This is the first meeting in any competition between Manchester City and Coventry City since March 2002 in the second tier, won 4-2 at Maine Road by the Citizens under Kevin Keegan.

The last season Man City and Coventry met in the Premier League was 2000-01, when both sides were relegated. The Citizens are winless in their last eight top-flight games against the Sky Blues (D4 L4) since doing the double in 1992-93.