Charlton Athletic F.C. History Away From The Valley

Charlton were elected to the Football League in 1921, and gained promotion to the First Division in 1936. They remained in the First Division, winning the FA Cup in 1947, until 1957, when they were relegated.

From the late 1950s until the early 1970s, Charlton remained a mainstay of the Second Division. The Valley was the largest football ground in the League, drawing crowds in excess of 70,000. Relegation to the Third Division in 1972 caused the team's support to drop, and even a short-lived promotion in 1975 did little to re-invigorate the team's support and finances.

In 1984 financial matters came to a head and the club went into administration, to be reformed as Charlton Athletic (1984) Ltd.

2 Away from The Valley

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3 Return to The Valley

In 1992, at last, they returned to a new and improved Valley. Under the leadership of manager Alan Curbishley, Charlton returned to the top flight (now known as the Premiership) in 1998, only to be relegated again on the last day of the season.

They returned to the Premiership in 2000, where they look likely to remain for some time. After a poor start to the 2002 / 2003 season, losing all of their first four home games, the team found its form with runs of four and five consecutive wins taking them up the table. Curbishley was rewarded for this success with the Manager of the Month award for February 2003. In the same month the players Scott Parker and Paul Konchesky (both graduates of the club's youth academy) were selected for the England squad for a friendly against Australia. While only Konchesky actually played in the match, it was the first time ever that two Charlton players had been picked in the same England squad.

While Charlton remains a club with a reputation for spending its money sensibly, the current squad boasts an encouraging blend of quality players from home and abroad. In January 2004 Scott Parker was sold to Chelsea in controversial circumstances for around £10 million, and in the following summer, many new players were bought, including the Danish international Dennis Rommedahl, Francis Jeffers and Danny Murphy from Liverpool.

4 Current first team squad

As of Nov. 2004:

Dean Kiely
Luke Young
Chris Powell
Graham Stuart
Chris Perry
Mark Fish
Radostin Kishishev
Matt Holland
Jason Euell
Kevin Lisbie
Francis Jeffers
Herman Hreidarsson
Danny Murphy
Jerome Thomas
Talal El Karkouri
Shaun Bartlett
Paul Konchesky
Dennis Rommedahl
Bryan Hughes
Jonaton Johansson
Johnathan Fortune
Stephan Andersen
Osei Sankofa
Neil McCafferty
Stacy Long
Lloyd Sam
Mark Ricketts
Alex Varney
Barry Fuller

5 Charlton fans

Charlton are rare among football clubs, in that they reserve a seat on their director's board for a supporter. Any season ticket holder can put themselves forward for election, with a certain number of nominations, and votes are cast by all season ticket holders over the age of 18.

Charlton's fans are known as The Addicks. Among the theories on the etymology of the name are that 1) many original supporters worked in the fish markets, and Addicks comes from Haddocks; or, 2) it is a southeast London form of Addict.

The team's home kit is red, and they always come on to the pitch at The Valley to the tune of "When the Red, Red Robin Goes Bob-, bob- bobbin' along."

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