( CNN ) -- Vincent Kompany has signed a new six-year contract with Manchester City -- the longest contract offered to a player in the club 's history . It is unusual for players to be offered more than five years for a contract , but the 26-year-old Belgian has been a key figure for City and captained the club to their first league title in 44 years last season . `` For me if you are good somewhere then there is no reason to look elsewhere . Man City as a project is not just a project of the owners or the people employed by the club ; it is also my project , '' Kompany told the club 's website . `` I have been here since the beginning and I have seen everything at the club change inside and out , '' added Kompany , who joined the club in 2008 from Hamburg SV for $ 9.25m . `` It is good to know that I can be at City for another six years . It is a compliment that the club feels so highly of me . '' Using Facebook to bounty-hunt football 's 'disappeared ' players . The Belgian international , who was captain when City won the FA Cup in 2011 , was selected in the Professional Footballers ' Association Team of the Year last season , alongside teammates David Silva , Joe Hart and Yaya Toure . `` Our title win was amazing and one of the best feelings ever for us and the fans , '' said Kompany , reflecting on City 's Premier League triumph , that was only confirmed in stoppage-time after Sergio Aguero 's winner in the 3-2 victory against QPR . `` That last game against QPR will be a very special part of City 's history for the next 50 or 100 years but now is the time to look forward . '' `` We have laid the foundations and now we want to win more . If we do that then we can be one of the most successful clubs for a long time to come and that is the aim . ''
Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany has played 127 times for the club since arriving in 2008 . Kompany has won the FA Cup and the Premier League with City . The former Arsenal midfielder is a regular starter at international level having represented his country on three occasions - winning Euro 2012 as well as playing against England during their 2014 World Cup campaign - but he was Last season Kompany was voted Premier League Player of the Season .