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Southend
Also known as: Southend United Football Club
ID: team_134209
About
Southend United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. As of the 2021โ22 season, the team competes in the National League, the fifth tier of English football. Southend are known as "The Shrimpers", a reference to the area's maritime industry included as one of the quarters on the club badge. The club is owned by property developer Ron Martin. Founded on 19 May 1906 in the Blue Boar pub, Southend won the Southern League Second Division in both of their two initial seasons and were admitted into the Football League in 1920. They spent the next 44 years in the third tier of English football, before dropping into the Fourth Division in 1966. They spent the next 24 years moving between the third and fourth tiers, winning promotions in 1971โ72, 1977โ78, 1980โ81 (as champions), 1986โ87 and 1989โ90. They were promoted into the Second Division for the first time at the end of the 1990โ91 season. After six seasons in the second tier they suffered a double relegation in 1997 and 1998. Under the stewardship of Steve Tilson, Southend again secured a double promotion in 2004โ05 and 2005โ06 to win a place in the Championship as League One champions. However this time they only lasted one season in the second tier and were relegated back to League Two in 2010. They secured promotion as play-off winners in 2015, but suffered two successive relegations in 2020 and 2021, amidst financial problems. After 101 years in the Football League, the club were relegated to the National League in the 2020โ21 season. The club is based at Roots Hall Stadium in Prittlewell, with plans to move to a new stadium at Fossetts Farm. Southend have a long-standing rivalry with nearby club Colchester United, with whom they contest the Essex derby.
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Roots Hall
Roots Hall is the home ground of the English Football League One club Southend United. With a capacity of 12,392 Roots Hall is the largest football stadium in Essex, and is the current venue for the final of the Essex Senior Cup. Southend United are due to move out of Roots Hall into a new 22,000 seat stadium at Fossetts Farm, though work has yet to begin on the new stadium.
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Roster (38)
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Will Atkinson
Jack Bridge
Elvis Bwomono
Harry Cardwell
Thomas Clifford
Oliver Coker
Aaron Cosgrave
Josh Coulsen
Jason Demetriou
Jason Demetriou
Thimothee Dieng
James Dunne
Wesley Fonguck
Sam Hart
Shaun Hobson
Noor Husin
Jake Hyde
Jake Hyde
Oliver Kensdale
Michael Klass
Harry Kyprianou
Louis Lomas
Alan McCormack
Jacob Mellis
Cavaghn Miley
Mark Molesley
Dan Mooney
Rhys Murphy
Ashley Nathaniel-George
Collin Andeng Ndi
Callum Powell
Nathan Ralph
Nathanael Ralph
Gus Scott-Morriss
Harry Taylor
John White
Christoful Wreh
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