Editing Matt Busby (section)

{{short description|Scottish footballer, manager (1909–1994)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name           = {{br separated entries | {{small|{{nobold|[[Sir]]}}}} | Matt Busby | {{nobold|{{post-nominals|country=GBR-cats|CBE|KCSG}} }} }}
| image          = Matt Busby 1957.jpg
| caption        = Busby in 1957
| full_name      = Alexander Matthew Busby
| birth_date     = {{birth date|1909|5|26|df=y}}
| birth_place    = Orbiston, [[Bellshill]], Scotland
| death_date     = {{death date and age|1994|1|20|1909|5|26|df=y}}
| death_place    = [[Cheadle, Greater Manchester]], England
| height         = 1.78 m<ref>{{cite web |last=Strack-Zimmermann |first=Benjamin |title=Matt Busby (Player) |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/35501/Matt_Busby.html |access-date=11 September 2022 |website=national-football-teams.com }}</ref>
| position       = [[Wing half|Right half]], [[inside forward]]
| youthyears1    = |youthclubs1 = 
| years1         = 1928      |clubs1 = Denny Hibs                               |caps1 =     |goals1 = 
| years2         = 1928–1936 |clubs2 = [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] |caps2 = 204 |goals2 = 11
| years3         = 1936–1945 |clubs3 = [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]]             |caps3 = 115 |goals3 = 3
| years4         = 1941–1943 |clubs4 = → [[Hibernian F.C.|Hibernian]] (guest)   |caps4 = 0   |goals4 = 0
| totalcaps      = 319 |totalgoals = 14
| nationalyears1 = 1933      |nationalteam1 = [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]] |nationalcaps1 = 1 |nationalgoals1 = 0
| nationalyears2 = 1941      |nationalteam2 = [[Scottish League XI]]                       |nationalcaps2 = 1 |nationalgoals2 = 0
| nationalyears3 = 1942–1945 |nationalteam3 = [[Scotland national football team results (unofficial matches)#World War II|Scotland (wartime)]] |nationalcaps3 = 7 |nationalgoals3 = 0
| manageryears1  = 1945–1969 |managerclubs1 = [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]]
| manageryears2  = 1948      |managerclubs2 = [[Great Britain men's Olympic football team|Great Britain]]
| manageryears3  = 1958      |managerclubs3 = [[Scotland national football team|Scotland]]
| manageryears4  = 1970–1971 |managerclubs4 = [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]]
}}
'''Sir Alexander Matthew Busby''' (26 May 1909 – 20 January 1994) was a Scottish [[association football|football]] player and manager, who managed [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] between 1945 and 1969 and again for the second half of the 1970–71 season. He was the first manager of an English team to win the [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]] and is widely regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.espnfc.us/manchester-united/story/1515804/greatest-managers-no-7-sir-matt-busby |title=Greatest Managers, No. 7: Sir Matt Busby – ESPN FC |publisher=Espnfc.us |date=7 August 2013 |access-date=17 September 2016 |archive-date=2 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902144213/http://www.espnfc.us/manchester-united/story/1515804/greatest-managers-no-7-sir-matt-busby |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.liverpoolfc.com/history/past-players/matt-busby |title=Matt Busby |work=liverpoolfc.com |publisher=Liverpool FC |access-date=14 October 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101105723/http://www.liverpoolfc.com/history/past-players/matt-busby |archive-date=1 January 2016  }}</ref>

Before going into management, Busby was a player for two of Manchester United's greatest rivals, [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] and [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]]. During his time at City, Busby played in two FA Cup Finals, winning one of them. After his playing career was interrupted by the [[World War II|Second World War]], Busby was offered the job of assistant coach at Liverpool, but they were unwilling to give him the control that he wanted over the first team. As a result, he took the vacant manager's job at Manchester United instead, where he built the famous [[Busby Babes]] team that won successive [[List of English football champions|Football League First Division]] titles and challenged for the European Cup. Eight of these players died in the [[Munich air disaster]], but Busby rebuilt the team and won several more First Division titles as well as other domestic cups before he took United to [[1967–68 European Cup|European Cup]] glory a decade later. In a total of 25 years with the club, he won 13 trophies including five league championships and the European Cup.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manutd.com/en/History/Munich-Remembered/Munich-Remembered/Features/profile-of-sir-matt-busby-in-munich-remembered-on-man-utd-com.aspx?pageNo=3 |title=Sir Matt Busby profile – Official Manchester United Website |publisher=Manutd.com |access-date=17 September 2016}}</ref>