Hull City

Hull City
	Hull City
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Basic data
Surname	Hull City Association Football Club
Seat	Kingston upon Hull , England
founding	1904
owner	Assem Allam
Website	hullcitytigers.com
First soccer team
Head coach	Grant McCann
Venue	KCOM Stadium
Places	25,404
league	EFL League One
2019/20	▼ 24th place ( EFL Championship )

Hull City (officially: Hull City Association Football Club ) - also known as The Tigers - is an English football club from Kingston upon Hull . He plays his games at the local KCOM Stadium .

In the former Boothferry Park , the club reached its previous record in the FA Cup game on February 26, 1949 against Manchester United with 55,019 spectators. The jerseys are usually black with amber stripes, which earned them the nickname "The Tigers ". After two consecutive promotions, Hull City played in the Football League Championship from the 2005/06 to 2007/08 season . On May 24, 2008, a 1-0 win against Bristol City in the championship playoff final made it to the Premier League for the first time, and in the 2013/14 season Hull reached the FA Cup final for the first time .

history

Foundation phase

After it was founded in 1904, Hull City started just one year later in what was then the second division of the Football League and was always able to secure a single-digit place in the table at the end of the season in the early years. In 1910, the club narrowly missed promotion to the top English league after only reaching third place with the same number of points due to the poorer goal difference behind Oldham Athletic .

20 years of mediocrity and the 1929/30 season

In the following 20 years or so, Hull City played steadily in the second division, but could only rarely intervene in the promotion battle. In a region where rugby has become more important than football, the club often had to sell its best players in order to continue to survive. This had medium-term relegation to the third division, which Hull City had to accept at the end of the 1929/1930 season. Together with the provisional low, the club was able to achieve the greatest cup success in its history in the same season when it was defeated 1-0 in the FA Cup semi-finals to the eventual winners, Arsenal FC, only in the replay on March 26, 1930.

Return and relegation

In 1933, Hull City returned as unbeaten champions in domestic games in the second division, but three years later had to go back to the third division as bottom of the table with 111 goals conceded.

New beginning after the Second World War

When gaming continued in 1946 after the Second World War , Hull City took part with new club management and a new venue, Boothferry Park . Another positive development was initiated by the signing of the experienced English national player Raich Carter in 1948 and in 1949 he was promoted to the second division as a result of nine wins in a row in the first games and 49,655 spectators (in the game against Rotherham United ) set two records that are still valid today for a third English division.

Disappointed expectations

With increased expectations and players like Don Revie , under the now acting as coach Carter, the momentum could not be used and after six years in the second division, and the interim resignation of Carter in 1951, Hull City rose again in 1956 in the third League off. The resurgence in 1959 was only a brief success, which was followed only a year later by going back to the third division.

Britton's tenure and relapse

In 1961, Cliff Britton's tenure, which lasted until 1969, began . With offensive players like Ken Wagstaff , Chris Chilton , Ken Houghton and Ian Butler , the club developed positively again and in 1966, after a narrowly missed promotion the year before, secured a return to the second division with 109 goals (of which Wagstaff scored 31 alone) . Since Britton failed to strengthen the squad in a targeted manner and only trusted the players of the promotion team, the club was initially able to play in the upper regions, but ultimately always ranked in the midfield of the league when key players were injured. After twelve years of second division football, Hull City returned to third class in 1978.

Life-threatening developments and returns

The absolute low point was reached in 1981, when the club even had to enter the fourth division for the first time in its club history as bottom of the table. After the long-time club boss Harold Needler had died in the meantime and his son took over the leadership, there was even the threat of bankruptcy and the club's dissolution. The rescue took place in the person of the former rugby player and chairman of Scarborough FC with Don Robinson . He signed for Hull Colin Appleton , who was also active as a coach in Scarborough. With these two responsible, Hull managed to return to the third division in 1983 and failed in 1984 with only one goal difference with a second, immediately following promotion. Despite the departure of Appleton in 1985 to Swansea City , the club succeeded with the new player-coach Brian Horton in direct connection then the promotion to the second division. There he was able to achieve sixth place in the first season.

Dolan's tenure and another low point

This positive trend was not continued again and the team found itself mostly in the lower table regions. When Robinson left the club in 1989 and Richard Chetham took over leadership, a new era followed in 1991 under the new coach Terry Dolan , which lasted until 1997. In the same year 1991 Hull rose again from the third division, which was followed by the second relegation to the fourth division in 1996. In the midst of increasing financial problems and growing rejection of Dolan on the part of the supporters, the club with the former tennis player David Lloyd changed hands in 1997 . However, expectations, increased by the signing of 32-time English national player Mark Hateley as coach, were disappointed and the club's decline continued when even membership of professional football had to be called into question by the threatened relegation from the fourth division . When the club was clearly bottom of the table for a long time at the beginning of the 1998/1999 season, Hateley was dismissed and Warren Joyce was the new coach in Hull. He managed to stabilize and stay in the league ( famous among fans as The Great Escape ). However, since he did not succeed in any further decisive development, he was replaced in 2000 by Brian Little , formerly employed at Aston Villa .

Development after 2000 and first promotion to the Premier League

After the club was sold again and found its new owner in Adam Pearson , formerly with Leeds United , the current U21 selection coach Peter Taylor was able to move up in his first full coaching season 2003/2004 in the newly built Kingston Communications Stadium, which was built for 43 million British pounds to be celebrated in the third division. With new strengths, such as the former international Nick Barmby , who had already played for Hull in his youth, the club succeeded in direct promotion to the new Football League Championship in the following season 2004/05 , which was the greatest success in 15 years . There they managed to stay in the league in the first year with 18th place. Peter Taylor decided to leave Hull City and became the new head coach at Crystal Palace in July 2006 . Phil Parkinson, the former Colchester United manager , became his successor. The expectations were high, but the team couldn't confirm them. After a bad run, a 5-1 loss to his former club Colchester United led to the situation that Phil Parkinson needed a win in the following game. He gambled that chance with his team by losing 4-2 to Southampton FC . On December 4, 2006, Adam Pearson announced that Phil Parkinson had been released. Phil Brown , who initially worked on an interim basis and was appointed permanent solution in January 2007, was appointed as his successor . Brown achieved relegation with Hull in the 2006/07 season.

The following season ended Hull City in the Football League Championship 2007/08 in 3rd place. This allowed them to participate in the playoffs for the Premier League . After two wins against FC Watford , Bristol City was defeated 1-0 in the final of the playoffs on May 24, 2008 by a goal from Dean Windass and secured the first promotion to the Premier League.

On June 8, 2012 Steve Bruce was hired as the new coach. On May 4, 2013, Hull City succeeded in a 2-2 draw against Cardiff City on the last day of the direct promotion to the Premier League.

On August 9, 2013, the club's management around club owner Assem Allam decided to rename the club to "Hull City Tigers Ltd" . For the 2014/15 season, the logo is also to be adapted accordingly.

In the first FA Cup final in the club's history, Hull City lost 3-2 to Arsenal in May 2014 , after Hull had already taken a 2-0 lead in the first 10 minutes of the game. However, as Arsenal had already qualified for the UEFA Champions League through the league , Hull qualified as a defeated cup finalist for the playoff round of the 2014/15 UEFA Europa League , in which they were defeated by Belgian cup winners KSC Lokeren .

The 2014/15 Premier League season ended the club in 18th place in the table and was relegated to the second-rate Football League .

However, under coach Steve Bruce , the direct resurgence succeeded. About the play-offs you got to the final, where you could win in London-Wembley against Sheffield Wednesday . However, Bruce left the club in the summer after disagreements with the club's management. Until a new coach is found, Mike Phelan takes over the coaching position on an interim basis. The first game against the reigning champions Leicester City could be won directly with 2: 1.

On July 14, 2020, they lost 8-0 to Wigan Athletic. The highest in the club's history.

The club was relegated from the championship in the 2019/2020 season.

Player of the year

Anthony Gerrard , Player of the Year for the 2010/11 season

year	Player of the year
1999/2000	England Mark Greaves
2000/01	Jamaica Ian Goodison
2001/02	England Gary Alexander
2002/03	Northern Ireland Stuart Elliott
2003/04	Ireland Damien Delaney
2004/05	Northern Ireland Stuart Elliott
2005/06	Wales Boaz Myhill
2006/07	England Andy Dawson
2007/08	England Michael Turner
2008/09	England Michael Turner
2009/10	England Stephen Hunt
2010/11	Ireland Anthony Gerrard
2011/12	Slovenia Robert Koren
2012/13	Egypt Ahmed Elmohamady
2013/14	England Curtis Davies
2014/15	England Michael Dawson
2015/16	Uruguay Abel Hernández
2016/17	England Sam Clucas
2017/18	England Jarrod Bowen
2018/19	England Jarrod Bowen