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Full name : Colchester United Football Club Nickname(s) : The U's Founded : 1937 Ground : Layer Road (Capacity 6,340) Chairman : Robbie Cowling Manager : Geraint Williams League : The Championship Colchester United Football Club is an English football team who play in the Championship, relegated to League One for the 2008/09 season following confirmation of their relegation on April 9, 2008. The club was formed in 1937, and briefly shared their Layer Road home with now defunct side Colchester Town F.C. who had previously used the ground from 1910. olchester United are perhaps most famous for beating Don Revie's Leeds United 3–2 in the 5th round of the FA Cup in 1971. Their highest ever league finish was achieved in 2006–07, when they ended the season in 10th place in the Championship, albeit with the division's lowest attendance. -------------------------------------------------------------------- History Colchester Town, nicknamed 'The Oystermen', were the original local side, established in 1867 and playing at Layer Road from 1909 until 1937, when they were dissolved. The stadium was originally owned by the army, who still have a strong presence in the town, until it was purchased by the club in 1919. Shortly before Town folded, Colchester United was set up. The owners had intended to run both teams, one professional and one amateur, under the same umbrella but the Essex County FA ruled that both teams could not be run under one set of rules, and so Town were wound down. In the 1947/48 season Colchester, then in the Southern League, produced one of the most notable F.A. Cup runs by a non-league side, beating fellow-non-league side Banbury Spencer in the First Round before beating league clubs Wrexham, Huddersfield and Bradford Park Avenue. They finally fell to Blackpool in the Fifth Round. United went from strength to strength, and they were promoted to the Football League in 1950. They lost their league status for two seasons from relegation in 1990 until 1992, when they won a non-league double by collecting the Conference title and the Football Trophy. In 1996-97 season Colchester were runners up in the Football League Trophy and in more recent times they won promotions from League One (in 2005–06) claiming second place to the Championship. 2006-07 was Colchester's first season in the second tier of English football, and after a slow start they soon entered the higher reaches of the division and there was even ambitious talk of a challenge for promotion to the Premier League. In the end, they finished 10th in the final table above some much more fancied sides including Leeds United, Norwich City and Crystal Palace. 2007-08, however, was less successful, as Colchester finished bottom of the Championship with 38 points and were relegated back to League One. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Stadium Colchester United formed and took over Layer Road, which has been their home since the formation of the club. The ground has a capacity of 6,340, though in the past it was much higher. The record attendance at Layer Road is 19,072 for an FA Cup fixture against Reading in November 1948, a match that was actually abandoned due to fog. The record league attendance is 18,559 for a game against Ipswich in 1957. In 2000 Colchester announced plans to move to a new 10,000 capacity all-seater community stadium at Cuckoo Farm. It was given the go-ahead by Colchester Borough Council on November 13, 2006, and is expected to be opened at the start of the 2008–09 season. The construction of the stadium, funded by the council, started in June 2007. |
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Colchester F.C. - England Premiership
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