Founded in 1878 as Newton Heath L&YR Football Club, the club has operated for over 140 years. The team first entered the English First Division, then the highest league in English football, for the start of the 1892-93 season. The club name changed to Manchester United Football Club in 1902, and we won the first of our 20 English League titles in 1908. In 1910, we moved to Old Trafford, our current stadium.
The Newton Heath L&YR Football Club in 1893
Appointed as manager in 1945, Matt Busby built a team with an average age of just 22 nicknamed the
Busby Babes that won successive league titles in the 1950s and became the first English club to compete in the European Cup.
Eight players were killed in the Munich air disaster, but Busby rebuilt the team around star players George Best, Denis Law and Bobby Charlton – known as the United Trinity.
They won two more league titles before becoming the first English club to win the European Cup in 1968.
Plane that crashed in the 1958 Munich Air crash
the arrival of Alex Ferguson, who became the club's longest-serving and most successful manager, winning 38 trophies including 13 league titles, five FA Cups and two Champions League titles between 1986 and 2013.
In the 1998–99 season, under Ferguson, the club became the first in the history of English football to achieve the continental treble of the Premier League, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League
Sir Alex Ferguson holding the premier league after winning in 2008
On 21 April 2022, Erik ten Hag was appointed as the manager from the end of the 2021–22 season, signing a contract until June 2025 with the option of extending for a further year. Under Ten Hag, Manchester United won the 2022–23 EFL Cup,
defeating Newcastle United in the final to end their longest period without a trophy since a six-year span between 1977 and 1983.On 5 March 2023, the club suffered their joint-heaviest defeat, losing 7–0 to rivals Liverpool at Anfield.
At the end of the following season, the club finished eighth in the Premier League, their lowest league finish since 1989–90, but went on to beat cross-city rivals Manchester City 2–1 in the FA Cup final, their 13th FA Cup title.
Erik Ten Hag (left) holding the carabao cup with Sir Alex Ferguson (right)
