Manchester United Football Club

Nickname(s): The Red Devils, United, Man U Founded: 1878, as Newton Heath LYR FC Stadium: Old Trafford Capacity: 76,312 Chairman: Joel & Avram Glazer Manager: Sir Alex Ferguson League: Premier League 2006??€�07: Premier League, 1st

Club Presentation
Manchester United is an English football club, located in Manchester at the Old Trafford stadium. Man U can be presented as England’s most known and most loved football club, totalising over 55 million supporters on the globe. The Red Devils have won this years Premiership title and currently they are represented by historic Sir Alex Ferguson and football’s new sensation, Cristiano Ronaldo.
United has the highest number of fans in the Premiership scoring every season the highest match attendance average.

Facts and Figures
Financially the club had the highest revenue from all football clubs for a few seasons in a row in the late 1990s and early 2000s. David Beckham contributed to this success of course. As of last year Manchester United was bought by Joel & Avram Glazer. This move was accepted with some reticence by the fans and the two American brothers still have to prove that they want to make performance and not only a business out of the Old Trafford based club.
The Red Devils are also founding members of the G14 association, which is build by Europe’s most powerful football clubs.
As said above Sir Alex Ferguson is Manchester United’s manager and he “owns” this position since the 6th of November 1986. That would make 21 years soon, incredible performance and consistence for Alex Ferguson, who became a Sir as a gratitude for his performance with the Red Devils.

Actual Manchester United squad

1. Van der Sar, 2. Neville, 3. Evra, 4. Heinze, 5. Ferdinand, 6. Brown, 7. Ronaldo, 8. Rooney, 9. Saha, 11. Giggs, 13. Park , 14. Smith, 15. Vidic, 16. Carrick, 18. Scholes, 19. Rossi, 20. Solskajer, 21. Dong, 22. O’Shea, 23. Richardson

Awards and Trophies
United is one of the most prestigious English club. They won the Premiership 16 times and they summarize a total of 18 major trophies in the last 20 years. They second Liverpool FC in the overall English clubs trophy standings.
Other trophies won by Manchester United are:
- FA Cup 11 times,
- the League Cup two times,
- the Uefa Champions League twice and the UEFA Cup once
- the Intercontinental Cup and European Super Cup once

Manchester United Records
Most appearances
1. Sir Bobby Charlton (1956 – 1973), 759, 249 (goals)
2. Ryan Giggs (1991 – present), 716, 140 (goals)
3. Bill Foulkes (1952 – 1970), 688, 9 (goals)
4. Gary Neville (1992 – present), 540, 7 (goals)
5. Alex Stepney (1966 – 1978), 539, 2 (goals)

Most Goals
1. Sir Bobby Charlton (1956 – 1973), 759, 249, 0.328 (goal/game ratio)
2. Denis Law (1962 – 1973), 404, 237, 0.587 (goal/game ratio)
3. Jack Rowley (1937 – 1955), 424, 212, 0.500 (goal/game ratio)
4.= Dennis Viollet (1953 – 1962), 293, 179, 0.611 (goal/game ratio)
4.= George Best (1963 – 1974), 470, 179, 0.381 (goal/game ratio)

Latest Captains
1982-1994 - Bryan Robson - Longest-serving captain in United’s history
1991-1996 - Steve Bruce - Co-captain with Bryan Robson from 1991 to 1994
1996-1997 - Eric Cantona - First United captain from outside British Isles
1997-2005 - Roy Keane - Won more trophies than any other United captain
2005-present - Gary Neville - First club captain to be born in Greater Manchester since Roger Byrne

Manchester United Photos