United Kingdom
Alex Ferguson
said
All my staff stood by me, the players stood by me, you stood by me, and your job now is to stand by our new manager. That’s important.
— Daily Mirror (12 May 2013)].
Alex Ferguson
Scottish association football manager and player
- Fame74.5
- Momentum10.2
- Global rank#137
Source-basedStable
- Fame74.5
- Momentum10.2
- Global rank#137
- United Kingdom rank#248
- Footballers rank#96
- Wikipedia238.6K
Born 1941 · age 85United Kingdom
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Updated 2026-06-21
He turned Manchester United into a dynasty that won 38 trophies across 26 years, more silverware than any manager in football history—and did it by trusting teenagers from the '92 academy when the rest of English football bought stars.
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Ferguson scored goals for Scottish clubs in the 1960s, topping the league charts with Dunfermline in 1965–66, then shifted to the touchline. At Aberdeen he broke the Old Firm stranglehold, winning three league titles and lifting European silverware in 1983 with the Cup Winners' Cup. Manchester United hired him in November 1986; the first years were rocky, but by the 1990s he'd built around homegrown talent—the Class of '92—and collected 13 Premier League titles, five FA Cups, and two Champions League crowns, including the 1999 treble. Knighted that same year, he overtook Matt Busby's tenure re…
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Alex Ferguson
said
Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right?
— Goal.com (20 October 2010).
Alex Ferguson
said
Sometimes we can get too emotional as a club with things that are happening but we are both of a common denominator; we don't want the club to be in anyone else's hands.
— Daily Telegraph (21 November 2004).
Alex Ferguson
saidundated
That's one of the most stupid questions I've heard. I'll go with Mascherano.
— When asked, after losing the UEFA Champions League final against Barcelona, which Barcelona's talent he would sign for the next season in
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Teams
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- Ayr United F.C.1973–1974
- Falkirk F.C.1969–1973
- Rangers F.C.1967–1969
- Scottish Football League XI1967–1967
- Scotland B national football team1967–1967
- Dunfermline Athletic F.C.1964–1967
- St Johnstone F.C.1960–1964
- Queen's Park F.C.
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| 1973–1974 | 24 | 9 |
| 1969–1973 | 95 | 37 |
| 1967–1969 | 41 | 25 |
| 1967–1967 | 2 | 1 |
| 1967–1967 | 7 | 9 |
| 1964–1967 | 89 | 247 |
| 1960–1964 | 37 | 19 |
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- Knight Bachelor
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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Fame
Stable74.5
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Momentum10.2
Historical32.6
Now attention1.3
Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
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