Melbourne City Football Club is a professional football club based in Cranbourne East, Melbourne, Australia, that plays in the A-League, the top level of Australian football, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL).
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. In August 2015, City Football Group bought out the Holding M.S. Australia consortium to have 100% ownership of the club.
Since forming in 2009, Melbourne City has claimed one A-League premiership and championship (both in 2020–21) and one FFA Cup title (in 2016).
Melbourne City is run from the City Football Academy, a facility in the northern suburb of Bundoora near La Trobe University. 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 National Youth League and the third division of the NPL Victoria league, and a senior women's team which competes in the W-League.
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