Manchester United is facing Denmark side Midtjylland today in Europa League clash tonight. Red Devils are aware that this is last chance to qualify for Champions League next year and ​best chance for silverware with Louis Van Gaal's team currently sitting six points outside top four in Premier League. Tonight will be the first time for this two clubs to meet on MCH Arena.





​Who are FC Midtjylland?





FC Midtjylland is proffesional Danish football team from Herning who currently participates in Danish Superliga. was founded by Johnny Rune, a carpenter and owner of a private business in the wood-supply industry, and Steen Hessel, an authorized Mercedes Benz dealer. FC Midtjylland was created after the clubs Ikast FS and Herning Fremad get united into one club.





In July 2014, Matthew Benham (owner of English Championship side Brentford) became the majority shareholder of FC Midtjylland's parent company FCM Holding and saved club from bankruptcy.





Domestic league results





In 2000 FC Midtjylland were promoted to the Danish Superliga, after a season in which the team had gathered more points than any other team in the history of the 1st division.





​After takeover from Matthew Benham and injecting the money into club, Danish side were able to approach more quality players from Wolves and they have won the Championship in the Danish Superliga with 71 points.





Midtjylland is currently third in domestic division with 31 points after 17 played games and only four points from FC Copenhagen who are currently sitting first.





European competitions results

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The club's best European result was in the 2002–03 season when the team reached the 2nd round of the UEFA cup, losing to RSC Anderlecht of Belgium.





In the 2008–09 season they reached the second qualifying round of the competition, beating Manchester City 1–0 in Manchester in the first leg of the tie, with Danny Olsen scoring a first half goal.





It was Manchester City's first ever loss at home to a foreign team, having only ever lost at home in European Competition to Chelsea.





Manchester City won the return leg in Denmark 1–0 after Danny Califf scored a last minute own-goal. Neither team was able to score in extra time and Midtjylland eventually lost the tie on penalties.





Since they won the league last season, Midtjylland attempted to qualify for the Champions League knock-out stages, but defeat to APOEL threw them into a clash with Southampton in the play-off for the group stages of the Europa League, which they won 2-1 over two-legs.





Midtjylland finished second in their group, behind Napoli, and are now setting their own personal records with the round of 32 contest against Red Devils.





Familiar player names in Midtjylland?





Tim Sparv is the former Southampton youngster who is now regular in the Danish side line - up. The Finland international is playing for Midtjylland since 2014.





Centre - back Nikolay Bodurov is currently on loan from Championship side Fulham. There is also Daniel O’Shaughnessy who is on loan from Brentford as result of Benham connection with English side.













From other familiar names, West Ham brought Winston Reid from Danish side in 2010. New Zealand international is now key part of Slaven Bilic's defence. Also Simon Kjaer, Denmark international began his football career in Midtjylland.​





Stadium

Midtjylland moved to a new stadium in Herning in 2010 and it holds 11,800 fans. They have become first Danish club to sell the naming rights to their ground, and now the stadium is known as the MCH Arena.​





In between 2004 and 2009 Scandinavian airlines (SAS) were main sponsors to new stadium.























