2011–12 Manchester United F.C. season

The 2011–12 season is Manchester United's 20th season in the Premier League.

Manchester United signed a £40 million four-year deal with DHL.

In November, Sir Alex Ferguson celebrated 25 years in charge of the club.

## Pre-season

Manchester United started their season with a tour in the United States. United finishing the tour with a game against Barcelona in Washington on 30 July.

## Transfers

|Pos.|Name|From|Fee|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|{| class="wikitable" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-SIZE: 95%"||||||
|DF|Phil Jones|Blackburn Rovers|£16 m|||
|MF|Ashley Young|Aston Villa|£17 m|||
|GK|David de Gea|Atlético Madrid|£17.8 m|}|{| class="wikitable" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-SIZE: 95%"|
|DF|Wes Brown|Sunderland|£1 m|||
|DF|John O'Shea|Sunderland|£4 m|||
|MF|Gabriel Obertan|Newcastle United|£3 m|||
|}||||||

|Pos.|Name|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|{| class="wikitable" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-SIZE: 95%"||||
|DF|Chris Smalling|||
|MF|Antonio Valencia|||
|MF|Park Ji-Sung|||
|MF|Tom Cleverley|||
|FW|Javier Hernández|}|{| class="wikitable" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-SIZE: 95%"|
|FW|Bébé|Beşiktaş||
|DF|De Laet|Norwich City||
|}|{| class="wikitable" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-SIZE: 95%"|||
|MF|Owen Hargreaves|||
|}|{| class="wikitable" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-SIZE: 95%"|||
|GK|Edwin van der Sar|||
|MF|Paul Scholes|}||

## Squad

||No.||Pos.||Name|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|{| class="wikitable" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-SIZE: 95%" collapse; text-align:center"||||||
|1|GK|David de Gea||||
|29|GK|Tomasz Kuszczak||||
|34|GK|Anders Lindegaard||||
|40|GK|Ben Amos|}|{| class="wikitable" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-SIZE: 95%" collapse; text-align:center"||
|3|DF|Patrice Evra||||
|4|DF|Phil Jones||||
|5|DF|Rio Ferdinand||||
|6|DF|Jonny Evans||||
|12|DF|Chris Smalling||||
|15|DF|Nemanja Vidić||||
|20|DF|Fábio||||
|21|DF|Rafael|}|{| class="wikitable" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-SIZE: 95%" collapse; text-align:center"||
|8|MF|Anderson||||
|11|MF|Ryan Giggs||||
|13|MF|Park Ji-Sung||||
|16|MF|Michael Carrick||||
|17|MF|Nani||||
|18|MF|Ashley Young||||
|23|MF|Tom Cleverley||||
|24|MF|Darren Fletcher||||
|25|MF|Antonio Valencia||||
|28|MF|Darron Gibson|}|{| class="wikitable" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-SIZE: 95%" collapse; text-align:center"||
|7|FW|Michael Owen||||
|9|FW|Dimitar Berbatov||||
|10|FW|Wayne Rooney||||
|14|FW|Javier Hernández||||
|19|FW|Danny Welbeck||||
|27|FW|Federico Macheda||||
|32|FW|Mame Biram Diouf|}|||

## Premier League

|width=30||Club|width=30||width=30||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**1**|**Manchester United**|** 3 **|** 9 **||||
|2|Manchester City|** 3 **|** 9 **||||
|3|Liverpool|** 3 **|** 7 **||||

|width=30||Club|width=30||width=30||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**1**|**Manchester United**|** 6 **|** 16 **||||
|2|Manchester City|** 6 **|** 16 **||||
|3|Chelsea|** 6 **|** 13 **||||

|width=30||Club|width=30||width=30||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Manchester City|** 10 **|** 28 **||||
|**2**|**Manchester United**|** 10 **|** 23 **||||
|3|Newcastle United|** 10 **|** 22 **||||

### Stats

||No.||Pos.||Name||Goals|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|{| class="wikitable" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-SIZE: 95%"||||||||
|10|FW|Wayne Rooney|9|||||
|14|FW|Javier Hernández|6|||||
|17|MF|Nani|3|||||
|19|FW|Danny Welbeck|3|}|{| class="wikitable" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-SIZE: 95%"|||
|18|MF|Ashley Young|5|||||
|17|MF|Nani|4|||||
|11|MF|Ryan Giggs|2|}||||

||No.||Pos.||Name|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|{| class="wikitable" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-SIZE: 95%"||||||||
|18|MF|Ashley Young|3|||||
|3|DF|Patrice Evra|3|||||
|6|DF|Jonny Evans|2|}|{| class="wikitable" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; FONT-SIZE: 95%"|||
|6|DF|Jonny Evans|1|}||||

## Champions League

Manchester United will face Benfica, Basel and Otelul Galati in Group C.

|width="175"|Team|width="20"||width="20"||width="20"||width="20"||width="20"||width="20"||width="20"||width="20"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|**Manchester United**|**4**|**2**|**2**|**0**|**8**|**4**|**+4**|**8**|||||||||
|align=left|S.L. Benfica|4|2|2|0|5|2|+3|**8**|||||||||
|align=left|FC Basel|4|1|2|1|6|7|–1|**5**|||||||||
|align=left|FC Oțelul Galați|4|0|0|4|1|7|–6|**0**|||||||||

### League Cup

Manchester United were drawn against Crystal Palace in the quarter-finals of the League Cup.

## Infobox (football club season)

- **club**: Manchester United F.C., Manchester United
- **season**: 2011–12
- **manager**: Alex Ferguson, Sir Alex Ferguson
- **chairman**: Joel Glazer, Joel and Avram Glazer
- **chrtitle**: Co-chairmen
- **stadium**: Old Trafford
- **league**: 2011–12 Premier League, Premier League
- **league result**: 2nd
- **cup1**: 2011–12 FA Cup, FA Cup
- **cup1 result**: Fourth Round
- **cup2**: 2011–12 Football League Cup, League Cup
- **cup2 result**: Fifth Round
- **cup3**: 2011–12 UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League
- **cup3 result**: Group stage
- **cup4**: 2011–12 UEFA Europa League, UEFA Europa League
- **cup4 result**: Round of 16
- **cup5**: 2011 FA Community Shield, Community Shield
- **cup5 result**: Winners
- **league topscorer**: Wayne Rooney (27)
- **season topscorer**: Wayne Rooney (34)
- **highest attendance**: 75,627
10 December)
- **lowest attendance**: 52,624
- **average attendance**: 75,387
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- **prevseason**: 2010–11 Manchester United F.C. season, 2010–11
- **nextseason**: 2012–13 Manchester United F.C. season, 2012–13