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Provenance manifest: Manchester City found guilty of financial fair play breaches

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0:00 · Title

1Guardian reporting, 25–28 September 2026

0:02 · How it got here

2How it got here

3A process a decade in the making

42015

5Football Leaks: millions of private documents made public

6Dec 2018

7The Premier League opens its investigation

8Feb 2023

9City are charged with more than 100 rule breaches

10Sept 2024

11Hearings begin before an independent commission

0:02 · How it got here · narration

12The Premier League’s inquiry is believed to have been inspired by leaked documents.

0:08 · Friday 25 September

13Fri 25 Sept

14News breaks: City are found guilty of the vast majority of more than 100 charges

15They face possible relegation, or expulsion from the Premier League

16City deny wrongdoing and are expected to appeal

17More than 100 charges

0:08 · Friday 25 September · narration

18Now City have been found guilty.

0:11 · What City won in those seasons

19In the seasons the charges cover, City won

202009-10 to 2022-23

217 Premier League titles

226 League Cups

233 FA Cups

241 Champions League

0:14 · City’s response

25“The Premier League process remains ongoing”

26A Manchester City spokesperson

27City deny wrongdoing and are expected to appeal

0:14 · City’s response · narration

28City deny wrongdoing.

0:17 · Saturday 26 September

29Sat 26 Sept

30“Nothing has changed”

31Khaldoon al-Mubarak, City chair

0:18 · Reported 27 September

32Reported 27 Sept

33Tony Pulis says his Stoke side were “cheated” in the 2011 FA Cup final

34City won that final 1–0

0:21 · Reported 28 September

35Reported 28 Sept

36The charges include alleged failures to give accurate details of player and manager payments

37“Manchester City is not guilty and the fact of having a double contract isn’t my problem but theirs, probably”

38Roberto Mancini, former City manager

0:27 · End card

39Drawn from Guardian journalism

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40Thirty seconds on how a process a decade in the making reached a guilty verdict, and what the club, its former manager and a beaten FA Cup finalist said next.

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