Manchester United Football Club were formed in 1878 and were originally known as Newton Heath Football Club, before becoming MUFC on the 26th April 1902. Since 1902 Manchester United have won a wealth of titles and trophies. They have won the English league title 18 times, 7 of these being the old English division 1 title and 11 being the Premier League most recently for the 2008/09 season.
Man Utd have won the European Cup/Champions League 3 times and were the first English team to win the competition when they beat Benfica in 1958, they went on to win it again in 1999 and again in 2008 beating fellow English team Chelsea on penalties in Moscow.
The FA Cup is the world's oldest cup competition and Manchester United have won it 11 times, which is more than any other team, they last won the cup in 2004. Other honours include 3 League Cup Titles, 17 Community/Charity Shield's, 1 Cup Winners Cup, 1 UEFA Super Cup, 1 Intercontinental Cup and 1 Fifa World Club Cup.
Ryan Giggs has played more games for Manchester United than any other player and has played over 800 games for the club since making his debut in 1991. He is the only player to have scored in every season of the Premier League, and kept up the record for the 2008/09 Premier League season by scoring against West Ham United at Upton Park.
Denis Law scored the most goals in a season for Manchester United in a season when he scored 46 goals for the club in all competitions during the 1963/64 season, Dennis Violett scored the most league goals in a season when he netted 32 times during the 1959/60 campaign and more recently Cristiano Ronaldo scored the most goals in a 38 game league season during the 2007/08 Premier League winning campaign.
Sir Bobby Charlton has scored the most goals for Manchester United netting 249 times in his 758 appearances for Utd. The clubs second top striker is Denis Law who scored 237 times in his 404 appearances for the club.
United have always signed quality players in the transfer market as well as rearing their own players through their famous youth academies. The clubs record transfer fee is for Dimitar Berbatov who they signed for £31,000,000 from Tottenham Hotspur in 2008 before that the record signing was Rio Ferdinand who signed for the club from Leeds United in 2002.
United record win was 10-0 when they defeated Anderlecht in the European Cup in 1956 and the clubs record defeat is 7-0 and they have lost by that amount three times, most recently in 1931 to Wolverhampton Wanderers.
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