City were confirmed as Premier League champions for the sixth time after coming from 2-0 down to beat Aston Villa 3-2 on the final day of the season.
Their latest triumph saw City move clear of Chelsea in terms of titles won.
Only Manchester United has been champions of England more times than City during the EPL era, which began with the 1992/93 season.
Here is a look at Manchester City’s titles in the new Premier League era.
*EPL 2011/2012 Season*
Manchester City won their first English Premier League trophy in 44 years in 2012 after defeating Queens Park Rangers 3-2 at Etihad Stadium on a dramatic final day of the season. The result pulled City ahead of Manchester United on goal difference.
Manchester City staged a dramatic fightback to win the English title with Sergio Aguero scoring the side’s second goal in stoppage time to clinch a 3-2 victory over Queens Park Rangers.
Aguero’s goal in the fourth minute of stoppage time snatched the trophy from holder Manchester United on goal difference. The 2010 champions had been top when its game at Sunderland ended in a 1-0 win.
Pablo Zabaleta had put City on course for the title with a 39th minute-goal, but Djibril Cisse leveled for QPR three minutes into the second half. City had a man advantage after QPR Captain Joey Barton was sent off in the 55th but Jamie Mackie managed to head the visitors in front. City’s expensively assembled squad had been facing its first loss at home since December 2010, but substitute Edin Dzeko sparked the recovery by heading in a corner in the second minute of stoppage time.
There was still time for one final moment of drama in an unpredictable season when Aguero drove home the winner.
As the final whistle blew, thousands of City fans poured onto the pitch and blue smoke wafted around the stadium.
City’s title came after more than a $1 billion of investment by Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Mansour, who took over the financially stricken club from ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in September 2008.
EPL 2013/2014 Season:
Man City overtook Liverpool to clinch their second Premier League crown in three years. A new dawn was upon the Premier League before the 2013/14 season started. The competition was without the most successful manager in British football history for the first time after Sir Alex Ferguson retired from his post at Manchester United, with David Moyes taking the helm.
Manchester City and Everton also had new managers in Manuel Pellegrini and Roberto Martinez, while a familiar face returned to Stamford Bridge with the self-styled “happy one” Jose Mourinho coming back for a second bite of the cherry at Chelsea. These changes created a heightened sense of expectation and intrigue as to how things would unfold in the Premier League and it did not disappoint.
Although pre-season favourites Manchester City were eventually crowned Premier League champions, how they came to win the title was far from a foregone conclusion. The league’s lead changed hands 25 times throughout the season, while the title, European places and relegation spots were all to play for going into the penultimate week of the campaign.
City’s nearest rivals came in the surprise form of Brendan Rodgers’ Liverpool. Having finished the previous campaign seventh, the Reds came within touching distance of their first top-flight title for 24 years with a scintillating brand of attacking football and a remarkable campaign for striker Luis Suarez, who netted 31 goals in the Premier League, a joint record for a 38-match season.
Managed by Pellegrini in his first season, Man City were only top of the table for 15 days during the season, but they made them count. The Citizens overtook Liverpool in Matchweek 37 and finished off a run of five consecutive wins with a 2-0 success against West Ham United at the Etihad Stadium in the final match to seal their second Premier League title.
*EPL 2017/2018 Season:*
Manchester City’s timing of clinching the title with four games to spare was one game short of equaling United’s record and two away from being the first team in Premier League history to clinch the title with six games left.
This new age of football at Manchester City made them a true contender in the Premier League since 2011.
With three titles in the bag, the club was now officially an English and European powerhouse. The title was the fifth overall top division win in the club’s history (1936-37, 1967-68, 2011-12, 2013-14, 2017-18).
*EPL 2018/2019 Season:*
Manchester City emerged champions in the English Premier League for the second successive season following their 4-1 demolition of Brighton in the final game for the 2018/19 season.
With the win by the Cityzens, they secured 98 points; one ahead of Liverpool who also won their final game of the season against Wolves.
City entered the clash at the Amex, one point clear of second-placed Liverpool, knowing that a victory over the Seagulls would see them become the first side to retain the Premier League title in 10 years.
Liverpool kept to their end of the bargain by beating Wolverhampton Wanderers at Anfield to move onto 97 points for the campaign, but City’s success saw them end on 98 points at the conclusion of a stunning title race.
*EPL 2019/2020 Season:*
Manchester City was crowned Premier League champions for a fifth time in 10 seasons, setting or matching several Premier League records on the way.
*Level with Chelsea:*
A fifth Premier League title moved Man City into joint-second with Chelsea, with both sides still some way behind the 13 of Manchester United.
*Lowest team at Christmas to win the league*
Man City the first team in Premier League history to claim the title after being as low as eighth on Christmas Day.
Only two teams in the competition’s history have been at least eight points behind the leaders at this stage and won the league: Arsenal in 1997/98 (13 pts), and Man Utd in 1995/96 (10).
*Winning run on the road*
City has won 11 straight PL away matches, equaling the all-time record across the top four tiers of English league football.
*Unbeaten sequence*
Man City enjoyed a 15-match winning run in the Premier League, ended by a 2-0 home defeat by Man Utd in March.
This winning streak has only been bettered on three occasions in the Premier League, with Liverpool and Man City both on 18, while the Reds also won 17 in a row in 2019.
*Guardiola joins elite managerial club*
Pep Guardiola is only the fourth manager to win three Premier League titles, along with Sir Alex Ferguson (13), Arsene Wenger and Jose Mourinho (three each).
*EPL 2021/2022 Season*
For the fourth time in five seasons, Manchester City reigned supreme atop the Premier League table—but it was far from easy.
Man City won another league title—by overcoming a late two-goal deficit with three goals in five historic minutes to defeat Aston Villa, 3–2, and hold off Liverpool’s charge on the final day of the season. It seemed as though City would lose the title after falling behind 2–0 to Villa, but everything changed when İlkay Gündoğan scored in the 76th minute. Two minutes later, Rodri equalized before Gündoğan added his second minutes later that ended up being the title-clincher.
Man City had left the door open for the Reds by drawing West Ham and dropping two vital points, and Jürgen Klopp’s men took it to the final day with a come-from-behind win at Southampton with a heavily rotated squad. But for the second time in four seasons, they finished one point short of first place.
The result ends Liverpool’s quest for what would have been a historic quadruple, with the club already having won the League Cup and FA Cup titles (beating Chelsea in penalty shootouts for both domestic trophies) while also advancing to the Champions League final.
For all of City’s domestic success, they have only won one trophy outside of England.
That was the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1970 when they beat Poland’s Gornik Zabrze in the final in Vienna.
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