Manchester United Fc

• 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.

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. The current manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, has won 37 major honours since he took over in November 1986.^[3][4]

Manchester United has won the most trophies in English football, including a record 19 league titles, a record 11 FA Cups,^[5]four League Cups and 19 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 1998–99, the club won a "Treble" of the Premier League, the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League, an unprecedented feat for an English club.

Manchester United is one of the wealthiest and most widely supported football teams in the world.^[6][7][8][9] As of July 2011, the club is number one in Forbes magazine's annual ranking of the world's 50 most valuable sports teams, valued at $1.86 billion.^[10] 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.^[11]

No. Position Player 1 GK David de Gea 3 DF Patrice Evra 4 DF Phil Jones 5 DF Rio Ferdinand 6 DF Jonny Evans 7 FW Michael Owen 8 MF Anderson 9 FW Dimitar Berbatov 10 FW Wayne Rooney 11 MF Ryan Giggs 12 DF Chris Smalling 13 MF Park Ji-Sung 14 FW Javier Hernández 15 DF Nemanja Vidić (captain) 16 MF Michael Carrick 17 MF Nani

No. Position Player 18 MF Ashley Young 19 FW Danny Welbeck 20 DF Fábio 21 DF Rafael 23 MF Tom Cleverley 24 MF Darren Fletcher 25 MF Antonio Valencia 27 FW Federico Macheda 28 MF Darron Gibson 29 GK Tomasz Kuszczak 32 FW Mame Biram Diouf 34 GK Anders Lindegaard 40 GK Ben Amos 42 MF Paul Pogba 49 MF Ravel Morrison 51 DF Ezekiel Fryers

Club officials

• Owner: Glazer family via Red Football Shareholder Limited^[134]
• Honorary president: Martin Edwards^[135]

Manchester United Limited

• Co-chairmen: Joel Glazer & Avram Glazer^[136]
• Chief executive: David Gill^[136]
• Chief operating officer: Michael Bolingbroke^[136]
• Commercial director: Richard Arnold^[137]
• Chief of Staff: Ed Woodward^[138]
• Non-executive directors: Bryan Glazer, Kevin Glazer, Edward Glazer & Darcie Glazer^[136]

Manchester United Football Club

• Directors: David Gill, Michael Edelson, Sir Bobby Charlton, Maurice Watkins^[138]
• Club secretary: John Alexander^[139]
• Global ambassador: Bryan Robson^[140]

Coaching and medical staff

• Manager: Sir Alex Ferguson^[141]
• Assistant manager: Mike Phelan^[142]
• First team coach: René Meulensteen^[143]
• Goalkeeping coach: Eric Steele^[144]
• Fitness coach: Tony Strudwick^[145]              

source : Wikipedia