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Full name : Manchester United Football Club
Nickname(s) : The Red Devils
Founded : 1878, as Newton Heath L&YR F.C.
Ground : Old Trafford(Capacity: 76,212)
Owner :Malcolm Glazer
Co-chairmen : Joel & Avram Glazer
Manager : Alex Ferguson

Manchester United F.C. (usually abbreviated Man Utd, Man United or just MU) is an English football club based in Old Trafford, Manchester.


Formed as Newton Heath Lyr F.C. on the 1878 football team as a depot Railroad Company and the Lancashire Yorkshire Railway in Newton Heath, the name changed to become Manchester United in 1902.

Even though the first has been included since one of the most powerful team in the UK, the Manchester United since 1993 to reach the dominance of the domestic championship under the direction Sir Alex Ferguson - the scale of dominance not seen since the end of the era of Liverpool FC in the mid-1970s and early 1980s. Since bergulirnya era in the 1992 Premiership, Manchester United is the most successful team with eleven-time champion jockey tropi.

Despite success in the domestic competition, success is still difficult to be repeated in the European championship, their only champion ever to reach the Champions League three times throughout its history (1968, 1999, 2008).

MU became one of the most successful club in the UK; since 86-87 season, they have 21 trofi big - this is the amount that most of the clubs UEFA Main UK. They have won 18 League champion trofi Main UK (including the time still called Division One). In 1968, they became the first British team that successfully wins European Champions League, after defeat SL Benfica 4-1, and won their European Champions League for the second time in 1999 and again in 2008 after the defeat Chelsea FC in the final. They also hold the record FA Cup win as many as 11 times. [1] In 2008, they became the first English club and the second European club to be successful Antarklub FIFA World Champion.

On May 12, 2005, the United States became the owner Malcolm Glazer purchased the club with the majority of shares worth £ 800 million (U.S. $ 1.47 billion) over the protests of many of the fanatical supporters.

History

* Early years (1878–1945)
* The Busby years (1945–1969)
* 1969–1986
* Alex Ferguson era, pre-Treble (1986–1998)
* The Treble (1998–99)
* After the Treble (1999–present)