Manchester United F.C. Academy

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The Manchester United F.C. Academy is the core of the youth setup at Manchester United, and has been responsible for producing some of Manchester United's greatest ever players, including - in Bobby Charlton, Ryan Giggs, Bill Foulkes and Gary Neville - four of the club's top five all-time appearance makers. It is based at the club's state-of-the-art Trafford Training Centre, a 70 acre site in the Mancunian suburb of Carrington.

The academy comprises age-group teams ranging from under-9's up to the flagship under-18's, who currently compete in Group C of the FA Premier Academy League and in the FA Youth Cup (a tournament which they have won a record nine times). The under-16's and under-18's typically play their academy league games at 11am on Saturday mornings at Carrington, while Youth Cup games are generally played at either Hyde United's Ewen Fields ground (where Manchester United's reserve teams play their home games) or the club's 76,000 Old Trafford home, in order to cater for the greater number of supporters these fixtures attract.

Contents 1 Current Academy players 2 Academy Coaching Staff 3 Achievements 4 Notable former Academy and Youth Team players 5 External links

[edit] Current Academy players

	Player	DOB	Position	International Caps	Previous Club
3rd Year Scholars (players born between 1 September 1987 and 31 August 1988 )
	Fraizer Campbell	13 September 1987	ST	Capped at under-19 level	–
	Sean Evans	25 September 1987	LW	–	Shrewsbury Town
	Lee Crockett	4 October 1987	GK	–	–
	Ryan Shawcross	4 October 1987	CB	–	–
	Darron Gibson	25 October 1987	CM	Capped at B-international level	Institute
	Michael Lea	4 November 1987	CB/LB	–	–
	Aaron Burns	8 November 1987	ST	–	–
	Jonny Evans	3 January 1988	CB	4 caps at full international level	–
	Jamie Mullan	10 February 1988	LW/RW	Capped at under-18 level	–
	Danny Rose	21 February 1988	CM	–	–
	David Gray	4 May 1988	RB	Capped at under-17 level	Heart of Midlothian
	Kieran Lee	22 June 1988	LB/LM	–	–
	Michael Barnes	24 June 1988	LW/RW	–	Lancaster City
2nd Year Scholars (players born between 1 September 1988 and 31 August 1989 )
	Craig Cathcart	6 February 1989	CB	Capped at under-21 level	–
	Ron-Robert Zieler	12 February 1989	GK	Capped at under-17 level	1. FC Köln
	Febian Brandy	4 February 1989	ST	Capped at under-18 level	–
	James Chester	23 January 1989	CB	–	–
	Richard Eckersley	12 March 1989	RB/LB	–	–
	Chris Fagan	11 May 1989	ST	Capped at under-17 level	–
	Sam Hewson	28 November 1988	CM	Capped at under-19 level	–
1st Year Scholars (players born between 1 September 1989 and 31 August 1990 )
	Ben Amos	10 April 1990	GK	Capped at under-17 level	–
	James Derbyshire	21 November 1989	CM	–	–
	Daniel Drinkwater	5 March 1990	CM	–	–
	Corry Evans	30 July 1990	CM	Capped at Under-17 level	–
	Magnus Wolff Eikrem	8 August 1990	CM/RM	Capped at Under-16 level	Molde FK
	Daniel Galbraith	19 August 1990	LW	Capped at Under-17 level	Heart of Midlothian
	Conor McCormack	18 May 1990	CM	Capped at Under-17 level	–
	Antonio Bryan	4 October 1989	RW/S	–	–
Next Year's Possible Scholars (players born between 1 September 1990 and 31 August 1991 )
	David Williams	23 November 1990	ST	–	–
	Daniel Welbeck	26 November 1990	RW/ST	Capped at Under-17 level	–
	Chris Curran	5 January 1991	LW/RW	Capped at Under-17 level	–
	Cameron Stewart	8 April 1991	RB	Capped at Under-16 level	–
	Oliver Norwood	12 April 1991	DM	Capped at Under-16 level	–
	Evandro de Carvalho Brandão	4 May 1991	ST	Capped at Under-17 level	Walsall
	Matthew James	28 July 1991	CM	Capped at Under-16 level	–
	Kenny Strickland	1991	CB	–	–
	Scott Moffatt	1991	RB	–	–
	Joseph Dudgeon	1991	DF	–	–
Potential Future Scholars (players born after 1 September 1991 )
	Conor Devlin	23 September 1991	GK	Capped at Under-17 level	–
	Nicholas Ajose	7 October 1991	ST	Capped at Under-16 level	–

[edit] Academy Coaching Staff

• Director of Youth Academy: Brian McClair
• Director of Youth Football: Jimmy Ryan
• Assistant Director of Youth Academy for 17 - 21 Year olds: Paul McGuinness
• Assistant Director of Youth Academy for 9 - 16 Year olds: Tony Whelan
• Under 18's Coach: Paul McGuinness
• Under 13-16's Coach: Mark Dempsey
• Under 11-12's Coach: Tony Whelan
• Under 9-10's Coach: Eamon Mulvey
• Technical Skills Development Coach: René Meulensteen
• Director of Goalkeeping Training: Richard Hartis
• Academy Doctor: Dr. Tony Gill
• Senior Academy Physiotherapist: Mandy Johnson
• Academy Physiotherapist's: John Davin & Richard Merron

[edit] Achievements

• FA Youth Cups: 9
  • 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1964, 1992, 1995, 2003

• FA Youth Cup runners-up: 3
  • 1982, 1986, 1993

[edit] Notable former Academy and Youth Team players

Arthur Albiston John Aston Phillip Bardsley David Beckham George Best Jackie Blanchflower Shay Brennan Wes Brown Roger Byrne Nicky Butt Johnny Carey Bobby Charlton Eddie Colman Kenny Cooper Sylvan Ebanks-Blake Duncan Edwards

Darren Fletcher Bill Foulkes Ryan Giggs Johnny Giles Keith Gillespie Shaun Goater Brian Greenhoff David Healy Mark Hughes David Johnson David Jones Brian Kidd Jovan Kirovski Lee A. Martin Sammy McIlroy Paul McShane

Gary Neville Philip Neville Jimmy Nicholl John O'Shea David Pegg Gerard Piqué David Platt Kieran Richardson Mark Robins Giuseppe Rossi Robbie Savage Paul Scholes Jonathan Spector Nobby Stiles Dennis Viollet Norman Whiteside

[edit] External links

• Academy page in the official website
• FA Premier Academy League results

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