

They were overtaken by Real Madrid for the next four years, but Manchester United returned to the top of the Forbes list in June 2017, with a valuation of $3.689 billion. Forbes Magazine valued the club at $3.3 billion $1.2 billion higher than the next most valuable sports team. In January 2013, the club became the first sports team in the world to be valued at $3 billion. The club is ranked third in the Deloitte Football Money League (behind Real Madrid and Barcelona). In July 2012, Manchester United was ranked first by Forbes magazine in its list of the ten most valuable sports team brands, valuing the Manchester United brand at $2.23 billion.

Manchester United has been described as a global brand a 2011 report by Brand Finance, valued the club's trademarks and associated intellectual property at 412 million an increase of 39 million on the previous year, valuing it at 11 million more than the second best brand, Real Madrid and gave the brand a strength rating of AAA (Extremely Strong). By winning the UEFA Europa League in 201617, they became one of five clubs to have won all three main UEFA club competitions. In 199899, the club became the first in the history of English football to achieve the continental European treble. United have also won 3 UEFA Champions Leagues, 1 UEFA Europa League, 1 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, 1 UEFA Super Cup, 1 Intercontinental Cup and 1 FIFA Club World Cup. Manchester United have won more trophies than any other club in English football, with a record 20 League titles, 12 FA Cups, 5 League Cups and a record 21 FA Community Shields. Nicknamed "the Red Devils", the club was founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to its current stadium, Old Trafford, in 1910.


Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.
