Hull United A.F.C.

Hull United A.F.C. are a semi-professional football club who compete in The Humber Premier League, the 11th tier in English football. Their nickname is 'The Citizens'. The club play their home matches at Dene Park, which is a stadium situated in Dunswell, located on the city boundary of Kingston upon Hull in England.
Hull United are a community-run club, with club captain Danny Clarke also performing as chairman. They were renamed, when four figures within local football John Duffill, Kenny Sayers, Jamie Waltham and Jamie Barnwell held a meeting on changing the name from St Andrews a local non league football team with 30 years footballing history, to Hull United AFC
The first team are managed by Jamie Waltham a former non-league footballer himself with North Ferriby United. Waltham appointed former English Premier League striker Jamie Barnwell-Edinboro as his Assistant Manager. Barnwell has football league experience with Wigan Athletic, Swansea City and Cambridge United as well as Premier League experience with Coventry City. Waltham also retained the services of St Andrews manager John Duffill as a first-team coach and placed Kenny Sayers and Gary Northage in charge of the Hull United Reserves. As well as the four founding members, The running of the club is helped purely by volunteers.
Hull United also have a reserve team, and these also play at Dene Park. They are managed by Kenny Sayers and he in-turn is assisted by Gary Northage. The reserves compete in The East Riding County League, Division One and have already provided the senior team with a number of players, including Joe Baxter, James Piercy and most recently Luke Wilkinson. They are captained by Joe Oglesby.
On Wednesday 20 August 2014, Hull United played their first competitive league match at their new home, Dene Park. Jamie Waltham who had vowed to make his team an affordable alternative to football fans, offered to pay any supporter which turned up to watch Hull United at this opening home match, the standard £2 entrance fee. The match broke The Humber Premier League attendance record, when 418 fans turned up. More importantly, Hull United defeated Hedon Rangers, 4-1. This remains Hull United's highest ever attendance.
The club are also actively visiting schools in the local area, headed by ex Coventry City striker Barnwell, Joe Duffy and Craig McFadyen as part of the club’s community programme. The club have already held their inaugural Hull United Primary Schools Football festival which took place at Dene Park in September 2014. Other work has already seen the trio head out to local primary schools to help promote the next piece in the Hull United jigsaw.
Waltham has also continued to introduce ground-breaking ideas, as in September 2014 he unveiled that the club had approximately 50,000 lifetime passes created. This would entitle the holder to attend a Hull United match for free, for life and were to be distributed to youngsters in the Hull area. It was also revealed the lifetime pass, would also become a loyalty card giving the holder other benefits including a 15% discount at the Ciao Dunswell restaurant situated on the grounds of Dene Park.
The club announced in November 2014 that they will be sponsored by Rubitec Engineering for the 2014-15 season. It is hoped this is the first of many local businesses which will help support the club.
On 13 December 2014 the club also announced the arrival of their own brand new website www.hullunitedafc.com. This was to replace the previous site which was operated by Pitchero.
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