2011–12 Manchester City F.C. season
Exit Date Pos No Player To club Transfer fee
1 June 2011 FW 20 Felipe Caicedo Lokomotiv Moscow £9.5 million
1 June 2011 MF 24 Patrick Vieira Unattached Retired
14 July 2011 DF 17 Jérôme Boateng Bayern Munich £12.5 million
18 July 2011 GK 1 Shay Given Aston Villa £7 million
20 July 2011 FW 27 Jô Internacional £8 million
31 August 2011 FW 39 Craig Bellamy Liverpool Free
31 August 2011 MF 8 Shaun Wright-Phillips Queens Park Rangers £6 million
26 January 2012 DF Nedum Onuoha Queens Park Rangers £4 million
The 2011-12 season was Manchester City Football Club's 110th season of football, its tenth consecutive season in the Premier League, and its fifteenth season in the Premier League. The club also played in the UEFA Champions League for only the second time, and the first time since its rebranding from being the European Cup, after finishing third in the 2010-11 Premier League. Manchester City's U19 squad will play in the inaugural tournament of the NextGen series. Manchester City won the English first division title for the third time in history and the first time in 44 years by beating Queens Park Rangers 3-2 on the final day of the season, coming back from being down 2-1 with two stoppage-time goals just before the final whistle. The championship marked City's first English title since 1968, as well as the first time the Premier League has been won by a club whose current spell in the top division began after the League commenced play. It is also the first Premier League title to be decided on goal difference, and City's game-winning goal against QPR came 15 seconds after City's cross-town rivals Manchester United had just defeated Sunderland 1-0.