Coventry City F.C.
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| Full name | Coventry City Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Sky Blues |
| Founded | 13 August 1883 (as Singers F.C.) |
| Ground | Ricoh Arena |
| Capacity | 32,609 |
| Owner | Otium Entertainment Group (subsidiary of SISU) |
| Chairman | Tim Fisher |
| Manager | Russell Slade |
| League | League One |
| 2015–16 | League One, 8th |
| Website | Club home page |
Coventry City Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Coventry, West Midlands, England. The team compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system.
Coventry City, which was formed as Singers F.C. in 1883, joined the Football League in 1919. They won their only major trophy in 1987 when they beat Tottenham Hotspur 3–2 to win the FA Cup in a match listed by the FA as one of the twelve classic FA Cup Finals. They are one of only five clubs to have ever won the FA Cup and FA Youth Cup 'double' in the same season and they also reached two Football League Cup semi-finals: in 1981 and 1990. They returned to Wembley in 2017 after reaching the English Football League Trophy final.
The club, which is nicknamed The Sky Blues because of the colour of their strip, was an inaugural member of the Premier League in 1992 and had spent 34 consecutive seasons (since 1967) in the English top flight prior to their relegation in 2001. Following eleven seasons in the second-tier Football League Championship without any significant success, Coventry were relegated to Football League One in 2012, the first time in 48 years that the club played in the English league system's third tier.
Coventry have qualified for European competitions twice. In the 1970–71 season the club competed in the European Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (now the UEFA Europa League), reaching the second round. Despite beating Bayern Munich 2–1 in their home leg, they had lost 1–6 in the first leg in Munich to go out of the competition. They were unable to compete in the 1987–88 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup due to the ban on English clubs at that time.
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