Coventry City Football Club
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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 | Mark Robins |
| League | League One |
| 2015–16 | League One, 8th |
| Website | www |
Coventry City Football Club is a professional football club in Coventry, West Midlands, England, which plays in League One, the third tier of English football. Following relegation, Coventry will play in League Two in 2017–18.
Coventry City formed as Singers F.C. in 1883 and 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. They are one of only five clubs to have ever won the FA Cup and FA Youth Cup in the same season and they also reached two Football League Cup semi-finals, in 1981 and 1990. They returned to Wembley in April 2017, beating Oxford United 2-1 to win the English Football League Trophy.
The club, 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 in the English top flight prior to their relegation in 2001. Following eleven seasons in the second-tier Football League Championship, Coventry were relegated to League One in 2012, the first time at that level since 1964, and were subsequently relegated to League Two in 2017, the first time at that level since 1959.
Coventry have qualified for European competitions twice. In the 1970–71 season, they 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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