Coventry City FC is an  English football league club otherwise known as the Sky Blues owing to the traditional colour of their strip, was founded in 1883 by employees of Singers cycle firm.  Ten years later, the club turned professional after a very successful season (1891-92) in which three separate cups were won (The Birmingham Cup, The Wednesbury Cup and The Walsall Cup). From 1899 to 2005, Coventry City played at the Highfield Road stadium.  The club was elected to Football League Division Two immediately after the First World War. For 12 years Coventry fought against relegation before finally being demoted to Division Three (North)  in 1925. A year later they were transferred to the southern section and they remained there until 1936 when they gained promotion to the Second Divison. They retained their place in the second tier of English football until 1952 when they were relegated back into Division Three (South) and in 1958 were placed in Division Four when the regional divisions were scrapped.  Promotion was achieved in the first season and the introduction of a new continental-style all sky blue kit (making Coventry the first team to play in matching shorts and shirts) and the new nickname the 'Sky Blues' in 1962 was the start of a revolution at Coventry City aided by investment by chairman Derrick Robins. They finished the 1966-67 season as Division Two Champions under the management of Jimmy Hill. 

The club would remain in the top flight of English football for the next thirty-four years and were founding members of the FA Premier League in 1992. Their only major trophy came in 1987 when they beat Tottenham Hotspur 3-2 to win the FA Cup, considered to be one of best Cup Finals of all time.  After numerous relegation battles the club were relegated on 5 May 2001.   They played in the Championship, the second-highest tier of the English league system, until the end of the 2011-12 season  when they were relegated to League One (the third tier of English football) having gone into administration with debts of £30m (incurring a ten-point penalty). In 2005 the club had left its old Highfield Road Stadium and moved to the Rioch Arena.  A bitter row over back rent with Coventry City Council who owned the Arena led to the club being sold by SISU (a City hedge fund) the Otium Entertainment Group who announced, to the fury of supporters, that their home games would be played at Northampton Town's Sixfields Stadium until 2016.  Things finally took a turn for the better when the club was promoted to the third tier of English footballfollowing promotion via the playoffs from League Two in the 2017–18 season.  The 2019-20 campaign, suspended because of the COVID pandemic, saw the final league postions determined using a points-per game system.  This saw Coventry promoted to the Championship as League One champions.