Legendary footballer George Best’s European Cup winner’s medal was sold at auction for £156,000.

The Manchester United star, who died in 2005, won the medal with the Old Trafford club in their 1968 4-1 triumph over Benfica.

The silverware was estimated to fetch between £90,000 and £120,000 in the sale at Bonhams in Chester.

The medal was among 13 awards presented to George Best during his illustrious career which were all sold by the executors of his estate.

The total, £200,000, went to the forward’s sister, Barbara McNally.

A replica of the European Cup Winner’s medal, which was made for George Best by the Professional Footballers’ Association when he misplaced the original medal, fetched £9,000.

The BBC Lifetime Achievement Award the recovering alcoholic won in 2002 sold for £7,800. The 2000 Belfast Telegraph Hall of Fame award raised £4,800.

Other important lots sold included the 2000 International Hall of Champions award, which made £3,960 and the Freedom of Castlereagh award, which fetched £4,560.

From private collectors, a limited edition George Best Faberge egg commemorating his part in the 1968 cup final sold for £25,200.

It was listed at £15,000 to £20,000.

The last shirt worn by the footballer for Northern Ireland while a Manchester United player on November 14, 1973, sold for £6,000.

The sale also featured the shirt worn by Brazilian footballer Pele in his final international appearance for Brazil versus Yugoslavia on July 18 1971, which made £8,640; and a collection of Muhammad Ali memorabilia, signed and donated by the celebrated former boxer to Parkinson’s UK, which raised over £3,000 for the Parkinson’s disease charity. The prices include buyers’ premium.