Club History
Manchester United Football Club is an
English football club, based at the Old Trafford stadium in Trafford,
Greater Manchester, and is arguably the most popular football club in
the world, with over 330 million supporters worldwide. The club was a
founding member of the Premier League in 1992, and has played in the
top division of English football since 1975.
The club is the second most
successful in the history of English football and by far the most
successful of recent times, having won 19 major honours since the start
of Alex Ferguson's reign as manager in November 1986. They are the
Premier League's reigning champions, and have won the Premier
League/Football League 17 times, one short of Liverpool's record 18
league titles. In 1968, they became the first English club to win the
European Cup, beating S.L. Benfica 4–1, and they won a second European
Cup in 1999. They also hold the record for the most FA Cup titles with
11.
Since the late 1990s, the club has been one of the richest in the world
with the highest revenue of any football club, and is currently ranked
as the richest and most valuable club in football, and indeed any
sport, with a value of £897 million (€1,333 mil / $1,800 mil) as
of May 2008. Manchester Sir Alex Ferguson has been manager of the club
since 6 November 1986.