On Sunday afternoon, two members of the Under-13s will read poems at the fan-led ceremony held at Old Trafford, which begins at 14:40 GMT.
Here is the story, as told in our matchday programme United Review, of how the Academy works to educate its young players on the tragedy of 1958 and its significance to the history of Manchester United.
The story of the Munich Air Disaster is, in many ways, also the story of Manchester United’s Academy. First, of its success in producing the players for one of English football’s finest-ever teams. Then, of how it provided the steady foundations for the club by producing another set of players that allowed United, in the words of club chairman Harold Hardman, to “go on”.