2019–20 Manchester United F.C. season

Manchester United 2019–20
Club information
Manager	Ole Gunnar Solskjær
Stadium	Old Trafford, Sir Matt Busby Way
League Season information
Final League position	Premier League
Cup placements
FA Cup	Semi-finals
EFL Cup	Semi-finals
UEFA Europa League	Round of 16
Season statistics
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The 2019–20 season was Manchester United's 28th season in the Premier League and their 45th consecutive season in the top flight of English football. The club participated in the Premier League, the UEFA Europa League, the EFL Cup and the FA Cup.

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
1 July 2019	MF	Daniel James	Swansea City	Fee reported as £15 million
1 July 2019	DF	Aaron Wan-Bissaka	Crystal Palace	Fee reported as £50 million

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
30 June 2019	MF	Ander Herrera	Paris Saint-Germain	Free
	DF	Antonio Valencia	LDU Quito	Free
	DF	Regan Poole	Milton Keynes Dons	Free
	FW	Zak Dearnley	Released
	MF	Tom Sang	Released
	MF	Callum Whelan	Released
	MF	Matty Willock	Gillingham	Free
	FW	James Wilson	Aberdeen	Free
	DF	Matthew Olosunde	Rotherham United	Free
	DF	Tyrell Warren	Released
	MF	DJ Buffonge	Released
	MF	Callum Gribbin	Released
	FW	Millen Baars	Released
	FW	Joshua Bohui	NAC Breda	Free
	GK	James Thompson	Released

Loans out

Date from	Date to	Pos.	Name	To
8 July 2019	30 June 2020	GK	Kieran O'Hara	Burton Albion

Kits

Home

Away

Third

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Europe		Total		Discipline
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	David de Gea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	DF	Victor Lindelöf	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	DF	Eric Bailly	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	DF	Phil Jones	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	MF	Paul Pogba	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	FW	Alexis Sánchez	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	MF	Juan Mata	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	FW	Romelu Lukaku	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	FW	Marcus Rashford	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	FW	Anthony Martial	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	DF	Chris Smalling	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	GK	Lee Grant	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	MF	Jesse Lingard	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	MF	Andreas Pereira	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	DF	Marcos Rojo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	MF	Fred	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	DF	Ashley Young	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	DF	Diogo Dalot	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	MF	Daniel James	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	GK	Sergio Romero	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	DF	Luke Shaw	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	DF	Timothy Fosu-Mensah	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	FW	Mason Greenwood	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	MF	Angel Gomes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	DF	Aaron Wan-Bissaka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	MF	Nemanja Matić	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	GK	Dean Henderson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	DF	Matteo Darmian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	MF	James Garner	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	DF	Axel Tuanzebe	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	MF	Scott McTominay	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	GK	Joel Castro Pereira	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	FW	Tahith Chong	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
45	GK	Kieran O'Hara	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
48	MF	Ethan Hamilton	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
51	GK	Matěj Kovář	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
53	DF	Brandon Williams	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
59	DF	Lee O'Connor	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Own goals			—	0	—	0	—	0	—	0	—	0	—	—

Statistics accurate as of 12 May 2019.

Pre-season and friendlies

See also: 2019 International Champions Cup

United are preceding their 2019–20 campaign with a tour of Australia, Singapore, China, Norway and Wales. The first two matches were played at the Perth Stadium in Perth, Australia; the first was a 2–0 win over local side Perth Glory, with goals from Marcus Rashford and James Garner, followed by a meeting with historic rivals Leeds United, which the Red Devils won 4–0 thanks to goals from Rashford, Phil Jones, Anthony Martial, as well as a maiden senior goal for Mason Greenwood.

United are then taking part in the 2019 International Champions Cup, starting with a match against Internazionale in Singapore; Greenwood scored the only goal of the game to give United a 1–0 win. They will also play matches against Tottenham Hotspur in Shanghai and Milan in Cardiff. Between the matches against Tottenham and Milan, United will play an additional friendly against Kristiansund BK, the boyhood club of Norwegian manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær.

Date	Opponents	H/A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance
13 July 2019	Perth Glory	N	2–0	Rashford 60', Garner 85'	50,206
17 July 2019	Leeds United	N	4–0	Greenwood 7', Rashford 27', Jones 51', Martial 69' (pen.)	55,274
20 July 2019	Inter Milan	N	1–0	Greenwood 76'	52,897
25 July 2019	Tottenham Hotspur	N
3 August 2019	A.C. Milan	N

Premier League

Main article: 2019–20 Premier League

Matches

The Premier League fixtures were announced on 13 June 2019. It will be the first Premier League season to have a mid-season break and also will be the first season to use VAR.

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F–A	Scorers	Attendance	League position
11 August 2019	Chelsea	H

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Liverpool  (C)	38	32	3	3	85	33	+52	99	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Manchester City	38	26	3	9	102	35	+67	81
3	Manchester Utd	38	18	12	8	66	36	+30	66
4	Chelsea	38	20	6	12	69	54	+15	66
5	Leicester City	38	18	8	12	67	41	+26	62	Qualification for the Europa League group stage
6	Tottenham	38	16	11	11	61	47	+14	59	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
7	Wolves	38	15	14	9	51	40	+11	59
8	Arsenal	38	14	14	10	56	48	+8	56	Qualification for the Europa League group stage
8	Sheffield Utd	38	14	12	12	39	39	0	54
10	Burnley	38	15	9	14	43	50	−7	54
11	Southampton	38	15	7	16	51	60	−9	52
12	Everton	38	13	10	15	44	56	−12	49
13	Newcastle Utd	38	11	11	16	38	58	−20	44
14	Crystal Palace	38	11	10	17	31	50	−19	43
15	Brighton	38	9	14	15	39	54	−15	41
16	West Ham Utd	38	10	9	19	49	62	−13	39
17	Aston Villa	38	9	8	21	41	67	−26	35
18	Bournemouth  (R)	38	9	7	22	40	65	−25	34	Relegation to EFL Championship
19	Watford  (R)	38	8	10	20	36	64	−28	34
20	Norwich City  (R)	38	5	6	27	26	75	−49	21

Updated to games played on 26 July 2020
Source: Barclays Premier League
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

a. Manchester City were initially banned from all UEFA club competitions for the 2020–21 and 2021–22 seasons by the UEFA Club Financial Control Body on 14 February 2020 due to alleged breaches of the UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations. The decision was appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on 26 February 2020. That appeal was heard on 8 June 2020. The appeal was upheld on 13 July 2020, and the ban was overturned.
b. Since the winners of the 2019–20 EFL Cup, Manchester City, have qualified for the Champions League group stage by league position, the spot given to the EFL Cup winners (Europa League second qualifying round) is passed down to the sixth-placed team.

FA Cup

As a Premier League side, Manchester United will enter the 2019–20 FA Cup in the Third Round.

EFL Cup

As one of the seven English sides competing in UEFA competitions in 2019–20, Manchester United will enter the 2019–20 EFL Cup in the third round.

UEFA Europa League

Having finished sixth in the 2018–19 Premier League, Manchester United will play in the UEFA Europa League in 2019–20, entering at the group stage. This will be the club's first UEFA Europa League campaign since winning the competition in 2016–17 and their fourth in nine years, previously playing in the knockout stage in 2011–12 and 2015–16. The draw for the group stage will be held in Monaco on 30 August 2019.