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Manchester Derby:
The Manchester derby refers to football matches between Manchester City and Manchester United, first contested in 1881. City play at the Etihad Stadium and United at Old Trafford.City and United have the two highest record home attendances in the history of English football – City in 1934 and United in 1948, played at Maine Road due to damage to Old Trafford during the SecondWorld War. Financially, both clubs' combined 2010 revenue of £410m (City – £125 million[1] and United – £286 million) makes up nearly a quarter of the twenty-team Premier League revenue alone.8.3 million people watched the first leg of the 2009–10 League Cup semi-final on television and over 10 million the 2010–11 FA Cup semi-final on terrestrial television.[5]
In the 2011–12 season, ManchesterCity won the Premier League and Manchester United the FA Community Shield. The last meeting, the 163rd Manchester derby, was a Premier League match at the Etihad Stadium which City won 1–0.
The firstmeeting between the two teams occurred on 12 November 1881, when West Gorton (St. Marks) – who would later become Manchester City F.C. – hosted Newton Heath – who would later become Manchester UnitedF.C... The game finished 3–0 in favour of the Heathens (United), and was described by the Ashton Reporter as "a pleasant game". At this time, the clubs were just two of many fledgling sides in theManchester area, and the fixture had no special significance. Both clubs grew in stature as the 1880s progressed, leading to their first meeting of the 1890s being billed as "a meeting of two localclubs, [Ardwick (City)] just rising to the highest standard in the football world whilst [Newton Heath] are nearly in the front rank". The pair became the dominant teams in the Manchester area; the winnerof the Manchester Cup was either Newton Heath or Ardwick every year between 1888 and 1893. Both teams joined the Football Alliance, a short-lived rival to the Football League. During this period...