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English Professional team Hull City Association Football Club is based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. The club Hull City was founded way back in June 1904. In their first season Hull City played mostly friendly matches, as due to the time of founding, Hull were unable to apply for membership to The Football League for the 1904-05 season. Most of their early matches were played at The Boulevard, the old home of rugby league side Hull FC. On 1 September 1904, Hull City played their first match against Notts County which ended in a 2-2 draw. Hull's first competitive football game was in the FA Cup but they were defeated by the Stockton, the score was 7-4 on aggregate. After playing 44 matches in 1904 season, Hull City finally entered into the Football League Second Division for the 1905-06 season. Hull went on to finished that season on the fifth position. In the next season new ground was built for Hull City across the road from the Anlaby Road Cricket Ground.
The club greatest achievement in cup competitions was in 1930, when they reached the FA Cup semi-final. In the 1948-49 season, in which former England international Raich Carter was the manager Hull won the Third Division, and their newly built Boothferry Park ground saw a crowd approaching 50,000 for the Christmas Day game against Rotherham United, and exceeded by that for the FA Cup 6th round tie with Manchester United; the attendance of 55,019 still remains a record today. Hull became the first team in the world to go out of a cup competition on penalties, which came against Manchester United in the semi-final of the Watney Mann Invitation Cup on 1 August 1970. In 1980 Hull City was down in the Fourth Division, and financial collapse lead to receivership. Under the new manager Brian Horton Hull reached the Second Division in 1986. They remain in the second division for the next 5 years before finally going down in 1991, by which time the club's manager was Terry Dolan.
Due to the financial problem Hull City had to sell some key players such as Dean Windass and Andy Payton and because of that Hull suffers with terrible form which made them to relegate to Division Three. In 1997 the club was purchased by former tennis player David Lloyd, who sacked Dolan as manager and replaced him with Mark Hateley after Hull could only finish in 17th place in the table. In 2000 Brain little replaces the Warren Joyce as a new manager and straight way he brought some success to the club.
Hull qualified for the Division Three playoffs in the 2000-01 season, losing in the semi-finals. Hull was Division Three runners-up in 2003-04 and League One runners-up in 2004-05. These back-to-back promotions took them into the Championship, the second tier of English football. Under Paul Duffen and manager Phil Brown Hull City improved greatly on their relegation battle of 2006-07 and qualified for the play-offs after finishing the season in third place. They beat Watford 6-1 on aggregate in the semi-finals and in the final they played with Bristol City, which Hull won 1-0. In 2008 Hull qualified for the Premier league and they won their first game of 2008-09 season against Fulham.
Throughout the majority of the history of the club, Hull have worn black and amber shirts with black shorts. These black and amber colors are where Hull's nickname, The Tigers, originated from.
Honors & Awards
| League |
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| Football League Championship Play-off: |
| 2007-08 |
| Third Division: |
| 1965-66 |
| Football League Third Division North: |
| 1958-59 |
| Fourth Division: |
| 1982-83 |
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