Manchester. The report names the Etihad Stadium and Etihad Campus, the City Football Academy, a planned community pitch at Bradford Park near the stadium, Salford Sports Village, the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, and football education partner programmes at 12 locations around the UK. The club's official charity, City in the Community, has worked since 1986. In the latest year it reached more than 17,000 children and young people in Manchester, and more than 33,000 across 28 cities worldwide.
On people and culture, the club reports (its own figures) that 70% of its whole workforce are local people, that it employed 111 apprentices, and that 40 internal City Ambassadors share their career journeys with students. It holds the Advanced Level of the Premier League's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Standard. Staff networks include Be Inclusive, the Women's Network, EthniCity, and City and Proud, and new family-friendly policies cover menopause, fertility, adoption and caring responsibilities. 119 staff are individual members of Women in Football.
The sources show many kinds of work. The club has more than 300 coaching staff delivering programmes around the world, and the community charity runs education courses, including a BSc with Manchester Metropolitan University, and mental health programmes such as City Thrive, which reached 2,124 young people. On the campus, a Summer Jobs Fair drew more than 1,500 registrations from 20 local employers, and more than 200 unemployed local residents joined training, with about half of them securing roles on the campus. A club this size also needs events, stadium, marketing and finance staff, though the sources do not list them.
Website: www.mancity.com
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