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Colchester United

Colchester United Football Club are an English football team who, after finishing 2nd in League One for the 2005/6 season are competing in the Championship in 2006/07, for the first time in their history. more...

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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. Layer Rd was bought from the Army in 1919. Colchester had remained a lower division club throughout their league history until the 2006-07 season. Their highest ever finish, second in League One, came in the 2005-06 season, the resulting promotion guaranteeing that this will be superceded.

Colchester United are perhaps most famous for beating Don Revie's Leeds United 3-2 in the 5th round of the FA Cup in 1971.

History

Colchester United were elected to the Southern League in 1937 and were champions of the league two years later, but failed to gain election to the Football League until 1950 - when the league expanded from 88 to 92 clubs.

Colchester United joined the Southern section of the Third Division on their election to the Football League, and finished high enough in 1958 to gain a place in the new national Third Division, only to suffer relegation after just one season.

Colchester returned to the Third Division in 1962, and over the next 20 years bounced between the league's lower two divisions no less than seven times.

Colchester qualified for the Fourth Division playoffs in 1987, but lost to Wolves in the semi-finals and 18 months later were bottom of the league and looked doomed for relegation to the Conference. Former Glasgow Rangers manager Jock Wallace was appointed in January 1989 and pulled off a miracle survival act, but he was sacked within a year as Colchester headed for relegation to the Conference, ending 40 successive seasons of Football League membership.

Roy McDonough, who at one stage had the worst personal record in English football for sending-offs, was appointed player-manager following Colchester's relegation and in their first Conference campaign they narrowly missed out on promotion after being pipped to the post by Barnet. But the following year, McDonough's men fought off a fierce challenge from Wycombe Wanderers to earn a return to the Football League. In the same season, they made their first-ever appearance at Wembley, winning the FA Trophy by beating Witton Albion 3-1.

Colchester achieved promotion to Division Two in 1998 after they beat Torquay in the Division Three playoff final. Against all odds they established themselves at this level and by the mid 2000s they were starting to look like promotion contenders under their enthusiastic young manager Phil Parkinson.

In 2005-06, Colchester equalled their club record victory by beating Leamington Town 9-1 in the F.A Cup First Round. A remarkable cup run that included wins away at Shrewsbury (2-1), Sheffield United (2-1) and home to Derby County (3-1) ended in the Fifth Round at Stamford Bridge. The U's took the lead against the Premiership champions Chelsea through a Ricardo Carvalho own goal in front of 6,000 travelling fans, only to lose 3-1. The season ended as easily the best in Colchester's history as they finished runners-up in League One to claim automatic promotion to the Championship. The sensational season included a club record 10 wins in a row, part of a scintillating run of 20 wins out of 22 matches.