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Football in England

Season	2009–10
Men's football
Premier League	Chelsea
Championship	Newcastle United
League One	Norwich City
League Two	Notts County
Conference National	Stevenage Borough
FA Cup	Chelsea
League Cup	Manchester United
Community Shield	Chelsea
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The 2009–2010 season was the 130th season of competitive football in England.

The 2009 season officially began on 8 August 2009 for the Championship, League One, League Two and the Premier League. The Championship season finished on 2 May 2010, with the Premier League, League One and League Two concluding on the weekend of 8–9 May.^[1]

Promotion and relegation (pre-season)

Teams promoted to 2009–10 Premier League

• Wolverhampton Wanderers
• Birmingham City
• Burnley

Teams relegated from 2008–09 Premier League

• Newcastle United
• Middlesbrough
• West Bromwich Albion

Teams promoted to 2009–10 Football League Championship

• Leicester City
• Peterborough United
• Scunthorpe United

Teams relegated from 2008–09 Football League Championship

• Norwich City
• Southampton (started on −10 points for administration entrance)
• Charlton Athletic

Teams promoted to 2009–10 Football League One

• Brentford
• Exeter City
• Wycombe Wanderers
• Gillingham

Teams relegated from 2008–09 Football League One

• Northampton Town
• Crewe Alexandra
• Cheltenham Town
• Hereford United

Teams promoted to 2009–10 Football League Two

• Burton Albion
• Torquay United

Teams relegated from 2008–09 Football League Two

• Chester City (started on −25 points and expelled from the Football Conference 10 March 2010)
• Luton Town

Managerial changes

Notes

• ¹ Sampson was named caretaker manager following Gray's departure on 8 September and appointed full-time on 5 October.
• ² McDermott was named caretaker manager following Rogers' departure on 17 December and was appointed full-time on 27 January.
• ³ Simpson was named caretaker manager on 3 March and appointed full-time on 14 April.
• ⁴ Keith Millen remained caretaker manager until the end of the season when Coppell took charge.

Diary of the season

July 2009

1 July: Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo completed his world record £80 million move from Manchester United to Real Madrid. English defender Glen Johnson switched from Portsmouth to Liverpool for £18 million, one of the highest fees ever paid for a defender. English midfielder Gareth Barry ended 11 years at Aston Villa and signed for Manchester City for £12 million.

6 July: Chelsea signed Russian winger Yuri Zhirkov from CSKA Moscow for £18 million.

26 July: An England XI defeated a Germany XI 3–2 at St James' Park, Newcastle, in a charity match raising money for the cancer charity of former England manager Sir Bobby Robson. Robson, who has fought the illness since 1992 and gone into remission four times, attended the match in a wheelchair.

27 July: English striker Peter Crouch, who began his career with Tottenham Hotspur as an apprentice but left without playing for them, returned to White Hart Lane in a £9 million move from Portsmouth.

31 July: Sir Bobby Robson died, aged 76.

August 2009

5 August: Sunderland paid a club record £10 million for England and Tottenham Hotspur striker Darren Bent. Liverpool sold Spanish midfielder Xabi Alonso to Real Madrid for £30 million.

12 August: England came back from 2–0 down to draw 2–2 against Netherlands in Amsterdam thanks to two goals by Jermain Defoe.

14 August: Bryan Gunn became the first managerial casualty of the season when his contract was terminated by Norwich City of League One.^[84]

15 August: The new Premier League season kicks off, with the highlight of the opening day coming at Goodison Park where Arsenal trounce Everton 6–1 in the biggest opening day victory at this level for 15 years. Burnley's returned to the top flight after 33 years away began on a low note when an own goal by Stephen Jordan contributed to a 2–0 defeat against Stoke City.

19 August: Burnley achieved a shocking 1–0 home win over Manchester United, with the only goal of the match coming from veteran striker Robbie Blake.

23 August: The highlight of the second weekend of the Premier League season came when Burnley achieves another shocking 1–0 win, this time over Everton after French striker Louis Saha missed a penalty.

25 August: Some of the worst scenes of football hooliganism in years are witnessed in West Ham United's 3–1 home win over Millwall in the League Cup second round. Fans invaded the pitch twice and there was widespread violence in the stands^[85] and the streets surrounding Upton Park, including an incident in which a man suffered stab wounds. Manchester City pays £22 million for Everton and England defender Joleon Lescott.

27 August: Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp suggested West Ham and Millwall should never be allowed to play each other in a cup competition again.^[86]

31 August: The first month of the Premier League season ended with Chelsea as leaders, level on 12 points with second-placed Tottenham Hotspur. Defending champions Manchester United are third, with underdogs Stoke City standing fourth after a strong start to the season.^[87]

September 2009

1 September: Everton signed Dutch defender Johnny Heitinga from Atlético Madrid for £6 million.

9 September: England secured qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup after a 5–1 win over Croatia at Wembley Stadium.

20 September: The Manchester derby at Old Trafford produced one of the most thrilling matches of the season as United defeated Manchester City 4–3 thanks to a stoppage time winner by Michael Owen.^[88]

30 September: Manchester United and Chelsea are level on 18 points at the top of the Premier League, three points ahead of their nearest rivals Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur. Arsenal and Manchester City complete the top six. Portsmouth are bottom of the table after starting the season with a record seven consecutive defeats, joined in the relegation zone by West Ham United and Hull City.^[89]

October 2009

2 October: Sheffield United striker Jordan Robertson is jailed for 32 months on a charge of causing death by dangerous driving in relation to a fatal car crash on the M1 motorway in December 2008.^[90]

17 October: Sunderland defeat Liverpool 1–0 at the Stadium of Light after Darren Bent's shot is deflected in off a beachball.^[91]

21 October: Gareth Southgate's contract as manager of Middlesbrough is terminated, despite them standing fourth in the Championship one season after relegation from the Premier League.^[92] 26 October 2009: Gordon Strachan is appointed as Middlesbrough's new manager, five months after resigning from Celtic.^[93][94]

29 October: Wigan Athletic striker Marlon King has his contract terminated by the club after receiving an 18-month prison sentence for assaulting a woman in a nightclub. It is the second time King has been in convicted and incarcerated,^[95] having also received an 18-month prison sentence in 2002 when convicted of driving a stolen car.^[96]

31 October: October draws to a close with Chelsea now two points ahead of Manchester United, with the rest of the top four unchanged from the end of last month. Portsmouth remains bottom, but have now gained their first seven points of the season, while West Ham and Hull City complete the bottom three once again.^[97]

November 2009

30 November: November ends with Chelsea two points ahead of Manchester United and with a match in hand, while the only change to the rest of the top six is that Aston Villa has displaced Liverpool, who are now seventh. Portsmouth remain bottom, now joined in the relegation zone by Wolverhampton Wanderers and Bolton Wanderers.^[98]

December 2009

13 December: Brian Laws leaves Championship strugglers Sheffield Wednesday after three years as manager.^[99]

15 December: Brendan Rodgers is sacked after six months as manager of Reading, who are battling relegation from the Championship just months after almost being promoted under his predecessor Steve Coppell.^[100]

16 December: The 11 venues for England's 2018 World Cup bid are announced. Three stadiums in London will feature – Wembley (England national team), Emirates Stadium (Arsenal) and either the Olympic Stadium or a rebuilt White Hart Lane (Tottenham Hotspur). Birmingham (Aston Villa's Villa Park), Bristol (a proposed new stadium for Bristol City), Leeds (Leeds United's Elland Road), Liverpool (the current stadium, Anfield, or its replacement), Milton Keynes (Stadium MK, home of Milton Keynes Dons), Nottingham (new Nottingham Forest stadium), Manchester (Old Trafford and the City of Manchester Stadium), Newcastle (St James' Park), Plymouth (Home Park), Sheffield (Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough) and Sunderland (Stadium of Light) have also been selected as venues if England are accepted as hosts.^[101]

19 December: Despite being sixth in the Premier League and being on course for their highest league finish in nearly 20 years, Manchester City sack manager Mark Hughes and appoint Italian Robert Mancini as his successor.^[102]

22 December: Albert Scanlon, former Manchester United winger who survived the Munich air disaster in 1958, dies at age 74 after a two-month illness. There are now just four players who survived the crash still alive.^[103]

30 December: Premier League strugglers Bolton Wanderers sack manager Gary Megson after two years in charge, while Alan Irvine is sacked after the same length of time in charge of Championship side Preston North End.^[104][105]

31 December: The decade draws to a close with Chelsea two points ahead of Manchester United at the top of the Premier League. Arsenal is two points behind United in third place, with Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester City, Aston Villa and Liverpool completing the top seven. A surprise challenge for Europe place is coming from newly-promoted Birmingham City, who have collected 32 points from their opening 20 matches. Portsmouth is bottom of the Premier League, with Hull City and Bolton Wanderers completing the relegation zone.^[106]

January 2010

3 January: Manchester United suffer a shock exit at home to League One leader Leeds United in the FA Cup third round, their 1–0 defeat being their first defeat at the entry stage of the competition in 26 years.^[107]

5 January: The first managerial change of the decade takes place when Owen Coyle leaves Burnley to take over as manager of local rivals Bolton Wanderers.^[108]

6 January: Darren Ferguson is appointed manager of Preston North End and declares his ambition to take them into the Premier League and play against his father Sir Alex's Manchester United side.^[109] Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=2009-10_in_English_football
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