MANCHESTER CITY Football Club ANNUAL REPORT 2017-18
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B LU C LL TBA OO F ANNUAL REPORT 2017-18 ANNUAL MANCHESTER CITYMANCHESTER OUR STORY MANCHESTER CITY AnnUAL REPOrt 2017-18 OUR TEAMS OUR BUSINESS PAGES 06-19 PAGES 34-49 BREAKING RECORDS OFF THE PITCH TOO CITYZENS PAGES 20-33 HISTORIC MOMENTS AND MEMORABLE VICTORIES CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT CEO’S MESSAGE PAGES 02-03 PAGES 04-05 MAKING FUTURE STRIVING INSPIRING US TO HISTORY FOR MORE ACHIEVE MORE MANCHESTER CITY Annual Report 2017-18 OUR CITY, OUR STORY OUR YEAR IN REVIEW This is the story of a year defined by record-breaking successes and historic moments. It’s also an opportunity to consider how far we’ve come and where we’re going next. By looking back at past glories, we find inspiration for the future. By celebrating success in one area, we’re motivated to OUR YEAR AT A GLANCE achieve more in another. 02 Chairman’s statement 04 CEO’s message 06 OUR TEAMS Our fans, players, partners and people can 08 Men’s team 14 Women’s team be proud of many things. One of them is 16 Academy & elite development squad a shared determination to keep pushing 20 CITYZENS 22 Matchday forward together. 26 Membership & supporters clubs 28 Digital 30 Community 34 OUR BUSINESS Join us in making future history. 36 Performance 40 Our partners On and off the pitch. 42 Global vision 44 People & places Home and away. Visit annualreport2018.mancity.com 01 MANCHESTER CITY Annual Report 2017-18 CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT DESPITE ALL OF THE WONDERFUL MAKING DEVELOPMENTS AND A TRULY INCREDIBLE SEASON WE WILL ALWAYS FUTURE STRIVE FOR MORE. OUR JOURNEY IS NOT COMPLETE AND WE HAVE MORE HISTORY TARGETS TO FULFIL – Khaldoon Al Mubarak Ten years ago this summer, One of the first things that Sheikh Mansour did in September 2008, was to address Vincent Kompany joined a letter to the fans in which he set out his Manchester City. Just one vision for the Club under his stewardship; a vision which was to celebrate and respect week after Vincent put pen to Manchester City’s rich heritage whilst paper, His Highness Sheikh focussing on building a bright future. Mansour, through the Abu He had a clear sense of the elements Dhabi United Group, agreed required to deliver a sustainable and to the purchase of the Club. successful organisation on-and-off-the- pitch, and sought a strategy through which that vision could be realised. At that point, Vincent and his teammates could not have known what successes were to come; nor could they have anticipated the teammates and facilities with whom and in which they would play and train, and the changes which were to be made at the Club and in the wider community. 02 MANCHESTER CITY Annual Report 2017-18 Most of the developments visible today are Ten years ago, the idea that 2018 would The 2017-18 season will go down in history THE PAST DECADE HAS the result of a carefully crafted strategy – one bring a fourth consecutive profitable year because of the incredible football we in which organic evolution has also been for Manchester City, may well have been all witnessed, and we are filled with an ALSO SEEN THE VOICES allowed to thrive – and I have come to be rejected as fanciful by some commentators. extraordinary sense of pride in the hard work as proud of many of those evolutionary That is the reality today as revenues once of Pep Guardiola, the players, and the staff OF OUR FANS HELPING elements of the plan as I am of those which again reach record levels – breaking who work tirelessly to support them. Our aim TO SIGNIFICANTLY SHAPE were meticulously planned in 2008. through the £500 million barrier for the is obviously to build on the achievements first time – whilst more than 400 male and of the last year, and we know that it takes a OUR DEVELOPMENT It was not in the 2008 vision to have female players train and play in world-class tremendous combination of factors and effort teams in six cities around the world, facilities and emerging homegrown young to continuously achieve success at this level. but the blueprint for sustainable growth talent begin to make their mark. We have that we created in Manchester enabled not diverted in any way from our strategy Despite all of the wonderful developments our expansion as City Football Group for on-field success within a commercially and a truly incredible season, we will well beyond the UK, with Girona FC the and financially sustainable organisation. always strive for more. Our journey is not latest club to join our growing family. complete and we have more targets to The past decade has also seen the voices fulfil. There should be no doubt that we We have been able to transplant our playing of our fans helping to significantly shape our are looking forward to the challenges of style, our approach to youth development, development. There are obvious examples the new season and those beyond it with our commercial know-how and, significantly, such as the design of our crest, the choosing equal commitment and determination our City in the Community DNA to far flung of our international community programmes, to the ten seasons that came before. reaches of the football world. We now have even the road names within our City Football nearly 1,000 players in the City Football Group Academy and, most recently, the kit for next Next year, we will celebrate 125 years since network playing and training in the beautiful year’s 125th anniversary celebration. Less the foundation of Manchester City Football football model and positively contributing to overt, but hopefully equally obviously, we Club, and 30 years of Manchester City the development of football on five continents. have remained true to Sheikh Mansour’s having an affiliated women’s team. These Importantly we have also formed charities promise to “ensure that Manchester City milestones, to which we look forward and and foundations in New York and Melbourne loses none of its role in Manchester beyond will be honoured to mark, serve as a useful and the Cityzens Giving programme which football” and “continue[s] to contribute reminder that we are all stewards of a club stretches to all four corners of the globe, to the community it represents.” that has existed through multiple lifetimes and empowering young people through football. we must all remain as committed as ever to In May, Vincent Kompany lifted our third ensuring that it continues to grow and evolve Infrastructure was always going to be a Premier League trophy, having three months for multiple generations of future fans to enjoy. cornerstone of our long-term strategy, but earlier celebrated the third League Cup of we did not know at the beginning just how his City-career. He was standing alongside Khaldoon Al Mubarak complementary the vision and leadership 17-year-old Phil Foden who joined the Club of Manchester City Council would be, nor at eight years old in 2009. The men’s team how we would be able to come together scored 100 points and 106 goals, breaking as partners in the sports-led regeneration more than 20 long-standing club and league of East Manchester. As a result of that records as they went. The trophy was lifted in partnership, the economic and environmental the Etihad Stadium, connected by a pedestrian outcomes from developments of the last ten bridge to the City Football Academy, both years will be generational and we as a Club sitting on the 200-acre Etihad Campus. should be incredibly proud of the improved A lot really has happened in the last decade. educational, health and sporting opportunities we have created in our community. 03 MANCHESTER CITY Annual Report 2017-18 CEO’S MESSAGE WE ARE VERY PROUD OF OUR PERFORMANCES STRIVING AND OF THE TROPHIES WON, BUT EQUALLY RECOGNISE THE FOR MORE PROCESS BY WHICH THEY WERE ACHIEVED – Ferran Soriano This season has given us Manchester City’s men’s team broke more than 25 records – League and Club – much to celebrate and including an 18-game unbeaten streak, most marks a milestone in the points, most wins, most goals and best goal difference in Premier League history, not to implementation of our mention also securing the Carabao Cup. Many long-term strategic journey – ingredients of the past 12 months will be talked about for years to come. Whether it was the a journey founded on the wish moment that Sergio Agüero broke the all-time to be a club that wins trophies City goal scoring record, the high quality of the by playing beautiful football. football on display, or that incredible moment in the final seconds of the season when Gabriel Jesus’ goal secured an historic 100 points – we all have our own special memories to treasure from this remarkable campaign. 04 MANCHESTER CITY Annual Report 2017-18 The first celebration after securing the This season’s on-field success is married with In August 2017, a sixth team, Girona FC, THIS SEASON’S ON-FIELD Premier League title took place at the solid financial results. Our fourth consecutive became a City Footbal Group club, and in Etihad Stadium following our game against year of profit – reported at £10.4 million for the their first La Liga season they finished in an SUCCESS IS MARRIED WITH Huddersfield, after which there was our financial year – together with our breaking of impressive tenth place with a squad featuring community ‘party’ with the trophy parade the £500 million barrier with record revenues several Manchester City loan players.