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Hull City

Full Name: Hull City Association Football Club
City: Kingston upon Hull
Founded: 1904
Stadium: Kingston Communications (KC) Stadium (25,404)
Colors: Yellow, Black
Nickname: The Tigers
Rivals: Leeds United, Scunthorpe United, Grimsby Town

Official Website: hullcityafc.net

Description:

By winning promotion to the 2008-09 English Premier League Hull City can finally put to rest a title they have unhappily held for many years - the largest city in Europe never to have hosted a top division club. Any idea who is the new recipient of this dubious award? After years and years of muddling along in this rugby league hotbed, a new stadium and solid financial backing have catapulted Hull City up the ladder of English football. The Tigers won successive promotions in 2003-04 and 2004-05 to reach the Football League Championship and last season finally made the jump to the top of the English game.

Founded in 1904, Hull City began play at the Boulevard, home of rugby league club Hull FC. It would not be the last time the two clubs shared a ground. They briefly bounced around a couple other stadiums before making a move to the Anlaby Road ground, an area that their current stadium is actually built upon. The club had long targeted another location for a permanent ground and, after many, many hurdles (and two years of inactivity during World War II) the Tigers finally made the move to Boothferry Road in 1946. A regular series of financial crises ensued and the club was very close to going out of business on a few occasions. But hope of a permanently better future finally arrived in the form of the newly-built KC Stadium, which Hull City moved to in 2002 and share with Hull FC.

Hull City bear the nickname The Tigers for their yellow and gold striped shirts.

Previous Stadiums: The Boulevard (1904), Anlaby Road Cricket Circle (1905), Dairycoates (1905), Anlaby Road (1906-41), The Boulevard (1945-46), Boothferry Park (1946-2002).