Manchester United Football Club

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Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club

based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The club


currently play in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.
Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club
changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old
Trafford in 1910.
Manchester United have won 20 league titles, the most of any English
club, 11 FA Cups, four League Cups and a record 20 FA Community
Shields. The club has also won three European Cups, one UEFA Cup
Winners' Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, one Intercontinental Cup and
one FIFA Club World Cup. In 199899, the club achieved a treble of
the Premier League, the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League.
The 1958 Munich air disaster claimed the lives of eight players. In
1968, under the management of Matt Busby, Manchester United was
the first English football club to win the European Cup. Alex Ferguson
won 28 major honours between 1986 and 2013,
Manchester United is the second-richest football club in the world for
201314 in terms of revenue, with an annual revenue of 518 million,

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