United 10/11

The 2010–11 season was Manchester United’s 19th season in the Premier League and their 36th consecutive season in the top-flight of English football. It was the first season with new shirt sponsors Aon after four seasons with AIG.
United began the season by beating Chelsea 3–1 at Wembley on 8 August 2010 to claim the Community Shield.
A successful defence of the League Cup would have seen them become only the second team to win the competition for a third successive season, after Liverpool in 1983 (who then went on to win a fourth in 1984). However, their stranglehold on the tournament was broken by West Ham United, who sent an understrength Reds side crashing to a 4–0 defeat at Upton Park in the Fifth Round on 30 November 2010.
On 19 December 2010, Sir Alex Ferguson became the longest-serving manager in Manchester United’s history, overtaking Sir Matt Busby’s record of 24 years, 1 month and 13 days in charge of the club.
On 1 February 2011, United equalled the club record league unbeaten run of 29 matches, after a 3–1 win over Aston Villa at Old Trafford. They failed to extend the run however, succumbing to a 2–1 defeat against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux on 5 February 2011. This was their first league defeat since 3 April 2010, a 2–1 home defeat by Chelsea. United came close to becoming the first top-flight side in 119 years to win every single home league match during the season, but a draw at home to West Bromwich Albion early in the campaign cost them that status. Their exceptional form at Old Trafford was key to United’s eventual title victory, as their away form was surprisingly mediocre, with just five league wins away from home all season.
United also reached the semi-final stage of the 2010–11 FA Cup but lost 1–0 at Wembley to Manchester City on 16 April 2011 – and their opponents went on to win the trophy. Defeat in this game ended United’s chances of becoming the first club to win the league and cup double four times.
On 14 May 2011, after a 1–1 draw to Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park, United broke the English League title record by winning their 19th title, surpassing Liverpool’s record of 18 titles, which they equalled in the 2008–09 season. This is the first time United have held the outright record in their history.
They also competed in the Champions League for the 15th season in a row, and contested the Final with Barcelona on 28 May 2011, but they lost 3–1.

Pre-season and friendlies

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance
16 July 2010	Celtic	N	3–1	Berbatov 34′, Welbeck 79′, Cleverley 86′	39,139
21 July 2010	Philadelphia Union	A	1–0	Obertan 76′	44,213
25 July 2010	Kansas City Wizards	N	1–2	Berbatov 41′ (pen.)	52,424
28 July 2010	MLS All-Stars	N	5–2	Macheda (2) 1′, 13′, Gibson 70′, Cleverley 73′, Hernández 84′	70,728
30 July 2010	Guadalajara	A	2–3	Smalling 10′, Nani 79′
4 August 2010	Airtricity League XI	N	7–1	Park (2) 13′, 63′, Owen 25′, Hernández 47′, Valencia 60′, J. Evans 69′, Nani 82′ (pen.)	49,861
24 May 2011	Juventus	H	1–2	Rooney 19′

FA Community Shield

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance
8 August 2010	Chelsea	N	3–1	Valencia 41′, Hernández 76′, Berbatov 90+2′	84,623

Premier League

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance	League position
16 August 2010	Newcastle United	H	3–0	Berbatov 33′, Fletcher 41′, Giggs 85′	75,221	4th
22 August 2010	Fulham	A	2–2	Scholes 11′, Hangeland 84′ (o.g.)	25,643	3rd
28 August 2010	West Ham United	H	3–0	Rooney 33′ (pen.), Nani 50′, Berbatov 69′	75,061	3rd
11 September 2010	Everton	A	3–3	Fletcher 43′, Vidić 47′, Berbatov 66′	36,556	3rd
19 September 2010	Liverpool	H	3–2	Berbatov (3) 42′, 59′, 84′	75,213	3rd
26 September 2010	Bolton Wanderers	A	2–2	Nani 23′, Owen 74′	23,926	2nd
2 October 2010	Sunderland	A	0–0		41,709	3rd
16 October 2010	West Bromwich Albion	H	2–2	Hernández 5′, Nani 25′	75,272	3rd
24 October 2010	Stoke City	A	2–1	Hernández (2) 27′, 86′	27,372	3rd
30 October 2010	Tottenham Hotspur	H	2–0	Vidić 31′, Nani 84′	75,223	3rd
6 November 2010	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	2–1	Park (2) 45′, 90+3′	75,285	2nd
10 November 2010	Manchester City	A	0–0		47,679	2nd
13 November 2010	Aston Villa	A	2–2	Macheda 81′, Vidić 85′	40,073	3rd
20 November 2010	Wigan Athletic	H	2–0	Evra 45+1′, Hernández 77′	74,181	2nd
27 November 2010	Blackburn Rovers	H	7–1	Berbatov (5) 2′, 27′, 47′, 62′, 70′, Park 23′, Nani 48′	74,850	1st
13 December 2010	Arsenal	H	1–0	Park 41′	75,227	1st
26 December 2010	Sunderland	H	2–0	Berbatov 5′, A. Ferdinand 57′ (o.g.)	75,269	1st
28 December 2010	Birmingham City	A	1–1	Berbatov 58′	28,242	1st
1 January 2011	West Bromwich Albion	A	2–1	Rooney 3′, Hernández 75′	25,499	1st
4 January 2011	Stoke City	H	2–1	Hernández 27′, Nani 62′	73,401	1st
16 January 2011	Tottenham Hotspur	A	0–0		35,828	1st
22 January 2011	Birmingham City	H	5–0	Berbatov (3) 2′, 31′, 53′, Giggs 45+2′, Nani 76′	75,326	1st
25 January 2011	Blackpool	A	3–2	Berbatov (2) 72′, 88′, Hernández 74′	15,574	1st
1 February 2011	Aston Villa	H	3–1	Rooney (2) 1′, 45+1′, Vidić 63′	75,256	1st
5 February 2011	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	1–2	Nani 3′	28,811	1st
12 February 2011	Manchester City	H	2–1	Nani 41′, Rooney 78′	75,322	1st
26 February 2011	Wigan Athletic	A	4–0	Hernández (2) 17′, 74′, Rooney 84′, Fábio 87′	18,140	1st
1 March 2011	Chelsea	A	1–2	Rooney 29′	41,825	1st
6 March 2011	Liverpool	A	1–3	Hernández 90+2′	44,753	1st
19 March 2011	Bolton Wanderers	H	1–0	Berbatov 88′	75,486	1st
2 April 2011	West Ham United	A	4–2	Rooney (3) 65′, 73′, 79′ (pen.), Hernández 84′	34,546	1st
9 April 2011	Fulham	H	2–0	Berbatov 12′, Valencia 32′	75,339	1st
19 April 2011	Newcastle United	A	0–0		49,025	1st
23 April 2011	Everton	H	1–0	Hernández 84′	75,300	1st
1 May 2011	Arsenal	A	0–1		60,107	1st
8 May 2011	Chelsea	H	2–1	Hernández 1′, Vidić 23′	75,445	1st
14 May 2011	Blackburn Rovers	A	1–1	Rooney 73′ (pen.)	29,867	1st
22 May 2011	Blackpool	H	4–2	Park 21′, Anderson 62′, Evatt 74′ (o.g.), Owen 81′	75,400	1st

Pos	Club	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Manchester United	38	23	11	4	78	37	+41	80
2	Chelsea	38	21	8	9	69	33	+36	71
3	Manchester City	38	21	8	9	60	33	+27	71

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

FA Cup

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance
9 January 2011	Round 3	Liverpool	H	1–0	Giggs 2′ (pen.)	74,727
29 January 2011	Round 4	Southampton	A	2–1	Owen 65′, Hernández 75′	28,792
19 February 2011	Round 5	Crawley Town	H	1–0	Brown 28′	74,778
12 March 2011	Round 6	Arsenal	H	2–0	Fábio 28′, Rooney 49′	74,693
16 April 2011	Semi-final	Manchester City	N	0–1		86,549

League Cup

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance
22 September 2010	Round 3	Scunthorpe United	A	5–2	Gibson 23′, Smalling 36′, Owen (2) 49′, 71′, Park 54′	9,077
26 October 2010	Round 4	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	3–2	Bébé 56′, Park 70′, Hernández 90′	46,083
30 November 2010	Round 5	West Ham United	A	0–4		33,551

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Group position
14 September 2010	Rangers	H	0–0		74,408	2nd
29 September 2010	Valencia	A	1–0	Hernández 85′	34,946	1st
20 October 2010	Bursaspor	H	1–0	Nani 7′	72,610	1st
2 November 2010	Bursaspor	A	3–0	Fletcher 48′, Obertan 73′, Bébé 77′	19,050	1st
24 November 2010	Rangers	A	1–0	Rooney 87′ (pen.)	49,764	1st
7 December 2010	Valencia	H	1–1	Anderson 62′	74,513	1st

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Manchester United	6	4	2	0	7	1	+6	14
Valencia	6	3	2	1	15	4	+11	11
Rangers	6	1	3	2	3	6	−3	6
Bursaspor	6	0	1	5	2	16	−14	1

Knockout phase

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance
23 February 2011	First knockout round First leg	Marseille	A	0–0		57,957
15 March 2011	First knockout round Second leg	Marseille	H	2–1	Hernández (2) 5′, 75′	73,996
6 April 2011	Quarter-final First leg	Chelsea	A	1–0	Rooney 24′	37,915
12 April 2011	Quarter-final Second leg	Chelsea	H	2–1	Hernández 43′, Park 77′	74,672
26 April 2011	Semi-final First leg	Schalke 04	A	2–0	Giggs 67′, Rooney 69′	54,142
4 May 2011	Semi-final Second leg	Schalke 04	H	4–1	Valencia 26′, Gibson 31′, Anderson (2) 72′, 76′	74,687
28 May 2011	Final	Barcelona	N	1–3	Rooney 34′	87,695

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Europe		Other		Total		Discipline
No.	Pos.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	Edwin van der Sar	33	0	2	0	0	0	10	0	1	0	46	0	2	0
2	DF	Gary Neville	3	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	3(1)	0	1	0
3	DF	Patrice Evra	34(1)	1	3	0	0	0	9(1)	0	0	0	46(2)	1	2	0
4	MF	Owen Hargreaves	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
5	DF	Rio Ferdinand	19	0	2	0	1	0	7	0	0	0	29	0	0	0
6	DF	Wes Brown	4(3)	0	2(1)	1	2(1)	0	2	0	0	0	10(5)	1	3	0
7	FW	Michael Owen	1(10)	2	1(1)	1	1	2	0(2)	0	1	0	4(13)	5	1	0
8	MF	Anderson	14(4)	1	2(2)	0	2	0	4(2)	3	0	0	22(8)	4	5	0
9	FW	Dimitar Berbatov	24(8)	20	2	0	0	0	6(1)	0	0(1)	1	32(10)	21	1	0
10	FW	Wayne Rooney	25(3)	11	1(1)	1	0	0	9	4	1	0	36(4)	16	6	0
11	MF	Ryan Giggs	19(6)	2	1(2)	1	1	0	6(2)	1	0(1)	0	27(11)	4	6	0
12	DF	Chris Smalling	11(5)	0	2(2)	0	3	1	7(2)	0	0(1)	0	23(10)	1	0	0
13	MF	Park Ji-sung	13(2)	5	1	0	2	2	8(1)	1	1	0	25(3)	8	1	0
14	FW	Javier Hernández	15(12)	13	4(1)	1	2(1)	1	6(3)	4	0(1)	1	27(18)	20	6	0
15	DF	Nemanja Vidić	35	5	2	0	0	0	9	0	1	0	47	5	8	1
16	MF	Michael Carrick	23(5)	0	3	0	1	0	11	0	1	0	39(5)	0	2	0
17	MF	Nani	31(2)	9	2(1)	0	0	0	9(3)	1	0(1)	0	42(7)	10	2	0
18	MF	Paul Scholes	16(6)	1	2(1)	0	0	0	4(3)	0	1	0	23(10)	1	11	1
19	FW	Danny Welbeck	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	DF	Fábio	5(6)	1	3(1)	1	2	0	5(2)	0	1	0	16(9)	2	3	0
21	DF	Rafael	15(1)	0	3	0	1(1)	0	6(1)	0	0	0	25(3)	0	3	1
22	DF	John O’Shea	18(2)	0	4	0	1	0	5(1)	0	1	0	29(3)	0	2	0
23	DF	Jonny Evans	11(2)	0	2	0	2	0	2(1)	0	1	0	18(3)	0	2	1
24	MF	Darren Fletcher	24(2)	2	1(1)	0	1	0	5(2)	1	0(1)	0	31(6)	3	4	0
25	MF	Antonio Valencia	8(2)	1	1(1)	0	0	0	5(2)	1	1	1	15(5)	3	1	0
26	FW	Gabriel Obertan	3(4)	0	2	0	2(1)	0	1(2)	1	0	0	8(7)	1	0	0
27	FW	Federico Macheda	2(5)	1	0	0	2(1)	0	1(1)	0	0	0	5(7)	1	0	0
28	MF	Darron Gibson	6(6)	0	3	0	2	1	3	1	0	0	14(6)	2	4	0
29	GK	Tomasz Kuszczak	5	0	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	10	0	0	0
30	DF	Ritchie De Laet	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	MF	Corry Evans	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	FW	Mame Biram Diouf	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	FW	Bébé	0(2)	0	1	0	2(1)	1	0(1)	1	0	0	3(4)	2	0	0
34	GK	Anders Lindegaard	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
35	MF	Tom Cleverley	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	MF	Robbie Brady	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	FW	Nicky Ajose	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	GK	Ben Amos	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
41	FW	Joshua King	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	MF	Paul Pogba	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
43	MF	Matty James	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	DF	Joe Dudgeon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
45	DF	Oliver Gill	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
46	MF	Ryan Tunnicliffe	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
47	MF	Oliver Norwood	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
48	FW	Will Keane	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
49	MF	Ravel Morrison	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0
50	GK	Sam Johnstone	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
–	–	Own goals	–	3	–	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–	3	–	–