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Value

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Document Type

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Other

Document Period End Date

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Oct. 31, 2010

Registrant Name

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AMERICAN BEACON FUNDS

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0000809593

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false

Document Creation Date

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Jun. 30, 2011

Document Effective Date

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Jun. 30, 2011

Prospectus Date

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Mar. 01, 2011

American Beacon Mid-Cap Value Fund | Class A, C, Institutional, Y, Investor and Advisor

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Supplement [Text Block]

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American Beacon FUNDS^SM

American Beacon Mid-Cap Value Fund

A Class

C Class

Institutional Class

Y Class

Investor Class

Advisor Class

Supplement Dated June 30, 2011

To the Prospectus dated March 1, 2011

The information below supplements the Prospectus dated March 1, 2011, and is in addition to any other supplements.

On May 26, 2011, the American Beacon Funds’ Board of Trustees appointed Lee Munder Capital Group, LLC (“LMCG”) as a sub-advisor to the American Beacon Mid-Cap Value Fund. LMCG will begin managing assets in the Fund as of July 1, 2011.

In the “Fund Performance” section, the second paragraph is replaced with the following:

The chart and the table below show the performance of the Fund’s Institutional Class shares for all periods. The Fund began offering Institutional Class shares on November 30, 2005, Investor Class shares on March 1, 2006, Advisor Class shares on June 30, 2007, Y Class shares on March 1, 2010, A Class shares on May 17, 2010 and C Class shares on September 1, 2010. In the table below, the performance of the AMR Class of the Fund, which began offering shares on June 30, 2004 and is not offered in this prospectus, is shown for the Institutional Class shares before the date such class was first offered. For the Investor Class, performance results from June 30, 2004 through November 30, 2005 are for the AMR Class and performance results from November 30, 2005 through March 1, 2006 are for the Institutional Class. For the Advisor Class, performance results from June 30, 2004 to November 30, 2005 are for the AMR Class, performance results from November 30, 2005 through February 28, 2006 are for the Institutional Class and performance results from March 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007 are for the Investor Class. For Y Class, A Class and C Class shares, performance results from June 30, 2004 November 30, 2005 are for the AMR Class and performance results from November 30, 2005 to the inception of the Y Class, A Class and C Class shares are for the Institutional Class.