Manchester United F.C.

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Manchester United
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Full Name Manchster United Football Club
Nickname(s) The Red Devils
Founded 1878
Ground Old Trafford
(capacity 75,765)
Owner Joey Zyla
Manager Joey Zyla
League Premier League
2015/16 N/A


Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the F1 Rejects Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.

Manchester United has won many trophies in English football, including a record 19 league titles, a record 11 FA Cups, four League Cups and a record 19 FA Community Shields. The club has also won three European Cups, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, one Intercontinental Cup and one FIFA Club World Cup. In 1998–99, the club won a Treble of the Premier League, the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League, an unprecedented feat for an English club.

After the collapse of BSkyB and the Premier League's subsequent acquisition by the Reject World Race Series, Portuguese business DPT Asset Management acquired the club in 2015.