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Melbourne City FC
Association football club in Victoria, Australia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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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; 15 years ago (2009-06-12) (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 | |||
2023–24 | 6th of 12 | |||
Website | Club website | |||
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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.