2022–23 Manchester City F.C. season
The 2022–23 season was the 128th season in the existence of Manchester City Football Club and their 21st consecutive season in the top flight of English football, where they were competing as two-time defending champions. In addition to the Premier League, Manchester City also participated in this season's editions of the FA Cup, EFL Cup, Community Shield and UEFA Champions League, entering the latter for the 12th consecutive season. The season was unusual in that the fixture dates of domestic and European competitions were altered to accommodate the FIFA World Cup played in November and December 2022 in Qatar.
| 2022–23 season | ||||
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Manchester City line up before facing Southampton at the Etihad, 8 October 2022 | ||||
| Owner | City Football Group | |||
| Chairman | Khaldoon Al Mubarak | |||
| Manager | Pep Guardiola | |||
| Stadium | Etihad Stadium | |||
| Premier League | 1st | |||
| FA Cup | Winners | |||
| EFL Cup | Quarter-finals | |||
| FA Community Shield | Runners-up | |||
| UEFA Champions League | Winners | |||
| Top goalscorer | League: Erling Haaland (36) All: Erling Haaland (52) | |||
| Highest home attendance | 53,490 v Chelsea 21 May 2023 (Premier League) | |||
| Lowest home attendance | 47,149 v Liverpool 22 December 2022 (EFL Cup) | |||
| Average home league attendance | 53,249 | |||
| Biggest win | 7–0 v RB Leipzig (Home) 14 March 2023 (UEFA Champions League) | |||
| Biggest defeat | 1–3 v Liverpool (Neutral) 30 July 2022 (FA Community Shield) 0–2 v Southampton (Away) 11 January 2023 (EFL Cup) | |||
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Manchester City kicked off the season by losing the Community Shield to Liverpool 1–3 and were knocked out of the EFL Cup by Southampton at the quarter-final stage in January 2023. On 20 May, City mathematically clinched their third consecutive Premier League title following an exciting title race with closest rivals Arsenal, who had been leading the standings for the large part of the season. On 3 June, City defeated rivals Manchester United 2–1 in the FA Cup final to win their second trophy of the season. Furthermore, the Blues had advanced to their second Champions League final in three years, where they defeated Inter Milan on 10 June in Istanbul to clinch the club's first-ever European Cup, their first European trophy since 1970, and complete only the second continental treble by an English men's team, after Manchester United in 1998–99. Manchester City ended the season topping the UEFA coefficient rankings.
One of this season's individual highlights were the goalscoring feats of City's new striker Erling Haaland in his debut season in English football. He broke several club, league, and European records after scoring 52 goals in his first 53 games at City, going on to win multiple individual awards, including the European Golden Shoe.
This was the first season since 2012–13 without former team captain Fernandinho, who left at the end of the previous season to return to Brazil, and the first since 2014–15 not to feature English forward Raheem Sterling, who moved to Chelsea in the summer of 2022.