Manchester United Football
Club is
an English professional football club,
based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier
League. 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 many trophies in English football, including a record 20 League titles, a record 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, oneIntercontinental Cup and one FIFA Club World Cup. In 1998–99, the club won a continental treble of the Premier League, the FA Cup and
the UEFA Champions League, an unprecedented feat for an English club.
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, and 38 in
total, from November 1986 to May 2013, when
he announced his retirement after 26 years at the club. Fellow Scot David Moyes was appointed as his replacement on 9
May 2013.
Manchester United is
the third-richest football club in the world for 2011–12 in terms of
revenue, with an annual revenue of €395.9 million, and thesecond most valuable club in 2013, valued at $3.165 billion. It
is one of the most widely supported football teams in the world. After being floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1991, the club was purchased byMalcolm
Glazer in May 2005 in
a deal valuing the club at almost £800 million. In August 2012, Manchester United made
an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange
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