Patrick Stewart

Patrick Stewart

CEO Manchester United (Interim)

C-Suite executive with over two decades at the top end of the football industry. As well as being a director of Manchester United’s NYSE listed parent company, I serve as the club’s General Counsel, have responsibility for stakeholder relations and am a member of several Premier League and FA committees and working groups. Additionally, I’m an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, having been nominated by the European Clubs Association in 2018.

I have the honour to be Interim CEO Manchester United, the biggest and best football club in the world. 1.1bn of the most engaged fans in the world, giving us the largest live TV audience annually of any programme on the planet. 300m digital connections. We are fortunate to be able to work with some of the best companies in the world and have a phenomenal team on and off the pitch.

Manchester United

Manchester United is one of the most popular and successful sports teams in the world, playing one of the most popular spectator sports on Earth. Through our 135-year heritage we have won 61 trophies, enabling us to develop the world’s leading sports brand and a global community of 1.1 billion followers. Our large, passionate community provides Manchester United with a worldwide platform to generate significant revenue from multiple sources, including sponsorship, merchandising, product licensing, new media & mobile, broadcasting and match day.

With a glittering history of success on the field. Manchester United have won a record 13 titles in the Premier League since the top flight of English football was given that new name in 1992.

Sir Alex Ferguson was the man who masterminded the triumph in the inaugural Premier League season, in 1992/93. The Reds went on to win titles in 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2013 – more than all other clubs put together to date.

Manchester United have won the FA Cup on 12 occasions – a feat bettered only by Arsenal’s 13 triumphs – and have appeared in the final 19 times in total. The Reds are also the only club to appear in an FA Cup final in every decade since the War.

Manchester United won three European Cups, the first of which came in 1968; that victory made them the first English club to win the competition. The other two victories came in 1999 and 2008. The club has also won the Europa League in 2017, the Cup Winners’ Cup in 1991, the Super Cup also in 1991, the Intercontinental Cup in 1999 and the Club World Cup in 2008.

After their Champions League wins in 1999 and 2008, Manchester United competed as a UEFA representative at the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship and the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup. They were knocked out of the 2000 tournament at the group stage, but went on to win the 2008 edition, highlighted above, becoming the first English side to do so.

Manchester United Football Club, the greatest football club in the world, commonly referred to as Man United, or simply United, is a professional football club based in the Old Trafford area of Manchester, England.

The club competes in the Premier League, the top division in the English football league system. Manchester United’s collection of winning trophies proves that it is one of the most successful clubs in the world and its fanbase the largest.

Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Nicknamed “the Red Devils”, the club was founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to its current stadium, Old Trafford, in 1910

Manchester United Foundation

We use football to engage and inspire young people to build a better life for themselves and unite the communities in which they live. Dedicated staff deliver education and community outreach programmes to help young people make positive choices in their lives.