Manchester United F.C.

Full name	Manchester United Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Red Devils
Short name	MUFC
Founded	1878; 138 years ago, as Newton Heath LYR F.C. 1902; 114 years ago, as Manchester United F.C.
Ground	Old Trafford
Capacity	75,653
Owner	Manchester United PLC
Co-chairmen	Joel  and  Avram Glazer
Manager	Jose Mourinho
League	Premier League
2015-2016	Premier League, 5th

Manchester United Football Club is a professional  Football club based in  Old Trafford, Greater     Manchester England, that competes in the  Premier League, the top flight of English Football Nicknamed "the Red Devils", the club was founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to its current stadium , Old Trafford , in 1910.

Manchester United have won a record 20  league titles , a joint-record 12  FA cups, four Leauge  Cups and a record 20  FA Community shields. The club has also won three  Europeans  Cups, one UEFA Cup winner, one UEFA super cup one intercontinental cup and one  FIFA club world cup. In 1998-1999, the club became the first in the history of English football to achieve the 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  Busby , Manchester United became the first English football club to win the European Cup.  Alex Ferguson won 38 trophies, including 13 Premier League titles, 5 FA Cups and 2 UEFA Champions Leagues, between 1986 and 2013, when he announced his retirement.  jose Mourinho, is the club's current manager, having been appointed on 27 May 2016.

Manchester United was the second-highest earning  football club in the world for 2013–14, with an annual revenue of €518 million,  and the world's third most valuable football club in 2015, valued at $1.98 billion. As of June 2015, it is the world's most valuable football brand, estimated to be worth $1.2 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 by  Malcolm Glazer in May 2005 in a deal valuing the club at almost £800 million, after which the company was taken private again. In August 2012, Manchester United made an  initial public offering on the  New Year Stock Exchange. The club holds several rivalries, most notably with  Liverpool,Manchester city and  Leeds  United, and more recently with Arsenal.

Crest and colours

The club crest is derived from the Manchester city coat of council Arms,although all that remains of it on the current crest is the ship in full sail. The devil stems from the club's nickname "The Red Devils"; it was included on club programmes and scarves in the 1960s, and incorporated into the club crest in 1970, although the crest was not included on the chest of the shirt until 1971 (unless the team was playing in a Cup Final).

Newton Heath's uniform in 1879, four years before the club played its first competitive match, has been documented as 'white with blue cord'. A photograph of the Newton Heath team, taken in 1892, is believed to show the players wearing red-and-white quartered jerseys and navy blue  Knickerbockers, Between 1894–96, the players wore distinctive green and gold jerseys which were replaced in 1896 by white shirts, which were worn with navy blue shorts.

After the name change in 1902, the club colours were changed to red shirts, white shorts, and black socks, which has become the standard Manchester United home kit. Very few changes were made to the kit until 1922 when the club adopted white shirts bearing a deep red "V" around the neck, similar to the shirt worn in the  1909 FA cup final. They remained part of their home kits until 1927.For a period in 1934, the cherry and white hooped change shirt became the home colours, but the following season the red shirt was recalled after the club's lowest ever league placing of 20th in the Second Division and the hooped shirt dropped back to being the change. The black socks were changed to white from 1959 to 1965, where they were replaced with red socks up until 1971, when the club reverted to black. Black shorts and/or white socks are sometimes worn with the home strip, most often in away games, if there is a clash with the opponent's kit. The current home kit is a red shirt with a white v-neck collar with black and red trim, the trademark Adidas  three stripes going along the shoulders and sleeves with a space to accommodate sleeve patches, and white cuffs.

The Manchester United away strip has often been a white shirt, black shorts and white socks, but there have been several exceptions. These include an all-black strip with blue and gold trimmings between 1993 and 1995, the navy blue shirt with silver horizontal pinstripes worn during the 1999–2000 season, and the 2011–12 away kit, which had a royal blue body and sleeves with hoops made of small midnight navy blue and black stripes, with black shorts and blue socks.An all-grey away kit worn during the 1995–96 season was dropped after just five games, most notoriously against Southampton where Alex Ferguson forced the team to change into the third kit during half-time of its final outing. The reason for dropping it being that the players claimed to have trouble finding their team-mates against the crowd, United failed to win a competitive game in the kit.In 2001, to celebrate 100 years as "Manchester United", a reversible white/gold away kit was released, although the actual match day shirts were not reversible.

The club's third kit is often all-blue, this was most recently the case during the 2014–15 season. Exceptions include a green-and-gold halved shirt worn between 1992 and 1994, a blue-and-white striped shirt worn during the 1994–95 and 1995–96 seasons and once in 1996–97, an all-black kit worn during the Treble-winning 1998–99 season, and a white shirt with black-and-red horizontal pinstripes worn between 2003 and 2005. Since 2006–07, the third kit has usually been the previous season's away kit, the exceptions being the 2008–09 and 2014–15 seasons.

 Alex Ferguson managed the team between 1986 and 2013.

Honours

Manchester United are one of the most successful clubs in Europe.The club's first trophy was the Manchester Cup, which it won as Newton Heath LYR in 1886. In 1908, the club won its first league title, and won the  FA Cup for the first time the following year. Manchester United won the most trophies in the 1990s; five league titles, four FA Cups, one  League Cup, five  charity shields  (one shared), one  UEFA Champions League, one  UEFA cup  winners cup, one UEFA super cup and one Intercontinental cup.

The club holds the record for most top-division titles (20) – including a record 13 Premier League titles – FA Cups (12) and FA Community Shields (20). It was also the first English club to win the  European  Cup in 1968 and as of 2016 is the only British club to have won the Club World Cup, in 2008. United also became the sole British club to win the Intercontinental Cup in 1999. The club's most recent trophy came in May 2016 with the  2015-16 FA cup.

The only major honour that Manchester United has never won is the UEFA Europa League although the team reached the quarter-finals in 1984–85 and the semi-finals of the competition's precursor tournament, the  Inter-cities fair cup, in 1964–65.

Domestic

League

• First Division(until 1992) and Premier League: 20
  • 1907–08, 1910–11, 1951–52, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1964–65, 1966–67, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2012–13 (record)
• Second Division: 2
  • 1935–36, 1974–75

Cups

• FA Cup: 12
  • 1908–09, 1947–48, 1962–63, 1976–77, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1989–90, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1998–99, 2003–04, 2015–16 (shared record)
• League Cup: 4
  • 1991–92, 2005–06, 2008–09, 2009–10
• FA Charity/Community Shield: 20 (16 outright, 4 shared)
  • 1908, 1911, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1965*, 1967*, 1977*, 1983, 1990*, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013 (* shared) (record)

European

• European Cup/UEFA Champions League: 3
  • 1967–68, 1998–99, 2007–08
• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1
  • 1990–91
• UEFA Super Cup: 1
  • 1991

Worldwide

• Intercontinental Cup: 1
  • 1999
• FIFA Club World Cup: 1
  • 2008

Doubles and Trebles

• Doubles:
  • League and FA Cup: 2
    • 1993–94, 1995–96
  • League and League Cup: 1
    • 2008–09
  • European Double (League and European Cup): 1
    • 2007–08
• "The Treble" (League, FA Cup and European Cup): 1
• 1998–99  
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