Manchester United F.C. season 1995–96

Infobox Football club season
club = Manchester United
season = 1995-96
manager = flagicon|SCO Alex Ferguson
chairman = flagicon|ENG Martin Edwards
league = Premier League
league result = 1st
cup1 = FA Cup
cup1 result = Winners
cup2 = Coca-Cola Cup
cup2 result = Second Round
cup4 = UEFA Cup
cup4 result = Second Round
league topscorer =
Eric Cantona (14)
season topscorer =
Eric Cantona (19)
highest attendance = 53,926 vs Nottingham Forest (28 April 1996)
lowest attendance = 31,966 vs West Ham United (23 August 1995)The 1995-96 season was Manchester United's 104th season in the Football League, and their 21st consecutive season in the top division of English football. [cite web |url=http://www.stretfordend.co.uk/seasons/season1996.html |title=Manchester United Season 1995/96 |accessdate=2007-11-12 |publisher=StretfordEnd.co.uk ] United finished the season by becoming the first English team to win The double (league title and FA Cup) twice. Their triumph was made all the more remarkable by the fact that Alex Ferguson had sold experienced players Paul Ince, Mark Hughes and Andrei Kanchelskis before the start of the season, and not made any major signings. Instead, he had drafted in young players like Nicky Butt, David Beckham, Paul Scholes and the Neville brothers, Gary and Phil.

Eric Cantona returned from a nine-month suspension at the beginning of October, and finished the season as the club's top scorer with 19 goals in all competitions, the last one being the winner against Liverpool in the FA Cup Final. He also picked up a Premier League winner's medal and the FWA Player of the Year award. The title had been sealed on the final day of the season with a 3-0 win at Bryan Robson's Middlesbrough.

Veteran defenders Steve Bruce and Paul Parker moved on at the end of the season, as did goalkeeper Tony Coton, who had only joined the club in January and never played a first team game. As the season drew to a close, speculation mounted that United would sign a world class striker - possibly Alan Shearer - to partner Eric Cantona in the bid to bring the European Cup to Old Trafford.

FA Premier League

Coca-Cola Cup

As in the previous seasons, United rested many of their first-team players in the League Cup, instead using the competition to provide first team experience to the club's younger players and reserves. This proved to be a bad move, as the Red Devils fell at the first hurdle, losing in the Second Round to York City, 4-3 on aggregate.

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References

ee also

*Manchester United F.C. seasons