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MANCHESTER, England, June 17, 2020, /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--

Twelve Month Global Campaign to Help Communities Get Back on Their Feet

- Campaign will mobilise CFG's nine clubs, thousands of staff, players, coaches

and millions of fans for recovery

- CFG has already committed close to Pounds 1m of donations, in-kind support

and loaning of facilities to COVID-19 emergency effort.

- Recovery campaign aims to deliver a minimum of another Pounds 1m of funding

and support, including backing nine recovery-linked projects near to each of

CFG's clubs

- The Group enables every member of staff to donate a day's work to volunteer

- Etihad donate front of shirt branding for first Manchester City game of

Premier League restart to promote campaign

City Football Group (CFG) has introduced Cityzens Giving For Recovery, a

12-month recovery campaign bringing together its nine clubs, thousands of

staff, players and coaches, and millions of fans, to help communities get back

on their feet.

CFG is the world's leading private owner and operator of football clubs. It is

best known for its ownership of English Premier League Champions, Manchester

City FC, and also comprises New York City FC in the US, Melbourne City FC in

Australia, J-League champions, Yokohama F. Marinos in Japan, Montevideo City

Torque in Uruguay, Girona FC in Spain, Sichuan Jiuniu FC in China, Mumbai City

FC in India and Lommel SK in Belgium.

CFG has been supporting the emergency COVID-19 response for the past three

months, through almost Pounds 1,000,000 of donations, in-kind support and

loaning of facilities.

As the Premier League season prepares to restart, CFG is now aiming to deliver

a minimum of another Pounds 1,000,000 of funding and support through Cityzens

Giving for Recovery, which will focus the Group's donations, expertise,

facilities, resources and voice, on making a positive difference to the

recovery of its communities globally.

CFG will action this through its clubs, its staff, its players, coaches and

fans. Many of the Group's partners will be supporting too, one of which is

Etihad Airways, which is helping to kick off the campaign by dedicating the

front of Manchester City's shirt, ordinarily bearing its company branding, to

"Cityzens Giving for Recovery" for the Club's first game of the Premier League

restart.  

CFG will be matching pound for pound, donations for the funding of nine

recovery-linked projects near to each of its clubs; an extension of the

traditional annual Cityzens Giving campaign.

The Group is also enabling every member of staff across its network to spend a

day volunteering, amounting to thousands of hours of giving. Fans can get

involved too, by donating to the projects, fundraising and submitting ideas to

help their communities which CFG may be able to support.

Ferran Soriano, Chief Executive of City Football Group, said:

"Front line workers around the world have heroically responded to the immediate

threat of COVID-19. At CFG, we have been privileged to play our own small part

in helping to address that immediate threat.

"Now is the time for us to look forward, committing to meeting our

responsibility to help our communities recover.

"For the first time, we are harnessing the global resources of our nine clubs,

our entire network of offices, staff, players and coaches to focus our efforts

on recovery.

"This multi-faceted campaign is going to use our expertise, our facilities, our

platform and our voice to help people and our communities to heal and recover.

And we will do it together. We are calling on our global community of Cityzens

to help us to give and to help as many people as we can to recover."

For more information about the Cityzens Giving For Recovery projects, please

visit www.cityzensgiving.org including terms and conditions for the matching

fund, which runs until 31st August 2020.

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SOURCE: City Football Group (CFG)