Where are they now? Man Utd’s 2002-03 FA Youth Cup winners

Manchester United have always had talented players in their academy – but what happened to the team that won the 2003 FA Youth Cup?

After winning 2-0 in the first leg of the final against Middlesbrough, the Red Devils wrapped things up with a 1-1 draw at Old Trafford.

We’ve taken a look at the Xl from that second leg to see how they all fared.

Steele never made a competitive first-team appearance for United and was used as part of a swap deal to bring in Tomasz Kuszczak, which saw Steele move to West Brom in 2006.

The goalkeeper’s most noteworthy spell came at Barnsley, where he made 227 appearances and famously helping them reach the 2008 FA Cup semi-final.

After the Tykes suffered relegation to League One in 2014, he moved to Greece and spent three years with Panathinaikos.

Steele returned to these shores in 2017 but made just 19 appearances in all competitions during stints at Bristol City, Nottingham Forest and Millwall.

He then dropped into non-league in 2020 and surprisingly played for Peterborough Northern Star Reserves and Jubilee FC as a striker, scoring 15 goals in eight games.

“In my last two games, we won 3-2 and I scored two hat-tricks,” Steele told BBC Radio Nottingham in April 2021. “I was getting called up to the first team but they’d finished the league [because of coronavirus], so it was frustrating because I didn’t get the chance to keep progressing through the divisions.

“It wasn’t a fantastic standard but I was making progress, and I would’ve kept going this year as far as I could but Covid prevented that.”

The 37-year-old returned to his natural position during a brief spell at Notts County before being appointed in a player-coach role with United Counties League Premier Division North side Deeping