Manchester United Football Club Reserves are the reserve team of Manchester United F.C. They play in the North section of the Premier Reserve League. They have been champions three times since the league’s inauguration in 1999; in 2002, 2005 & 2006. They also participate in the Manchester Senior Cup, although in recent years the teams entered in this competition have featured an increasing number of youth players.
The Academy
The academy is the core of the youth setup at Manchester United, 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 state-of-the-art Trafford Training Centre, a 70 acre site in the Manchester suburb of Carrington.
The academy comprises age-group teams ranging from Under-9′s up to the flagship Under-18′s, who currently compete in Group C of the Premier Academy League and in the FA Youth Cup (a tournament which they have won a record nine times). The Under-16′s and Under-18′s typically play their academy league games at 11am on Saturday mornings at Carrington, while Youth Cup games are generally played at either Hyde United’s Ewen Fields ground (where Manchester United’s reserve teams play their home games) or the club’s 76,000-capacity Old Trafford home, in order to cater for the greater number of supporters these fixtures attract.
Paul McGuinness is the head coach of the under 18s academy side. He was also in charge of the side that lost to Liverpool in the 2007 FA Youth Cup final.
In 2007 the Academy were the inaugural winners of the Champions Youth Cup, intended to be a Club World Championship for youth sides, beating Juventus 1–0 in the final in Malaysia.
Players of the Year
Prior to 1990, a single award was presented to the best young player of that season. After 1990, two separate awards were presented. The Young Player of the Year award is named after Jimmy Murphy, Sir Matt Busby’s long-time assistant manager, who died in 1989. Denzil Haroun was a former club director and the brother-in-law of former club chairman Louis Edwards.
The Coach
The most successful Manchester United Reserves coach has been René Meulensteen. Meulensteen won four of the five available reserve team trophies in the 2004–05 season – the Premier Reserve League North, the Central League North, the Central League Cup and the national play off between the winners of the Premier Reserve League North and the Premier Reserve League South. The team also finished as runners-up in the Manchester Senior Cup. Meulensteen followed this up in 2006 by leading the team once more to the Northern and National Premier Reserve League titles, and going one better in the Manchester Senior Cup.
The Manager
The current Reserve team manager is Ole Gunnar Solskjær, who was appointed in the summer of 2008 after working with the club’s first team strikers following his retirement from playing in August 2007. His assistant is Warren Joyce, who was previously the manager of Royal Antwerp, Manchester United’s feeder club in Belgium. Since November 2008, the reserves have played all of their home matches at Moss Lane in Altrincham, the home of Altrincham F.C. In previous seasons, the team has played at the Victoria Stadium, the home of Northwich Victoria, and Ewen Fields, the home of Hyde United.
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How many times Manchester United has won the UEFA champions league?
How many times, Manchester United has won the champions league?
Answer
Manchester United have won the European Cup (UEFA Champions’ League as i is known now) twice in 1968 & 1999.
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