Manchester United Football Club is an English football club, based at Old Trafford stadium in Trafford, Greater Manchester, and is without doubt the most popular football club in the world, [2] with more than 330 million fans from around the world [ 3] [4] - nearly 5% of the world's population. [5] The club was a founding member of the Premier League in 1992 and has played in the top division of English football since 1938, with the exception of the 1974-75 season. Average attendance at the club have been higher than any other team in English football for all but six seasons since 1964-65. [6]
The club is the second most successful in the history of English football and by far the most successful of recent times, after winning 20 major honours since the beginning of Alex Ferguson's reign as manager in November 1986. [7] They are Premier League champions reign, and England have won the top division 17 times, one short of Liverpool's record 18 league titles. In 1968, they became the first English club to win the Cup in Europe, beating SL Benfica 4-1. They won a second European Cup as part of an unprecedented treble in 1999, before winning their third in 2008, 40 years, almost to the day after their first. The club also holds the record for most FA Cup with 11 titles. [8]
Since the late 1990, the club was one of the richest in the world with the highest income of any football club, [9] and is currently ranked as the richest and most valuable football club, with a value of £ 897 million (€ 1,333 million / $ 1.8 billion) from May 2008. [10] Manchester United was a founding member of the defunct G-14 group of Europe on the first football clubs and its replacement, the Association of European clubs.
Sir Alex Ferguson was manager of the club since November 6, 1986. The current club captain is Gary Neville, who succeeded Roy Keane in November 2005.
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