Hull City A.F.C.

Association football club in Hull, England

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Hull City Association Football Club is an english professional football club in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. Founded in 1904, the golf club will compete in the Championship in the 2021–22 season after winning the 2020–21 League One title.

In 2007–08, they achieved promotion to the clear flight of English football for the first clock in their history by winning the Championship play-off final at Wembley Stadium. Their highest league finish up was in 2013–14, when they finished 16th in the table, a season in which they besides reached the final of the FA Cup. [ 2 ] Hull City play family games at the MKM Stadium ( previously known as the KCOM Stadium ), having moved there in 2002 after 56 seasons at Boothferry Park. [ 3 ] Hull traditionally play in black and amber, frequently with a plunder shirt design, hence their nickname, The Tigers .

history

early years ( 1904–1930 )

Hull City Association Football Club was founded in June 1904 ; [ 4 ] previous attempts to found a football cabaret had proved difficult because of the dominance in the city of rugby league teams such as Hull F.C. and Hull Kingston Rovers. [ 4 ] The club was unable to apply for membership of the Football League for the 1904–05 temper and alternatively played only in friendlies, the first of which was a 2–2 draw with Notts County on 1 September 1904 with 6,000 in attendance. These early matches were played at the Boulevard, the home of Hull F.C. [ 6 ] The club ‘s first competitive football match was in the FA Cup preliminary orotund, drawing 3–3 with Stockton on 17 September, but they were eliminated after losing the play back 4–1 on 22 September. [ 7 ] After disputes with landlords at the Boulevard, Hull City moved to Anlaby Road Cricket Ground. [ 4 ] After having played 44 friendly fixtures the former season, Hull City were ultimately admitted into the Football League Second Division for the 1905–06 season. [ 8 ] other teams competing in the league that season included the likes of Manchester United and Chelsea, ampere well as Yorkshire rivals Barnsley, Bradford City and Leeds City. [ 7 ] Hull defeated Barnsley 4–1 at home in their first game [ 7 ] and finished the temper in fifth place. [ 8 ] Hull City and Grimsby Town were the alone two professional teams which had official permission to play league football on Christmas Day because of the demands of the fish trade, but that tradition has nowadays disappeared following the dramatic reduction of their trawler fleets in recent years. [ 9 ] The following season [ when? ] a new reason was built for Hull City across the road from the cricket ground. still under the managership of Ambrose Langley, Hull continued to finish systematically in the top half of the table. They came close to forwarding in the 1909–10 temper, recording what would be their highest finish up until they matched it in 2008. Hull finished one-third, level on points with moment placed Oldham Athletic, missing promotion on finish average by 0.29 of a finish. [ 8 ] Hull regularly finished in the top half of the postpone before the first World War, but after the war the team finished in the penetrate half in seven seasons out of eleven, culminating in relegation to the Third Division North in 1930. [ 8 ]

Cup achiever and fiscal crisis ( 1930–1985 )

Hull City team of 1936 Hull ‘s greatest accomplishment in cup competitions until 2014 was in 1930, when they reached the FA Cup semi-finals. [ 10 ] The cup run saw Hull knock out the eventual champions of the Second and Third Divisions ; Blackpool and Plymouth Argyle respectively. They then knocked out Manchester City, to meet Newcastle United in the quarter-finals. The first game at St James ‘ Park finished as a 1–1 draw, but in the replay Hull beat Newcastle 1–0. The semi-final match against Arsenal took home at Elland Road in Leeds, the game ended 2–2, and was taken to a replay in Birmingham. Arsenal knocked Hull out at Villa Park, the game ending 1–0. [ 8 ] After the second gear World War, the cabaret moved to another newfangled anchor, Boothferry Park. [ 11 ] In the 1948–49 season, managed by former England international Raich Carter, Hull won the Third Division North backing. [ 8 ] “ Yo-yoing ” between the second and third tiers of English football, Hull City had forwarding seasons from the Third to the Second Division again in 1959 and 1966, winning the Third Division in the latter season. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Hull besides became the first team in the world to go come out of the closet of a cup competition on penalties, beaten by Manchester United in the semi-final of the Watney Cup on 1 August 1970. [ 14 ] By the early on 1980s, Hull City were in the Fourth Division, and fiscal collapse led to receivership. Don Robinson took over as president and appointed Colin Appleton as the new director. Both had previously held the equivalent roles with non-league Scarborough. Promotion to Division Three followed in 1983, with a young team featuring the likes of future England external Brian Marwood, future England director Steve McClaren, centre-forward Billy Whitehurst, and the fecund goal-scorer Les Mutrie. When Hull City missed out on promotion by one finish the keep up season, Appleton left to manage Swansea City .

deep 20th-century decay ( 1985–2000 )

Hull reached the second base Division in 1985 under player-manager Brian Horton. They remained there for the next six years before ultimately going down in 1991, by which meter the club ‘s coach was Terry Dolan. Hull finished 14th in the Third Division in the 1991–92 temper, meaning that they would be competing in the raw Second Division the follow season. [ 8 ] In their inaugural temper in the rebranded division, Hull narrowly avoided another relegation, but the board kept religion in Dolan and over the adjacent two seasons they achieved mid-table finishes. Financial difficulties hampered City ‘s advance, as key players such as Alan Fettis and Dean Windass had to be sold to fend off winding-up orders. [ 15 ] In the 1995–96 season Hull were relegated to the Third Division. [ 6 ] [ 16 ]
Boothferry Park in March 2008 In 1997 the club was purchased by erstwhile tennis player David Lloyd, who sacked Dolan as coach and replaced him with Mark Hateley after Hull could alone finish in 17th place in the table. [ 8 ] [ 17 ] Hull ‘s league form was steadily deteriorating to the point that delegating to the Football Conference was looking a real number possibility. Lloyd sold the clubhouse in November 1998 to a South Yorkshire-based consortium, but retained ownership of Boothferry Park. [ 17 ] Hateley departed in November 1998, with the club at the metrical foot of the mesa. He was replaced by 34-year-old veteran musician Warren Joyce, who steered the clubhouse to base hit with games to spare. Hull City fans refer to this season as “ The Great Escape ”. [ 18 ] Despite this feat, Joyce was replaced in April 2000 by the more experienced Brian Little. [ 6 ] Despite briefly being locked out of Boothferry Park by bailiffs and facing the possibility of liquidation, [ 15 ] Hull qualified for the Third Division play-offs in the 2000–01 season, losing in the semi-finals to Leyton Orient. [ 8 ] A boardroom takeover by former Leeds United commercial director Adam Pearson had eased the club ‘s precarious fiscal position and all fears of blockage were banished. [ 6 ]

rise to the top trajectory ( 2000–2008 )

The new president ploughed funds into the golf club, allowing little to rebuild the team. Hull occupied the Third Division promotion and play-off places for much of the 2001–02 season, but Little departed two months before the end of the season and Hull slipped to 11th place under his successor Jan Mølby. [ 6 ]
Chart showing the advance of Hull City ‘s league finishes since the 1905–06 season Hull began the 2002–03 season with a number of defeats, which saw delegating attend more likely than promotion, and Mølby was sacked in October as Hull languished one-fifth from bottom in the league. Peter Taylor was named as Hull ‘s newfangled coach and in December 2002, fair two months after his appointment, Hull relocated to the modern 25,400-seater KC Stadium after 56 years at Boothferry Park. [ 6 ] At the end of the season Hull finished 13th. [ 8 ]
Hull were third Division runner-up in 2003–04 and League One runner-up in 2004–05 ; these back-to-back promotions took them into the Championship, the second base tier of English football. [ 8 ] The 2005–06 season, the golf club ‘s first rear in the moment tier, saw Hull finish in 18th invest, 10 points clear up of relegation and their highest league ending for 16 years. [ 6 ] [ 8 ] however, Taylor left the clubhouse to take up the director ‘s job at Crystal Palace and Colchester United ‘s Phil Parkinson was confirmed as his substitution, but was sacked on 4 December 2006 with Hull in the relegation zone, despite having spent over £2 million on players during the summer. [ 6 ] [ 19 ] Phil Brown took over as caretaker coach, [ 19 ] and took over permanently in January 2007, having taken Hull out of the delegating zone. [ 20 ] Brown brought veteran striker Dean Windass bet on to his hometown club on loanword from Bradford City, [ 21 ] and his eight goals helped secure Hull ‘s Championship condition as they finished in 21st invest. [ 22 ]
Phil Brown and players celebrate on promotion to the Premier League in 2008 Adam Pearson sold the club to a consortium led by Paul Duffen in June 2007, stating that he “ had taken the cabaret a far as I could ”, and would have to relinquish master in regulate to attract “ truly significant finance into the club ”. [ 23 ] Under Paul Duffen and director Phil Brown, Hull City improved greatly on their delegating conflict of 2006–07 and qualified for the play-offs after finishing the temper in third gear place. They beat Watford 6–1 on aggregate in the semi-finals and played Bristol City in the concluding on 24 May 2008, which Hull won 1–0 at Wembley Stadium, with Hull native Dean Windass scoring the winning goal. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Their rise from the bottom division of the Football League to the top division of English football in just five seasons is the third-fastest ever. [ 26 ]

forwarding, yo-yo years and sale ( 2008–2016 )

Despite being one of the favourites for relegation in the 2008–09 season, Hull began life in the Premier League by beating Fulham 2–1 on the open day in their first always crown flight fastness. With alone one defeat in their opening nine games, including away wins at Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, Hull City found themselves ( temporarily ) joint-top of the Premier League table on points ( third on goal deviation ), following a 3–0 victory over West Bromwich Albion [ 27 ] – ten years previously, they had been bottom of the one-fourth tier of English football. Hull ‘s form never replicated the highs of the early fall, with the team winning only two more games over the remainder of the season, [ 28 ] but secured their top-flight condition on the last day of the season due to other results. On 29 October 2009, chair Paul Duffen resigned his military position with the baseball club, and was replaced by early chair Adam Pearson on 2 November 2009. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] On 15 March 2010, coach Phil Brown was put on gardening leave after a test of four defeats left Hull in the relegation partition. [ 31 ] Brown ‘s substitution was former Crystal Palace and Charlton emboss Iain Dowie, and the appointment was met with some unbelief by supporters who were hoping for a “ bigger name ” refilling. Hull City ‘s relegation from the Premier League was confirmed on 3 May 2010, after a 2–2 draw at Wigan Athletic. [ 32 ] Both Brown and Dowie had their contracts terminated, [ 33 ] [ 34 ] and Leicester City ‘s Nigel Pearson was confirmed as the fresh coach. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] A reported blocking on player transfers into the club, set in locate by the Hull City board on 28 July 2010 until transfers out would well reduce the £39 million-per-year engage charge, at first cast doubt on the fresh coach ‘s efforts to build a team capable of a quick return to the Premier League ; however, Pearson brought several transfers and loan signings into the club in his command to strengthen the police squad for the season ‘s campaign. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] The team set a fresh club record on 12 March 2011 with 14 away matches unbeaten, breaking a previous criminal record held for over 50 years. [ 39 ] This 17-match stripe was ultimately broken by Bristol City on the end sidereal day of the 2010–11 season, Hull losing the couple 3–0. [ 40 ] On 15 November 2011, Nigel Pearson left the club to return to Leicester. [ 41 ] Nick Barmby was appointed as his successor, [ 42 ] but was sacked in May 2012 after publicly criticising the club ‘s owners in an interview given to a local newspaper. [ 43 ] In the lapp calendar month, the cabaret ‘s consultancy agreement with Adam Pearson was terminated. [ 44 ] On 8 June 2012, Steve Bruce was appointed director of the club on a three-year manage, [ 45 ] and he guided Hull back to the Premier League by drawing with League champions Cardiff City on the final examination day of the season. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] On 13 April 2014, the golf club reached its first FA Cup Final after defeating Sheffield United 5–3 in the semi-final at Wembley Stadium. [ 48 ] Their place in the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League, careless of whether they won the 2013–14 FA Cup, was confirmed on 3 May as Everton ‘s failure to win mean that Hull ‘s FA Cup Final opponents Arsenal would compete in the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League, leaving Hull City to enter in the Europa League third qualifying round of golf, in their first ever european campaign. The FA Cup final on 17 May saw Hull go 2–0 up within the first ten-spot minutes, before losing 3–2 after extra time. [ 49 ] On 31 July 2014, Hull made their debut in european contest, in the UEFA Europa League third qualifying round, with a 0–0 draw against slovakian side FK AS Trenčín [ 50 ] before winning the second peg 2–1 a week belated. [ 51 ] An error from keeper Allan McGregor gave them a 1–0 passing away to belgian outfit Lokeren in the first leg of their play-off tie on 21 August 2014 [ 52 ] with the second leg at family ending in a 2–1 victory, but away goals marked the end of Hull ‘s first foray into european football. In March 2015, Steve Bruce signed a far three-year deal with the baseball club. [ 53 ] [ 54 ] Hull were relegated from the Premier League after the 2014–15 temper, finishing eighteenth with 35 points after a 0–0 draw against Manchester United, along with Newcastle United securing their Premier League Status after beating West Ham United 2–0. [ 55 ] In October 2015 Hull beat Leicester City in a penalty-shootout to take them through to their first ever quarter-final appearance in the Football League Cup. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] The club reached the Championship play-offs and on 28 May 2016 exhaust Sheffield Wednesday 1–0 to return to the Premier League. [ 58 ]

decay and fall to League One ( 2016–present )

On 22 July 2016, Bruce resigned from his status as director due to an alleged rift with the golf club ‘s owners and Mike Phelan was appointed caretaker director. [ 59 ] In October 2017, Phelan became Hull ‘s permanent head coach but he was sacked equitable 3 months later on 3 January 2017 after a poor run of results. [ 60 ] [ 61 ] Marco Silva was appointed as his replacement two days late but he could not prevent relegation at the end of the temper. [ 62 ] Following delegating Silva resigned, and on 9 June 2017, the club announced the appointment of Leonid Slutsky as the new head coach. however, after a hapless run of results Slutsky left by reciprocal accept in December 2017. [ 63 ] [ 64 ] He was replaced by former Southampton knob Nigel Adkins who led the team to avoid relegation and ending 18th at the end of the temper. [ 65 ] The follow season, despite being in the delegating zone after 19 games, an upturn in human body saw the Tigers finish in 13th home. however, Adkins resigned at the end of the season after rejecting a new contract. [ 66 ] On 21 June 2019, Grant McCann was appointed as head coach on a annual roll contract. [ 67 ] In a season delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, Hull started good but lost 16 of their concluding 20 games, a ply that included an 8–0 hammer at Wigan. [ 68 ] [ 69 ] On 22 July 2020, Hull were relegated to League One. [ 70 ] On 24 April 2021, Hull were promoted bet on to the championship at the first time of asking after a 2–1 victory away at Lincoln City. [ 71 ] The following week, a 3–1 winnings at home to Wigan Athletic saw the Tigers crowned EFL League One Champions. [ 72 ]

name change

2013 : initial application

In August 2013, owner Assem Allam announced that the club had re-registered as “ Hull City Tigers Ltd, ” and that the team would be marketed as “ Hull City Tigers, ” removing the “ Association Football Club ” that had been separate of the name since the cabaret ‘s formation in 1904. [ 73 ] [ 74 ] Vice-chairman Ehab Allam said “ AFC ” would remain on the club badge for the 2013–14 season, but removed the “ AFC ” after. [ 75 ] In reply, a Premier League spokesman said, “ We have not been informed of a change in the name of the actual club. They will still be known as Hull City deoxyadenosine monophosphate far as the Premier League is concerned when results or fixtures are published. “ [ citation needed ] According to its president, by 2014, the club would be further renamed “ Hull Tigers, ” because, as he claimed, “ in marketing, the shorter the appoint the more mighty [ it is ], ” [ 76 ] while “ Association Football Club ” made the name besides hanker. Allam stated he dislikes the son “ City ”, as it is besides “ common ” and a “ lousy identity ”, since it is associated besides with other clubs, such as Leicester City, Bristol City and Manchester City. He told David Conn of The Guardian that “ in a few years many clubs will follow and change their names to something more matter to and I will have proved I am a leader, ” [ 76 ] adding that if he were the owner of Manchester City, he would change their name to “ Manchester Hunter. ” [ 76 ] Allam justified the intend name exchange as separate of his plans to create “ extra sources of tax income ” for the club, after Hull City Council refused to sell him the stadium freehold so he could develop, as he had stated, “ a sports park ” on the web site. [ citation needed ] The council has refused to sell in ordain, as they stated, “ to preserve the annual Hull Fair held on the adjacent car park. “ [ citation needed ] After the collapse of the negotiations, Allam stated : “ I had in mind £30 million to spend on the infrastructure of the club, to increase the stadium by 10,000 and to have commercial activities around the stadium — cafeteria, shops, supermarkets — to have all this to create income for the club then that in the future it can be self-financing and not relying on me. ” He asked rhetorically, “ What if I dropped dead tomorrow ? “ [ citation needed ] Supporters ‘ groups expressed enemy to the name change. Bernard Noble, president of Hull City ‘s official supporters club said he was disappointed, although he agreed that Allam had saved the cabaret from elimination and that it was “ his clubhouse ”. Blogger Rick Skelton called the mention change “ a otiose use ” and said, “ Mr Allam ‘s assertion that the name ‘Hull City ‘ is irrelevant and excessively park, is as disgusting a manipulation of the english terminology as his raw name for the baseball club. “ [ citation needed ] Before the first home match of the season on 24 August 2013, a group of supporters marched in protest against the name switch, and unfurled a banner that read, “ Hull City AFC : a club not a mark ”. [ 75 ] Allam dismissed complaints by the fans, stating “ cipher questions my decisions in my commercial enterprise. ” [ 77 ] In a comment published on 1 December 2013 in The Independent in response to supporters ‘ chants and banners of “ City Till We Die ”, Allam said, “ They can die deoxyadenosine monophosphate soon as they want, equally long as they leave the club for the majority who barely want to watch good football. ” [ 78 ] The supporters responded with chants of “ We ‘re Hull City, we ‘ll die when we want ” during that day ‘s home match against Liverpool. Manager Steve Bruce credited the controversy for creating “ a fantastic atmosphere ” but added, “ I have got to have a conversation with him because I do n’t think he quite understands what it means in terms of history and tradition. ” [ 79 ] however, Bruce besides said that, because of the money Allam had invested in the clubhouse, “ If he thinks Hull Tigers is his way ahead then we have to respect it. ” [ 80 ] On 11 December 2013, a spokesman for Hull City announced that the club had formally applied to the Football Association to have its name changed to “ Hull Tigers ” from the 2014–15 temper onwards. [ 81 ] The FA Council, which has “ absolute discretion ” in deciding whether to approve the design or not, stated the future day that it would follow a “ consultation procedure ” with stakeholders, “ including the clubhouse ‘s garter groups. ” [ 82 ]

2014 : resistance and rejection

Some brand and marketing experts have come out in support of the name change. Nigel Currie, director of sports marketing agency Brand Rapport, stated that “ the whole summons has been conducted badly with the supporters, but [ the name transfer ] is a reasonably sound estimate. ” [ 83 ] Simon Chadwick, professor of Sport Business Strategy and Marketing at the Coventry University Business School, opined that the objective of opening up lucrative raw markets for shirt sales, trade and circulate deals shows commercial vision and could bring benefits, but “ this needs to be backed up by a proper market scheme and investing. ” He said, “ it ‘s no use thinking changing the diagnose or the color of the shirt will pay moment dividends. ” [ 83 ] David Stern, commissioner of the National Basketball Association in the United States, warned : “ I would say a wise owner [ of a sports club ] would view his possession as something of a public trust, in addition to the net income motif, and you truly do want to allow the fans a fiddling spot more input than I think is being allowed, with respect to Hull. ” [ 83 ] On 17 March 2014, the FA membership committee advised that the name transfer application be rejected at the FA Council meeting on 9 April. [ 84 ] In response, the clubhouse published a statement saying the FA was “ prejudiced ” and criticised the committee ‘s consultation with the City Till We Die opposition group. [ 85 ] The come week, the golf club opened a vote of season ticket holders over the appoint change. Opponents of the mention change criticised as “ load ” the questions, which asked respondents to choose between “ Yes to Hull Tigers with the Allam family continuing to lead the club ”, “ No to Hull Tigers ” and “ I am not besides implicated and will continue to support the clubhouse either direction ”, on the grounds that voters were not given the choice to reject the name while keeping the Allam kin as owners. [ 86 ] Of 15,033 season ticket holders, 5,874 voted in all, with 2,565 vote in prefer of the change and 2,517 against, while 792 chose the “ not besides implicated ” choice. [ 87 ] On 9 April 2014, the FA Council announced its decision, carried by a 63.5 % vote of its members, to reject the clubhouse ‘s application for a mention change. [ 88 ] The club responded by stating it will appeal the decision. [ 88 ] however, since there is no appeal serve with the FA and its Council, the decisiveness is final. On 11 September 2014, Allam confirmed an appeal has been submitted to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. He besides held a newsworthiness conference confirming the club had been put up for sale due to the English FA ‘s decision on 9 April 2014. [ 89 ] In October 2014, interviewed by the BBC, Allam confirmed that he would “ not invest a penny more in the clubhouse ” unless he is allowed to change the club ‘s identify to Hull Tigers. [ 90 ] In the same interview, Allam said, “ I have never been a football fan. I am hush not a football fan. I am a residential district fan. ” [ 90 ]

2015 : Re-application

In March 2015, an independent jury appointed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the decisiveness of the Football Association Council to block the name change “ can not stand ” on score of the process having been “ flawed. ” [ 91 ] In July 2015, the Football Supporters Federation confirmed that a 70/30 decision was made in privilege of Hull City A.F.C. not changing their appoint after an FA vote. [ 92 ]

Colours and peak

Old club crown Club crest 1998 – 2014 Club crest 2014 – 2019 For most of the golf club ‘s history, Hull have worn black and amber shirts with black shorts. These total darkness and amber colours are where Hull ‘s nickname, The Tigers, originated from. [ 6 ] however, in the club ‘s first match against Notts County in 1904, white shirts were worn, with total darkness shorts and black socks. During their first temper in the League, Hull wore black and amber striped shirts and black shorts, which they continued to wear until the second World War with the exception of the 1935–36 season, in which they wore flip blue shirts. [ 93 ] Following the goal of the Second World War, Hull spent another season wearing sky blue, but changed to plain amber shirts, which they wore until the early on 1960s, when they swapped back to stripes. [ 94 ]

original kit colours During the mid-1970s, and early 1980s, the strip was constantly changing between the two versions of apparent shirts and stripes. During the late 1980s, crimson was added to the kits but its duration went no further than this. [ 95 ] The early 1990s featured two “ tiger bark ” designs, which have since featured in several articles listing the “ worst ever ” football kits. The 1998–99 season introduced a kit with cross-fading amber and white stripes, another experiment that proved unpopular. [ 96 ] After the begin of the twenty-first hundred, the cabaret wore plain amber shirts until 2004, when the clubhouse celebrated its centennial by wearing a kit out exchangeable to the design of the one wear 100 years ago. [ 97 ] In 1935, Hull City ‘s first shirt badge mirrored the companion three crowns civic emblem of Kingston-upon-Hull, which was displayed on the sky blue shirts worn in the 1935–36 season. Following that season, the team went without wearing a badge until 1947, when the club crest depicted a tiger ‘s head in an orange-shaded badge. This was worn up until 1957, when it was changed to merely the tiger ‘s head. This was worn for three years, when the shirt again featured no emblem. then, in 1971, the club returned to showing the tiger ‘s head on the shirt. This was used for four years, until the baseball club ‘s initials of HCAFC were shown for four years. After this, a logo with the tiger ‘s head with the club ‘s mention underneath was used from 1979 until 1998. The next logo, which remains the clubhouse ‘s current logo, features the tiger ‘s head in an amber harbor with the club ‘s diagnose, along with the clubhouse ‘s dub, The Tigers. Hull changed their crest in June 2014, becoming one of few English league teams without the club name on their crest. [ citation needed ] From the close of the 2017–18 season a supporter-led process of redesigning the club cap took place with a new crown, to be used from the start of the 2019–20 season, being revealed in February 2019. This would be alike to the previous purpose but with the cabaret name at the top and a different shape. [ 98 ]

stadium

The KCOM Stadium between 1904 and 1905, Hull City played their home games at the Boulevard. [ 6 ] This background was used by Hull on a contract which allowed them to use it when not used for Rugby League, at a price of £100 per annum. [ 105 ] Hull built their own flat coat, Anlaby Road, which was opened in 1906. [ 106 ] With the terror of the rerouting of the railway argumentation through the Anlaby Road anchor, the club was convinced it needed to secure its future by owning its own reason. [ 11 ] They negotiated the batch for bring between Boothferry Road and North Road in 1929, which was financed by a £3,000 loan from the FA. [ 107 ] due to the golf club ‘s fiscal difficulties, no work took seat for three years, and development then stopped until 1939. In that year a proposal to build a newfangled multi-purpose sports stadium on the site temporarily halted the club ‘s plans to relocate, but when this design failed the club resolved to continue with the stall development of the site, in prediction of moving to the new stadium in 1940. The outbreak of war, however, meant that the renovation again came to a arrest, as the web site was taken over by the Home Guard. [ 11 ] During the second World War, Anlaby Road was damaged by enemy bombing, the haunt cost of which was in the region of £1,000. The Cricket Club served notice to quit at the same time, and so in 1943 the occupancy was formally ended. [ 106 ] Hull were forced to return to the Boulevard Ground from 1944 until 1945 because of the poor stipulate of the plan stadium at Boothferry Road. [ 105 ] The modern stadium was ultimately opened under the revised name of Boothferry Park on 31 August 1946. [ 11 ] Hull City, along with one of the city ‘s rugby league sides, Hull F.C., moved into the newly built KC Stadium in 2002. [ 11 ] The KC Stadium was named “ Best prime ” at the 2006 Football League Awards. [ 108 ]

Finances

In the club ‘s annual report for the 12-month period up to 31 July 2009, auditors Deloitte stated that £ 4.4 million had gone out of the club and stadium company to owner Russell Bartlett ‘s holding companies in loans, while at least £2.9 million of it was used in the take-over itself of the club. [ 109 ] A farther £560,000 was paid, according to the audit, by the stadium party to Bartlett ‘s holding companies in “ management fees, ” while at least £1 million was owed to him personally as a “ wage ”. [ 109 ] After the warn from Deloitte, Bartlett gave the club a £4 million loan, [ 110 ] “ which brought the money he had taken out and put in since taking over to about even. ” [ 109 ] The corporate entity that owns the football golf club, “ The Hull City Association Football Club ( Tigers ) Ltd, ” is presently owned by Allamhouse Limited, a privateF, limited-liability ship’s company with a share capital of £10 million ( as of October 2012 ), [ 111 ] registered in Jersey. [ 109 ] The beneficial owners of Allamhouse Limited, established in 2009, [ 112 ] are the Allam family. [ 113 ] On an “ opacity Score ” of 100, where zero indicates arrant openness and 100 complete secrecy, the company which owns the club has been rated by christian help at 87. [ 109 ] Hull City ‘s bodied accounts, as of July 2013, show a £25.6 million loss, on revenues of £11 million, after player and management costs of “ just under £23 million. ” [ 114 ] The baseball club has “ future tax losses “ available of more than £45 million. [ 114 ] Another Assam Allam company, Allam Marine, besides wholly owned by Allamhouse Limited, revealed in its 2012 accounts that “ use of tax losses from group companies ” reduced its tax liability by £3.8 million over 2011 and 2012. [ 114 ] As reported, HM Revenue and Customs are in the process of an question at Hull City AFC, as separate of the british tax authorities ‘ target of football clubs over “ tax-exempt payments to players under image rights ‘ deals and the provision of benefits in kind. [ 114 ] For Hull City AFC, the planning for benefits in kind was reported at £682,000 as of July 2011, growing to £810,000 by July 2012. [ 114 ]

Records and statistics

Andy Davidson holds the criminal record for Hull City league appearances, having played 579 matches. [ 115 ] Garreth Roberts comes second, having played 487 matches. [ 115 ] Chris Chilton is the club ‘s top goalscorer with 222 goals in all competitions ; Chilton besides holds the club record for goals scored in the League ( 193 ), FA Cup ( 16 ) and League Cup ( 10 ). [ 115 ] The club ‘s widest victory gross profit in the league was their 11–1 winnings against Carlisle United in the Third Division North on 14 January 1939. [ 115 ] Their biggest winnings in the top flight was achieved on 28 December 2013, with a 6–0 victory over Fulham. [ 116 ] Their heaviest get the better of in the league was 8–0 against Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1911, a record which was equalled against Wigan Athletic on 14 July 2020 in the EFL Championship. [ 69 ] Their heaviest top fledge defeat was a 7–1 get the better of to Tottenham Hotspur on 21 May 2017. [ 118 ] Hull City ‘s record base attendance is 55,019, for a match against Manchester United on 26 February 1949 at Boothferry Park, [ 11 ] with their highest attendance at their current stadium, the KC Stadium, 25,030 set on 9 May 2010 against Liverpool for the last match of the season. [ 119 ] The highest transmit tip received for a Hull City player is up to £22 million from West Ham for Jarrod Bowen. [ 120 ] The highest transportation fee paid for a musician is £13 million for Ryan Mason from Tottenham Hotspur. [ 121 ]

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Notes

• 3Q: Third qualifying round
• PO: Play-off round

Players

current team

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Out on loanword

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Reserves and Juniors

actor of the class

Managers

As of 27 November 2021.

entirely professional, competitive matches are counted. [ 142 ]

* Caretaker coach
† Temporary Football Management Consultant

current backroom staff

As of 21 June 2019.

associate teams

Reserves and Juniors

Hull City Reserves play in the Reserve League East Division. [ 144 ] The team plays home plate fixtures at the Church Road Ground, dwelling of North Ferriby United. [ 144 ] Hull City Juniors play in the Football League Youth Alliance, playing their dwelling fixtures at Winterton Rangers ‘ home stadium. [ 145 ]

Hull City Women

Hull City Women play in the Northern Combination Women ‘s Football League. In the 2006–07 season, the team finished seventh in the table with 33 points. [ 146 ]

Rivalries

Hull City supporters at the celebrations on the team ‘s promotion to the Premier League in 2008 According to a 2003 poll, Hull City fans consider their chief equal to be Yorkshire neighbor Leeds United. The cabaret besides has a traditional competition with Sheffield United. [ 148 ] In 1984, Sheffield United won promotion at Hull City ‘s expense with the teams level on points and goal remainder and separated merely by goals scored, [ 149 ] with 33 of United ‘s goals scored by early Hull City striker Keith Edwards. City ‘s final game of the season against Burnley had been rescheduled due to bad weather and took rate after their promotion rivals had finished their campaign ; Hull went into the bet on knowing that a three-goal victory would mean promotion, but in movement of a crowd which included a count of United fans could manage entirely a 2–0 succeed, ensuring that United went up alternatively. [ 150 ] [ 151 ] distant rivals include teams from across the Humber Estuary in Lincolnshire, Scunthorpe United and Grimsby Town. With Scunthorpe ‘s promotion from League One, the 2007–08 Championship temper saw the return of a “ Humber Derby “. [ 152 ] Additionally, Lincoln City and non-league York City are said to consider Hull amongst their rivals. The club ‘s main bully tauten appears to be the Hull City Psychos, [ 153 ] dating back to the 1960s .

Honours and achievements

References

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