Hull City A.F.C. season 2008-09

Infobox Football club season
club = Hull City
season = 2008–09
manager = flagicon|England Phil Brown
chairman = flagicon|England Paul Duffen
league = Premier League
league result =
cup1 = FA Cup
cup1 result =
cup2 = Carling Cup
cup2 result =
league topscorer =
season topscorer =
highest attendance =
lowest attendance =

This page is a more in depth look at Hull City's 2008–09 season.

The 2008–09 season is Hull City's first season in the Premier League. Home games are played at the KC Stadium,cite web
title = Home from Home
url = http://www.hullcityafc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Stadium/0,,10338,00.html
publisher = Hull City OWS
accessdate = 2008-06-26 ] which has a capacity of 25,404.cite web
title = The Kingston Communications Stadium - Facts
url = http://www.kcstadium.co.uk/feature.asp?catid=10&subcatid=1
publisher = Kingston Communications
accessdate = 2007-06-01] On Friday 6 June 2008 Hull City announced they had sold out all 20,500 season tickets.cite web
title = Tigers season tickets sold out!
url = http://www.hullcityafc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10338~1324262,00.html
publisher = hullcityafc.premiumtv.co.uk
date = 6 June 2008
accessdate = 2008-06-07 ] Hull City's first ever top flight fixture was a home game against Fulham. [cite web
title = 2008-2009 English football fixtures
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/fixtures/default.stm
publisher = BBC
accessdate = 2008-06-16 ]

Players

Current squad

:"As of 27 September 2008."cite web
title = Profiles
url = http://www.hullcityafc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/ProfilesDetail/0,,10338~19100,00.html
publisher = Hull City AFC
accessdate = 2007-09-27] cite web|url=http://www.hullcityafc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10338~1358134,00.html|title=Squad Numbers Confirmed|date=2008-08-04|publisher=Hull City OWS|accessdate=2008-08-04] [cite web|url=http://www.hullcityafc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10338~1387704,00.html|title=New Squad Numbers Added|date=2008-09-09|publisher=Hull City OWS|accessdate=2008-09-09]

Out on loan

2008/09 Squad statistics

cite web
title = Hull City 2-1 Fulham
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7551167.stm
publisher = BBC Sport
date = 16 August 2008
accessdate = 2008-08-16 ] cite web
title = Blackburn 1-1 Hull
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7565042.stm
publisher = BBC Sport
date = 23 August 2008
accessdate = 2008-08-23 ] cite web
title = Swansea 2-1 Hull (aet)
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/league_cup/7576353.stm
publisher = BBC Sport
date = 26 August 2008
accessdate = 2008-08-26 ]

Premier League

Hull's first season in the top tier of English Football in their 104-year history.cite web
title = Overview
url = http://www.premierleague.com/page/hullcity
publisher = Premier League site
date = 26 June 2008
accessdate 2008-06-26 ]
thumb|200px|right|KC Stadium where Hull play their Premier League home games">cite web
title = Home from Home
url = http://www.hullcityafc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Stadium/0,,10338,00.html
publisher = Hull City OWS
accessdate = 2008-06-26 ]

August–December

Hull's Premier League opener was at home to Fulham. Hull started rather poorly and went behind after eight minutes from a Seol Ki-Hyeon header. Hull's comeback came when Geovanni scored from a shot from outside the box, the goal was Hull's first Premier League goal and Geovanni's first as a Hull player. In the second half Hull scored the winner from substitute Caleb Folan's shot when he slotted the ball into the net from Craig Fagan's low cross. Hull won the game putting them joint top of the league, joint second on goal difference and 3rd on alphabetical order.cite web
title = Opening Day Victory For Tigers
url = http://www.hullcityafc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10338~1367950,00.html
publisher = Hull City OWS
date = 16 August 2008
accessdate = 2008-08-16 ] cite web
title = Match Stats
url = http://www.hull.vitalfootball.co.uk/stats.asp?a=120583
publisher = vital football
date = 16 August 2008
accessdate = 2008-08-16 ] cite web
title =Folan finds target in Hull's dream debut
url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/aug/17/premierleague.hullcity
publisher = the Gurdian
date = 16 August 2008
accessdate = 2008-08-16 ] cite web
title = Hull City 2 Fulham 1: Folan strike flattens Fulham to increase Hull's civic pride
url = http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/hull-city-2-fulham-1-folan-strike-flattens-fulham-to-increase-hulls-civic-pride-900731.html
publisher = independent
date = 18 August 2008
accessdate = 2008-08-18 ] Hull's second game was against Blackburn Rovers away. The home team scored first when Jason Roberts scored in the 39th minute. Hull came back to get a draw; before halftime Australian Richard Garcia scored with a header from a Craig Fagan cross.cite web
title = Richard Garcia Profile
url = http://www.hullcityafc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/ProfilesDetail/0,,10338~19038,00.html
publisher = Hull City OWS ] There followed a home game against Wigan which turned out to be a heavy 0–5 defeat.
Sam Ricketts turned a corner from Kevin Kilbane in to his own net after 5 minutes to open the scoring.
Antonio Valencia scored after 13 minutes and provided the cross for Amr Zaki to stroke home in the second half. Five minutes later Emile Heskey scored from a poor clearance by Wayne Brown. Nine minutes from time Amr Zaki drove in off the crossbar to inflict the first defeat of the season on Hull.

January–May

= Resultscite web
title = Fixtures
url = http://www.hullcityafc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Fixtures/0,,10338,00.html
publisher = Hull City OWS ] =

Records

Top Goalscorer

Assists

Appearances

Attendance
Average:
Highest:
Lowest:

See also

* Hull City A.F.C. seasons

References

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/h/hull_city/fixtures/default.stm BBC Sport: Hull City fixture list 2008-09]