Manchester United F.C. (Commonly abbreviated as Man Utd, Man United or just MU) is an English football club based at Old Trafford, Manchester.Formed as Newton Heath L & YR F.C. in 1878 as a football team of the Railway Company depot Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in Newton Heath, her name changed to Manchester United in 1902.Although always been one of the strongest teams in England, then since the 1993 Manchester United won a major dominance in the domestic championship under the direction of Sir Alex Ferguson - the dominance of a scale not seen since the end of the era of Liverpool FC in the mid-1970s and early 1980s. Since Crash era in the 1992 Premiership, Manchester United is the most successful team with championship trophies won eleven times.Although successful in the domestic competition, the success is still difficult to be repeated at the European championships, they only ever won the Champions League three times throughout its history (1968, 1999, 2008).Since the season 86-87, they have won 21 major trophies - this is the highest number of Premier League clubs of England. They have won 18 trophies English Premier League champions (including the time still called Division One). In 1968, they became the first English team won the European Champions League, after defeating SL Benfica 4-1, and they won the European Champions League for the second time in 1999 and again in 2008 after beating Chelsea FC in the final. They also hold the record for winning the FA Cup 11 times. [1] In 2008, they became the first British club and the club's second European who succeeded in becoming the FIFA Club World Champion.On May 12, 2005, the United States businessman Malcolm Glazer became majority owner of the club by buying shares worth £ 800 million (U.S. $ 1.47 billion), followed by protests from many fanatical supporters.
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