2006–07 Manchester United F.C. season: Difference between revisions

Manchester United
2006-07 season
Chairman	Joel & Avram Glazer
Manager	Sir Alex Ferguson
Premier League	1st
FA Cup	Runners-up
Carling Cup	Fourth Round
UEFA Champions League	Semi-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Cristiano Ronaldo (17); All: Cristiano Ronaldo (23); Wayne Rooney (23)
Highest home attendance	76,098 vs Blackburn Rovers (31 March 2007)
Lowest home attendance	61,325 vs Middlesbrough (19 March 2007)

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Preceding article: Manchester United F.C. season 2005-06

Succeeding article: Manchester United F.C. season 2007-08

The 2006-07 season was Manchester United's 115th season in the Football League, and their 32nd consecutive season in the top division of English football.^[1] United enjoyed a much more successful season than the season before, winning the Premier League by a six-point margin over Chelsea. They also reached the final of the FA Cup and the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League, losing to Chelsea and AC Milan respectively. However, for all their success in the major competitions, the club was unable to defend the Carling Cup title they had won in 2005-06, losing to Southend United in the Fourth Round.

Manchester United were not only dominant on a team level in 2006-07, but also on an individual level, with eight United players earning spots in the PFA Team of the Year, as well as Cristiano Ronaldo picking up no less than eight individual awards for his performances over the season and Sir Alex Ferguson winning the Premier League's Manager of the Season award.

The 2006-07 season also marked the 50th anniversary of the Busby Babes' first foray into European competition. The event was marked by a charity football match, organised in collaboration with UEFA, who were commemorating 50 years since the signing of the Treaty of Rome, against a team of the best players from Europe's top clubs.

Pre-season and Friendlies

United began their pre-season in July 2006 with a friendly tournament in South Africa, their first time in the country for 13 years. The tournament involved matches against South Africa's top two teams, Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs, followed by a further match against the winner of a play-off between the two host sides. The Red Devils started well, beating Orlando Pirates 4-0 in their first game, but almost came unstuck against Kaizer Chiefs, requiring an 83rd minute goal from Dong Fangzhuo to secure the 1-0 win. Kaiser Chiefs then beat Orlando Pirates in the play-off, and managed to hold a relatively sub-par United side to a 0-0 draw before beating them 4-3 on penalties.

The team then took their pre-season back to Britain, beating Celtic 3-0 at Parkhead. This was followed by a 2-1 defeat to Preston North End, but the team bounced back to defeat Macclesfield Town 2-1 two days later.

The start of August saw United take part in the Amsterdam Tournament, involving Ajax, Internazionale and FC Porto. The Reds played two games in Amsterdam, beating both Porto and Ajax, but the tournament will be remembered mostly for the sendings-off of both Paul Scholes - for a clumsy, mistimed challenge in the match against Porto - and Wayne Rooney - who inadvertently caught Porto defender Pepe in the face with his hand as he jumped uncontested for a high ball. In accordance with FIFA disciplinary procedure, the red cards resulted in the pair missing the first three games of the season.

Back to Britain again, and a fixture against Oxford United was next up, which United won comfortably 4-1. Finally, United returned home to Old Trafford on 12 August for their only home friendly of the 2006-07 pre-season. The visitors were Sevilla who helped mark the official opening of Old Trafford's new North-West and North-East quadrants with a 3-0 win to United in front of a half-capacity crowd.

United played one more friendly during the 2006-07 season, this final one marking the 50th anniversary of the Busby Babes' first foray into European competition as the Red Devils took on a European XI managed by Italian World Cup-winning manager Marcello Lippi. The match also celebrated 50 years since the signing of the Treaty of Rome, the treaty that laid the foundations for what we know today as the European Union. The original squad selected by Lippi was hit by last minute injuries and withdrawals by some big names like Ronaldinho and David Beckham, forcing replacements to be drawn from Premiership teams like Bolton Wanderers and Portsmouth at short notice. United started the game very brightly, finding themselves 4-1 up at half-time, thanks to goals from Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo and Wes Brown. However, no further goals came for the home side as the visitors scored two consolation goals, leaving United as 4-3 winners.

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
2006-07-15	Orlando Pirates	ABSA Stadium	4 – 0	Solskjær (2) 4', 43', Richardson 57', Seema 60' (o.g.)
2006-07-18	Kaizer Chiefs	Newlands	1 – 0	Dong 83'
2006-07-22	Kaizer Chiefs	Loftus Versfeld	0 – 0 (3-4p)
2006-07-26	Celtic	A	3 – 0	Evans 8', Scholes (2) 61', 85'
2006-07-29	Preston North End	A	1 – 2	Solskjær 85' (pen.)	12,541
2006-07-31	Macclesfield Town	A	2 – 1	Rooney 46', Campbell 71'
2006-08-04	FC Porto	Amsterdam ArenA	3 – 1	Scholes 11', Rooney 19', Solskjær 73'	25,000
2006-08-05	Ajax	Amsterdam ArenA	1 – 0	Giggs 76'
2006-08-08	Oxford United	A	4 – 1	Solskjær 6', Ronaldo (2) 13', 58', Fletcher 15'
2006-08-12	Sevilla	H	3 – 0	Saha 63', Ronaldo 88', D. Jones 90'	40,134
2007-03-13	Europe XI	H	4 – 3	Rooney (2) 6', 43', Brown 9', Ronaldo 35'	74,343

Premier League

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance	League position
20 August 2006	Fulham	H	5 – 1	Saha 8', Pearce 14' (o.g.), Rooney (2) 16', 64', Ronaldo 19'	75,115	1st
23 August 2006	Charlton Athletic	A	3 – 0	Fletcher 49', Saha 80', Solskjær 90'	25,422	1st
26 August 2006	Watford	A	2 – 1	Silvestre 12', Giggs 52'	19,453	1st
9 September 2006	Tottenham Hotspur	H	1 – 0	Giggs 9'	75,453	1st
17 September 2006	Arsenal	H	0 – 1		75,595	2nd
23 September 2006	Reading	A	1 – 1	Ronaldo 73'	24,098	2nd
1 October 2006	Newcastle United	H	2 – 0	Solskjær (2) 41', 49'	75,664	1st
14 October 2006	Wigan Athletic	A	3 – 1	Vidić 62', Saha 66', Solskjær 90'	20,631	1st
22 October 2006	Liverpool	H	2 – 0	Scholes 39', Ferdinand 66'	75,828	1st
28 October 2006	Bolton Wanderers	A	4 – 0	Rooney (3) 10', 16', 89', Ronaldo 82'	27,229	1st
4 November 2006	Portsmouth	H	3 – 0	Saha 3' (pen.), Ronaldo 10', Vidić 66'	76,004	1st
11 November 2006	Blackburn Rovers	A	1 – 0	Saha 64'	26,162	1st
18 November 2006	Sheffield United	A	2 – 1	Rooney (2) 30', 75'	32,584	1st
26 November 2006	Chelsea	H	1 – 1	Saha 29'	75,948	1st
29 November 2006	Everton	H	3 – 0	Ronaldo 39', Evra 63', O'Shea 88'	75,723	1st
2 December 2006	Middlesbrough	A	2 – 1	Saha 19' (pen.), Fletcher 68'	31,238	1st
9 December 2006	Manchester City	H	3 – 1	Rooney 6', Saha 45', Ronaldo 84'	75,858	1st
17 December 2006	West Ham United	A	0 – 1		34,966	1st
23 December 2006	Aston Villa	A	3 – 0	Ronaldo (2) 58', 85', Scholes 64'	42,551	1st
26 December 2006	Wigan Athletic	H	3 – 1	Ronaldo (2) 47', 51', Solskjær 59'	76,018	1st
30 December 2006	Reading	H	3 – 2	Solskjær 33', Ronaldo (2) 59', 77'	75,910	1st
1 January 2007	Newcastle United	A	2 – 2	Scholes (2) 40', 46'	52,302	1st
13 January 2007	Aston Villa	H	3 – 1	Park 11', Carrick 13', Ronaldo 35'	76,078	1st
21 January 2007	Arsenal	A	1 – 2	Rooney 53'	60,128	1st
31 January 2007	Watford	H	4 – 0	Ronaldo 20' (pen.), Doyley 60' (o.g.), Larsson 70', Rooney 71'	76,032	1st
4 February 2007	Tottenham Hotspur	A	4 – 0	Ronaldo 45' (pen.), Vidić 48', Scholes 52', Giggs 77'	36,146	1st
10 February 2007	Charlton Athletic	H	2 – 0	Park 24', Fletcher 82'	75,883	1st
24 February 2007	Fulham	A	2 – 1	Giggs 29', Ronaldo 88'	24,459	1st
3 March 2007	Liverpool	A	1 – 0	O'Shea 90'	44,403	1st
17 March 2007	Bolton Wanderers	H	4 – 1	Park (2) 14', 25', Rooney (2) 17', 74'	76,058	1st
31 March 2007	Blackburn Rovers	H	4 – 1	Scholes 61', Carrick 72', Park 83', Solskjær 90'	76,098	1st
7 April 2007	Portsmouth	A	1 – 2	O'Shea 90'	20,223	1st
17 April 2007	Sheffield United	H	2 – 0	Carrick 4', Rooney 50'	75,540	1st
21 April 2007	Middlesbrough	H	1 – 1	Richardson 3'	75,967	1st
28 April 2007	Everton	A	4 – 2	O'Shea 61', P. Neville 68' (o.g.), Rooney 79', Eagles 90'	38,610	1st
5 May 2007	Manchester City	A	1 – 0	Ronaldo 34' (pen.)	47,244	1st
9 May 2007	Chelsea	A	0 – 0		41,794	1st
13 May 2007	West Ham United	H	0 – 1		75,927	1st

Pos	Club	Pld	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Manchester United	38	28	5	5	83	27	+56	89
2	Chelsea	38	24	11	3	64	24	+40	83
3	Liverpool	38	20	8	10	57	27	+30	68

Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points

FA Cup

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
7 January 2007	Round 3	Aston Villa	H	2 – 1	Larsson 55', Solskjær 90'	74,924
27 January 2007	Round 4	Portsmouth	H	2 – 1	Rooney (2) 77', 83'	71,137
17 February 2007	Round 5	Reading	H	1 – 1	Carrick 45'	70,608
27 February 2007	Round 5 Replay	Reading	A	3 – 2	Heinze 2', Saha 4', Solskjær 6'	23,821
10 March 2007	Round 6	Middlesbrough	A	2 – 2	Rooney 23', Ronaldo 68' (pen.)	33,308
19 March 2007	Round 6 Replay	Middlesbrough	H	1 – 0	Ronaldo 76'	61,325
14 April 2007	Semi-final	Watford	Villa Park	4 – 1	Rooney (2) 7', 66', Ronaldo 28', Richardson 82'	37,425
19 May 2007	Final	Chelsea	Wembley	0 – 1		89,826

Carling Cup

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
25 October 2006	Round 3	Crewe Alexandra	A	2 – 1	Solskjær 26', Lee 119'	10,046
7 November 2006	Round 4	Southend United	A	0 – 1		11,532

Champions League

Group stage

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance	Group position
13 September 2006	Celtic	H	3 – 2	Saha 30' (pen.), 40', Solskjær 47'	74,031	1st
26 September 2006	SL Benfica	A	1 – 0	Saha 60'	61,000	1st
17 October 2006	FC København	H	3 – 0	Scholes 39', O'Shea 46', Richardson 83'	72,020	1st
1 November 2006	FC København	A	0 – 1		40,000	1st
21 November 2006	Celtic	A	0 – 1		60,632	2nd
6 December 2006	SL Benfica	H	3 – 1	Vidić 45', Giggs 61', Saha 75'	74,955	1st

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Manchester United	6	4	0	2	10	5	5	12
2	Celtic	6	3	0	3	8	9	-1	9
3	Benfica	6	2	1	3	7	8	-1	7
4	København	6	2	1	3	5	8	-3	7

Knock-out stage

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
20 February 2007	First Knockout Round First leg	LOSC Lille Metropole	A	1 – 0	Giggs 83'	41,000
7 March 2007	First Knockout Round Second leg	LOSC Lille Metropole	H	1 – 0	Larsson 72'	75,182
4 April 2007	Quarter-final First leg	AS Roma	A	1 – 2	Rooney 60'	77,000
10 April 2007	Quarter-final Second leg	AS Roma	H	7 – 1	Carrick (2) 11', 60', Smith 17', Rooney 19' Ronaldo (2) 44', 49', Evra 81'	74,476
24 April 2007	Semi-final First leg	Milan	H	3 – 2	Ronaldo 5', Rooney (2) 59', 90'	73,820
2 May 2007	Semi-final Second leg	Milan	A	0 – 3		78,500

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		Carling Cup		Europe		Total
No.	Pos.	Name	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	Edwin van der Sar	32	0	3	0	0	0	12	0	45	0
2	DF	Gary Neville (c)	24	0	3	0	0	0	6	0	33	0
3	DF	Patrice Evra	22(2)	1	3(1)	0	0(1)	0	4(3)	1	28(7)	2
4	DF	Gabriel Heinze	17(5)	0	6	1	2	0	7(1)	0	30(6)	1
5	DF	Rio Ferdinand	33	1	7	0	0	0	8(1)	0	47(1)	1
6	DF	Wes Brown	17(5)	0	6	0	2	0	5	0	30(5)	0
7	MF	Cristiano Ronaldo	31(3)	17	6(1)	3	1	0	11	3	48(3)	23
8	FW	Wayne Rooney	33(2)	14	5(2)	5	1	0	12	4	49(4)	23
9	FW	Louis Saha	18(6)	8	2	1	0	0	5(3)	4	25(9)	13
11	MF	Ryan Giggs (vc)	25(5)	4	6	0	0	0	8	2	38(5)	6
13	MF	Park Ji-Sung	8(6)	5	4	0	0	0	0(1)	0	12(8)	5
14	FW	Alan Smith	6(3)	0	2(1)	0	2	0	1(3)	1	10(6)	1
15	DF	Nemanja Vidić	25	3	5	0	0	0	8	1	38	4
16	MF	Michael Carrick	29(4)	3	6	1	0	0	12	2	46(4)	6
17	FW	Henrik Larsson	5(2)	1	3(1)	1	0	0	2	1	10(3)	3
18	MF	Paul Scholes	29(1)	6	3(1)	0	0	0	10(1)	1	41(2)	7
20	FW	Ole Gunnar Solskjær	9(10)	7	3(3)	2	1	1	2(4)	1	14(16)	11
21	FW	Dong Fangzhuo	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
22	DF	John O'Shea	16(16)	4	2(3)	0	1	0	8(3)	1	26(21)	5
23	MF	Kieran Richardson	8(7)	1	2(1)	1	2	0	0(4)	1	11(12)	3
24	MF	Darren Fletcher	16(8)	3	2(3)	0	1	0	6(3)	0	24(14)	3
25	MF	David Jones	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	0
27	DF	Mikaël Silvestre	6(8)	1	2	0	2	0	3	0	13(8)	1
29	GK	Tomasz Kuszczak	6	0	5	0	2	0	0	0	13	0
33	MF	Chris Eagles	1(1)	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1(1)	1
34	DF	Ryan Shawcross	0	0	0	0	1(1)	0	0	0	1(1)	0
35	DF	Kieran Lee	1	0	0	0	0(2)	1	0	0	1(2)	1
36	DF	David Gray	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
41	FW	Phil Marsh	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
42	MF	Michael Barnes	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0	0(1)	0
49	MF	Ritchie Jones	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
2006-07-31	MF	Michael Carrick	Tottenham Hotspur	£14m

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
2006-07-01	FW	David Bellion	OGC Nice	Undisclosed
2006-07-14	FW	Sylvan Ebanks-Blake	Plymouth Argyle	£200k
2006-07-28	FW	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Real Madrid	£10.3m
2006-08-10	DF	Paul McShane	West Bromwich Albion	Undisclosed
2006-08-10	GK	Luke Steele	West Bromwich Albion	Undisclosed
2006-08-31	MF	Liam Miller	Sunderland	Undisclosed
2007-01-03	MF	David Jones	Derby County	Undisclosed
2007-02-14	GK	Tim Howard	Everton	Undisclosed

Loan in

Date From	Date To	Position	Name	From
2006-08-10	2007-06-30	GK	Tomasz Kuszczak	West Bromwich Albion
2007-01-02	2007-03-12	FW	Henrik Larsson	Helsingborg

Loan out

Date From	Date To	Position	Name	To
2006-07-01	2007-06-30	GK	Tim Howard	Everton
2006-08-04	2007-06-30	DF	Gerard Piqué	Real Zaragoza
2006-08-04	2006-08-10	GK	Luke Steele	Coventry City
2006-08-10	2007-01-01	DF	Adam Eckersley	Brondby
2006-08-10	2007-06-30	GK	Ben Foster	Watford
2006-08-11	2006-12-29	MF	Lee Martin	Rangers
2006-08-16	2006-12-28	DF	Phil Bardsley	Rangers
2006-08-17	2007-06-30	FW	Fraizer Campbell	Royal Antwerp
2006-08-17	2007-01-01	DF	Jonny Evans	Royal Antwerp
2006-08-17	2007-06-30	MF	Darron Gibson	Royal Antwerp
2006-08-17	2007-01-01	DF	Danny Simpson	Royal Antwerp
2006-08-31	2007-01-01	MF	Chris Eagles	NEC Nijmegen
2006-08-31	2007-01-01	FW	Giuseppe Rossi	Newcastle United
2006-10-28	2006-11-27	MF	Ritchie Jones	Colchester United
2006-11-17	2007-01-03	MF	David Jones	Derby County
2007-01-04	2007-06-30	DF	Jonny Evans	Sunderland
2007-01-04	2007-05-09	MF	Daniel Rose	Oxford United
2007-01-04	2007-06-30	DF	Ryan Shawcross	Royal Antwerp
2007-01-05	2007-06-30	DF	David Gray	Royal Antwerp
2007-01-08	2007-05-19	DF	Phil Bardsley	Aston Villa
2007-01-08	2007-06-30	DF	Adam Eckersley	Barnsley
2007-01-18	2007-06-30	FW	Giuseppe Rossi	Parma
2007-01-25	2007-06-30	MF	Lee Martin	Stoke City
2007-01-29	2007-06-30	DF	Danny Simpson	Sunderland
2007-02-12	2007-05-07	MF	Ritchie Jones	Barnsley

References

^ "Manchester United Season 2006/07". StretfordEnd.co.uk. Retrieved 2007-10-08.

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