United have won 15 League Championships in total, three less than Liverpool�s record haul of 18 titles. Manchester United�s total includes eight Premier League titles (since 1992) and seven First Division Championships (pre 1992).

As Newton Heath the club first applied to join the Football League in 1890 only for their application to be rejected. The club were eventually granted a place in 1892 and made an inauspicious start to their first ever season in the Football League. After finishing bottom they had to win a play-off against Small Heath (now Birmingham City) to stay up.

After being relegated in 1894 the club finally returned to the First Division in 1907 as Manchester United, after changing its name in 1902, and won the Championship in 1908 and 1911. It wasn�t until the end of the Second World War, when under the leadership of Sir Matt Busby, that the club came back to life.

Now back in the First Division the club finished runners-up in 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1951 before winning its third League Championship in 1952. The next few years were to see the birth of the famed Busby Babes. More Championships followed in 1956 and 1957 before the tragic events of the Munich air crash, which claimed the lives of 21 people, including eight Manchester United players.

Over the next few years the club recovered to win the Championship again in 1965 and 1967. The next 26 years saw United finish runners-up four times before once again finishing top while claiming the inaugural Carling Premier League title in 1993 and following it up with further championships in 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2003.

The FA Cup, the world�s oldest national Cup competition was first played in 1871, with Manchester United, as Newton Heath, first taking part in 1890. The club has a record ten Cups to its name and has appeared in the final on fifteen occasions. United have since gone on to become the only club to appear in an FA Cup final in every decade since the war.

Manchester United first competed in the FA Cup in 1890 as Newton Heath, but were beaten 6-1 by the then League Champions Preston North End. In fact the club had to wait until 1902, when it changed its name to Manchester United, to progress beyond the Third round.

The club�s first win in the competition came in 1909 against Bristol City (1-0). The Reds had to wait until 1948 to reach another final when they beat Blackpool 4-2 at Wembley stadium. The club appeared in consecutive finals in 1957 and 1958.

United next won the FA Cup in 1963 when a Denis Law goal helped see off Leicester City 3-1. The late 1970�s saw the club reach three finals in four years, losing to Southampton in 1976, beating Liverpool in 1977 and losing an epic final to Arsenal in 1979. After being 2-0 down, they came back to score two goals in the final five minutes only to see Arsenal snatch the Cup with almost the last kick of the game.

Two more successes followed, against Brighton in 1983 and against Everton in 1985, when United defender Kevin Moran became the first player to be sent off in a Cup final. During the nineties the club reached no less than five finals, winning four of them. In 1990 United beat Crystal Palace 1-0 after a replay, in 1994 and 1996 the club completed the �Double� after wins against Chelsea and Liverpool respectively and in 1999 United completed the second part of a historic �Treble� with a 2-0 win over Newcastle.

During the 1999-2000 season United were unable to defend the FA Cup after being forced to withdraw from the competition in order to play in the inaugural Club World Championship in Brazil.