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Alex Ferguson Managed The Team Between 1986 and 2013

Alex Ferguson managed Manchester United between 1986 and 2013, guiding the club to unprecedented success including 13 Premier League titles. Ryan Giggs holds the record for most decorated player in English football history after spending his entire career with Manchester United. Under Ferguson, Manchester United won their first league title in 1993 since 1967 and claimed a historic treble by winning the Premier League, FA Cup, and UEFA Champions League in 1999, coming from behind in injury time in the Champions League final to beat Bayern Munich.

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Alex Ferguson Managed The Team Between 1986 and 2013

Alex Ferguson managed Manchester United between 1986 and 2013, guiding the club to unprecedented success including 13 Premier League titles. Ryan Giggs holds the record for most decorated player in English football history after spending his entire career with Manchester United. Under Ferguson, Manchester United won their first league title in 1993 since 1967 and claimed a historic treble by winning the Premier League, FA Cup, and UEFA Champions League in 1999, coming from behind in injury time in the Champions League final to beat Bayern Munich.

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Alex Ferguson managed the

team between 1986 and


2013.
Ryan Giggs is the most
decorated player in English
football history.
[45]
Alex Ferguson and his assistant Archie Knox arrived from Aberdeen on the day of Atkinson's dismissal,
[40]
and guided
the club to an 11th-place finish in the league.
[41]
Despite a second-place finish in 198788, the club was back in 11th
place the following season.
[42]
Reportedly on the verge of being dismissed, victory over Crystal Palace in the 1990 FA
Cup Final replay (after a 33 draw) saved Ferguson's career.
[43][44]
The following season, Manchester United claimed
its first Cup Winners' Cup title and competed in the 1991 UEFA Super Cup, beating European Cup holders Red Star
Belgrade 10 in the final at Old Trafford. A second consecutive League Cup final appearance followed in 1992, in
which the team beat Nottingham Forest 10 at Wembley.
[39]
In 1993, the club won its first league title since 1967, and
a year later, for the first time since 1957, it won a second consecutive title alongside the FA Cup to complete the
first "Double" in the club's history.
[39]
In the 199899 season, Manchester United became the first team to win the Premier
League, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League "The Treble" in the same
season.
[46]
Losing 10 going into injury time in the 1999 UEFA Champions League
Final, Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjr scored late goals to claim a
dramatic victory over Bayern Munich, in what is considered one of the greatest
comebacks of all time.
[47]
The club also won the Intercontinental Cup after beating Palmeiras 10 in Tokyo.
[48]
Ferguson was subsequently knighted for his services to football.
[49]
Manchester United won the league again in the 19992000 and 200001 seasons. The team finished third in 200102,
before regaining the title in 200203. They won the 200304 FA Cup, beating Millwall 30 in the final at the
Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
[50]
In the 200506 season, Manchester United failed to qualify for the knockout phase
of the UEFA Champions League for the first time in over a decade, but recovered to secure a second-place league
finish and victory over Wigan Athletic in the 2006 Football League Cup Final. The club regained the Premier League in
the 200607 and 200708 seasons, and completed the European double by beating Chelsea 65 on penalties in the
2008 UEFA Champions League Final in Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium. Ryan Giggs made a record 759th appearance
for the club in this game, overtaking previous record holder Bobby Charlton.
[51]
In December 2008, the club won the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup and
followed this with the 200809 Football League Cup, and its third successive Premier League title.
[52][53]
That summer, Cristiano Ronaldo was sold to
Real Madrid for a world record 80 million.
[54]
In 2010, Manchester United defeated Aston Villa 21 at Wembley to retain the League Cup, its first
successful defence of a knockout cup competition.
[55]
After finishing as runner-up to Chelsea in the 200910 season, United achieved a record 19th league title in 201011, securing the championship with a
11 away draw against Blackburn Rovers on 14 May 2011.
[56]

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