Scunthorpe United

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Scunthorpe United
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Basic data
Surname Scunthorpe United Football Club
Seat Scunthorpe , England
founding 1899
president EnglandEngland Ian Botham
Board EnglandEngland Peter Swann
Website scunthorpe-united.co.uk
First soccer team
Head coach EnglandEngland Neil Cox
Venue Glanford Park , Scunthorpe
Places 9,183
league EFL League Two
2019/20 20th place
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Alternatively
Scunthorpe United Stadium, Glanford Park

Scunthorpe United (officially: Scunthorpe United Football Club ) - also known as The Iron - is an English football club from Scunthorpe , County Lincolnshire and currently active in the EFL League Two , the fourth highest English division.

history

Foundation phase

The club was founded in 1899 through an amalgamation of several local clubs and under the auspices of Brumby Hall and, after another merger in 1910, took on the name Scunthorpe & Lindsey United .

Two years later, the club joined the Midland League , from then on played in this amateur league until 1950 and won two championships there in 1927 and 1939 and in the 1939/40 season the competition, which was shortened due to the Second World War .

Entry into professional football

When the Football League increased the Third Division North to 24 clubs for the 1950/51 season , the association also took Scunthorpe & Lindsey into the league.

The first professional game against Shrewsbury Town took place in the Old Showground stadium, with the venue being the first league stadium with a stand constructed in the so-called cantilever construction. There they reached in the fourth round of the FA Cup against Portsmouth FC on January 30, 1954 with 23,935 spectators, the record that is still valid today. In the league, the club rose after initially changeable success in 1958 as the first in the table in the second English division, the Second Division , changed its club name and after the elimination of the name Lindsey took the name Scunthorpe United .

The following six years until relegation after the 1963/64 season marked the club's most successful period to date and were crowned fourth place in 1961. Important players at this time included Barrie Thomas , who scored 31 goals in 24 games in the 1960/61 season, and record player Jack Brownsword , who has played 657 games for his club since joining the club's professional league.

Stay in the lowest English professional leagues

The club played four seasons from 1964 in the now single-track Third Division and in 1968 even rose to the Fourth Division , the lowest English professional league at the time. With the exception of the one-year return to the third division in the 1972/73 season and later in the 1983/84 season, the club remained in the fourth division until 1999, which was named Third after the introduction of the Premier League in 1992 Division assumed.

Scunthorpe has never hosted a national player in its history, but had with Ray Clemence and Kevin Keegan young players during this time who later came to international fame in other clubs and in the English national team .

In 1988, when they narrowly failed in the semi-finals of the play-offs for promotion to the third division, the club moved into Glanford Park, a modern, pure football stadium. In the following years 1989, 1991 and 1992 Scunthorpe lost again in the qualifying games for promotion, with the final defeat on penalties against FC Blackpool at Wembley Stadium in particular being unfortunate.

Modern developments

Scunthorpe United, however, developed into one of the most professionally managed subclass clubs under the reign of ship magnate Steve Wharton , one of the richest English football club owners, and new coach Brian Laws . The next opportunity for promotion arose in 1999 when Scunthorpe faced Leyton Orient in the play-off final . This game, which was attended by 13,000 spectators from Scunthorpe at Wembley Stadium, which corresponds to about a fifth of the city's population, was won 1-0 by the club after a goal by Spanish midfielder Alex Calvo-Garcia and thus rose to the Second Division, the third division, on.

The stay in this league lasted only a year and resulted in direct relegation. Two mediocre seasons followed, and after another season with a narrowly missed promotion, the club was only just able to avoid relegation to the amateur camp, in the so-called Conference National , in 2004 .

Despite low expectations, the club surprisingly managed to return to the third division in the 2004/05 season after winning direct promotion as runner-up. This season, the team performed well in the third round of the FA Cup against Chelsea , the reigning English champions, and lost 3-1 after a 1-0 lead, with Chelsea coach José Mourinho after the game Scunthorpe called the better team.

As a climber, Scunthorpe started as one of the candidates for direct relegation into the 2005/06 season. After commitments, including Tommy Johnson , a former Celtic Glasgow player , Scunthorpe began with a 2-0 away loss to Brentford FC . The club bounced back and after a number of good results, including a 4-1 away win over promotion candidate Huddersfield Town , Scunthorpe even topped the table at times. The young striker duo Andy Keogh and Billy Sharp , both teenagers at the time , gained greater prominence as a result. Then the club slipped in the table, especially after two 2: 5 defeats against Blackpool FC and Barnsley FC , and from then on moved into midfield of the league. In the end the class could be held with 12th place.

In the 2006/07 season, the club with coach Nigel Adkins succeeded after a sovereign season of promotion to the second highest English division, the Football League Championship . A 2-0 win over Huddersfield Town made it three game days before the end of the season, but only a year later it went straight down one floor. In the 2008/2009 season Scunthorpe United placed 6th in the Football League One . They reached the playoffs and rose to the Football League Championship after victories against Leeds United and Millwall FC . After the 24th and final place in the 2010/11 season Scunthorpe United rose to Football League One.

Others

  • Due to the steel industry based in Scunthorpe, the city's largest branch of industry , the association is also called The Iron (in German: Die Eisernen).
  • The official mascot Scunny Bunny is a big rabbit in the club's jersey with the number 99. It is temporarily accompanied by the female counterpart Scunny Hunny Bunny .

Record player

The following list shows the 10 players with the most competitive stakes and goals in the history of Scunthorpe United.

Calls
1 EnglandEngland Jack Brownsword 1947-1965 783
2 EnglandEngland Paul Longden 1983-1993 461
3 EnglandEngland Matt Sparrow 1999-2010, 2013-2015 437
4th EnglandEngland Jack Hubbard 1950-1960 390
5 EnglandEngland Steve Deere 1967-1973, 1978-1980 378
6th EnglandEngland Jack Haigh 1952-1960 360
6th ScotlandScotland Angus Davidson 1969-1977 360
8th EnglandEngland Melvyn Millington 1935-1950 354
9 EnglandEngland Frank Skull 1923-1930, 1934-1935 350
10 EnglandEngland Bob Oates 1974-1983 348
Gates
1 EnglandEngland Steve Cammack 1979-1981, 1982-1986 121
2 EnglandEngland Andy Flounders 1987-1991 100
3 EnglandEngland Barrie Thomas 1959-1962, 1964-1966 96
4th EnglandEngland Paul Hayes 2002–2005, 2007–2010, 2013–2014 80
5 EnglandEngland Gordon Brown 1952-1957 75
6th EnglandEngland Steve Torpey 2000-2007 74
7th EnglandEngland Tony Daws 1987-1993 72
8th EnglandEngland Jack Haigh 1952-1960 71
9 EnglandEngland Jack Gregory 1953-1957 69
10 IrelandIreland Paddy Madden 2014-2018 60

Trainer

League affiliation

literature

  • John Staff: From Nuts to Iron - The Official History of Scunthorpe United 1899-2012 . Yore Publications, Harefield 2012, ISBN 978-0-9573862-1-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ scunthorpe-united.co.uk: Appearance record holders (all competitions) , accessed August 23, 2020
  2. ↑ scunthorpe-united.co.uk: Top goalscorers (all competitions) , accessed on August 23, 2020