paragraph_text: Manchester United's Ryan Giggs was voted as the Best Player. Giggs had played and scored in every Premier League season since its inception and won twelve championship medals, the most by a player. (Since then he won his thirteenth championship medal) Along with him, nine other players were short - listed for the panel of judges vote for Best Player, including four other players from Manchester United:

paragraph_text: Season Manager Nationality Club Ref 1993 -- 94 Ferguson, Alex Alex Ferguson Scotland Manchester United 1994 -- 95 Dalglish, Kenny Kenny Dalglish Scotland Blackburn Rovers 1995 -- 96 Ferguson, Alex Alex Ferguson (2) Scotland Manchester United 1996 -- 97 Ferguson, Alex Alex Ferguson (3) Scotland Manchester United 1997 -- 98 Wenger, Arsene Arsène Wenger France Arsenal 1998 -- 99 Ferguson, Alex Alex Ferguson (4) Scotland Manchester United 1999 -- 2000 Ferguson, Alex Alex Ferguson (5) Scotland Manchester United 2000 -- 01 Burley, George George Burley Scotland Ipswich Town 2001 -- 02 Wenger, Arsene Arsène Wenger (2) France Arsenal 2002 -- 03 Ferguson, Alex Alex Ferguson (6) Scotland Manchester United 2003 -- 04 Wenger, Arsene Arsène Wenger (3) France Arsenal 2004 -- 05 Mourinho, Jose José Mourinho Portugal Chelsea 2005 -- 06 Mourinho, Jose José Mourinho (2) Portugal Chelsea 2006 -- 07 Ferguson, Alex Alex Ferguson (7) Scotland Manchester United 2007 -- 08 Ferguson, Alex Alex Ferguson (8) Scotland Manchester United 2008 -- 09 Ferguson, Alex Alex Ferguson (9) Scotland Manchester United 2009 -- 10 Redknapp, Harry Harry Redknapp England Tottenham Hotspur 2010 -- 11 Ferguson, Alex Alex Ferguson (10) Scotland Manchester United 2011 -- 12 Pardew, Alan Alan Pardew England Newcastle United 2012 -- 13 Ferguson, Alex Alex Ferguson (11) Scotland Manchester United 2013 -- 14 Pulis, Tony Tony Pulis Wales Crystal Palace 2014 -- 15 Mourinho, Jose José Mourinho (3) Portugal Chelsea 2015 -- 16 Ranieri, Claudio Claudio Ranieri Italy Leicester City 2016 -- 17 Conte, Antonio Antonio Conte Italy Chelsea 2017 -- 18 Guardiola, Pep Pep Guardiola Spain Manchester City

paragraph_text: Manchester United in European football Club Manchester United First entry 1956 -- 57 European Cup Latest entry 2016 -- 17 UEFA Europa League Titles Champions League 3 (show) 1968 1999 2008 Europa League 1 (show) 2017 Cup Winners' Cup 1 (show) 1991 Super Cup 1 (show) 1991 Intercontinental Cup 1 (show) 1999 FIFA Club World Cup 1 (show) 2008

paragraph_text: Stanley Matthews of Blackpool was the inaugural winner of the Ballon d'Or. Prior to 1995, the award was often known in English language media as the European Footballer of the Year award. Milan's George Weah, the only African recipient, became the first non-European to win the award in the year that rules of eligibility were changed. Ronaldo of Internazionale became the first South American winner two years later. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have won the award a record five times each. Three players have won the award three times each: Johan Cruyff of Ajax and Barcelona, Michel Platini of Juventus and Marco van Basten of Milan. With seven awards each, Dutch and German players won the most Ballons d'Or. Spanish club Barcelona has the most winners, with 11 wins.

paragraph_text: Year SF Winner Score Loser Venue Chelsea 3 -- 0 Aston Villa Wembley Stadium (New) Portsmouth 2 -- 0 * Tottenham Hotspur Wembley Stadium (New) 2011 Manchester City 1 -- 0 Manchester United Wembley Stadium (New) Stoke City 5 -- 0 Bolton Wanderers Wembley Stadium (New) 2012 Liverpool 2 -- 1 Everton Wembley Stadium (New) Chelsea 5 -- 1 Tottenham Hotspur Wembley Stadium (New) 2013 Wigan Athletic 2 -- 0 Millwall Wembley Stadium (New) Manchester City 2 -- 1 Chelsea Wembley Stadium (New) 2014 Arsenal 1 -- 1 † Wigan Athletic Wembley Stadium (New) Hull City 5 -- 3 Sheffield United Wembley Stadium (New) 2015 Arsenal 2 -- 1 * Reading Wembley Stadium (New) Aston Villa 2 -- 1 Liverpool Wembley Stadium (New) 2016 Manchester United 2 -- 1 Everton Wembley Stadium (New) Crystal Palace 2 -- 1 Watford Wembley Stadium (New) 2017 Chelsea 4 -- 2 Tottenham Hotspur Wembley Stadium (New) Arsenal 2 -- 1 * Manchester City Wembley Stadium (New) 2018 Manchester United 2 -- 1 Tottenham Hotspur Wembley Stadium (New) Chelsea 2 -- 0 Southampton Wembley Stadium (New)

paragraph_text: France Football announced that they would publish a shortlist of 30 players across six announcements with two hour intervals on 24 October 2016. On 12 December 2016, Cristiano Ronaldo won the award by a record margin of 429 points ahead of second placed Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann, who came third.

paragraph_text: Then, on 11 May 2014, they won the Premier League for the second time in three seasons with a 2 -- 0 win over West Ham United. It was the first time that Manchester City had won two major trophies in a season since the 1969 -- 70 season, when they won the League Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup, and concluded one of the greatest seasons in the club's history.

paragraph_text: Manchester Center is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Manchester in Bennington County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 2,120, out of 4,391 people in the entire town of Manchester.

paragraph_text: Cristiano Ronaldo GOIH, ComM Ronaldo at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup Full name Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro Date of birth (1985 - 02 - 05) 5 February 1985 (age 32) Place of birth Funchal, Madeira, Portugal Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Playing position Forward Club information Current team Real Madrid Number 7 Youth career 1992 -- 1995 Andorinha 1995 -- 1997 Nacional 1997 -- 2002 Sporting CP Senior career * Years Team Apps (Gls) 2002 -- 2003 Sporting CP B (0) 2002 -- 2003 Sporting CP 25 (3) 2003 -- 2009 Manchester United 196 (84) 2009 -- Real Madrid 270 (286) National team 2001 Portugal U15 9 (7) 2001 -- 2002 Portugal U17 7 (5) 2003 Portugal U20 5 (1) 2002 -- 2003 Portugal U21 10 (3) Portugal U23 (2) 2003 -- Portugal 147 (79) Honours (show) Representing Portugal UEFA European Championship Winner 2016 France Runner - up 2004 Portugal 2012 Poland & Ukraine FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 Russia * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23: 00, 22 October 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22: 40, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

paragraph_text: Manchester United is one of the most popular football clubs in the world, with one of the highest average home attendances in Europe. The club states that its worldwide fan base includes more than 200 officially recognised branches of the Manchester United Supporters Club (MUSC), in at least 24 countries. The club takes advantage of this support through its worldwide summer tours. Accountancy firm and sports industry consultants Deloitte estimate that Manchester United has 75 million fans worldwide, while other estimates put this figure closer to 333 million. The club has the third highest social media following in the world among sports teams (after Barcelona and Real Madrid), with over 71 million Facebook fans as of September 2016. A 2014 study showed that Manchester United had the loudest fans in the Premier League.Supporters are represented by two independent bodies; the Independent Manchester United Supporters' Association (IMUSA), which maintains close links to the club through the MUFC Fans Forum, and the Manchester United Supporters' Trust (MUST). After the Glazer family's takeover in 2005, a group of fans formed a splinter club, F.C. United of Manchester. The West Stand of Old Trafford – the "Stretford End" – is the home end and the traditional source of the club's most vocal support.

paragraph_text: Manchester United have won a record 20 League titles, 12 FA Cups, 5 League Cups and a record 21 FA Community Shields. The club has also won three UEFA Champions Leagues, one UEFA Europa League, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, one Intercontinental Cup and one FIFA Club World Cup. In 1998 -- 99, the club became the first in the history of English football to achieve the treble of the Premier League, the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League. In 2016 -- 17, by winning the UEFA Europa League, they became one of five clubs to have won all three main UEFA club competitions. In addition, they became the only professional English club to have won every ongoing honour available to the first team that is organised by a national or international governing body.

paragraph_text: Born and raised on the Portuguese island of Madeira, Ronaldo was diagnosed with a racing heart at age 15. He underwent an operation to treat his condition, and began his senior club career playing for Sporting CP, before signing with Manchester United at age 18 in 2003. After winning his first trophy, the FA Cup, during his first season in England, he helped United win three successive Premier League titles, a UEFA Champions League title, and a FIFA Club World Cup. By age 22, he had received Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations and at age 23, he won his first Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2009, Ronaldo was the subject of the most expensive association football transfer when he moved from Manchester United to Real Madrid in a transfer worth €94 million (£80 million).

paragraph_text: Six clubs have won the title: Manchester United (13 times), Chelsea (5), Arsenal (3), Manchester City (2), Blackburn Rovers and Leicester City; Manchester United was the first club to win the league three consecutive seasons in a row twice (1998 -- 99 to 2000 -- 01 & 2006 -- 07 to 2008 -- 09) and Arsenal was the only team to go an entire season without a single defeat in 2003 -- 04. The record number of points accumulated by a team is 95 by Chelsea, who won the Premier League in 2004 -- 05. Crystal Palace, Norwich and Sunderland have been relegated the most times (4) while Derby County accumulated the lowest ever points total with 11 in the 2007 -- 08 season. 16 top goalscorers from 11 different clubs have been awarded the Premier League Golden Boot. Andy Cole and Alan Shearer scored 34 goals in a 42 - game season -- the most in a Premier League season, while Alan Shearer, Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Suárez jointly hold the record in a 38 - game season with 31. Dutchman Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink was the first foreigner to win the award outright in 2000 -- 01 having shared the accolade with Dwight Yorke of Trinidad and Tobago in 1998 -- 99.

paragraph_text: Barcelona is one of the most supported teams in the world, and has the largest social media following in the world among sports teams. Barcelona's players have won a record number of Ballon d'Or awards (11), as well as a record number of FIFA World Player of the Year awards (7). In 2010, the club made history when three players who came through its youth academy (Messi, Iniesta and Xavi) were chosen as the three best players in the world in the FIFA Ballon d'Or awards, an unprecedented feat for players from the same football school.

paragraph_text: The Col du Grand Ballon (elevation ) is a mountain pass situated close to the summit of the Grand Ballon () in the Vosges Mountains of France. It connects Cernay (Haut-Rhin) with Le Markstein winter sports station.

paragraph_text: Paul Pogba Pogba playing for Manchester United in 2017 Full name Paul Labile Pogba Date of birth (1993 - 03 - 15) 15 March 1993 (age 24) Place of birth Lagny - sur - Marne, France Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) Playing position Midfielder Club information Current team Manchester United Number 6 Youth career 1999 -- 2006 Roissy - en - Brie 2006 -- 2007 Torcy 2007 -- 2009 Le Havre 2009 -- 2011 Manchester United Senior career * Years Team Apps (Gls) 2011 -- 2012 Manchester United (0) 2012 -- 2016 Juventus 124 (28) 2016 -- Manchester United 34 (7) National team 2008 -- 2009 France U16 17 (1) France U17 10 (2) 2010 -- 2011 France U18 6 (1) 2011 -- 2012 France U19 12 (4) 2012 -- 2013 France U20 13 (3) 2013 -- France 49 (8) Honours (show) Representing France European Championship 2016 * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18: 55, 9 September 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 3 September 2017

paragraph_text: Each club can claim historical supremacy over the other: United for their 20 league titles to Liverpool's 18 and Liverpool for being European champions five times to United's three. Manchester United have won more total trophies than Liverpool, and they also lead the Merseysiders in so - called ``major ''honours as well.

paragraph_text: Zlatan Ibrahimović Ibrahimović with Manchester United in 2016 Full name Zlatan Ibrahimović Date of birth (1981 - 10 - 03) 3 October 1981 (age 36) Place of birth Malmö, Sweden Height 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) Playing position Striker Club information Current team Manchester United Number 10 Youth career Malmö BI FBK Balkan Malmö FF Senior career * Years Team Apps (Gls) 1999 -- 2001 Malmö FF 40 (16) 2001 -- 2004 Ajax 74 (35) 2004 -- 2006 Juventus 70 (23) 2006 -- 2009 Internazionale 88 (57) 2009 -- 2011 Barcelona 29 (16) 2010 -- 2011 → Milan (loan) 29 (14) 2011 -- 2012 Milan 32 (28) 2012 -- 2016 Paris Saint - Germain 122 (113) 2016 -- 2017 Manchester United 28 (17) 2017 -- Manchester United 0 (0) National team 1999 Sweden U18 (1) 2001 Sweden U21 7 (6) 2001 -- 2016 Sweden 116 (62) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16 April 2017.

paragraph_text: Arsenal's tally of 13 League Championships is the third highest in English football, after Manchester United (20) and Liverpool (18), and they were the first club to reach a seventh and an eighth League Championship. As of May 2016, they are one of only six teams, the others being Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Chelsea, Manchester City and Leicester City, to have won the Premier League since its formation in 1992.

paragraph_text: Premier League Golden Glove winners Season Player Nationality Club Clean sheets Ref (s) 2004 -- 05 Petr Čech Czech Republic Chelsea 24 2005 -- 06 Pepe Reina Spain Liverpool 20 2006 -- 07 Pepe Reina (2) Spain Liverpool 19 2007 -- 08 Pepe Reina (3) Spain Liverpool 18 2008 -- 09 Edwin van der Sar Netherlands Manchester United 21 2009 -- 10 Petr Čech (2) Czech Republic Chelsea 17 2010 -- 11 Joe Hart England Manchester City 18 2011 -- 12 Joe Hart (2) England Manchester City 17 2012 -- 13 Joe Hart (3) England Manchester City 18 2013 -- 14 Petr Čech (3) Czech Republic Chelsea 16 2013 -- 14 Wojciech Szczęsny Poland Arsenal 16 2014 -- 15 Joe Hart (4) England Manchester City 14 2015 -- 16 Petr Čech (4) Czech Republic Arsenal 16 2016 -- 17 Thibaut Courtois Belgium Chelsea 16 2017 -- 18 David de Gea Spain Manchester United 18

Question: When did the 2016 winner of the ballon d or go to Manchester United?
Answer: 2003