Man Utd Soccer Team
Manchester United F.C. (often
abbreviated to Man United or just Man U, pronounced man-yoo)
is an English football club based at Old Trafford in Greater
Manchester.
Formed as Newton Heath LYR F.C. in 1878, as
the works team of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway depot
at Newton Heath, becoming Manchester United on 28 April 1902.
Traditionally one of the larger and most-supported
clubs in England, Manchester United, under manager Sir Alex
Ferguson achieved a degree of dominance in domestic competitions
in the 1990s unseen since the great Liverpool F.C. sides of
the mid 1970s and early 1980s. This culminated in 1999, with
the club winning an unprecedented treble of the English Premier
League, FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League.
In 2004, Manchester United qualified for the
group stage of the Champions League for the ninth successive
year, breaking a record held by Norway's Rosenborg. Manchester
United have been largely unable to transfer their domestic
dominance to European competition; in fact qualifying for
the European Cup final on only two occasions in their history.
Their last success in this competition was in
1999, when they came from behind in the last minutes of the
UEFA Champions League final to beat Bayern Munich 2-1. Although
their dominance in English football is considered by some
to be over, Manchester United is still the most financially
successful club in England, due to its supporter base, which
reaches all around the world. Manchester United is particularly
popular in Asia.
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