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The 2008–09 season was the eighty-seventh season of competitive association football and fifth season in the Football Conference played by York City Football Club, a professional football club based in York, North Yorkshire, England. Their fourteenth-place finish in 2007–08 meant it was their fifth successive season in the Conference Premier. The season covers the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009. Ahead of Colin Walker's first start to a season as manager, York signed nine players before the summer transfer window closed. The season started with an eight-match unbeaten run, but Walker was sacked in November 2008 after three successive defeats. Martin Foyle was appointed as his successor, and after the turn of the year York won only five league matches. Survival in the Conference Premier was achieved with a seventeenth-place finish. York reached the 2009 FA Trophy Final at Wembley Stadium, being beaten 2–0 by Stevenage Borough. They were eliminated from the 2008–09 FA Cup in the fourth qualifying round, and from the 2008–09 Conference League Cup in the Northern section fourth round. Thirty-three players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were fourteen different goalscorers. Defender Danny Parslow missed only one of the fifty-eight competitive matches played over the season. Richard Brodie finished as leading scorer with nineteen goals, of which fifteen came in league competition and four came in the FA Trophy. The winner of the Clubman of the Year award, voted for by the club's supporters, was Parslow. ==Background and pre-season== (詳細はBilly McEwan was sacked as manager of York City early into the 2007–08 season, with the team nineteenth in the Conference Premier table and having recently been beaten by Conference South team Havant & Waterlooville in the FA Cup. After a six-match unbeaten run as caretaker manager, Colin Walker was appointed as York's permanent manager and led the team to a fourteenth-place finish in the table. York released Darren Craddock, Stuart Elliott, Tom Evans, Ross Greenwood, Anthony Lloyd, Manny Panther and Alex Rhodes after the season ended, while Nicky Wroe and Martyn Woolford left for Torquay United and Scunthorpe United respectively. Jimmy Beadle, Richard Brodie, Craig Farrell, Josh Mimms, Danny Parslow, Ben Purkiss, Mark Robinson and Onome Sodje signed new contracts ahead of 2008–09.〔 York signed seven players before the season started; they were goalkeepers Michael Ingham from Hereford United and Artur Krysiak on a one-month loan from Birmingham City, defender Mark Greaves from Burton Albion,〔 midfielders Niall Henderson from Raith Rovers, Steven Hogg from Gretna and Ben Wilkinson from Hull City, and striker Daniel McBreen from St. Johnstone. Professional contracts were handed to three youth team players, those being defenders Andy McWilliams and Josh Radcliffe and winger Liam Shepherd. Greaves was named as York's club captain for the season. New home and away kits were introduced for the first time in two years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/York_City/York_City.htm )〕 The home kit comprised red and navy blue halved shirts with red collars, navy blue shorts and navy blue socks with two white strips on the cuffs.〔 The away kit included white shirts with black shoulders, white shorts and white socks with black cuffs. Last season's third kit was retained, which featured light blue shirts with a maroon collar, bar a section under the neck which was light blue, and maroon trims on the sleeves, maroon shorts and light blue socks. CLP Industries continued as shirt sponsors for the fourth successive season.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2008–09 York City F.C. season」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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