Manchester United Football Club is an English football club, based at the Old Trafford stadium in Trafford, Greater Manchester, and are one of the most popular sports clubs in the world, with over 50 million supporters worldwide.Manchester United are one of the most successful clubs in English football and are second only to Liverpool F.C. in terms of trophies won by an English club. They have won the Premier League/Football League 16 times (most recently in the 2006-07 season), the FA Cup a record 11 times, the League Cup twice, the European Cup / UEFA Champions League twice, the UEFA Cup Winners Cup once, the Intercontinental Cup once, and the European Super Cup once.The club has had the highest average attendance in English football for the past 34 seasons, with the exception of 1987-89.Among European clubs, they have been perennial revenue leaders for the late 1990s and early 2000s, and they are still the fourth richest (in terms of revenue) in the world. Since 1991, the club had been run as a public limited company, with an attempted takeover by Rupert Murdoch in 1998 blocked by the British Government.During the late 1990s, the club's value floated to a peak of £1 billion, making a takeover unlikely. However, in May 2005 Malcolm Glazer completed a hostile takeover of the club and de-listed it from the stock exchange The current club captain of Manchester United is Gary Neville, who took over from Roy Keane on 16 November 2005.
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