{"id":15437,"date":"2021-02-26T14:26:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T14:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/?p=15437"},"modified":"2021-02-26T14:44:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T14:44:05","slug":"carlisle-united-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/carlisle-united-fc\/league-two\/carlisle-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlisle United FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlisle United are probably Cumbria&#8217;s best-supported team and are widely known for their prowess in the Football League Trophy, a Final they have reached a record six times! They have been members of the football league pretty much continuously since joining in 1928 and enjoyed a staggering amount of success for a club of their stature in the mid-1960s to mid-1970s.\u00a0 The pinnacle of these was on 24 August 1974 when they sat atop the First Division after winning their opening three games!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1559\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/your-cumbria\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2021\/02\/Carlisle-United-V-Tottenham-Hotspur-1974-75-Division-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"Carlisle United\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They also reached the FA Cup quarter Finals that year &#8211; losing narrowly to eventual beaten finalists Fulham 1-0 and they were league cup semi Finalists in 1969-70 season winning the 1st leg 1-0 before succumbing 4-1 in the second leg to WBA.<\/p>\n<h3>Carlisle United In the Football League Trophy<\/h3>\n<p>In recent years Carlisle United&#8217;s success has mostly been in the Football League trophy where they have been winners in 1997 and 2011 and finalists in 1995, 2003, 2006 &amp; 2010. That&#8217;s four trips to Wembley and two to the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff in 17 years! Some consolation for their near-miss in 1970.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1584 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/your-cumbria\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2021\/02\/Carlisle-FLT-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"Football League Trophy\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can see some highlights from their 1994-95 appearance below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/6TXNGsDcrgI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>More Recently<\/h3>\n<p>Carlisle has played in League Two since 2014-15 and reached the playoff semi-finals in 2016-17. They had a bit of a disappointing season last year but at the time of writing (2021) look like gaining promotion to League One under the inspired guidance of recently appointed manager Chris Beech.<\/p>\n<h3>List of Honours<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Football League Second Division \/ Championship (second tier)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3rd place &#8211; Promoted: 1973\u201374<\/p>\n<p><strong>Football League Third Division \/ League One (third tier)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Champions: 1964\u201365<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3885\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/your-cumbria\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/89\/2021\/02\/Carlisle-United-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"Carlisle United 1964-65\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" \/><br \/>\n2nd place promotion: 1981\u201382<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Football League Fourth Division \/ League Two (4th tier) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Champions: 1994\u201395, 2005\u201306<\/strong><br \/>\n2nd place promotion: 1963\u201364<br \/>\n3rd place promotion: 1996\u201397<br \/>\n4th place promotion: 1961\u201362<\/p>\n<p>Conference National (fifth tier)<\/p>\n<p>Play-off winners: 2004\u201305<\/p>\n<p><strong>Football League Trophy <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Winners: 1996\u201397, 2010\u201311<\/strong><br \/>\nRunners-up: 1994\u201395, 2002\u201303, 2005\u201306, 2009\u201310<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lancashire Combination Division One<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Runners-up: 1907\u201308<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lancashire Combination Division Two <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Champions: 1906\u201307<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>North Eastern League <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Champions: 1921\u201322<\/strong><br \/>\nRunners-up: 1927\u201328<\/p>\n<h2>Club Details<\/h2>\n<p>Below is some information you will find useful if you are planning to watch a game or just want to keep abreast of their performances.<\/p>\n<p>Carlisle United Football Club 1921 Ltd<br \/>\nBrunton Park<br \/>\nWarwick Road<br \/>\nCarlisle<br \/>\nCA1 1LL<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carlisleunited.co.uk\/\">Link to Website<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Carlisle United On Social Media<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/carlisleunitedfc\/\">Carlisle United on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/officialcufc\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/carlisleunited\/videos\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So there you have it our quick guide to Carlisle United. If you want to see what else Cumbria has to offer check out our Your Cumbria home page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/your-cumbria\/\">here<\/a>. Or for more information on the City, its self why not have a look at our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/travel\/carlisle-the-five-minute-spare-guide\/\">Carlisle Guide.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlisle United are probably Cumbria&#8217;s best-supported team and are widely known for their prowess in the Football League Trophy, a Final they have reached a record six times! They have been members of the football league pretty much continuously since joining in 1928 and enjoyed a staggering amount of success for a club of their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[498,823,2245],"tags":[1987,2246],"class_list":["post-15437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carlisle-united","category-league-two","category-team-pages","tag-carlisle-united","tag-cumbrian-football-teams"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15437"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15444,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15437\/revisions\/15444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}