On 22 July 2022, the club announced that the under-21's would be playing their home games at North Ferriby's ground, also that the academy had extended their lease of the ground at Bishop Burton College for a further two-years.[30]
On 15 August 2022, Louie Chorlton signed a six-month contract with the academy from Bradford City,[38] in January 2023 the contract was extended to the end of the season.[39]
On 1 September 2022, Harvey Vale was brought in on a season-long loan from Chelsea,[54] but this was cut short when he returned to Chelsea on 23 January 2023.[55]
On 30 September 2022, head coach Shota Arveladze was sacked after a run of four league defeats and Andy Dawson was appointed as interim head coach. At the same time assistant head coach, Peter van der Veen left the club.[2]
On 18 October 2022, ahead of the trip to Blackpool, former Hull City player Robbie Stockdale was brought in, on a temporary basis, to assist Andy Dawson.[57]
On 19 October 2022, the club confirmed that Beri Pardo had been appointed head of performance strategy.[58]
On 3 November 2022, the club announced Liam Rosenior as the new head coach on a two-and-a-half-year deal.[3]
On 4 November 2022, the club announced that Justin Walker would be a new assistant head coach working alongside Andy Dawson.[59][60]
On 23 December 2022, Jim Simms joined Buxton on a month-long loan spell.[67]
On 5 January 2023, Billy Chadwick joined Boston United on a month-long loan spell,[68] which was extended for a further month on 2 February 2023[69] and on 6 March 2023 extended for the rest of the season.[70]
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
The first pre-season matches announced on 17 June 2022 would be against Cambridge United and Peterborough United, both to be played on 23 July 2022, with the players split between the 2 games.[112] The team reported back for the start of pre-season training on 20 June 2022.[113] The club later announced pre-season games in Turkey and Spain against Fenerbahçe, Brighton & Hove Albion U23s and Málaga.[114]
The team will travel to Turkey on 8 July 2022, for the friendly match against Fenerbahçe before relocating to the Marbella Football Centre in Spain for an eight-day warm weather training camp. They will play two matches on 16 July 2022 at the centre, before returning home on 18 July 2022.[114] On 2 July 2022, it was announced that a pre-season match against Leicester City would be played at home on 20 July 2022, in what will be known as the Corendon Cup.[115]
The club took the opportunity of the World Cup break for a week-long training camp in Turkey. The team were accompanied on the trip by 320 supporters on an all expenses paid holiday courtesy of club owner Acun Ilıcalı. Two friendly matches were planned for the trip, 30 November 2022 against İstanbul Başakşehir and 3 December 2022, against Trabzonspor.[123][124]
Source: Soccerway A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss; P = Postponed
Matches
Win Draw Loss Fixtures Postponed
The league fixtures were announced on 23 June 2022.[128] Hull start the season with a home game against Bristol City and finish the season away to Luton Town.[129][130]
Due to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, the Championship will take a 4-week break mid-season during the tournament.[131] The break will commence in mid-November and the first round of fixtures after the World Cup will be held on 10 December.
In January the EFL announced the postponement of the final match of the season to 15:00 on 8 May 2023 to avoid a clash with the coronation of Charles III on the Saturday.[132]
All teams from the top two divisions entered the competition at the third round stage, the draw for which took place on 28 November 2022. Hull were drawn at home against Premier League club Fulham, managed by former City manager Marco Silva.[173]
The game was played on 7 January 2023. A tight first half was closed by a Layvin Kurzawa goal late on. The visitors dominated after the break, with Hull sending Matt Ingram forward for a corner in added time in an attempt to score an equaliser. Fulham cleared the corner to Hull-born Daniel James, who ran through Lewie Coyle to score into an empty net. As a result, Hull were knocked out of the competition, with the Cottagers progressing to the fourth round.[174]
The draw for the first round of the cup took place on 23 June 2022, with matches taking place during the week starting 8 August 2022.[175] Hull City were drawn away to Bradford City in the first round.[176] The match was selected for live coverage by Sky Sports.[177] The match took place on 9 August 2022, and Hull got off to a fortunate start when, halfway through the first half, Randell Williams passed in for Ozan Tufan to strike the bar. The ball rebounded on to Bradford's goalkeeper, Harry Lewis and ended-up in the net. Towards the end of the first half Andy Cook headed in a cross, and minutes later from a corner, Cook struck again. With no further goals, Hull failed to progress to the next round.[178]
On 20 December 2021, the club unveiled the third kit for the 2022–23 season would be the away kit used in the 2021–22 season – a blackout kit with a "tone-on-tone front stripe". The shorts would be black with a tonal side panel and black socks with tonal cuff detail.[179][180] On 30 June 2022, the club announced that Giacom had agreed to step aside from their front of shirt sponsorship deal, but would remain sponsors for the club's training-ware range of goods.[181] The following day, it was announced that a club-record Championship deal had been done with Corendon Airlines to become the shirt sponsor for the season.[182]
On 3 July 2022 Hull City revealed the home kit for the 2022–23 season, exactly a week before the pre-season campaign began. The shirt would be a traditional black and amber striped pattern with white pinstriped border. The shorts would be black with a contrast coloured middle panel and the socks would be black with amber calf hoop.[183]
On 9 July 2022 the club announced that Tomya would become the back-of-shorts sponsor of all their match kits.[184]
The away kit was revealed on 19 July 2022, a white shirt with grey pinstripes, coloured striped cuffs. Shorts would be red with coloured side panels, socks would be white with 4 thin coloured hoops.[185]
On 16 September 2022 the club announced that Efes Beverage Group would become the back-of-shirts sponsor of all their match kits.[186]
Awards
The annual awards for the club saw Regan Slater pick-up the Players' Player of the Year and Supporters' Player of the Year awards.[187]Alfie Jones picked up the Player of the Year which was chosen by head coach, Liam Rosenior.[187]Greg Docherty was presented with the Goal of the Season award for his goal against Blackpool on 19 October 2022 in the 1–3 away win in the league.[187][144]Jacob Greaves took the award for Young Player of the Year for the third year in a row.[187] The Academy Player of the Year award was renamed the Frank Donoghue Academy Player of the Year award in honour of Frank Donoghue,[188] and went to Stan Ashbee.[187]
