2010–11 Manchester United F.C. season

The 2010–11 season is Manchester United's 19th season in the Premier League.

In September, Nemanja Vidić named as Manchester United's new captain.

## Pre-season

Manchester United started their season with a tour in North America for the first time since 2004.

|Date|Opponents|Result|Scorers|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|16 July 2010|Celtic|3 – 1|Berbatov, Welbeck, Cleverley|
|21 July 2010|Philadelphia Union|1 – 0|Obertan|
|25 July 2010|Kansas City Wizards|1 – 2|Berbatov|
|28 July 2010|MLS All-Stars|5 – 2|Macheda (2), Gibson, Cleverley, Hernández|
|30 July 2010|Guadalajara|2 – 3|Smalling, Nani|
|4 August 2010|Airtricity League XI|7 – 1|Park (2), Owen, Hernández, Valencia, Evans, Nani|

### In

|Pos.|Name|From|Fee|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|DF|Chris Smalling|Fulham|£7 million|
|FW|Javier Hernández|Guadalajara|£10 million|

### Loan out

|Pos.|Name|To|
| --- | --- | --- |
|FW|Mame Biram Diouf|Blackburn Rovers|
|FW|Danny Welbeck|Sunderland|
|MF|Tom Cleverley|Wigan|
|DF|De Laet|Sheffield United|

### New deal

|Pos.|Name|
| --- | --- |
|DF|Nemanja Vidić|
|MF|Ryan Giggs|
|MF|Darren Fletcher|
|DF|Patrice Evra|
|FW|Wayne Rooney|

### Retired

|Pos.|Name|
| --- | --- |
|DF|Gary Neville|

## Community Shield

Community Shield is match between the champions of Premier League and the champions of the FA Cup.

|Date|Opponent|Result|Scorers|Attendance|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|8 August 2010|Chelsea|3 – 1|Valencia, Javier Hernández, Berbatov|84,623|

## Premier League

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|**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**||||||||||

## Champions League

|Date|Opponents|H / A|Result|Scorers||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|14 September 2010|Rangers|H|0 – 0|/||
|29 September 2010|Valencia|A|1 – 0|Hernández 85'||
|20 October 2010|rowspan="2"|Bursaspor|H|1 – 0|Nani 7'|
|2 November 2010|A|3 – 0|Fletcher 48', Obertan 73', Bébé 77'|||
|24 November 2010|Rangers|A|1 – 0|Rooney 87'||
|7 December 2010|Valencia|H|1 – 1|Anderson 62'||

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|align=left|**Manchester United**|**6**|**4**|**2**|**0**|**7**|**1**|**+6**|**14**|||||||||
|align=left|Valencia|6|3|2|1|15|4|+11|**11**|||||||||
|align=left|Rangers|6|1|3|2|3|6|–3|**6**|||||||||
|align=left|Bursaspor|6|0|1|5|2|16|−14|**1**|||||||||

|Date|Round|Opponents|H / A|Result|Scorers||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|23 February 2011|rowspan="2"|Round of 16|rowspan="2"|Marseille|A|0 – 0|/||
|15 March 2011|H|2 – 1|Hernández (2) 5', 75'||||||
|6 April 2011|rowspan="2"|Quarter-final|rowspan="2"|Chelsea|A|1 – 0|Rooney 24'||
|12 April 2011|H|2 – 1|Hernández 43', Park 77'||||||
|26 April 2011|rowspan="2"|Semi-final|rowspan="2"|Schalke 04|A|2 – 0|Giggs 67', Rooney 69'||
|4 May 2011|H|4 – 1|Valencia 26', Gibson 31', Anderson (2) 72', 76'||||||
|28 May 2011|Final|Barcelona|/|1 – 3|Rooney 34'||||

## Squad

||No.||Pos.||Name|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"||||||
|1|GK|Edwin van der Sar||||
|2|MF|Gary Neville||||
|3|DF|Patrice Evra||||
|4|MF|Owen Hargreaves||||
|5|DF|Rio Ferdinand||||
|6|DF|Wes Brown||||
|7|FW|Michael Owen||||
|8|MF|Anderson||||
|9|FW|Dimitar Berbatov||||
|10|FW|Wayne Rooney||||
|11|MF|Ryan Giggs||||
|12|DF|Chris Smalling||||
|13|MF|Park Ji-Sung||||
|14|FW|Javier Hernández||||
|15|DF|Nemanja Vidić|}|{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"||
|16|MF|Michael Carrick||||
|17|MF|Nani||||
|18|MF|Paul Scholes||||
|19|FW|Danny Welbeck||||
|20|DF|Fábio||||
|21|DF|Rafael||||
|22|DF|John O'Shea||||
|23|DF|Jonny Evans||||
|24|MF|Darren Fletcher||||
|25|MF|Antonio Valencia||||
|26|FW|Gabriel Obertan||||
|28|MF|Darron Gibson||||
|29|GK|Tomasz Kuszczak||||
|33|FW|Bébé||||
|34|GK|Anders Lindegaard|}|||

## Squad statistics

|No.|Pos.|Name|League|Europe|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|GK|Edwin van der Sar|33|10|
|3|DF|Patrice Evra|34|9|
|5|DF|Rio Ferdinand|19|7|
|7|FW|Michael Owen|11|2|
|8|MF|Anderson|18|6|
|9|FW|Dimitar Berbatov|32|7|
|10|FW|Wayne Rooney|28|9|
|11|MF|Ryan Giggs|25|8|
|12|DF|Chris Smalling|16|9|
|13|MF|Park Ji-Sung|15|9|
|14|FW|Javier Hernández|27|9|
|15|DF|Nemanja Vidić|35|9|
|16|MF|Michael Carrick|28|11|
|17|MF|Nani|33|12|
|18|MF|Paul Scholes|22|7|
|21|DF|Rafael|16|7|
|22|DF|John O'Shea|20|6|
|23|DF|Jonny Evans|12|3|
|24|MF|Darren Fletcher|25|7|
|25|MF|Antonio Valencia|10|7|

## Infobox (football club season)

- **club**: Manchester United F.C., Manchester United
- **season**: 2010–11
- **manager**: Alex Ferguson, Sir Alex Ferguson
- **chairman**: Joel Glazer, Joel and Avram Glazer
- **chrtitle**: Co-chairmen
- **stadium**: Old Trafford
- **league**: 2010–11 Premier League, Premier League
- **league result**: 1st
- **cup1**: 2010–11 FA Cup, FA Cup
- **cup1 result**: Semi-finals
- **cup2**: 2010–11 Football League Cup, League Cup
- **cup2 result**: Fifth Round
- **cup3**: 2010–11 UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League
- **cup3 result**: Runners-up
- **cup4**: 2010 FA Community Shield, Community Shield
- **cup4 result**: Winners
- **league topscorer**: Dimitar Berbatov (20)
- **season topscorer**: Dimitar Berbatov (21)
- **highest attendance**: 75,486
19 March)
- **lowest attendance**: 46,083
26 October)
- **average attendance**: 75,109
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- **prevseason**: 2009–10 Manchester United F.C. season, 2009–10
- **nextseason**: 2011–12 Manchester United F.C. season, 2011–12