Scunthorpe
Scunthorpe United F.C.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, searchScunthorpe United Football Club are an English association football team based in the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire.
Nicknamed "The Iron" , they play in the Football League Championship. They are presently the highest-placed league club in Lincolnshire. The Club have gone through a transition over the last 5 years. After nearly being relegated in 2003/04 the club have since had three promotions, one relegation, a Johnstones Paint Trophy final apperence in 2009 along with numberous records being broken like the highest transfer fees paid and received, highest capacity in their current ground, longest period without defeat (19 games).
Scunthorpe are building a repuation with having an eye for a good Striker. Over the past five years numberous players have been bought for under £100,000 and sold for millions. Andy Keogh, Billy Sharp, Martin Paterson, Jermaine Beckford (loan) and Gary Hooper. This year they have bought Chris Dagnall and Bobby Grant from Rochdale F.C. and Accrington Stanley respectively and many Iron fans are waiting to see who their future star will be along side Jonathan Forte who signed as part of the deal that took Billy Sharp to Sheffield United in 2007.
Scunthorpe had what the fans would describe as their greatest ever season in 2009-2010. They survived in the 2nd tier of English football for the first time since the early 1960's. In todays modern game which is ruled by finances, a team like Scunthorpe have a buget that would be smaller than many League 1 clubs. With little over 5/6,000 attending home games Scunthorpe too have a gate that would look small in League One and more suited to League 2.
They were the bookies odds on favourite to be relegated in 2009-10 along with Blackpool F.C. (who achieved promotion that year). Yet again after the departures of some of the clubs better players (more noticably the strike partnership of Paul Hayes and Gary Hooper) the club are again red hot favourites for the drop. They made a positive start to the 2010-11 season with a 2-1 victory away at promotion favourites Reading FC.
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Local rivals
The team's local rivals include Grimsby Town, Hull City, Lincoln City and Doncaster Rovers. Matches between Hull and Scunthorpe are often referred to as Humber Derbies, due to the fact that the teams lie either side of the River Humber.
The Lincolnshire teams have met regularly in the Lincolnshire County Senior Cup.
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Attendances
Record attendance (Old Showground)
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