Financial Overview

Year	Turnover	Pre-tax profit	Wages / Turnover ratio (%)	Employees
2005/06	105.925	-3.486	66.0	276
2004/05	107.561	-8.672	60.8	297
2003/04*	169.080	27.907	45.5	504
2002/03*	173.001	39.345	46.0	493
2001/02*	146.062	32.347	47.9	495
2000/01*	129.569	21.778	38.6	536
1999/00*	116.005	16.788	38.6	526
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1993/94*	43.815	10.766

* = Manchester United plc

Spectator Numbers since 1994/95

(domestic league matches only)

Archived Articles on Manchester United FC

United In Race For Financial Superiority - 07/01/2008
Manchester United is keen to correct the impression that it has slipped down the table of football's money league arguing that recent analyses of its own data and that of its rivals do not compare like with like...

Man United Head For Record Profits - 18/12/2007
Manchester United are expected to announce record profits next month. Revenue is forecast to be more than £200m and profits at least £60m. There have been significant increases in the club's match day and commercial revenues. It looks as if the Glazers could be on track for their ambitious target of profits of £108.9m by 2011.

Season Ticket Hike Angers United Fans - 30/04/2007
Manchester United fans have been upset by a decision to increase some season ticket prices by 14 per cent after a 12.5 per cent across-the-board rise last summer...

United Goes Into The Red - 15/04/2007
The Glazer family's takeover of Manchester United has resulted in a pre-tax loss of £137.7m in the club's holding company...

United Profits Triple - 28/01/2007
Manchester United's first financial results since it was taken private by the Glazer family reveal pre-tax profits for the 12 months to June 2006 of £30.8m, almost tripled from £10.8m...

Man United Think Chelsea Are Not A Threat Off The Pitch - 24/12/2006
Manchester United thinks that Chelsea are a threat on the pitch but not off according to documents leaked to The Times...

Manchester United Lose Two Directors - 22/10/2006
David Gill has been left looking isolated as chief executive of Manchester United after the club announced the imminent departure of both its finance and commercial directors...

United Boost Match Day Revenue - 10/09/2006
With Old Trafford's capacity boosted to 75,800, Manchester United's matches against Spurs, Celtic in the Champions League and Arsenal are likely to bring the club their three biggest attendances at the stadium...

Glazers Tighten Grip On United With Debt Refinancing - 21/07/2006
Manchester United's improving financial prospects have been reflected in a £660m debt reinfinancing deal...

Manchester United Get Biggest Ever Shirt Deal - 09/04/2006
Manchester United have got the biggest shirt sponsorship deal ever concluded in English football with a four-year £56.5m contract with American International Group...

United Profits Fall - 23/01/2006
Manchester United saw a 20 per cent drop in operating profit from £58.3m to £46m for the 11 months to 30 June...

Glazers Bring In Their Own Finance Man - 12/01/2006
Malcolm Glazer appoints Ed Woodward as 'chief of staff' to liaise with banks...

Champions League Exit Poses Funding Problems For Glazers - 09/12/2005
Wednesday's night exit of Manchester United from the Champions League poses funding problems for their American owners...

United Step Search For New Shirt Sponsor - 01/12/2005
Manchester United commercial director Andy Anson is engaged in a search for a shirt sponsor, under orders from the Glazers to generate more revenue than from the £9m a year deal with Vodafone that ends...

Vodafone Ends Shirt Deal Two Years Early - 23/11/2005
Vodafone has ended its shirt sponsorship deal with Manchester United two years early. The £36m (£9 million a year) deal...

High Cost of Failure for Glazers - 6/11/2005
The Glazers' finely balanced business plan, initially described as 'potentially damaging' by the then United board, was based on a series of performance forecasts...

Glazer Family Now In Full Control At Manchester United - 30/06/2005
The three sons of Malcolm Glazer made their first visit to Old Trafford yesterday (29th September 2005), following secret meetings with the FA in London on Tuesday...

United Nike Contract Under Threat - 30/05/2005
Nike could pull out of its £303m merchandising deal with Manchester United if the club's performance doesn't improve...

Glazer Wins Control Of United - 14/05/2005
Controversial American Malcolm Glazer has won control of Manchester United and looks likely to secure enough shares to delist the club and take it private...

Fans Go For Big Stake In Manchester United - 30/04/2005
Following this week's 'put up or shut up' warning by the Takeover Panel to Malcom Glazer, Manchester United fans group Shareholders United was reported to have written to two of the largest investors in the football club and offered to buy their shareholdings...

Manchester United directors under pressure over Glazer Bid - 14/04/2005
Manchester United's directors are under increasing pressure in relation to the forthcoming bid for their club from Malcolm Glazer and his family expected on April 16th...

Man United Could Earn £15 million By Going It Alone - 28/03/2005
Manchester United could earn an additional £15m by dismantling its Premiership broadcasting contract and striking its own media deals, according to accountants Ernst and Young...

Profits Halve At Manchester United - 22/03/2005
Manchester United's half-year profits have more than halved, hit by falling television income and the cost of buying new players. Pre-tax profits for the six months to 31 January were down from...

Fans Plan Counter-Attack As Glazer Bid Looms - 13/03/2005
Manchester United fans are planning their counter attack against the bid for the club expected from Malcolm Glazer and his family by the end of the week...

Glazer Takeover Could Lead To Breakaway Team - 23/02/2005
When the period of due diligence is completed at the end of this week, Malcolm Glazer is likely to make his takeover bid for Manchester United. If he pitches his offer as high as 311p a share, he may well tempt the Irish racing tycoons...

Glazer Renews Bid For United But Board Not Interested - 12/02/2005
Manchester United's board have given as little help as they can to the Glazer family's bid for the club bearing in mind their legal duty to shareholders. Indeed, some City analysts think...

Glazer Revives United Bid - 29/01/2005
Glazer has revived his bid for Manchester United. He has appointed investment bankers at NM Rothschild as his advisers...

Glazer Ready For Second Go At Buying United - 21/12/2004
American sports tycoon Malcolm Glazer is thinking of mounting a second attempt to buy Manchester United. The news came after secret talks in Florida last week between Glazer and United chief executive David Gill...

United's Plea To Glazer: Let Us Have Our Directors Back - 06/12/2004
The inherent instability of the current situation at Manchester United is that the club has had to appeal to one antagonistic shareholder and one apparently indifferent one to try and get their commercial director reinstated...

Ferguson Tells Glazer To Leave United Alone - 21/11/2004
Sir Alex Ferguson has dealt the latest blow to Malcolm Glazer's attempt to take over Manchester United by declaring, 'We don't want the club in anyone else's hands.'...

United Board Tried To Deal With Glazer - 18/11/2004
The Financial Times has revealed that the Manchester United board tried to do a deal with Malcolm Glazer before repudiating him...

United try to make Glazer put up or shut up - 15/11/2004
Manchester United are following a strategy of increasing the pressure on Malcolm Glazer to clarify whether he intends to make a hostile bid for the club....

Now Glazer Gets The Sack - 13/11/2004
Malcolm Glazer's victory in ousting three members of the Manchester United board and voting down a new share issue has turned out to be a pyrrhic one...

Glazer Ousts Three from United Board - 11/11/2004
Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner Malcolm Glazer has used his 28.1% stake in the club to oust three members of Manchester United plc's board...

Glazer May Try To Oust Directors - 06/11/2004
Malcolm Glazer may oppose the re-election of United directors at annual meeting...

United Profits Fall - 4/10/2004
Full year pre-tax profits at Manchester United in the year to 31 July fell from £39.3m to £27.9m. Early elimination from the Champions League and a restructuring of the competition saw fewer games played at Old Trafford hitting income...

United Board rebuffs Glazer - 31/10/2004
Manchester United's board has rebuffed Malcolm Glazer and ended discussions with him about his share offer...

Japanese Bank Tries To Block Glazer - 23/10/2004
Nomura, Japan's largest investment bank, is trying to find a way of blocking a takeover of Manchester United by Malcolm Glazer who has increased his stake in the club once again to 28.1%...

Glazer Ups Stake - 19/10/2004
Malcolm Glazer bought another 6.1 million shares in Manchester United on Monday to increase his stake to 27.6 per cent. It is understood that he will continue buying until...

Glazer Fights Back After Rebuff - 17/10/2004
Malcolm Glazer has increased his shareholding in Manchester United to 25.5 per cent after Irish horse racing millionaires J P McManus and John Magnier rebuffed his attempt to buy their stake in the club...

United Fans Fight Takeover - 10/10/2004
Manchester United's biggest shareholders, Irish racing tycoons John Magnier and J P McManus, are reported to have said they will sell their shares in the club. Meanwhile, Manchester's Altrincham Moss Lane ground was the setting for bizzare scenes when the reserve game against Birmingham City was halted for five minutes...

Manchester United to Reveal Agent Payments - 26/09/2004
Manchester United are to publish details of payments to every agent involved in work at Old Trafford as part of their effort to improve standards of corporate governance...

Glazer Raises Stake Again - 27/06/2004
U.S. entrepreneur Malcolm Glazer has increased his stake in Manchester United by paying about £5.9m for less than a further one per cent stake in the club...

Club Cuts Ties With Agency Run By Fergie's Son - 06/06/2004
Manchester United is cutting its ties with Elite, the sports agency run by the son of its manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, following an internal review of its player transfer policy...

Glazer Ups Stake Again - 07/05/2004
US entrepreneur Malcolm Glazer upped his stake in Manchester United to 18.25 per cent at the end of April. Some of the shares acquired by Mr Glazer were sold by Maurice Watkins, one of the club's...

Fans Back Fergie But Club Admits Damage - 01/02/2004
United fans made it quite clear that they backed Sir Alex Ferguson through their demonstrations of support for the embattled manager at the game against Southampton on 31 January...

Not Much Natural Justice In Ferdinand Case? - 28/12/2003
Whatever one thinks of the rights and wrongs of Rio Ferdinand's eight month suspension for failing to take a drug test, the usual civil remedies for testing the procedures used do not appear to be available...

Latest Results Confirm Strength of Manchester Utd. - 07/04/2003
Although they show a 34 per cent fall in pre-tax profits in the six months to 31 January, the latest results for Manchester United emphasise the strength of the club...