The 2005–06 season was Manchester City Football Club's fourth consecutive season playing in the Premier League, the top division of English football, and its ninth season since the Premier League was first created with Manchester City as one of its original 22 founding member clubs. Overall, it was the team's 114th season playing in a division of English football, most of which have been spent in the top flight.
Season review
Team kit
For this season the shirt sponsor for all of the club's kits continued to be the previous season's sponsor, Thomas Cook, while the team kits were produced by the previous season's supplier, Reebok.
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 of the old Football League First Division. ImageSize = width:600 height:75 PlotArea = left:12 right:12 bottom:30 top:10 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyy DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:01/07/1991 till:01/07/2005 ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:1 start:1992 Colors = id:fdm value:rgb id:plm value:rgb id:plr value:rgb id:d1p value:rgb id:d1p value:rgb id:d1m value:rgb id:d1r value:rgb id:d2p value:rgb id:pro value:rgb id:rel value:rgb PlotData= bar:Position width:18 color:white align:center from:01/07/1991 till:01/07/1992 Shift: text:5 from:01/07/1992 till:01/07/1993 shift: text:9 from:01/07/1993 till:01/07/1994 shift: text:16 from:01/07/1994 till:01/07/1995 shift: text:17 from:01/07/1995 till:01/07/1996 shift: text:18 from:01/07/1996 till:01/07/1997 shift: text:14 from:01/07/1997 till:01/07/1998 shift: text:22 from:01/07/1998 till:01/07/1999 shift: text:3 from:01/07/1999 till:01/07/2000 shift: text:2 from:01/07/2000 till:01/07/2001 shift: text:18 from:01/07/2001 till:01/07/2002 shift: text:1 from:01/07/2002 till:01/07/2003 shift: text:9 from:01/07/2003 till:01/07/2004 shift: text:16 from:01/07/2004 till:01/07/2005 shift: text:8 from:01/07/1991 till:01/07/1992 color:fdm shift: text: "First Div." from:01/07/1992 till:01/07/1995 color:plm shift: text: "Premier League" from:01/07/1995 till:01/07/1996 color:plr shift: from:01/07/1996 till:01/07/1997 color:d1m shift: text: "Division 1" from:01/07/1997 till:01/07/1998 color:d1r shift: from:01/07/1998 till:01/07/1999 color:d2p shift: text: "Div. 2" from:01/07/1999 till:01/07/2000 color:d1p shift: text: "Div. 1" from:01/07/2000 till:01/07/2001 color:plr shift: text: "PL" from:01/07/2001 till:01/07/2002 color:d1p shift: text: "Div. 1" from:01/07/2002 till:01/07/2005 color:plm shift: text: "Premier League"
Friendly games
Pre-season
Premier League Asia Trophy
Thomas Cook Trophy
Competitive games
Premier League
Position in final standings
Results summary
Points breakdown
Points at home: 29 Points away from home: 14 Points against "Big Four" teams: 4 Points against promoted teams: 9
& vs. Blackburn Rovers, 7 May 2006 Biggest home attendance: 47,192 vs. Manchester United, 14 January 2006 Smallest home attendance: 40,256 vs. Middlesbrough, 2 April 2006 Biggest away attendance: 67,839 vs. Manchester United, 10 September 2005 Smallest away attendance: 19,556 vs. Portsmouth, 11 March 2006
