2007–08 Hull City A.F.C. season

Season summary

Hull finished a mere four points adrift of second-placed Stoke City for promotion to the Premier League, qualifying for the play-offs instead. After trouncing Watford 6–1 over two legs, Hull City reached Wembley to play a Bristol City side aiming for a second successive promotion. A single Dean Windass goal gave Hull the game and promotion to English football's top flight for the first time in Hull's history. Promotion was made all the more incredible considering that five seasons ago Hull were languishing in the bottom tier of the Football League, and that when manager Phil Brown had taken the managerial role at Hull in December 2006 the club were in the Championship relegation zone.

Players

First-team squad

Left club during season

Transfers

In

Out

Loan In

Loan Out

Statistics

Starting 11

:Considering starts in all competitions

• GK: WAL Boaz Myhill, 46
• RB: WAL Sam Ricketts, 45
• CB: ENG Michael Turner, 48
• CB: ENG Wayne Brown, 44
• LB: ENG Andy Dawson, 25
• RM: AUS Richard Garcia, 36
• CM: ENG Ian Ashbee, 43
• CM: ENG Dean Marney, 36
• LM: ENG Bryan Hughes, 27
• CF: ENG Fraizer Campbell, 32
• CF: ENG Dean Windass, 29

Football League Championship

Main article: 2007–08 Football League Championship

Results by round

Matches

| access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Marney Barmby Delaney Windass Fallon Ebanks-Blake Halmosi | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Ricketts Marney Ricketts | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Garcia Dawson Marney | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Burgess Jackson Gorkšs Burgess Garcia | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Folan | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Windass | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Burton Spurr Kavanagh Tudgay Ricketts | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Brown | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Marney Windass Ashbee Iwelumo Bougherra Sam | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Livermore | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Brown Marney | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Marney De Silva | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Livermore Tonge Stead Cahill | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Leigertwood Mancienne Barker Stewart Vine Delaney | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Ashbee | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Campbell Dawson Brown | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Youga Turner Ashbee Ricketts | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} McAllister | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Garcia Ricketts Delaney Folan Johnson Purse | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Whaley Neal | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} John John Delaney | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Campbell Windass Mattock | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Mills Mills Hughes Folan Garcia Campbell | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Campbell | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Dawson Livermore | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Turner | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Windass Delaney Morrison Bednar Robinson Robinson | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Marney Davis | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Walton | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Windass Barmby Burgess Gorkšs Taylor-Fletcher Jørgensen | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Myhill | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Walton Marney McLeod | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Morrison Miller Folan Folan Garcia Turner Dawson | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} McCombe McAllister Ricketts Ashbee | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Garcia Garcia Ashbee Folan Okocha Guðjónsson Caldwell Caldwell Guðjónsson | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Turner | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Capaldi Loovens Scimeca | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Pedersen Turner Marney Hughes | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Virgo Heath Izzet Lisbie Ifil Folan Campbell Ricketts | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Henderson Hendrie Stearman Garcia Myhill | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Campbell Folan Campbell Brown Myhill Kabba | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Fagan Rowlands Camp Leigertwood | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Ashbee Windass | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Beattie Morgan Morgan Fagan Windass | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Ashbee Derry | access-date = 20 August 2011 }} Couñago Haynes Brown Ricketts Dawson

Playoffs

| access-date = 24 August 2011 }} Eustace Windass Campbell | access-date = 24 August 2011 }} Folan Garcia Doyle Barmby Turner

Final

Main article: 2008 Football League Championship play-off Final

| access-date = 24 August 2011 }} Campbell

League table

FA Cup

Main article: 2007–08 FA Cup

| access-date = 25 August 2011 }} Halmosi Ebanks-Blake Easter Marney

League Cup

Main article: 2007–08 Football League Cup

| access-date = 9 September 2011 }} Garcia McPhee Doyle | access-date = 9 September 2011 }} Livermore Elliott | access-date = 9 September 2011 }} Kalou Sidwell

Notes

References

References

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