On May 22 2011, Dutch goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar for Manchester United was the oldest player to have won an English Premier League (EPL) winner's medal at the age of 40 years and 7 months.
Dutchman Edwin van der Sar in the 2010/2011 season, a few months after his 40th birthday, became the oldest man to make the PFA Team of the Year as a goalkeeper in the English Premier League (EPL) while he was at Manchester United. He signed for the club on June 10, 2005 for a reported fee of £2 million and played 186 times till he retired on May 28, 2011. Sir Alex Ferguson considers him the best goalkeeper to have played for the club since Peter Schmeichel.
Ajax had the youngest side ever to win the UEFA Champions Cup/League. Their fantastic squad of 1995 sprinkled with gifted youngsters and veterans like Edwin van der Sar, Danny Blind, Frank de Boer, Patrick Kluivert, Edgar Davids, Frank Rijkaard, Nwankwo Kanu, Finidi George, etc. had an average age of only 24 years old.