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This article is about the league history of F.C. United of Manchester, which is an English football club based in Moston, Manchester. == Formation == The club was founded on 14 June 2005 by supporters of Manchester United. Although they had various reasons for their dissatisfaction,〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=ESPN Soccernet.com )〕 the prime catalyst for FC United's formation was the hostile takeover of Manchester United by the American businessman Malcolm Glazer.〔(FC UNITED ARE SERIOUS ) NonLeagueDaily.com, 9 June 2005〕 Manchester United supporters had previously considered forming a new club in response to a proposed takeover by Rupert Murdoch in 1998, but the takeover bid was unsuccessful so the idea was not implemented. When it was announced that Glazer was considering taking over the club, the idea was brought up again as a possible "last resort" and discussed in Manchester United fanzines including Red Issue and United We Stand. The Glazer family obtained overall control of Manchester United on 12 May 2005, and supporters who had opposed the takeover organised a meeting at the Manchester Methodist Hall on 19 May. Although the focus of the meeting was on continuing to oppose Manchester United's new owners rather than forming a new club, the meeting's chairman, Andy Walsh, announced that the formation of a new club would be discussed at a second meeting on 30 May and that Kris Stewart, the then chairman of AFC Wimbledon (another supporter-owned club that was established three years earlier), had given much advice on setting up the club. The meeting took place at the Apollo Theatre, Manchester. It was decided that the club would be formed if 1,000 people pledged financial support by the end of July. This target was exceeded and the steering committee pushed ahead with plans for the club. A nearby club, Leigh Railway Mechanics Institute, were in financial difficulties at the time and asked FC United to take them over, as the extra support from FC United would have ensured their club's survival. The founders of FC United refused this proposition because they were creating the club in response to an unpopular takeover and didn't feel that taking over an existing club was appropriate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Bolton News )〕 The clubs remained on good terms, though, and FC United's first public match was a friendly against Leigh RMI. The club's founders originally chose the name FC United, but the Football Association rejected this as too generic. Those who had pledged money to the club were then asked to vote on a name from ''FC United of Manchester'', ''FC Manchester Central'', ''AFC Manchester 1878'' and ''Newton Heath United FC''. On 14 June 2005, it was announced that FC United of Manchester had been chosen with 44.7% of the vote. (AFC Manchester 1878 received 25.7% of the vote, Newton Heath United FC 25.4% and FC Manchester Central 1.7%). FC United continues to be used as an abbreviated form of the club's name. Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson criticised the formation of the club, stating that the club and its management seemed to be interested more in themselves than in Manchester United.〔(Fergie lays into FC United ) Manchester Evening News, 5 September 2006〕 Karl Marginson was appointed as manager on 22 June, and the club held trials for players on 26 June. 900 players applied to take part in the trials, of whom 200 were selected to do so and 17 were chosen to play for FC United, although most of those have since left the club. By 8 July 2005, over 4,000 people had pledged money to FC United and the club had over £100,000 in the bank. FC United were admitted to the second division of the North West Counties Football League, putting the club at level ten of the English football league system, nine levels below the Premier League. The league had four spare places at the time, so no other club was denied promotion as a result of FC United's admission. The club then arranged to play their 2005–06 home matches at Bury's stadium, Gigg Lane where the majority of home league games have been played since—with the exception of some fixture clashes which has seen them move games to Altrincham's Moss Lane in 2006, Radcliffe Borough's Stainton Park in 2007 and Stalybridge Celtic's Bower Fold in 2010. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of F.C. United of Manchester」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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