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Manchester City
Season 2007–08
Owner Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra
Chairman Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra
Manager Sweden Sven-Göran Eriksson
Team captain Republic of Ireland Richard Dunne
Home stadium City of Manchester Stadium
(a.k.a. Eastlands and CoMS)
Premier0League Ninth
League Cup Fifth round
FA Cup Fourth round
Top goalscorer League: 0 Elano (8 goals)
(24th highest in Premier League)
All comps: 0 Elano (10 goals)
Season revenue € 104.0 million0(20th highest in world)
(7th highest in Premier League)
Average home
attendance 		42,126 – over 19 PL home games
(6th highest in Premier League)
Highest home
attendance 		47,321 0v0 Liverpool
30 December 2007
Highest away
attendance 		75,970 0v0 Manchester United
10 February 2008
Lowest home
attendance 		20,938 0v0 Norwich City
25 September 2007
Lowest away
attendance 		14,541 0v0 Bristol City
29 August 2007
← 2006–07 0000 0000 2008–09 →
Results summary - all competitions
Wins Draws Losses Win %
Home 13 5 5 56.5%
Away 6 6 10 27.3%
Both 19 11 15 42.2%
Results summary - Premier League
Wins Draws Losses Win %
Home 11 4 4 57.9%
Away 4 6 9 21.1%
Both 15 10 13 39.5%

The 2007–08 season was Manchester City Football Club's sixth consecutive season playing in the Premier League, the top division of English football, and its eleventh season since the Premier League was first created with Manchester City as one of the its original 22 founding member clubs. Overall, it was the team's 116th season playing in a division of English football, most of which have been spent in the top flight.

Season review[edit]

The season started with a new owner in Thaksin Shinawatra and his newly appointed manager, Sven-Göran Eriksson. After spending three of the four previous Premier League seasons finishing in low mid-table positions (i.e., two to four places above the relegation zone), the Manchester City team was badly in need of an influx of new blood if it was to avoid a similar fate, or worse, in the upcoming season. Consequently, the newly infused funds from the club's wealthy Thai owner came at quite a fortuitous time for the team, and Eriksson was very active in the summer transfer market as he spent approximately £30 million adding eight relatively high profile players to the City first team squad.

As a consequence of this mini spending spree Manchester City started the new season strongly and spent a large portion of it occupying one of the top five positions in the Premier League table. Unfortunately, the strong results of the first two thirds of the season were not sustained in the final third and the team ultimately slipped down the rankings to finish the season in ninth place. This loss of form in the final months also led to Shinawatra summarily sacking Eriksson, a decision that was received with mixed emotions by the Manchester City supporters since both characters had achieved the status of "white knights" in their eyes for their respective financial and managerial contributions to the transformation of the club.[1] Two days after his end-of-season dismissal on 2 June 2008 Sven-Göran Eriksson was replaced as manager by Mark Hughes.[2]

This season also saw Manchester City gain entry into the next season's UEFA Cup competition by finishing sixth in the English "Fair Play" rankings (with the five teams above having already qualified for European competition).



Team kit[edit]

The start of the 2007-08 Premiership campaign saw a number of changes for Manchester City, the most notable being the hiring of former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson, while a somewhat less prominent change for the club saw the termination of Reebok as the team's kit supplier (for the four previous seasons) with the French sportswear manufacturer, Le Coq Sportif, now resuming this role once again. The shirt sponsor continued to be Thomas Cook, although the travel company had undergone a name change during the close season after its announced merger with MyTravel Group in June 2007, with the newly merged company now being called Thomas Cook Group.

The switch to a new kit supplier resulted in three new team kits for this season. The new home kit consisted of a return back to a full sky blue shirt, but now with vertical white pin stripes on the body (but not the sleeves and shoulders) together with matching solid sky blue socks and the traditional all white shorts. The shirt sported a Le Coq Sportif logo on the upper portion of both sleeves with the Manchester City crest in the centre of the chest above the Thomas Cook logo, while the City crest was also repeated at the base of the right leg on the shorts.

The new away kit - a striking solid purple colour but sporting the same vertical white pin stripes on the body of the shirt as the home kit plus all the same kit supplier, sponsorship and club crest logos - was possibly a throwback to the classic maroon and thin white striped shirts that had been the club's one-time strip created for its appearance at Wembley in the 1956 FA Cup Final against Birmingham City. In comparison to the new home and away kits, the new third kit consisted of a relatively conservative all white shirt and socks with solid sky blue shorts, with the white shirt sporting a thin sky blue diagonal sash across the front of the left shoulder. A new two-tone green (solid light green shirt plus solid dark green shorts and socks) goalkeeper's strip was also introduced for this season.

Home
Away
Third
Goalkeeper

On 10 February 2008 during the club's local derby game against Manchester United the City team played in a one-off special kit to mark the 50 year memorial of the Munich air disaster. This kit appropriately contained no kit supplier or sponsorship logos.[3]

Munich mememorial
Munich mem. GK



Historical league performance[edit]

Prior to this season, the history of Manchester City's performance in the English football league hierarchy since the creation of the Premier League in 1992 is summarised by the following timeline chart – which commences with the last season (1991-92) of the old Football League First Division (from which the Premier League was formed).

Premier LeagueFootball League Division OnePremier LeagueFootball League Division OneFootball League Division TwoFootball League Division OnePremier LeagueFootball League First Division




Friendly games[edit]

Pre-season[edit]

14 July 2007 Doncaster Rovers England 1 – 3 England Manchester City Doncaster, England
15:00 BST McDaid 17' MCFC report 48' Corradi
62' Richards
64' Mpenza		 Stadium: Keepmoat Stadium
Attendance: 6,375
18 July 2007 Örgryte IS Sweden 1 – 4 England Manchester City Varberg, Sweden
19:00 BST Mwila 37'
MCFC report
BBC Sport report
YouTube video		 18' Bianchi
53' Corradi
61' Samaras
64' Logan
Yellow card 65' Fernandes
Yellow card 75' Dickov		 Stadium: Påskbergsvallen
Attendance: 5,000+
21 July 2007 Carlstad United Sweden 0 – 4 England Manchester City Karlstad, Sweden
15:00 BST soccer ball with red X 52' (pen.) MCFC report 5' Corradi
20' 51' Bianchi
Yellow card 52' Richards
78' Laird		 Stadium: Tingvalla IP
28 July 2007 Sporting Charleroi Belgium 2 – 0 England Manchester City Charleroi, Belgium
18:00 BST Oulmers 20' (pen.)
Jovial 35'		 MCFC report
M.E.N. report		 Yellow card 39' M. Mills Stadium: Stade du Pays de Charleroi
1 August 2007 Shrewsbury Town England 0 – 2 England Manchester City Shrewsbury, England
19:45 BST MCFC report
Guardian report		 Yellow card 42' Geovanni
81' Corradi
90' Dickov		 Stadium: New Meadow
Thomas Cook Trophy[edit]
4 August 2007 Manchester City England 0 – 1 Spain Valencia Manchester, England
15:00 BST Corradi Yellow card 74' M.E.N. report
Guardian report
Dailymotion video		 10' Silva
Yellow card 52' Angulo		 Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium
Attendance: 27,902
Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England)

Post-season[edit]

17 May 2008 Thai League All-Star XI Thailand 3 – 1 England Manchester City Bangkok, Thailand
17:00 (local time) Ney Fabiano 37'
Sripan 44'
Chanabut 73'		 MCFC report 22' Caicedo Stadium: Rajamangala National Stadium
Attendance: 25,000
22 May 2008 Hong Kong Invitational XI Hong Kong 3 – 1 England Manchester City Hong Kong, China
18:00 (local time) Giovane 27'
Festus 48'
Liang 71'		 MCFC report 15' Hamann Stadium: Hong Kong Stadium
Attendance: 20,000



Competitive games[edit]

Premier League[edit]

Position in final standings[edit]

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
7 Blackburn Rovers 38 15 13 10 50 48 +2 58
8 Portsmouth 38 16 9 13 48 40 +8 57 Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round[a]
9 Manchester City 38 15 10 13 45 53 −8 55 Qualification for the UEFA Cup first qualifying round[b]
10 West Ham United 38 13 10 15 42 50 −8 49
11 Tottenham Hotspur 38 11 13 14 66 61 +5 46 Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round[c]
Source: Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
For further information on European qualification see Premier League – Competition
Notes:
  1. ^ As FA Cup winners
  2. ^ Manchester City qualified as the highest-ranked team not already qualified for European competitions of Premier League Fair Play Ranking by The Football Association, the top association among UEFA Fair Play ranking winners.
  3. ^ As League Cup winners

Results summary[edit]

Overall Home Away
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L GF GA GD W D L GF GA GD
38 15 10 13 45 53  −8 55 11 4 4 28 20  +8 4 6 9 17 33  −16

Last updated: 11 May 2008 (end of season).
Source: Premier League results 2007-08



Results by round[edit]

Round1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738
GroundAHHAAHAHHHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHHAA
ResultWWWLLWDWWWLWDWDLWDDDWLDDLWLDLWDLLWWLLL
Updated to match(es) played on 11 May 2008. Source: Premier League results 2007-08
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Individual match reports[edit]

West Ham United England0 – 2England Manchester City
MCFC report Bianchi 18'
Geovanni 87'
Attendance: 34,921
Referee: Peter Walton
Manchester City England1 – 0England Derby County
Johnson 43' MCFC report
Attendance: 43,620
Referee: L. S. Mason
Manchester City England1 – 0England Manchester United
Geovanni 31' MCFC report
YouTube video
Attendance: 44,955
Arsenal England1 – 0England Manchester City
van Persie soccer ball with red X 66' (pen.)
Fàbregas 80'		 MCFC report
Attendance: 60,114
Referee: Chris Foy
Blackburn Rovers England1 – 0England Manchester City
McCarthy 13'
Tugay Yellow card 54' Yellow-red card		 MCFC report Dunne Yellow card 65' Red card
Attendance: 26,881
Referee: Mike Dean
Manchester City England1 – 0England Aston Villa
Johnson 48' MCFC report
Attendance: 38,363
Fulham England3 – 3England Manchester City
Davies 13'
Bouazza 48'
Murphy 74'		 MCFC report Petrov 36', 60'
Mpenza 50'
Attendance: 24,674
Referee: Mark Halsey
Manchester City England3 – 1England Newcastle United
Petrov 37'
Mpenza 47'
Elano 87'		 MCFC report Martins 29'
Attendance: 40,606
Referee: Chris Foy
Manchester City England3 – 1England Middlesbrough
Riggott 10' (o.g.)
Elano 33', 63'		 MCFC report Hutchinson 88'
Attendance: 40,438
Referee: Steve Bennett
Manchester City England1 – 0England Birmingham City
Elano 36' MCFC report
Attendance: 45,688
Referee: Mike Dean
Chelsea England6 – 0England Manchester City
Essien 16'
Drogba 31', 56'
Cole 60'
Kalou 75'
Shevchenko 90'		 MCFC report
Attendance: 41,832
Referee: Mike Riley
Manchester City England1 – 0England Sunderland
Ireland 66' MCFC report
Attendance: 40,038
Referee: Alan Wiley
Portsmouth England0 – 0England Manchester City
MCFC report
Attendance: 19,529
Referee: Mark Halsey
Manchester City England2 – 1England Reading
Petrov 11'
Ireland 90'		 MCFC report Harper 43'
Attendance: 43,813
Referee: Steve Tanner
Wigan Athletic England1 – 1England Manchester City
Scharner 24'
Melchiot Red card 88'		 MCFC report Geovanni 1'
Attendance: 18,614
Referee: Mike Riley
Tottenham Hotspur England2 – 1England Manchester City
Chimbonda 44'
Defoe 82'		 MCFC report Bianchi 60'
Ireland Red card 81'
Attendance: 35,646
Referee: Mark Halsey
Manchester City England4 – 2England Bolton Wanderers
Bianchi 7'
Michalík 48' (o.g.)
Vassell 77'
Etuhu 90'		 MCFC report Diouf 31'
Nolan 40'
Attendance: 40,506
Referee: P. Walton
Aston Villa England1 – 1England Manchester City
Carew 14' MCFC report Bianchi 11'
Attendance: 41,455
Referee: Lee Mason
Manchester City England2 – 2England Blackburn Rovers
Vassell 27'
Nelsen 30' (o.g.)		 MCFC report Santa Cruz 28', 84'
Attendance: 42,112
Referee: Howard Webb
Manchester City England0 – 0England Liverpool
MCFC report
Attendance: 47,321
Referee: Uriah Rennie
Newcastle United England0 – 2England Manchester City
MCFC report Elano 38'
Fernandes 76'
Attendance: 50,956
Everton England1 – 0England Manchester City
Lescott 31' MCFC report
Attendance: 38,474
Referee: Mark Halsey
Manchester City England1 – 1England West Ham United
Vassell 16' MCFC report Cole 8'
Attendance: 39,042
Referee: Phil Dowd
Derby County England1 – 1England Manchester City
Jihai 47' (o.g.) BBC Sport report
MCFC report		 Sturridge 63'
Attendance: 31,368
Referee: Steve Bennett
Manchester City England1 – 3England Arsenal
Fernandes 28' BBC Sport report
MCFC report		 Adebayor 9', 88'
Eduardo 26'
Attendance: 46,426
Manchester United England1 – 2England Manchester City
Carrick 90' BBC Sport report
MCFC report
MCFC video		 Vassell 24'
Benjani 45'
Attendance: 75,970
Referee: Howard Webb
Manchester City England0 – 2England Everton
Petrov Red card 90' BBC Sport report
MCFC report		 Yakubu 30'
Lescott 37'
Attendance: 41,728
Referee: Rob Styles
Manchester City England0 – 0England Wigan Athletic
BBC Sport report
MCFC report
Attendance: 38,261
Referee: Steve Bennett
Reading England2 – 0England Manchester City
Long 62'
Kitson 87'		 BBC Sport report
MCFC report)
Attendance: 24,062
Referee: Uriah Rennie
Manchester City England2 – 1England Tottenham Hotspur
Ireland 59'
Onuoha 71'		 BBC Sport report
MCFC report		 Keane 32'
Attendance: 40,108
Bolton Wanderers England0 – 0England Manchester City
MCFC report
Attendance: 22,633
Birmingham City England3 – 1England Manchester City
Zarate 40', 54'
Queudrue Red card 57'
McSheffrey 77' (pen.)		 BBC Sport report
MCFC report		 Elano 59' (pen.)
Attendance: 22,962
Referee: Rob Styles
Manchester City England0 – 2England Chelsea
BBC Sport report
MCFC report		 Dunne 6' (o.g.)
Kalou 53'
Attendance: 42,594
Referee: Chris Foy
Sunderland England1 – 2England Manchester City
Whitehead 82' BBC Sport report
MCFC report		 Elano 79' (pen.)
Vassell 87'
Attendance: 46,797
Referee: Mike Riley
Manchester City England3 – 1England Portsmouth
Vassell 11'
Petrov 13'
Benjani 74'		 BBC Sport report
MCFC report		 Utaka 24'
Hreiðarsson Red card 40'
Attendance: 40,205
Manchester City England2 – 3England Fulham
Ireland 10'
Benjani 21'		 BBC Sport report
MCFC report		 Kamara 69', 90'
Murphy 78'
Attendance: 43,634
Referee: Mike Dean
Liverpool England1 – 0England Manchester City
Torres 58' BBC Sport report
MCFC report
Attendance: 43,074
Referee: Mark Halsey
Middlesbrough England8 – 1England Manchester City
Downing 16' (pen), 58'
Alves 37', 60', 90'
Johnson 70'
Rochemback 80'
Aliadiere 85'		 BBC Sport report
MCFC report		 Dunne Red card 15'
Elano 88'
Attendance: 27,613
Referee: Phil Dowd


League Cup[edit]

Second Round[edit]

Bristol City England1 – 2England Manchester City
Orr 69' MCFC report Mpenza 17'
Bianchi 81'
Attendance: 14,541
Referee: R. Beeby

Third Round[edit]

Manchester City England1 – 0England Norwich City
Samaras 89' MCFC report
Attendance: 20,938

Fourth Round[edit]

Bolton Wanderers England0 – 1England Manchester City
MCFC report Elano 85' (pen.)
Attendance: 15,501
Referee: Howard Webb

Fifth Round[edit]

Manchester City England0 – 2England Tottenham Hotspur
MCFC report Defoe 5'
Zokora Red card 19'
Malbranque 83'
Attendance: 38,564
Referee: Steve Bennett


FA Cup[edit]

Third Round[edit]

West Ham United England0 – 0England Manchester City
MCFC report
Attendance: 33,806
Referee: Rob Styles
Third Round replay[edit]
Manchester City England1 – 0England West Ham United
Elano 73' MCFC report
Attendance: 27,809

Fourth Round[edit]

Sheffield United England2 – 1England Manchester City
Shelton 11'
Stead 24'		 MCFC report Sturridge 48'
Attendance: 20,800
Referee: Alan Wiley




Playing statistics[edit]

Appearances (Apps.) numbers are for appearances in competitive games only
Apps. numbers denote: Total no. of games played (No. of games subbed on, when applicable)
Red card numbers denote: No. of second yellow cards / No. of straight red cards

No. Pos. Player League FA Cup League Cup Total Discipline
Apps. Goals Apps. Goals Apps. Goals Apps. Goals
1 GK Sweden Andreas Isaksson 5 1 6
2 DF England Micah Richards (vc) 25 2 2 29 4
3 DF England Michael Ball 28 (9) 3 4 (1) 35 (10) 2
4 DF England Nedum Onuoha 16 (3) 1 2 3 (1) 21 (4) 1
Sold MF France Ousmane Dabo 1 (1) 1 (1)
6 MF England Michael Johnson 23 2 2 25 2 4
7 MF Republic of Ireland Stephen Ireland 33 (1) 4 3 (1) 3 39 (2) 4 2 - / 1
8 MF Brazil Geovanni 19 (17) 3 1 (1) 3 (1) 23 (19) 3 4
9 FW Belgium Émile Mpenza 15 (7) 2 1 2 (1) 1 18 (8) 3
10 FW Italy Rolando Bianchi 19 (12) 4 2 (2) 3 1 24 (14) 5
11 MF Brazil Elano 34 (5) 8 2 1 2 1 38 (5) 10 5
12 FW England Darius Vassell 27 (6) 6 3 2 (1) 32 (7) 6 3
14 FW Scotland Paul Dickov 1 (1) 1 (1)
15 MF Bulgaria Martin Petrov 34 5 3 1 38 5 2 - / 1
16 DF Croatia Vedran Ćorluka 37 (1) 3 3 43 (1) 5
17 DF China Sun Jihai 14 (7) 2 16 (7) 2
19 GK Denmark Kasper Schmeichel 7 7
20 FW Greece Georgios Samaras 5 (3) 2 1 7 (3) 1
21 MF Germany Dietmar Hamann 29 (3) 3 2 34 (3) 10
22 DF Republic of Ireland Richard Dunne (c) 36 3 3 42 4 - / 2
24 DF Spain Javier Garrido 27 (5) 2 29 (5) 4
25 GK England Joe Hart 26 3 3 32
27 FW Zimbabwe Benjani 13 (1) 3 13 (1) 3
28 MF Switzerland Gelson Fernandes 26 (5) 2 3 (2) 3 (1) 32 (8) 2 6
29 FW Bulgaria Valeri Bojinov 3 (2) 3 (2)
30 MF Mexico Nery Castillo 10 (8) 2 12 (8)
33 FW Wales Ched Evans 1 (1) 1 (1)
34 DF England Sam Williamson 1 (1) 1 (1) 1
36 FW England Daniel Sturridge 3 (1) 1 1 (1) 1 4 (2) 2
37 MF Nigeria Kelvin Etuhu 6 (4) 1 1 (1) 1 (1) 8 (6) 1 1
38 DF England Shaleum Logan 2 2
– FW Ecuador Felipe Caicedo 7 (7) 7 (7) 1
TOTALS 42 2 4 48 60 - / 4

Information current as of 11 May 2008 (end of season)

Last updated: 16 January 2011.
Source: (for players and positions) Season 2007-08 First Team Squad 00(for squad numbers) Season 2007-08 Squad Numbers 00(for actual stats.) All match Reports in Competitive games section above



Goal scorers[edit]

Information current as of 11 May 2008 (end of season)


Awards[edit]

Premier League awards[edit]

Awarded monthly to the player and manager that were chosen by a panel assembled by the Premier League's sponsor

Month Manager of the Month Player of the Month
August 2007 [4] Sweden Sven-Göran Eriksson England Micah Richards


Thomas Cook Player of the Month awards[edit]

Awarded to the player in each category that receives the most votes in a poll conducted each month on the MCFC OWS

Month First Team Reserve Team Academy
August/September [5] Germany Dietmar Hamann England Richard Martin England Scott Kay
October [6] Brazil Elano England Ashley Grimes England Ben Mee
November [7] Croatia Vedran Ćorluka England Javan Vidal England Kieran Trippier
December [8] Republic of Ireland Richard Dunne Republic of Ireland Karl Moore England David Ball
January [9] England Michael Ball not announced Slovakia Vladimír Weiss
February [9] England Joe Hart Republic of Ireland Paul Marshall England Greg Hartley
March [10] Switzerland Gelson Fernandes England Adam Clayton England Andrew Tutte
April [10] England Darius Vassell England Sam Williamson Slovakia Vladimír Weiss


Football Association of Ireland awards[edit]

Player Year 2007 awards [11]
Republic of Ireland Richard Dunne International Player of the Year
Republic of Ireland Stephen Ireland Young International Player of the Year


Official Supporters Club awards[edit]

Player Season 2007–08 awards [12]
Republic of Ireland Richard Dunne Player of the Year
England Joe Hart Young Player of the Year
England Ben Mee Most Promising Player of the Year



Transfers and loans[edit]

Transfers in[edit]

Transfers out[edit]

Loans in[edit]

Loans out[edit]


See also[edit]


References[edit]

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