FC United of Manchester

FC United of Manchester is the champion of the North West Counties Football League Division 1(Level 9 of the English soccer league system). They will be promoted to the Northern Premier League Division One North (Level 8). The club was formed in 2005 by Man Utd supporters, many of whom decided to withdraw their financial support for the club following Malcolm Glazer's takeover. Although the majority of the club's support comes from Manchester and the surrounding area, its supporters club has branches in over ten countries including France, Poland, New Zealand, the United States and Canada. The local cable television station Channel M began a monthly series of programmes about the club, the first of which was in January 2006. Television crews from France and the Netherlands have been seen at the team's matches. FC United's two seasons were successful. FC United entered at the tenth level of the English football league system (the second division of the North West Counties Football League) and they were confirmed as champions on 15 April 2006 and followed that up by being crowned as champions of Division 1 on 18 April 2007 and will play in the Northern Premier League Division One North for the 2007-08 season. During the 2005-6 season, they had the fifth-highest average attendance in English non-League football, and the ninety-second highest for all teams playing in English leagues. This attendance ranks above five league clubs, including Bury, with whom FC United share a ground. [1]. The team is managed by the former Macclesfield Town player Karl Marginson and their record attendance is 6,023 for a match against Great Harwood Town on 22 April 2006.

The club's squad includes the following players as of March 8, 2007:

GK
Sam Ashton (played for Bolton Wanderers)

GK
John Ogden

DF
David Brown

DF
David Chadwick (captain)

DF
Shaun Roscoe

DF
Liam Foster

DF
Liam Coyne (on loan to Leigh RMI)

DF
Alexander Mortimer

DF
Robert Nugent

DF
Mathew Taylor

MF
Simon Carden

MF
Jerome Wright

MF
Rhodri Giggs (brother of Man Utd's Ryan Giggs)

MF
Joshua Howard

MF
Nick Platt

MF
Gary Sampson

MF
Steve Smith

MF
Steve Spencer

FW
Rory Patterson

FW
Jamie Phoenix

FW
Stuart Rudd

FW
David Swarbrick

FW
Danny Allen

FW
Danny Shannon

External Link:

Official site
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