SIR ALEX FERGUSON
Sir Alexander Chapman "Alex" Ferguson, CBE, popularly known as Sir Alex or Fergie (born 31 December 1941 in Govan, Glasgow) is a Scottish football manager and former player, currently managing Manchester United, where he has been in charge since 1986.
Ferguson previously managed East Stirlingshire and St. Mirren, before a highly successful period as manager of Aberdeen. Briefly manager of the Scotland national team – in a temporary capacity owing to the death of Jock Stein – he was appointed manager of Manchester United in November 1986.
With 22 years as manager of Manchester United, he is the second-longest serving manager in their history after Sir Matt Busby, while his tenure is the longest of all the current League managers. During this time, Ferguson has won many awards and holds many records including winning Manager of the Year most times in British football history. Manchester United have won more honours during Ferguson's tenure than they did in all the years combined prior to his appointment. At Manchester United, Sir Alex has become the most successful domestic manager in the history of English football, having guided the team to eleven league championships and two Champions League titles. In 1999, he became the first manager to lead an English team to the treble of league championship, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League. As well as being the only manager to win the FA Cup five times, he is also the only manager ever to win three successive league championships in the top flight in England with the same club (1998–99, 1999–2000 and 2000–01), repeating the feat again in 2006–07, 2007–08 and 2008–09. In 2008, he joined Brian Clough (Nottingham Forest) and Bob Paisley (Liverpool) as only the third British manager to win the European Cup on more than one occasion.
He was an inaugural inductee into the English Football Hall of Fame for his services to the English game, was knighted in 1999 by Queen Elizabeth II and currently holds the Freedom of the City of Aberdeen for his services to the city, having managed the city's football club to a host of major trophies in the early to mid 1980s.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alexander Chapman Ferguson | ||
| Date of birth | 31 December 1941 (1941-12-31) (age 67) | ||
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Manchester United (manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Club | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1957–1960 | Queen's Park | 31 | (15) |
| 1960–1964 | St. Johnstone | 37 | (19) |
| 1964–1967 | Dunfermline Athletic | 89 | (66) |
| 1967–1969 | Rangers | 41 | (25) |
| 1969–1973 | Falkirk | 95 | (36) |
| 1973–1974 | Ayr United | 24 | (9) |
| Total | 317 | (170) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1974 | East Stirlingshire | ||
| 1974–1978 | St. Mirren | ||
| 1978–1986 | Aberdeen | ||
| 1985–1986 | Scotland | ||
| 1986– | Manchester United | ||
Honours
Player
St. Johnstone (1960–1964)
Falkirk (1969–1973)
- Scottish First Division: 1969–70
Managerial
Ferguson was made an Inaugural Inductee of the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002 in recognition of his impact on the English game as a manager. In 2003, Ferguson became an inaugural recipient of the FA Coaching Diploma, awarded to all coaches who had at least 10 years' experience of being a manager or head coach.
He is the Vice-President of the National Football Museum, based in Preston, and a member of the Executive Committee of the League Managers Association, and the only manager to win the top league honours and the Double north and south of the England-Scotland border (winning the Premiership with Manchester United, and the Scottish Premier League with Aberdeen).[citation needed]
St. Mirren (1974–1978)
Aberdeen (1978–1986)
- Scottish Premier Division: 1979–80, 1983–84, 1984–85
- Scottish Cup: 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1985–86
- Scottish League Cup: 1985–86
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1982–83
- UEFA Super Cup: 1983
Manchester United (1986–present)
- Premier League: 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09
- FA Cup: 1989–90, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1998–99, 2003–04
- League Cup: 1991–92, 2005–06, 2008–09
- FA Charity/Community Shield: 1990*, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2007, 2008
- UEFA Champions League: 1998–99, 2007–08
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1990–91
- UEFA Super Cup: 1991
- Intercontinental Cup: 1999
- FIFA Club World Cup: 2008
Individual
- Football Writers' Association Tribute Award: 1996
- Mussabini Medal: 1999
- UEFA Champions League Manager of the Year: 1998–99
- BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award: 1999
- BBC Sports Personality of the Year Team Award: 1999
- IFFHS Club Coach of the Year: 1999
- LMA Manager of the Decade: 1990s
- Laureus World Sports Award for Team of the Year: 2000
- BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award: 2001
- English Football Hall of Fame: 2002
- Onze d'Or Coach of the Year: 1999, 2007
- Professional Footballers' Association Merit Award: 2007
- UEFA Team of the Year: 2007, 2008
- FA Premier League Manager of the Year: 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–00, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008-09
- FA Premier League Manager of the Month: August 1993, October 1994, February 1996, March 1996, February 1997, October 1997, January 1999, April 1999, August 1999, March 2000, April 2000, February 2001, April 2003, December 2003, February 2005, March 2006, August 2006, October 2006, February 2007, January 2008, March 2008, January 2009, April 2009
- LMA Manager of the Year: 1998–99, 2007–08
- World Soccer Magazine World Manager of the Year: 1993, 1999, 2007, 2008
Statistics
Player
| Club performance | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Scotland | League | Scottish Cup | Scottish League Cup | Europe | Total | |||||||
| 1957–58 | Queen's Park | Second Division | ||||||||||
| 1958–59 | ||||||||||||
| 1959–60 | ||||||||||||
| 1957–60 | Total | 31 | 15 | |||||||||
| 1960–61 | St. Johnstone | First Division | ||||||||||
| 1961–62 | ||||||||||||
| 1962–63 | Second Division | |||||||||||
| 1963–64 | First Division | |||||||||||
| 1960–64 | Total | 37 | 19 | |||||||||
| 1964–65 | Dunfermline Athletic | First Division | ||||||||||
| 1965–66 | ||||||||||||
| 1966–67 | ||||||||||||
| 1964–67 | Total | 89 | 66 | |||||||||
| 1967–68 | Rangers | First Division | ||||||||||
| 1968–69 | ||||||||||||
| 1967–69 | Total | 41 | 25 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 57 | 44 | |
| 1969–70 | Falkirk | First Division | ||||||||||
| 1970–71 | ||||||||||||
| 1971–72 | ||||||||||||
| 1972–73 | ||||||||||||
| 1969–73 | Total | 95 | 36 | |||||||||
| 1973–74 | Ayr United | First Division | 24 | 9 | ||||||||
| 1973–74 | Total | 24 | 9 | |||||||||
| Total | Scotland | 317 | 170 | |||||||||
| Career Total | 317 | 170 | ||||||||||
Manager
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | GF | GA | Win % | ||||
| East Stirlingshire |  | 1 June 1974 | 20 October 1974 | &0000000000000017.00000017 | &0000000000000010.00000010 | &0000000000000004.0000004 | &0000000000000003.0000003 | &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"? | &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"? | &0000000000000058.82000058.82 |
| St. Mirren | | 21 October 1974 | 31 May 1978 | &0000000000000151.000000151 | &0000000000000063.00000063 | &0000000000000049.00000049 | &0000000000000039.00000039 | &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"? | &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"? | &0000000000000041.72000041.72 |
| Aberdeen | | 1 August 1978 | 5 November 1986 | &0000000000000455.000000455 | &0000000000000269.000000269 | &0000000000000106.000000106 | &0000000000000080.00000080 | &0000000000000914.000000914 | &0000000000000374.000000374 | &0000000000000059.12000059.12 |
| Scotland | | 10 September 1985 | 13 June 1986 | &0000000000000010.00000010 | &0000000000000003.0000003 | &0000000000000004.0000004 | &0000000000000003.0000003 | &0000000000000008.0000008 | &0000000000000005.0000005 | &0000000000000030.00000030.00 |
| Manchester United |  | 6 November 1986 | Present | &0000000000001286.0000001,286 | &0000000000000754.000000754 | &0000000000000303.000000303 | &0000000000000229.000000229 | &0000000000002322.0000002,322 | &0000000000001150.0000001,150 | &0000000000000058.63000058.63 |
| Total | &0000000000001919.0000001,919 | &0000000000001099.0000001,099 | &0000000000000466.000000466 | &0000000000000354.000000354 | &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"? | &Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?".Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "?"? | &0000000000000057.27000057.27 | |||
- As of 26 September 2009.
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