Players

First-team squad

As of 22 September 2008, according to combined sources on the official website.^[43][44]

No. Position Player 1 GK Edwin van der Sar 2 DF Gary Neville (captain) 3 DF Patrice Evra 4 MF Owen Hargreaves 5 DF Rio Ferdinand 6 DF Wes Brown 7 MF Cristiano Ronaldo 8 MF Anderson 9 FW Dimitar Berbatov 10 FW Wayne Rooney 11 MF Ryan Giggs (vice-captain) 12 GK Ben Foster 13 MF Park Ji-Sung 15 DF Nemanja Vidić 16 MF Michael Carrick 17 MF Nani 18 MF Paul Scholes 19 FW Danny Welbeck

No. Position Player 20 DF Fábio 21 DF Rafael 22 DF John O'Shea 23 DF Jonny Evans 24 MF Darren Fletcher 26 FW Manucho 28 MF Darron Gibson 29 GK Tomasz Kuszczak 32 FW Carlos Tévez 33 MF Sam Hewson 34 MF Rodrigo Possebon 35 MF Tom Cleverley 36 MF David Gray 38 GK Ron-Robert Zieler 39 DF James Chester 40 GK Ben Amos 41 FW Federico Macheda 42 DF Richard Eckersley

On loan

No. Position Player 25 DF Danny Simpson (at Blackburn Rovers until 30 June 2009) 30 MF Lee Martin (at Nottingham Forest until 31 December 2008) 31 FW Fraizer Campbell (at Tottenham Hotspur until 30 June 2009) 37 DF Craig Cathcart (at Plymouth Argyle until 8 February 2009) 45 FW Febian Brandy (at Swansea City until 31 December 2008) – GK Tom Heaton (at Cardiff City until 30 June 2009)

Reserves and academy

For the reserve and academy squads, see Manchester United F.C. Reserves and Academy.

Former players

For details on former players, see List of Manchester United F.C. players and Category:Manchester United F.C. players.