Alex Ferguson, in full Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson, byname Fergie, (conceived December 31, 1941, Glasgow, Scotland), Scottish football (soccer) player and administrator who was most popular for overseeing Manchester Joined together (1986-2013). Ferguson was the longest-tenured administrator in "Man U" history and drove the club to in excess of 30 homegrown and global titles, including 13 Head Association titles, five Football Affiliation (FA) Cup triumphs (1990, 1994, 1996, 1999, and 2004), and two Bosses Association titles (1999 and 2008).

At age 16 Ferguson joined the Scottish second-division football club Sovereign's Park, playing as a novice while likewise working in a Glasgow shipyard. His expert football vocation started in 1964, when he endorsed with first-division Dunfermline Athletic. Ferguson tied for the association lead in scoring by counting 31 objectives during the 1965-66 Scottish Association season, and in 1967 he was moved to his old neighborhood Officers for a then-record £65,000 expense. He was a strong if unremarkable player in two seasons with the Officers and played for two different clubs prior to resigning in 1974.

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Ferguson's most memorable administrative spell came soon after he played his last match, when in the late spring of 1974 he was employed to lead the Scottish second-division side East Stirlingshire. Only months after the fact he moved to St. Mirren, which he would prompt an association title in 1976-77. In 1978 he turned into the director of Aberdeen FC. Under Ferguson's direction, Aberdeen encountered the best time of outcome in club history, winning three Scottish Chief Division (the nation's top association) titles (1979-80, 1983-84, and 1984-85), four Scottish Cups (1982, 1983, 1984, and 1986), and an European Cup Champs' Cup (1983). Ferguson's remarkable accomplishments at Aberdeen prompted administrative proposals from probably the most esteemed clubs in Europe throughout the long term, and he endorsed with Manchester in November 1986.

Man U was at first conflicting under Ferguson's direction, completing in eleventh, second, eleventh, and thirteenth spot in the primary division of the Football Association during his initial four seasons with the club. He was broadly answered to have been at risk for losing his employment before Manchester rescued the 1989-90 season by winning the FA Cup. That triumph denoted the start of the best administrative disagreement English football history, as Man U won eight Chief Association (the replacement to the principal division) titles in the 11 seasons from 1992-93 to 2002-03, catching three FA Cup titles too. The feature of this period came during the 1998-99 season, when — as well as taking that season's association title and FA Cup — Manchester brought home the Heroes Association championship to procure the first "high pitch" (triumphs in the homegrown top-division association, a homegrown cup, and a mainland title) in English football history. In the wake of going three years without an association title, Joined brought home five Chief Association championships in a seven-season length from 2006-07 to 2012-13, with a subsequent Bosses Association win in 2008. Ferguson resigned toward the finish of the 2012-13 Head Association season yet remained on with Man U in a front-office job and as a club minister.

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