Manchester United F.C.
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Manchester United Football Club is a football club that plays in England. It plays at Old Trafford Football Ground which is in Greater Manchester, near the city of Manchester.
Manchester United is very succesful club. They have won the BARCLAYS Premier League (Or the old Division 1) 17 times. 1 behind Liverpool FC. The club are current champions of the league and are reigning champions of Europe. This is because United have just recently won the UEFA Champions League for a third time. They have also won the FA cup 11 times, and the legue cup 2 times. They are also raining champions of the FA McDonalds Community Sheild.
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[change] History
The club started as Newton Heath (L&YR) F.C. in 1878. All of the team worked at Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway depot at Newton Heath. After nearly closing in 1902, John Henry Davies took over and changed the club's name to Manchester United. Manchester United made Matt Busby their manager after the Second World War. Matt Busby used the youth team to get new players, and this was very successful. The club won the Football League in 1956 and 1957. The success was stopped by the Munich air disaster in 1958. Eight of the club's players died. It was thought that the club might close, but it didn't, and won the football league in 1965 and 1967, and the European Cup in 1968.
The club did not do well again until the 1990s and 2000s, when Alex Ferguson became manager. He won the club ten league victories in 21 years, most recently in the 2007-08 season. In 1999, Manchester United became the only team to win the UEFA Champions League, FA Premier League and the FA Cup in the same season. The club had been a Public Limited Company since 1991, and an attempted takeover by Rupert Murdoch had been blocked by the British Government in 1999, but in 2005 Malcolm Glazer completed a hostile takeover of the club. When this happened fans formed FC United of Manchester. When Manchester United sold star player Davidd Beckham in 2003, they began to search for a player to take his place, and the team convinced Sir Alex Ferguson to buy Cristiano Ronaldo.
[change] Notable Players
These are notable players who once played for Manchester and players who still do.
- Eric Cantona
- Fabian Barthez
- Peter Schmichel
- Ryan Giggs
- David Beckham
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Ruud van Nistelrooy
- Wayne Rooney
- Paul Scholes
- Gary Neville
- Edwin van der Sar
- Bobby Charlton
- Andy Cole
- Phil Neville
- Nicky Butt
- Gabriel Heinze
- Rio Ferdinand
- Michael Carrick
- Ole Gunnar Solskjær
- George Best
- Roy Keane
- Duncan Edwards
- George Best
- Dennis Law
- Mark Hughes
- Steve Bruce
- Bryan Robson
- Denis Irwin
[change] Club Records
- Record League victory: 10-1 v Wolves, Division 1, 15 October 1892
- Record Premiership victory: 9-0 v Ipswich Town, 4 March 1995
- Record European Cup victory: 10-0 v Anderlecht, European Champion Clubs' Cup, Preliminary Round, 26 September 1956
- Record European Cup (Champions League era) victory: 7-1 v AS Roma, 10 April 2007
- Record home win 10-0 v Anderlecht, 26 September 1956
- Record away win: 8-1 v Nottingham Forest, 6 February 1999
- Record League defeat: 0-7 v Blackburn Rovers, Division 1, 10 April 1926 / v Aston Villa, Division 1, 27 December 1930 / v Wolves, Division 2, 26 December 1931
- Record Cup defeat: 1-7 v Burnley, FA Cup, 1st Round, 13 February 1901
- Record 'Home' attendance: 83,250 v Arsenal, Division 1, Maine Road, 7 January 1948
- Record League attendance (at Old Trafford): 76, 998 v Arsenal, April 2008
- Longest unbeaten run : 45 (all competitions), 24 December 1998 to 3 October 1999
- Most appearances : 757 Ryan Giggs
- Most League appearances: 606 - Bobby Charlton
- Most goals scored : 247 - Bobby Charlton
- Most League goals: 199 - Bobby Charlton
- Most League goals in a season: 32 - Dennis Viollet, Division 1, 1959-60
- Most goals in a season in all competitions: 46 - Denis Law, 1963-64
- Most goals scored in a match: 6 - George Best v Northampton Town, 7 February 1970 / Harold Halse v Swindon Town, 25 September 1911
- Most goals scored in European competition: 38 - Ruud van Nistelrooy
- Goals in consecutive league matches: 10 consecutive matches - Ruud van Nistelrooy, 22 March 2003 to 23 August 2003
- Highest transfer fee paid: £32.13 million - Wayne Rooney, 2006[33] (includes £300k in agents fees)
- Most League goals in a season (by team): 103 1956/57, 1958/59
- Most points in a 42-game season: 92 - 1993/94
- Most points in a 38-game Season: 91 - 1999/2000
- Most capped player: 129 - Peter Schmeichel - Denmark
- Fastest goal: 15 seconds - Ryan Giggs v Southampton, Premiership, 18 November 1995
- Fastest four goals: 13 minutes - Ole Gunnar Solskjær v Nottingham Forest, Premiership, 6 February 1999[34]
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