Hull City A.F.C.
Hull City Association Football Club – English Premier League Football Club
Hull City Association Football Club (pronounced /?h?l ?s?ti/) is an English football club based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, founded in 1904. In 2007–08 they achieved promotion to the top flight of English football for the first time in their history, by winning the Championship play-off final at Wembley Stadium. They finished the 2008–09 season 17th in the Premier League table, successfully avoiding relegation by one point. The previous highest position Hull City had finished in the English Football League was third in the old second division in 1909–10, which they matched in 2007–08 when they gained promotion. Their greatest achievement in cup competitions came in 1930, when the team reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup.
Hull play their home games at the KC Stadium. They previously played at Boothferry Park, but moved to their current home in 2002, with Boothferry Park set for demolition. They traditionally play in black and amber, often with a striped shirt design, hence their nickname of The Tigers. The club’s mascot is Roary the Tiger.
Full name : Hull City Association Football Club
Nickname(s) : The Tigers
Founded : 1904
Ground : KC Stadium, Kingston upon Hull (Capacity: 25,404) Chairman Paul Duffen
Manager : Phil Brown
League : English Premier League
Andy Davidson holds the record for Hull City league appearances, having played 520 matches. George Maddison comes second, having played 430 matches.[50] Chris Chilton is the club’s top goalscorer with 222 goals in all competitions. Chilton also holds the club record for goals scored in the League (193), FA Cup (16) and League Cup (10).
The club’s widest victory margin in the league was their 11–1 win against Carlisle United in Division Three in 1939. Their heaviest defeat in the league was 8–0 against Wolves in 1911.[52]
Hull City’s record home attendance is 55,019, for a match against Manchester United on 26 February 1949 at Boothferry Park,[8] with their highest attendance at their current stadium, the KC Stadium, 24,945 on 24 May 2009, also against Manchester United.
Statistics and records
The highest confirmed transfer fee received for a Hull City player is £1.25 million from Crystal Palace for Leon Cort in June 2006, although in 2009 Sam Ricketts was sold to Bolton for an undisclosed fee reportedly in the region of £2–3 million,[54][55] followed by the sale of Michael Turner to Sunderland for an undisclosed fee of reportedly at least £6 million[56] and quoted by Hull City manager Phil Brown as being “double figures”. The highest transfer fee paid for a player is £5 million, for Jimmy Bullard from Fulham in January 2009.
Source: English Premier League Football Club, Hull City A.F.C information at wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_City_A.F.C.