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Oxford United Football Club is a professional football club in the city of Oxford, England. The team plays in League One, the one-third tier of the English football league system. The president is Sumrith Thanakarnjanasuth, [ 2 ] the coach is Karl Robinson [ 3 ] and the team captain is John Mousinho. [ 4 ]
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Founded in 1893 as Headington United, Oxford United adopted its current diagnose in 1960. It joined the Football League in 1962 after winning the Southern Football League, reaching the moment Division in 1968. After relegation in 1976, between 1984 and 1986 the club earned consecutive promotions into the First Division, and won the League Cup in 1986. however, Oxford was ineffective thereby to enter the 1987 UEFA Cup because of the UEFA ban on English clubs in european competitions. relegation from the clear flight in 1988 began an 18-year decline which saw the club relegated to the league in 2006, becoming the beginning winners of a major trophy to be relegated from the Football League. After four seasons, Oxford returned to League Two in 2010 via the playoffs, and six seasons former achieved promotion to League One, after finishing second in League Two in 2016. Ron Atkinson holds the cabaret record for the most overall appearances with 560, John Shuker holds the phonograph record for the most appearances in the Football League with 478 and Ron ‘s recently buddy Graham Atkinson holds the read for the most goals scored with 107. In total, nineteen players have made international appearances while playing for the club. United ‘s home reason is the Kassam Stadium in Oxford and has a capacity of 12,500. United moved to the stadium in 2001 after leaving the Manor Ground, their dwelling for 76 years. Swindon Town and Reading are the cabaret ‘s chief rivals .
history [edit ]
Headington United [edit ]
Oxford United were formed as Headington in 1893, [ 1 ] adding the suffix United in 1911 after merging with Headington Quarry. The clubhouse was founded by Rev. John Scott-Tucker, the vicar at Saint Andrew ‘s Church in Headington, and a local doctor named Robert Hitchings. [ 5 ] A football team was a way for the cricketers of Headington Cricket Club to maintain their fitness during the winter break. [ 5 ] The club ‘s first football pit played was against Cowley Barracks. Headington had no regular home until 1913, when they were able to purchase Wootten ‘s Field on London Road, but this was redeveloped in 1920, forcing the golf club to move. [ 5 ] A permanent dwelling was found in 1925, when they purchased the Manor Ground locate on London Road. [ 5 ] The facility was used as a cricket sales talk in the summer, and a football pitch in the winter. In 1899, six years after their formation, Headington United joined the Oxfordshire District League Second Division, where they competed until the outbreak of the First World War ; the Second Division was renamed the Oxfordshire Junior League after the resumption of football in 1919. In 1921, the cabaret was admitted into the Oxon Senior League. [ 6 ] The beginning season included a 9–0 victory, with eight of those goals coming from P. Drewitt. This remains a record for the highest total of goals scored by an Oxford player in a first-team match. [ 7 ] At this clock time a small competition existed with Cowley F.C., who were based a few miles south of Headington. During a league plot on May Day, the reviewer gave two penalties to Cowley ; supporters broke past security and players, resulting in the reviewer being “ freely baited ”. [ 8 ] The first FA Cup tie played was in 1931, against Hounslow F.C. in the Preliminary Round, ending in an 8–2 kill for Headington. [ 9 ] United spent two seasons in the Spartan League in 1947 and 1948, finishing fifth and fourth respectively. It was around this prison term that the cricket team left the Manor and moved to modern premises near Cowley Barracks. A motivate into professional football was first considered during the 1948–49 temper. Vic Couling, the president of the united states at the time, had applied for Headington to become a extremity of a new Second Division in the Southern League. [ 10 ] early teams that applied included Weymouth, Kettering Town and future league side Cambridge United. Although the plans were postponed, the First Division was going to be expanded by two clubs ; Weymouth and Headington were elected. It was late discovered that Llanelli had just one vote fewer than Headington. [ 10 ] Oxford played its first season in the Southern League in 1949, the same year they turned professional. [ 1 ] Former First Division forward Harry Thompson was hired as director. In 1950, Headington United became the first base master golf club in Britain to install floodlights, [ 11 ] and used them on 18 December against Banbury Spencer. [ 12 ] They initially played in orange and blasphemous shirts, but changed to yellow home shirts for the 1957–58 season. [ 13 ] The reason for the change is unknown. In 1960, Headington United was renamed Oxford United, to give the golf club a higher profile. [ 1 ]
Chart of historic table positions since election to the Football League Two years late, in 1962, the club won the Southern League championship for the second consecutive season and was elected to the Football League Fourth Division, [ 14 ] occupying the vacant invest left by bankrupt Accrington Stanley. Two consecutive eighteenth-place finishes followed, [ 15 ] [ 16 ] before promotion to the Third Division was achieved in 1965. [ 17 ] A year before the promotion, Oxford became the foremost Fourth Division club to reach the sixth beat of the FA Cup, [ 18 ] [ 19 ] but have not progressed that far in the rival since. Oxford won the Third Division title in 1967–68, [ 20 ] their sixth temper as a league club, but after eight years of proportional stability the club was relegated from the Second Division in 1975–76. [ 21 ] In 1982, as a Third Division side, Oxford United faced closure because of the club ‘s inability to service the debts owed to Barclays Bank, [ 22 ] but were rescued when businessman Robert Maxwell took over the club. [ 1 ] In April 1983, Maxwell proposed merging United with neighbours Reading, to form a new club called the Thames Valley Royals, [ 23 ] to play at Didcot. Jim Smith would have managed the club and been assisted by Reading boss Maurice Evans. The fusion was called off as a consequence of fans of both clubs protesting against the decision. furthermore, the Reading president stepped down and was replaced by an adversary of the fusion. [ 24 ] Maxwell besides threatened to fold the club if the fusion did not go through. [ 25 ] Oxford won the Third Division title after the 1983–84 season under the management of Jim Smith, [ 26 ] who besides guided them to the Second Division title the comply year. [ 27 ] This think of that Oxford United would be playing First Division football in the 1985–86 season, 23 years after joining the Football League. Smith moved to Queens Park Rangers soon after the promotion success, [ 28 ] and made direction for foreman scout Maurice Evans, who, respective seasons earlier, had won the Fourth Division entitle with Reading. [ 26 ]
First Division and cup success [edit ]
The Milk Cup, which is hush displayed in the club ‘s trophy cabinet Oxford United finished eighteenth in the 1985–86 First Division, [ 29 ] avoiding relegation on the last day of the season after defeating armory 3–0. They besides won the Football League Cup, known at the time as the Milk Cup under a sponsorship deal. As winners, Oxford would have qualified for the follow season ‘s UEFA Cup, had it not been for the ban on English teams that had resulted from the previous year ‘s Heysel Stadium catastrophe. [ 30 ] After beating colleague First Division side Aston Villa in the semi-final 4–3 on aggregate, [ 31 ] Oxford faced Queens Park Rangers in the final, which was held at Wembley Stadium on 20 April 1986. The game finished 3–0 with goals from Trevor Hebberd, Ray Houghton and Jeremy Charles. After the match long-serving physical therapist, 72-year-old Ken Fish, collected one of the achiever ‘s medals, alternatively of director Maurice Evans. Evans felt that Fish deserved the decoration for his servicing to the club, and so gave him his, in what was seen as an “ unprecedented gesture ”. [ 32 ] It was the last time the League Cup was played under the name “ Milk Cup ”, sponsors Littlewoods taking over the follow season. [ 33 ] The 1986–87 season saw Oxford United narrowly debar relegation and stay in the First Division. Robert Maxwell resigned as chair in May 1987, to take over at Derby County, handing the clubhouse to his son Kevin. [ 34 ] Maurice Evans was sacked in March 1988 with Oxford bottom of the First Division. erstwhile Liverpool defender Mark Lawrenson was named as Oxford ‘s new director, but was ineffective to prevent relegation to the Second Division. He was sacked three months into the 1988–89 Second Division political campaign after a challenge with the chair over the £1 million sale of hitter Dean Saunders to Derby County ; [ 35 ] Derby were owned by Robert Maxwell, don of the then Oxford United chair, Kevin Maxwell. Following Robert Maxwell ‘s death in 1991, his personal estate, including the club, became insolvent. [ 36 ] After a long search for a new owner, during which BioMass Recycling Ltd took over the clubhouse, Brian Horton was named as Oxford ‘s raw coach. He remained in charge until September 1993, when he moved to Manchester City in the recently formed FA Premier League. Horton led United to mid-table finishes during his management while, apart from a 21st-place ending at the end of the 1991–92 season. A 2–1 winnings over Tranmere Rovers, and a win for Blackburn Rovers over Plymouth Argyle, mean United survived relegation by two points. Oxford, nowadays in the rename Football League Division One, briefly restored Maurice Evans as director, before turning to Bristol City coach Denis Smith. Despite Smith ‘s efforts, Oxford was relegated to Division Two at the end of the 1993–94 temper, with merely four wins in the last eleven games. [ 37 ]
fiscal problems [edit ]
Denis Smith brought in two strikers who were experienced in the top division : Southampton ‘s Paul Moody and Nottingham Forest ‘s Nigel Jemson. Oxford finished one-seventh in 1994–95 temper, [ 38 ] and in the follow season gained promotion by finishing runner-up to rivals Swindon Town, despite not winning an away plot till the end of January. Robin Herd, co-owner of the March Racing Team, took restraint of the baseball club in 1995. In June of that class, the board of directors unveil plans for a new 16,000-seat stadium at Minchery Farm, to replace the bedraggled Manor Ground. [ 38 ] The cabaret had hoped to move into the new stadium near the Blackbird Leys house estate by the originate of the 1998–99 season, but structure was suspended during the preceding season, because construction party Taylor Woodrow had not been paid for the work already undertake. [ 39 ]
Dropping through the divisions [edit ]
The 1996–97 season saw Oxford complete seventeenth, and included the sale of scottish international defender Matt Elliott to Leicester City. Despite Smith ‘s departure to West Bromwich Albion in December 1997, United finished twelfth the following season under his successor, and former master, Malcolm Shotton. Shotton was previously the assistant director of the Barnsley side that gained promotion to the Premier League. During October 1998, the backroom staff at the club went unpaid, due to United ‘s fiscal situation with the new stadium, and the menace of administration caused a group of fans to set up a coerce group called Fighting for Oxford United ‘s Life ( FOUL ). [ 40 ] The group began to publicise the club ‘s betroth through a series of meetings and events, including a ‘Scarf of Unity ‘, which was a collection of scarves from versatile clubs which was long enough to stretch around the margin of the flip. [ 40 ] Chairman Robin Herd stepped down to concentrate on his mastermind projects, and in April 1999 Firoz Kassam bought Herd ‘s 89.9 % controlling matter to in Oxford United for £1, with which he besides inherited the club ‘s estimated £15 million debt. [ 41 ] Kassam reduced £9 million of the debt to precisely £900,000, by virtue of a Company Voluntary Arrangement, by which unbarred creditors who were owed over £1,000 were reimbursed with 10p for every ram they were owed. [ 42 ] Secured creditors were paid off when Kassam sold the Manor to another of his companies, for £6 million. Kassam set about completing the unfinished stadium, gaining planning permission for a bowl alley, manifold film and hotel next to the stadium, following a serial of legal battles which were finally all settled. [ 43 ] The season ended with relegation back to the Second Division. Oxford ‘s poor form continued into the 1999–2000 season and, with the team in the relegation partition, Shotton resigned in belated October. After a few months with Mickey Lewis as player-manager, former director Denis Smith returned to the club, managing a twentieth-place finish, one place clear of delegating. [ 44 ] Smith ‘s second spell did n’t end long, and he was replaced by David Kemp a few weeks into the follow campaign. At the end of the 2000–01 temper, Oxford were relegated back to the Third Division after a 35-year absence, with 100 goals conceded. [ 45 ] They suffered 33 league defeats, the second-highest number of league defeats ever endured by a league golf club in a single season. [ 46 ]
Division Three years [edit ]
Oxford began the following season with a new director and a newly stadium, with the resettlement to the Kassam Stadium completed after six years of speculation. Former Liverpool and England defender Mark Wright was given the coach ‘s job, but resigned in late November, after being accused of making racist remarks to referee Joe Ross. [ 47 ] Wright ‘s successor, Ian Atkins, was unable to make an immediate impact and Oxford finished in 21st position in the league, at the time their lowest-ever league position. [ 48 ] United missed out on the play-off places the following temper, by one place and one point. [ 49 ] Fifteen wins at the start of the 2003–04 season saw Oxford top of the mesa at the end of January. [ 50 ] however, Ian Atkins was sacked in March after agreeing to take charge at rivals Bristol Rovers. His replacement, Graham Rix, could only manage a ninth-place ending at the end of the temper, and was sacked the keep up November. Oxford replaced him with Argentine Ramón Díaz, who managed the team to a mid-table stopping point. Diaz and his team of assistants left the club at the beginning of May 2005, after being banned from the ground by the president following failed negotiations. [ 51 ] During his clock time at the clubhouse, Diaz brought in a number of south american players including his own sons, and Juan Pablo Raponi. [ 52 ] Ex-England midfielder and former West Bromwich Albion coach Brian Talbot signed a biennial abridge to replace Rix. Talbot found little success and was sacked in March 2006, with the clubhouse in 22nd place. [ 53 ] He was replaced by youth team bus Darren Patterson. On 21 March 2006, Firoz Kassam sold the baseball club, including its debts, for approximately £2 million to Florida-based businessman Nick Merry, who had played for United ‘s youth team in the mid-1970s. [ 54 ] [ 55 ] Merry immediately made changes to the club, including the hire of former director Jim Smith in his second gear spell. Despite signing five new players on his beginning day in appoint, Smith was unable to prevent relegation at the end of the 2005–06 season. After 44 years in English league football, Oxford were relegated to the Conference National after finishing in 23rd identify, [ 56 ] becoming the first early winners of a major trophy to be relegated from the league. Coincidentally, Accrington Stanley, the golf club whose bankruptcy in 1962 allowed United to be elected into the League, was one of the two clubs promoted to replace them. [ 57 ]
Jim Smith was retained as coach for the following season, and it started positively for Oxford, with 14 wins and 8 draws from the opening 25 games. [ 58 ] A hunt of eleven league games without a win followed, and saw United drop to second, where they remained until the goal of the season. On Boxing Day 2006, a herd of 11,065 watch United draw 0–0 with Woking at the Kassam Stadium, the largest-ever attendance for a Conference pit ( excluding play-offs ). [ 59 ] Oxford qualified for the play-offs by finishing second, [ 60 ] but lost on penalties in the semi-final to Exeter City. On 9 November 2007, Jim Smith resigned as director and first-team coach Darren Patterson returned as coach. [ 61 ] In a lackluster season which included defeats to Droylsden and Tonbridge Angels, camouflaged by a belated run of eight wins in the last eleven games, [ 62 ] Oxford finished 9th in the Conference National in 2007–08, 10 points off the last play-off invest. [ 63 ] On 2 October 2008, Nick Merry stepped down ampere president to be replaced by Kelvin Thomas, [ 64 ] who had been part of the management team at the clock time of Merry ‘s coup d’etat. Just under two months belated, Patterson was sacked after a poor guide of form, and was replaced by former Halifax Town coach Chris Wilder. [ 65 ] Following Wilder ‘s arrival, the team won 15 of the remaining 21 league matches that season. [ 66 ] A 5-point discount for fielding an unregistered player resulted in a seventh-place finish, four points and two places short of the play-offs. [ 67 ]
Oxford United lining up with York City at the Football Conference play-off final examination in 2010 Oxford led the board for most of the first gear half of the 2009–10 season, but dropped into the play-off places after a poor tend of form, finishing third base. They beat Rushden & Diamonds over two legs to advance to the play-off final examination against York City on 16 May 2010. [ 68 ] Oxford won the final 3–1, to return to the Football League for the 2010–11 season. [ 69 ] The attendance was 42,669, [ 70 ] a newfangled record for the final, with around 33,000 being United fans .
Oxford ‘s foremost game back in the Football League was away to Burton, which finished in a 0–0 tie ; [ 71 ] their beginning League acquire was on 4 September against Morecambe at the Kassam Stadium, with James Constable scoring a hat-trick in a 4–0 victory. [ 72 ] They finished the season in 12th place. The team spent much of the 2011–12 season in or around the playoff places, and achieved the double over rivals ( and eventual champions ) Swindon Town for the inaugural time since the 1973–74 season. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] [ 76 ] however, they failed to win any of their last seven matches and finished the season in 9th place, two places and four points outside the play-offs. [ 77 ] Chairman Kelvin Thomas stepped down during the 2012 close season, to be replaced by owner Ian Lenagan. [ 78 ] The 2012–13 season was blighted by injuries and patchy shape : after opening the temper with three wins and briefly heading the table, United lost their following six games, a radiation pattern of incompatibility that was to continue throughout the season. United finished outside the play-offs for the third straight season, but director Chris Wilder was given a further annual condense in April 2013. Some Oxford fans were unhappy about the decisiveness to renew Wilder ‘s compress, having pressed for his dismissal during the second half of the 2012–13 season. [ 79 ] After another bright startle, Oxford led the table several times in the first one-half of the 2013–14 season. On 25 January 2014, with the club faltering though placid in the play-off places, Wilder resigned as coach to take up the reins at relegation-threatened Northampton. Mickey Lewis subsequently became the caretaker director for a second time for the club. On 22 March 2014, Gary Waddock was appointed the head bus of the club after a drawn-out consultation process, leaving his job as Head of Coaching at MK Dons. [ 80 ] Under Lewis and Waddock, Oxford slipped out of the play-off places in the final few weeks of the temper, finishing a disappointing eighth in the table, nine points off the last playoff stead. In July 2014, Waddock ‘s abridge was terminated after a change of ownership and he was replaced by Michael Appleton. [ 81 ] Waddock ‘s surprise sack ensured he had the worst record of any Oxford director, winning only once and losing seven times in his eight games in charge of the club. After an indifferent inaugural season under Appleton, Oxford achieved promotion to League One in his irregular year in commit, finishing the 2015–16 season in 2nd place with 86 points. [ 82 ] They besides reached the final examination of the League Trophy at Wembley Stadium, only the club ‘s one-third appearance at the home stadium, but were defeated 3–2 by their League One opponents Barnsley. [ 83 ] In 2016–17, having sold Kemar Roofe during the near season for a record £3m [ 84 ] and signed Marvin Johnson for an undisclosed tip besides thought to be a club record, [ 85 ] Oxford finished 8th in League One, four points shortstop of the playoff places, [ 86 ] and again lost in the final of the League Trophy at Wembley, this time to relegation-bound Coventry City. [ 87 ] Appleton left the baseball club to become assistant director at Leicester City of the Premier League in June 2017, [ 88 ] and was replaced by Pep Clotet, once adjunct director at Leeds United. [ 89 ] On 22 January 2018, Clotet was sacked, [ 90 ] with the club in 10th place in League One after a home kill to bottom baseball club Bury. [ 91 ] After a drawn-out period under caretaker-manager Derek Fazackerley during which the team slipped to within 4 points of the relegation zone, [ 92 ] Karl Robinson, former director of Milton Keynes Dons and Charlton Athletic, was appointed on 22 March 2018. Robinson had to wait five games for his first base win, but his aim of retaining the club ‘s League One condition was achieved with three wins from the last five games of the season. The club finished in 16th place on 56 points, six points above the delegating zone. A twelfth place finished was achieved the follow year, despite outgo over one-half of the season in the relegation partition. An improved fourth place finished followed in the shorten 2019/20 season, which was affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic. When the season was suspended, Oxford were 3rd in the table, but following an agreement from clubs to end the temper early, the U ‘s dropped one plaza to 4th after the concluding board was decided under an unweighted points per game organization. [ 93 ] The play-offs continue as normal, where United faced Portsmouth in the semi-final. Following a 1-1 draw in the beginning peg, United won 5-4 on penalties when the second game ended 1-1 after excess clock. [ 94 ] In the final examination buttocks closed doors at Wembley, Oxford lost 2-1 to Wycombe Wanderers, Joe Jacobson ‘s penalty proving critical in the necktie. [ 95 ]
stadium [edit ]
Panoramic position of the Kassam Stadium Oxford United had no unconstipated home until 1913, switching between the Quarry Recreation Ground, Wootten ‘s Field ( now Stephen Road ), Sandy Lane ( immediately Osler Road ) and the Britannia Field ( now the top end of Lime Walk ), all in Headington. [ 96 ] In 1913 they were able to purchase Wootten ‘s Field on London Road, however, this was redeveloped in 1920 before a stadium could be built. Having purchased the Sandy Lane site, the baseball club developed and played at the Manor Ground between 1925 and 2001. The ground was in the first place shared with Headington Cricket Club until 1949, when they moved to Cowley Barracks. [ 97 ] The capacitance at closing was 9,500, but hosted United ‘s phonograph record push of 22,750 against Preston North End in an FA Cup sixth-round match on 29 February 1964. [ 1 ] The four stands were named after the roads they were positioned on : The North, East, South and West stands were called Cuckoo Lane, Osler Road, London Road and Beech Road respectively. In the 1990s, the Taylor Report was published calling for the improvement of football stadiums. The Manor Ground ‘s terrace was becoming excess and redeveloping the anchor was excessively costly, so the club decided to move to a purpose-built all-seater stadium on the outskirts of the city, costing in the area of £15 million. [ 98 ] Construction sour began in the early separate of 1997, but was suspended former that year ascribable to the club ‘s fiscal problems. [ 39 ] construction of the raw stadium resumed in 1999 following a takeover cope and the final league match at the Manor on 1 May 2001 saw a 1–1 withdraw with Port Vale. The site was sold for £12 million and the stadium was late demolished. The land is now occupied by a individual hospital. [ 99 ] Since 2001, Oxford United have played at the Kassam Stadium. [ 100 ] The all-seater stadium has a capacity of 12,500 and has entirely three stands alternatively of the common four ; when first planned in 1995 it was originally going to have a 16,000-seat capacity, but by the fourth dimension the stadium opened Oxford was playing in a lower division, so the smaller capacity was deemed adequate. structure of the fourth stall is not expected to take place for respective years, although foundations have already been put in position. [ 101 ] The record attendance is 12,243, which was achieved in the final game of the 2005–06 season, when a get the better of against Leyton Orient condemned them to relegation from the Football League. The median attendance in the previous season was 7,415, which was the second highest in League Two and the thirty-fourth highest in the solid Football League. [ 102 ] The median attendance was highest in the Conference in two out of the four years the team spend in the division, with the average in the early two years placing second, behind Exeter City and Cambridge United respectively. [ 103 ] The stadium has besides hosted rugby union matches, a woman ‘s international football match ( England v Sweden ), an Under-17 external football tournament and music concerts. [ 104 ]
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Crest and colours [edit ]
The bronze ox outside the stadium The cabaret cap depicts an ox above a representation of a ford to symbolise the localization. [ 105 ] It reflects the name and history of the city, as Oxford was in the first place a market town situated near to a ford on the River Isis, which was used by cattle. In 2008, a bronze statue of an ox was uncover external of what would have been the west stand. [ 106 ] It was subsequently vandalised in January 2011, being covered in pink paint [ 107 ] and the club used the opportunity to raise money for a breast cancer charity. [ 108 ] The determine and design of the crest has changed numerous times since it was first produced. When playing as Headington and during the early years of Oxford United, the cap included a full ox crossing the ford, vitamin a well as the initials H.U.F.C. ( pre-1962 ) or the name Oxford United ( post name-change ). between 1972 and 1980, the crest became circular, showing precisely the ox ‘s head on a chicken and black background. [ 13 ] The words ‘Oxford United Football Club ‘ were placed around the ox. For the future 17 years, the crest was plainly the ox ‘s head coloured blue, with versatile combinations of wording surrounding it. For model, in the 1987–88 season, the give voice 25th Anniversary was placed under the crest. [ 109 ] In 1996, the crest had a shield shape and contained the ox ‘s oral sex over the ford, on a jaundiced background. This translation was retained until the act to the Kassam Stadium in 2001, when club steward Rob Alderman designed the stream version. [ 105 ] It has a similar design to the preceding peak, but the ox and ford are contained in a traffic circle with a chicken backdrop, with the remainder of the crest being coloured blue. While playing as Headington United, orange and bluing striped shirts were worn with united states navy shorts and socks. The invention of the shirt changed regularly, with the stripes being changed every few seasons. After joining the Southern League, the blasphemous stripes were lost for good and a lighter shade of orange was used for the shirt. [ 110 ] The jaundiced kit was foremost tire during the 1957–58 season, with black shorts and yellow socks. During the belated 1970s and early 1980s, the blacken shorts were beginning replaced with chicken ones, and then with royal blue shorts. Since the early 1990s, the strip has been composed of the scandalmongering shirt and united states navy coloured shorts and socks. [ 13 ] A big variety of away kits has been used over the years, ranging from crimson and black stripes on the shirts, to a amply whiten kit. The beginning patronize to appear on the shirt was Sunday Journal, a local newspaper, in 1982. [ 13 ] Between 1983 and 1985, there were three sponsors : BPCC, Pergamon and the Sunday People. Following those were Wang Laboratories ( 1985 to 1989 ), Pergamon ( 1989 to 1991 ), Unipart ( 1991 to 2000 ), Domino ( 2000 to 2001 ) and Buildbase ( from the move to the Kassam Stadium in 2001 to 2010 ). [ 13 ] [ 111 ] Following the return to the Football League, Bridle Insurance were announced as modern shirt sponsors. [ 112 ] The Bridle share ended after the termination of the 2012–13 season. The home patronize for the 2013–14 season was announced as Animalates, with the away kit being sponsored by Isinglass Consulting for that lapp season after winning an innovative choice draw. That annual deal with Isinglass was extended for the 2014–15 season, again featuring on the away kits merely. [ 113 ] The family kit that season was sponsored by sur party Black north Rounds. [ 114 ] In July 2015, Oxford United announced a three season deal with investment management party Liontrust Asset Management covering both base and away shirts. [ 115 ] For the 2018–19 and 2019–20 season, the principal shirt sponsor was Thai beer firm Singha. [ 116 ] The Tourism Authority of Thailand were announced as the new shirt sponsors, as function of a principle partnership agreement, in August 2020, using the trade name list “ amazing thailand ”. [ 117 ]
Supporters and rivals [edit ]
Oxford ‘s average league attendances since 1963. Note the grey vertical pipeline indicates the club ‘s move to the Kassam Stadium, and the color sections of the horizontal line indicates the club ‘s position within the Football League ( dark park being level 1 and red being charge 5 ). Oxford have a total of mugwump supporters ‘ clubs and groups such as OxVox ( the Oxford United Supporters ‘ Trust ) with a current membership of over 400, and the Oxford United Exiles. [ 118 ] [ 119 ] OxVox was formed in 2002, to replace the disband FOUL group, which broke up after the contiguous future of the club was secured. [ 120 ] It was the fiftieth supporters trust created under the Supporters ‘ hope standard. The baseball club itself besides runs a Juniors clubhouse, aimed at younger fans and offering a number of bonuses to the clubhouse ‘s members such as birthday cards and a free jersey. [ 121 ] The official matchday program for home games costs £3 and was voted best league Premier Programme of the year for the 2007–08 season. [ 122 ] A number of songs are sing during home games, such as “ Yellow Submarine “ ( with adapted lyrics ) and songs relating to the old Manor Ground. The golf club have a number of fame supporters, including Richard Branson, [ 123 ] Timmy Mallett, [ 124 ] Tim Henman [ 125 ] and Jim Rosenthal. [ 126 ] The club ‘s mascot is Ollie the Ox. [ 127 ] United were the best-supported club in the Conference National before Luton Town joined the division, [ 128 ] [ 129 ] and the home match between Oxford and Luton, which drew a crowd of 10,600, was used to highlight the mania for English football during the 2018 World Cup command. [ 130 ] In 2009, a “ 12th man fund ” was set up by a group of supporters in order to provide extra transfer funds to the club. As a leave, the numeral 12 shirt was retired at the start of the 2009–10 season ( though it was reintroduced in 2018–19 ). The fund raised over £40,000 and resulted in the signings of Mehdi Kerrouche ( on loanword ) and Jamie Cook, amongst others. [ 131 ] [ 132 ]
Oxford supporters celebrating at a 2011 away game vanadium Swindon Town Oxford ‘s fiercest competition is with Swindon Town, with Reading seen as the other meaning rival team ( both are about 30 miles from Oxford ). To a lesser extent, Wycombe Wanderers, Luton Town and Northampton Town are besides seen as rivals. The competition with Swindon stems from the clubs ‘ close proximity, a well as the fact they have played each other 55 times since 1962. Oxford ( Headington ) and Swindon met a few times in non-competitive fixtures before 1962. The earliest equal on record was a friendly in the 1950–51 temper at Headington. They besides played each early in 1954–55 both home plate and away, and at Headington during 1958–59. All programmes are reasonably scarce, with the individual sheet issued at Swindon being very rare. The 1962–63 game was a tribute, with the beginning league meetings coming in 1965–66. [ citation needed ] During the height of football vandalism, trouble flared up between the sets of fans. In 1998, during a equal at the County Ground, 19 Swindon supporters were arrested, [ 133 ] while in 2002 there was an incident between supporters after Oxford fans returned from an away repair. [ 134 ] In 2011, vandals burned the initials STFC into the Kassam Stadium ‘s pitch. [ 135 ] Oxford fans use nicknames when talking about Swindon such as moonraker, in reference book to the myth that they tried to rake the reflection of the moon out of a pond. [ 136 ] The competition with Reading was heightened during the chairmanship of Robert Maxwell, because of his hope to merge the two clubs. This was met with solid opposition from both sets of fans, with United supporters staging a “ sit-in ” on the pitch before a game against Wigan in protest. [ 137 ] Despite being the second team in the city, there is less competition with Oxford City because of their lower position in the pyramid system ( there have been no competitive league matches between the two since 1959 ). [ 138 ]
Players [edit ]
First team squad [edit ]
- As of 1 February 2021[139]
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Out on loan [edit ]
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young person team [edit ]
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Backroom staff [edit ]
The board
Coaching and medical staff
- Manager: Karl Robinson[143]
- Assistant manager: Craig Short
- First-team coach: Leon Blackmore-Such
- Goalkeeping coach: Wayne Brown
- Academy Manager: Dan Harris
- U18 coaches: Darren Purse and Chris Hackett
- Head of physical performance: Chris Short
- First team physiotherapist: Amy Cranston
- Sport therapist: Jon Elliot
- First team sports scientist: Dwayne Peasah
- Head of Recruitment: Mark Thomas
- Lead Recruitment Analyst: Ed Waldron
- Recruitment Analyst: Naythan Din-Kariuki
- Head of performance Analysis: Eddie Denton
- Performance Analyst: Isaac Alder
managerial history [edit ]
Jim Smith had three spells as director. The first director appointed was Harry Thompson in July 1949, soon after the club turned professional. [ 144 ] In a nine-year spell he led the team to the Southern League title in 1953, arsenic well as the Southern League Cup in 1953 and 1954. He was replaced by Arthur Turner in 1958, who would become the longest-serving director in the club ‘s history, serving more than a decade in charge. Turner led United to back-to-back Southern League titles, of which the moment, in 1962, resulted in their election to the Football League. [ 14 ] Promotion followed from the Fourth Division in 1965, and the golf club was crowned Third Division champions three years late. [ 144 ] Turner left the club nine months after this success. Over the adjacent thirteen years, five managers took charge. Ron Saunders was in appoint for merely a twelve games, moving to Norwich City at the end of the 1968–69 temper. Gerry Summers was coach for six years, before being replaced by Mick Brown. During Brown ‘s four-year run, United were relegated back to the Third Division after spending eight years in the Second. [ 21 ] Jim Smith started his first spell as director in 1981, and led Oxford into the top tier of English football after consecutive promotions as champions in 1984 and 1985. however, he moved to Queens Park Rangers before the 1985–86 season. [ 28 ] New director, erstwhile headman scout Maurice Evans, had contiguous success winning the 1986 League Cup, beating his harbinger ‘s raw golf club in the final. [ 145 ] For the following 24 years, the entirely director to guide the club to forwarding was Denis Smith, who won promotion from the Second Division in 1996. Ramón Díaz, the club ‘s first and lone non-British director, took charge for five months between December 2004 and May 2005. Jim Smith returned as coach in 2006, the class that Oxford United were relegated to the Football Conference after 44 years in the Football League. Having missed out on forwarding in the 2006–07 temper, Smith resigned and Darren Patterson was promoted to the post on 9 November 2007. [ 61 ] Patterson was dismissed in December 2008 and was replaced by Chris Wilder, [ 65 ] who led the club back into the Football League by winning the 2010 Conference playoff Final and remained with the club for five years before resigning in January 2014. Gary Waddock was appointed lead coach in March 2014, but was sacked in July following a change of shareholding in the club, to be replaced by Michael Appleton. [ 81 ] In his three seasons in charge, Appleton oversaw promotion to League One and two lose finals in the EFL Trophy, before leaving to become adjunct coach at Leicester City. Spaniard Pep Clotet was appointed as his surrogate but was sacked midway through his first season in charge, to be replaced after a two-month spell under caretaker-manager Derek Fazackerley by erstwhile Charlton emboss Karl Robinson. [ citation needed ] Since turning professional, the club has had 25 full-time managers, of whom three ( Jim Smith, Denis Smith and Darren Patterson ) have had more than one spell in the post, and eleven periods of caretaker-management .
Honours [edit ]
Records [edit ]
The largest recorded home attendance was during a match against Preston North End in the sixth round of the FA Cup, at the Manor Ground, on 29 February 1964. The attendance was 22,750, [ 152 ] which exceeded the stadium ‘s capacity, so scaffolding was needed in arrange to create temp stands for the extra supporters. The largest attendance at the Kassam Stadium for a football match was 12,243 during the final game of the 2005–06 League Two season against Leyton Orient. Oxford ‘s largest-ever scoreline was a 9–1 acquire in the FA Cup first base round versus Dorchester Town on 11 November 1995. In the league, their largest succeed was 7–0 versus Barrow in Division Four. Their largest get the better of is 7–0 away to Sunderland in 1998 and to Wigan Athletic in 2017. Their longest unbeaten tend in the league was 20 matches in 1984, [ 153 ] with their record longest winning guide of 9 games in the 2020-21 season. [ 154 ] John Shuker holds the record for the most league appearances with 478 between 1962 and 1977. [ 155 ] John Aldridge holds the record for most league goals scored in a season in the 1984–85 season, scoring 30. [ 156 ] Graham Atkinson holds the phonograph record for the most league goals with 77, angstrom well as most overall goals with 107. [ 157 ] The most cap player in internationals is Jim Magilton, with 18 caps for Northern Ireland. The largest come of money Oxford have received by selling a player was an estimate £3,000,000 for Kemar Roofe ‘s transmit to Leeds United in July 2016. [ 158 ] The largest transplant fee Oxford have paid was £470,000 for Dean Windass ‘ transfer from Aberdeen in August 1998, [ 159 ] though the undisclosed tip paid for Marvin Johnson at the startle of the 2016–17 season is thought to have exceeded this calculate. [ 85 ] Oxford are the lone team in history to have been promoted consecutively from Division Three to the First Division as Champions. [ citation needed ]
References [edit ]
- General
- Bickerton, Bob (1998). Club Colours. Hamlyn. ISBN 0-600-59542-0.
- Howland, Andy and Roger (1989). Oxford United: A Complete Record (1893–1989). Breedon Books. ISBN 0-907969-52-6.
- Brodetsky, Martin (2009). Oxford United: The Complete Record. Breedon Books. ISBN 978-1-85983-715-3.
- Specific
further interpretation [edit ]
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