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Winners' and runners-up medals from Manchester United's UEFA Champions League final appearances in 2008, 2009 and 2011 Trophy cabinet of United on display in the Old Trafford museum. Manchester United's first trophy was the Manchester Cup, which they won as Newton Heath LYR in 1886. [3]
In 2010–11, Manchester United won their 19th top division title, passing Liverpool's previous record of 18, before winning a 20th title in 2012–13. In 2016–17, Manchester United won their first UEFA Europa League trophy, making them only the fifth club to win the three main European club competitions. [6]
Following their league title win the previous season, Manchester United first competed in European football competition in 1956–57. 1954–55 Football League winners Chelsea had been denied the opportunity to take part in the inaugural European Cup by The Football League's chairman Alan Hardaker, who feared that European football would damage the integrity of the English game.
With the ban on English clubs in European competitions now lifted after five years, the FA Cup success qualified the team to compete in the 1990–91 European Cup Winners' Cup; Manchester United reached the final, in which the club beat Barcelona 2–1 at De Kuip in Rotterdam, becoming the first English club to win a European trophy since the ...
Manchester United 2-0 Newcastle: Casemiro header and Sven Botman own goal help United win first trophy in six years
Manchester United is one of the most successful clubs in Europe in terms of trophies won. [271] The club's first trophy was the Manchester Cup, which they won as Newton Heath LYR in 1886. [272] In 1908, the club won their first league title, and won the FA Cup for the first time the following year.
In winning the trophy, Manchester United became the first English team to be crowned European champions since the Heysel Stadium disaster ban in 1985, which had resulted in English clubs being excluded from UEFA competitions for five years, and also the first team to achieve the treble of the Premier League, FA Cup, and European Cup in the same ...
This was Newcastle's first final since the 1999 FA Cup final, in which Manchester United defeated them 2–0. Newcastle were aiming to end one of the longest trophy droughts in English football, [ 5 ] with their last major honour being the 1968–69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup . [ 6 ]