Carlisle United

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Carlisle United
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Basic data
Surname Carlisle United Football Club
Seat Carlisle
founding 1904
Board EnglandEngland Andrew Jenkins
Website carliseleration.co.uk
First soccer team
Head coach Chris Beech
Venue Brunton Park , Carlisle
Places 16,981
league EFL League Two
2019/20 18th place
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Carlisle United (official: Carlisle United Football Club ) - also known as The Cumbrians , Blue Army or The Blues  - is an English football club from Carlisle in the county of Cumbria , since the start of the 2014/15 season in the EFL League Two , the fourth highest English football league.

history

Carlisle United was formed in 1903 through the merger of Shaddongate United with Carlisle Red Rose . From 1905, the club first played in the second division of the Lancashire Combination , after just one year they were promoted to the local first division.

In 1928 Carlisle was inducted into the Football League and assigned to the Third Division North . At that time there was no regular promotion to the Football League, but the members of the league voted whether the bottom of the table of the lowest professional league should remain in the league or a new club should be added. Carlisle United prevailed in the vote with 33:11 votes against the previous league club Durham City . When the new Fourth Division was formed in 1958, the club came into this new lowest professional league. 1962 succeeded the promotion to the third division and Carlisle United played for the first time not in the respective lowest professional league. In 1974/75 the Blues played for a year in the First Division , the then top English division. You had to relegate immediately as 22nd, but this one year of excellence is still considered the club's greatest success.

The lowest point in the club's history was relegation to the Conference National in 2004, when they had to leave the Football League after 76 years of uninterrupted membership. Just one year later, however, they returned to paid football as the winner of the play-offs. In 2006, the club was even able to become champions of Football League Two straight away and thus create the second promotion in a row.

Outside of the league, reaching the semi-finals in the 1970 League Cup was remarkable. The Cumbrians ' attendance record also dates from this year , when 27,500 spectators came in the fifth round of the FA Cup against FC Middlesbrough (1: 2) on February 7, 1970.

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