The 2016–17 season was Manchester United's 25th season in the Premier League, and their 42nd consecutive season in the top-flight of English football. Following the departure of Louis van Gaal at the end of the previous season, the club signed former Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and Real Madrid manager José Mourinho on a three-year contract, with the option of a further year.

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Manchester United

2016–17 season
Manchester United team for the Europa League game against Rostov, 9 March 2017
Co-chairmen	Joel and Avram Glazer
Manager	José Mourinho
Stadium	Old Trafford
Premier League	6th
FA Cup	Quarter-finals
EFL Cup	Winners
UEFA Europa League	Winners
Community Shield	Winners
Top goalscorer	League: Zlatan Ibrahimović (17) All: Zlatan Ibrahimović (28)
Highest home attendance	75,397 (vs. West Bromwich Albion, 1 April)
Lowest home attendance	58,179 (vs. Zorya Luhansk, 29 September)
Average home league attendance	75,290
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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As winners of the previous season's FA Cup, they faced Premier League winners Leicester City in the 2016 FA Community Shield, with United prevailing 2–1 to win the first trophy of the domestic calendar.^[1] On 26 February 2017, the club won their second trophy of the campaign, beating Southampton 3–2 in the EFL Cup Final.^[2] Although they missed out on qualifying for the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League via league position, having finished in sixth place, they qualified as Europa League winners, beating Ajax 2–0 in the Europa League Final on 24 May 2017.^[3] That triumph also made United the fifth team to have won all three main European club trophies.

United preceded their 2016–17 campaign with a friendly against Wigan, a tour of China,^[4] a friendly in Sweden facing Turkish club Galatasaray in the 2016 SuperGame, and Wayne Rooney's testimonial match between Manchester United and Everton at Old Trafford.^[5] The season concluded with Michael Carrick's testimonial on 4 June between United players of the 2008 European Double-winning side (plus Dimitar Berbatov, who joined the club during the following transfer window, and Michael's brother, Graeme Carrick) and an all-star team picked by Carrick, both teams respectively managed by Sir Alex Ferguson and Harry Redknapp, Carrick's first manager as a professional footballer.^[6][7]

As a result of winning the 2015–16 FA Cup, Manchester United faced Leicester City, who won the 2015–16 Premier League, in their 30th FA Community Shield appearance. Manchester United won the match to claim their 21st Community Shield (including four shared titles).^[10]

The Premier League season kicked off on 13 August and concluded on 21 May.^[11] United went undefeated for a season-record 25 matches between October and May, although 12 of them were draws.

Manchester United entered the FA Cup in the third round with the other Premier League clubs, as well as those from the Championship. The third round draw was made on 5 December and it drew United with a home tie against Championship side Reading, managed by Jaap Stam, who returned to Old Trafford for the first time since leaving United in 2001 after a three-year spell.^[14] United cruised to a 4–0 victory on 7 January with first-half goals from Wayne Rooney – who equalled Bobby Charlton's 249-goal record for the club in the process, Anthony Martial and a second-half brace from Marcus Rashford. League One champions Wigan Athletic, managed by Warren Joyce who left his Manchester United Under-23 coaching role in November to join Wigan, were drawn as United's fourth round opponents on 9 January for another home tie.^[15] United beat the Latics 4–0 and were subsequently drawn away to Championship side Blackburn Rovers in the fifth round. United came from behind to secure a 2–1 victory, thanks to goals from Marcus Rashford and substitute Zlatan Ibrahimović. In the quarter-finals, United were drawn away to Premier League rivals Chelsea. In a fiercely contested game, Ander Herrera was sent off and N'Golo Kanté scored the winning goal to end Manchester United's defence of the FA Cup.

As one of seven English clubs who qualified for European competition in the 2015–16 season, United received a bye to the third round of the EFL Cup, the draw for which took place on 24 August 2016. United were drawn away against Northampton Town. The match was played 21 September 2016 and Manchester United won 3–1; Michael Carrick opened the scoring in the 17th minute, but Northampton's Alex Revell equalised from the penalty spot shortly before half-time. However, goals from Ander Herrera and Marcus Rashford midway through the second half secured the win for United. The draw for the fourth round took place shortly after the match and United were drawn at home against rivals Manchester City. The game was played on 26 October 2016 with the Reds winning 1–0 via Juan Mata's goal in the 54th minute.

Manchester United were again drawn at home in the fifth round, this time against West Ham, and United cruised to a 4–1 win, with two goals each for Zlatan Ibrahimović and Anthony Martial. Former Manchester United youth player Ashley Fletcher scored the only goal for the Hammers in the 35th minute. The draw for the semi–finals saw United paired with Hull City. The first leg was played at Old Trafford on 10 January 2017, with Mata and substitute Marouane Fellaini giving United a 2–0 win. Two weeks later, United lost the second leg at the KCOM Stadium 2–1 but progressed to the final 3–2 on aggregate.

Their opponents in the final, played on 26 February, were Southampton, who had beaten Liverpool in the semi-finals. Ibrahimović and Lingard gave United a 2–0 lead, only for Manolo Gabbiadini to level the scores with a goal on either side of the half-time break; however, Ibrahimović scored in the 87th minute to give United a 3–2 victory.

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No.	Pos.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Europe		Other		Total		Discipline
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	David de Gea	35	0	1	0	5	0	3	0	1	0	45	0	2	0
3	DF	Eric Bailly	24(1)	0	0	0	1	0	11	0	1	0	37(1)	0	7	2
4	DF	Phil Jones	18	0	1(1)	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	25(1)	0	3	0
5	DF	Marcos Rojo	18(3)	1	4	0	5	0	8(2)	0	0(1)	0	35(6)	1	5	0
6	MF	Paul Pogba	29(1)	5	1(1)	0	4	1	15	3	0	0	49(2)	9	10	0
7	FW	Memphis Depay	0(4)	0	0	0	1	0	0(3)	0	0	0	1(7)	0	1	0
8	MF	Juan Mata	19(6)	6	2(1)	0	3	2	9(1)	2	0(1)	0	32(9)	10	5	0
9	FW	Zlatan Ibrahimović	27(1)	17	0(1)	1	4(1)	4	9(2)	5	1	1	41(4)	28	8	0
10	FW	Wayne Rooney (c)	15(10)	5	2	1	3(1)	0	4(3)	2	1	0	25(14)	8	9	0
11	FW	Anthony Martial	18(7)	4	3	1	2(1)	2	4(6)	1	1	0	28(14)	8	3	0
12	DF	Chris Smalling	13(5)	1	4	1	4	0	8(2)	0	0	0	29(7)	2	0	0
14	MF	Jesse Lingard	18(7)	1	1(1)	0	2(2)	1	6(4)	2	1	1	28(14)	5	6	0
15	MF	Adnan Januzaj	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	MF	Michael Carrick (vc)	18(5)	0	2	0	4(1)	1	5(2)	0	1	0	30(8)	1	1	0
17	DF	Daley Blind	21(3)	1	1	0	2(1)	0	10(1)	0	1	0	35(5)	1	4	0
18	MF	Ashley Young	8(4)	0	3	0	1	0	3(4)	0	0	0	15(8)	0	5	0
19	FW	Marcus Rashford	16(16)	5	3	3	3(3)	1	8(3)	2	0(1)	0	30(23)	11	3	0
20	GK	Sergio Romero	2	0	3	0	1	0	12	0	0	0	18	0	0	0
21	MF	Ander Herrera	27(4)	1	2(1)	0	6	1	9	0	0(1)	0	44(6)	2	13	2
22	MF	Henrikh Mkhitaryan	14(9)	4	3	1	2	0	10(1)	6	0(1)	0	29(11)	11	4	0
23	DF	Luke Shaw	9(2)	0	1	0	2	0	4	0	1	0	17(2)	0	1	0
24	DF	Timothy Fosu-Mensah	1(3)	0	1(1)	0	1	0	1(3)	0	0	0	4(7)	0	1	0
25	MF	Antonio Valencia	28(1)	1	1	0	3	0	8(1)	0	1	0	41(2)	1	7	0
27	MF	Marouane Fellaini	18(10)	1	2(1)	1	0(5)	1	7(3)	1	1	0	28(19)	4	9	1
28	MF	Morgan Schneiderlin	0(3)	0	0	0	1(1)	0	2	0	0(1)	0	3(5)	0	1	0
31	MF	Bastian Schweinsteiger	0	0	1(1)	1	0(1)	0	0(1)	0	0	0	1(3)	1	0	0
32	GK	Sam Johnstone	0	0	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	0	0
35	DF	Demetri Mitchell	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
36	DF	Matteo Darmian	15(3)	0	2	0	2	0	7	0	0	0	26(3)	0	3	0
38	DF	Axel Tuanzebe	4	0	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4(1)	0	0	0
39	MF	Scott McTominay	1(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1(1)	0	1	0
40	GK	Joel Castro Pereira	1	0	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1(1)	0	0	0
42	MF	Matty Willock	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
43	DF	Cameron Borthwick-Jackson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	MF	Andreas Pereira	0	0	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	0	0
46	FW	Josh Harrop	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
47	MF	Angel Gomes	0(1)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0	0
48	FW	Zak Dearnley	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Own goals			–	0	–	0	–	0	–	1	–	0	–	1	–	–

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Statistics accurate as of 24 May 2017.^[18]