The Modern City · event 9 of 12

2002

The Commonwealth Games. Manchester hosts the Games after two failed Olympic bids, building a stadium in derelict east Manchester that becomes the Etihad the following year. It is the regeneration model the city has used ever since.

The The Modern City era

  1. 1917
  2. 1940
  3. 1948
  4. 1958
  5. 1976
  6. 1982
  7. 1992
  8. 1996
  9. 2002
  10. 2017
  11. 2023
  12. 2025

See the full timeline or read the history of Manchester.