Manchester United F.C. league record by opponent Manchester United F.C. league record by opponent Manchester United Football Club is an English association football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that competes in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902. During the 1889–90 season, Manchester United joined the Football Alliance. The team was elected to The Football League in 1892, where the club remained until 1992, when the League's First Division was replaced as the top level of English football by the Premier League. Manchester United's first team has competed in a
Manchester United F.C. Reserves and Academy back to the 1930s with the establishment of the Manchester United Junior Athletic Club (MUJAC). and has been responsible for producing some of Manchester United's greatest ever players, including the club's top five all-time appearance makers, Ryan Giggs, Bobby Charlton, Bill Foulkes, Paul Scholes and Gary Neville, and the new wave of home-grown talents known as "Fergie's Fledglings". The current academy is based at the club's Aon Training Complex, an site in the Manchester suburb of Carrington. The Manchester United youth team is statistically the most successful in English football, with nine players in the English football Hall of Fame