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Hull City Association Football Club are an English football club based in Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, founded in 1904. In 2007-08, they achieved promotion to the elite of English football for the first time in their history, winning the Championship play-off final at Wembley Stadium. They finished the 2008-09 season 17th in the Premier League table, managed to avoid relegation by one point. The previous highest position Hull City had done in English League football was third in the former second division from 1909 to 1910, where they correspond in 2007-08 when they were promoted. Their greatest success in the Cup competition came in 1930 when the team reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup.

Hull play their home games at the KC Stadium. They previously played at Boothferry Park, but moved to their current home in 2002, with Boothferry Park set for demolition. They traditionally play in black and yellow, often with a striped shirt design, hence their nickname The Tigers. The club mascot is Roary the Tiger.

Hull City Association Football Club was founded in June 1904. Since a few years earlier had been attempts to form a football club, but this proved difficult because the city was dominated by teams from rugby league, like Hull FC and Hull KR.

Hull City's first season as a professional football club included only friendly matches, due to the date of its founding, the club was not able to apply for membership of the Football League for the season 1904-05. The first matches were played on the Boulevard, the home of rugby league club Hull FC. On 1 September 1904, the first match took place against Hull Notts County, with 6,000 in attendance at the Boulevard, Hull, the county seat to a 2-2 draw.

Hull first football match was competitive in the FA Cup but were eliminated after a recovery in the preliminary round against Stockton, the score was 7-4 over all. After disputes with the owners at Boulevard, Hull City moved to Anlaby Road Cricket Ground. Having played 44 friendly matches of last season, Hull City were finally allowed into the Football League Second Division for season 1905-06. Other teams competing in the league this season included the likes of Manchester United and Chelsea, and his Yorkshire rivals Leeds City, Bradford City and Barnsley. Hull face Barnsley in their first game, a device which Hull won 4-1. Finally, the hull would have finished the season in fifth place.

The following season, a new ground was built for Hull City across the road from the cricket field. Still under the control of d'Ambroise Langley, Hull continued to finish consistently in the top half of the table. They came close to promotion of the season 1909-10, which would save their best until they match in 2008. Hull finished third, level on points with second place Oldham Athletic, lack of promotion by goal average of 0.29 of a goal. Hull regularly finished in the top half of the table before the First World War, but after the war the team finished in the bottom half in seven out of eleven seasons, culminating in relegation to Third Division North in 1930.

The new president plowed money into the club, which allows to reconstruct the little team. Hull held the Division for the Advancement and three playoff places for much of the 2001-02 season, but just two months left before the end of the season and Hull slipped to 11th under his successor in January Ma¸lby .

Hull began the 2002-03 season with a number of defeats, which saw relegation looks more likely that the promotion and Ma¸lby was sacked in October as Hull languishing fifth bottom in the league. Peter Taylor has been appointed as the new manager of the hull and in December 2002, just two months after his appointment, Hull moved to the new 25,400-seat Kingston.