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Oxford United

Oxford United F.C. are an English football team who are playing in the Conference National for the 2006-07 season. more...

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The club is owned by chairman Nick Merry and managed by Jim Smith. Its home ground is the Kassam Stadium in Oxford with a capacity of 12,500.

Its history is quite unlike that of any other club in English football. In the space of less than half a century, it has joined the Football League, climbed from the Fourth Division to the First in 20 years, won the League Cup, and endured an 18-year decline which saw it relegated to the Conference—making it the first team to have won a major trophy to endure this disappointment.

Current manager Jim Smith (also a director) has recently returned to the club some 20 years after his first spell in charge. He was the man who took Oxford into the top flight, and he is now the man who will be expected to restore Oxford to the Football League.

Other well-known men to have managed Oxford United include Brian Horton, Mark Lawrenson, Maurice Evans, Denis Smith, Ian Atkins and Brian Talbot. Well-known players to have worn an Oxford shirt include Ron Atkinson, Ray Houghton, Dean Saunders and John Aldridge.

History of the Club

Headington United

Oxford United was formed as amateur club Headington in 1893, adding the suffix United the following year, and competed in local leagues until being elected to the Southern League and becoming professional in 1949. In 1960, Headington United was renamed Oxford United in order to give it a higher profile.

Promotion to the League

Two years later, in 1962, the club won the Southern League title for the second successive season and was elected to the Football League Fourth Division, occupying the vacant place left by bankrupt Accrington Stanley. Two successive 18th place finishes followed, before promotion to the Third Division was achieved in 1965. In 1964, they had become the first Fourth Division club to reach the Quarter Final of the FA Cup, and have not progressed that far in the competition since then. Oxford won the Third Division title in 1967–68, their sixth season as a league club, but after eight years of relative stability the club was relegated from the Second Division in 1975/76.

The Robert Maxwell takeover

In 1982, while a Third Division side, Oxford United was taken over by controversial business tycoon Robert Maxwell (1923–1991). Maxwell proposed to merge United with neighbours Reading to form a single club called the Thames Valley Royals, to play at Didcot. The merger was called off after fans of both clubs protested against the decision.