2007–08 Manchester City F.C. season
2007-08 season | ||||
Owner & chairman | Thaksin Shinawatra | |||
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Manager | Sven-Göran Eriksson | |||
Stadium | City of Manchester Stadium | |||
Premier League | 9th | |||
FA Cup | Fourth round | |||
League Cup | Fifth round | |||
Top goalscorer |
League: Elano (8) All: Elano (10) | |||
Highest home attendance |
47,321 (vs. Liverpool, 30 December 2007) | |||
Lowest home attendance |
20,938 (vs. Norwich City, 25 September 2007) | |||
Average home league attendance | 42,126 | |||
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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
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
Supplier: Le Coq Sportif / Sponsor: Thomas Cook
Home
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Home alt
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Memorial
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Away
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Away alt.
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Third
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Third alt.
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Third alt. 2
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Goalkeeper 1
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Goalkeeper 2
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Goalkeeper 3
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Kit description
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 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. New goalkeeper strips, a two-tone green (solid light green shirt plus solid dark green shorts and socks) and an all-grey change, were introduced for this season.
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 was devoid of the pinstripes, contained no kit supplier or sponsorship logos and had a black ribbon on the right shoulder bearing '1958–2008', with 'Manchester remembers' underneath.[3]
Historical league performance
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).
Friendly games
Pre-season
14 July 2007 | Doncaster Rovers | 1 – 3 | Manchester City | Doncaster, England |
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15:00 BST | McDaid 17' | MCFC report | 48' Corradi 62' Richards 64' Mpenza |
Stadium: Keepmoat Stadium Attendance: 6,375 |
18 July 2007 | Örgryte IS | 1 – 4 | Manchester City | Varberg, Sweden |
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19:00 BST | Mwila 37' | MCFC report BBC Sport report YouTube video |
18' Bianchi 53' Corradi 61' Samaras 64' Logan 65' Fernandes 75' Dickov |
Stadium: Påskbergsvallen Attendance: 5,000+ |
21 July 2007 | Carlstad United | 0 – 4 | Manchester City | Karlstad, Sweden |
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15:00 BST | 52' (pen.) | MCFC report | 5' Corradi 20' 51' Bianchi 52' Richards 78' Laird |
Stadium: Tingvalla IP |
28 July 2007 | Sporting Charleroi | 2 – 0 | Manchester City | Charleroi, Belgium |
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18:00 BST | Oulmers 20' (pen.) Jovial 35' |
MCFC report M.E.N. report |
39' M. Mills | Stadium: Stade du Pays de Charleroi |
1 August 2007 | Shrewsbury Town | 0 – 2 | Manchester City | Shrewsbury, England |
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19:45 BST | MCFC report Guardian report |
42' Geovanni 81' Corradi 90' Dickov |
Stadium: New Meadow |
Thomas Cook Trophy
4 August 2007 | Manchester City | 0 – 1 | Valencia | Manchester, England |
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15:00 BST | Corradi 74' | M.E.N. report Guardian report Dailymotion video |
10' Silva 52' Angulo |
Stadium: City of Manchester Stadium Attendance: 27,902 Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England) |
Post-season
17 May 2008 | Thai League All-Star XI | 3 – 1 | Manchester City | Bangkok, Thailand |
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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 | 3 – 1 | Manchester City | Hong Kong, China |
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18:00 (local time) | Giovane 27' Festus 48' Liang 71' |
MCFC report | 15' Hamann | Stadium: Hong Kong Stadium Attendance: 20,000 |
Competitive games
Premier League
Position in final standings
Pos |
Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
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6 | Aston Villa | 38 | 17 | 13 | 8 | 66 | 61 | +5 | 64 |
7 | Blackburn Rovers | 38 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 50 | 48 | +2 | 58 |
8 | Portsmouth | 38 | 16 | 9 | 13 | 48 | 40 | +8 | 57 |
9 | Manchester City | 38 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 45 | 53 | −8 | 55 |
10 | West Ham United | 38 | 13 | 10 | 15 | 42 | 50 | −8 | 49 |
Updated to games played on 11 May 2008 (end of season).
Source: Premier League 2007-08
Rules for classification:
1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Results summary
Overall | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||
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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
Points breakdown
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Biggest & smallestBiggest home wins: 4–2 vs. Bolton Wanderers, 15 December 2007 |
Results by round
Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
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Ground | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | A |
Result | W | W | W | L | L | W | D | W | W | W | L | W | D | W | D | L | W | D | D | D | W | L | D | D | L | W | L | D | L | W | D | L | L | W | W | L | L | L |
Last updated: 11 May 2008.
Source: Premier League results 2007-08
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.
Individual match reports
2 September 2007 15:00 |
Blackburn Rovers | 1 – 0 | Manchester City |
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McCarthy 13' Tugay 54' |
MCFC report | Dunne 65' |
22 September 2007 15:00 |
Fulham | 3 – 3 | Manchester City |
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Davies 13' Bouazza 48' Murphy 74' |
MCFC report | Petrov 36', 60' Mpenza 50' |
29 September 2007 12:45 |
Manchester City | 3 – 1 | Newcastle United |
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Petrov 37' Mpenza 47' Elano 87' |
MCFC report | Martins 29' |
7 October 2007 15:00 |
Manchester City | 3 – 1 | Middlesbrough |
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Riggott 10' (o.g.) Elano 33', 63' |
MCFC report | Hutchinson 88' |
27 October 2007 15:00 |
Chelsea | 6 – 0 | Manchester City |
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Essien 16' Drogba 31', 56' Cole 60' Kalou 75' Shevchenko 90' |
MCFC report |
1 December 2007 15:00 |
Wigan Athletic | 1 – 1 | Manchester City |
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Scharner 24' Melchiot 88' |
MCFC report | Geovanni 1' |
9 December 2007 15:00 |
Tottenham Hotspur | 2 – 1 | Manchester City |
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Chimbonda 44' Defoe 82' |
MCFC report | Bianchi 60' Ireland 81' |
15 December 2007 15:00 |
Manchester City | 4 – 2 | Bolton Wanderers |
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Bianchi 7' Michalík 48' (o.g.) Vassell 77' Etuhu 90' |
MCFC report | Diouf 31' Nolan 40' |
27 December 2007 19:45 |
Manchester City | 2 – 2 | Blackburn Rovers |
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Vassell 27' Nelsen 30' (o.g.) |
MCFC report | Santa Cruz 28', 84' |
30 January 2008 19:45 |
Derby County | 1 – 1 | Manchester City |
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Jihai 47' (o.g.) | BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Sturridge 63' |
2 February 2008 12:45 |
Manchester City | 1 – 3 | Arsenal |
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Fernandes 28' | BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Adebayor 9', 88' Eduardo 26' |
10 February 2008 13:30 |
Manchester United | 1 – 2 | Manchester City |
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O'Shea 57' Carrick 90' |
BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Vassell 24' Benjani 45' |
25 February 2008 20:00 |
Manchester City | 0 – 2 | Everton |
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Petrov 90' | BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Yakubu 30' Lescott 37' |
16 March 2008 16:00 |
Manchester City | 2 – 1 | Tottenham Hotspur |
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Ireland 59' Onuoha 71' |
BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Keane 32' |
29 March 2008 15:00 |
Birmingham City | 3 – 1 | Manchester City |
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Zárate 40', 54' Queudrue 57' McSheffrey 77' (pen.) |
BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Elano 59' (pen.) |
5 April 2008 15:00 |
Manchester City | 0 – 2 | Chelsea |
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BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Dunne 6' (o.g.) Kalou 53' |
12 April 2008 15:00 |
Sunderland | 1 – 2 | Manchester City |
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Whitehead 82' | BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Elano 79' (pen.) Vassell 87' |
20 April 2008 16:00 |
Manchester City | 3 – 1 | Portsmouth |
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Vassell 11' Petrov 13' Benjani 74' |
BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Utaka 24' Hreiðarsson 40' |
26 April 2008 15:00 |
Manchester City | 2 – 3 | Fulham |
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Ireland 10' Benjani 21' |
BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Kamara 69', 90' Murphy 78' |
11 May 2008 15:00 |
Middlesbrough | 8 – 1 | Manchester City |
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Downing 16' (pen.), 58' Alves 37', 60', 90' Johnson 70' Rochemback 80' Aliadiere 85' |
BBC Sport report MCFC report |
Dunne 15' Elano 88' |
League Cup
Second round
Third round
Fourth round
Fifth Round
18 December 2007 19:45 |
Manchester City | 0 – 2 | Tottenham Hotspur |
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MCFC report | Defoe 5' Zokora 19' Malbranque 83' |
FA Cup
Third round
Third Round replay
Fourth round
27 January 2008 16:00 |
Sheffield United | 2 – 1 | Manchester City |
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Shelton 11' Stead 24' |
MCFC report | Sturridge 48' |
Playing statistics
Starting XI
Appearances (Apps.) numbers are for appearances in competitive games only
Information current as of 11 May 2008 (end of season)
Last updated: 16 January 2011. Goal scorers
Information current as of 11 May 2008 (end of season) AwardsPremier League awardsAwarded monthly to the player and manager that were chosen by a panel assembled by the Premier League's sponsor
Thomas Cook Player of the Month awardsAwarded to the player in each category that receives the most votes in a poll conducted each month on the MCFC OWS
Football Association of Ireland awards
Official Supporters Club awards
Transfers and loansTransfers in
Transfers out
Loans in
Loans out
See alsoReferences
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