Coventry vs Hull tips and predictions: Visitors to prevail as goals fly in
Coventry return to Championship action on Wednesday night when they square off against fellow play-off chasers Hull City (1945 BST).
Coventry City is an English professional football club based in Coventry, in the west Midlands of England. The Sky Blues currently play in the Championship, in the second tier of the English pyramid.
Nicknamed the Sky Blues because of the colour of their home kit, Coventry were formed in 1883. However, at the time, they were not known as Coventry City, but rather as Singers F.C.
From 1967 to 2001, Coventry City had a lengthy uninterrupted spell in the top flight, spanning a total of 34 years. Only Liverpool, Everton and Arsenal had longer tenures in the top flight of English football at the time.
Coventry City won the FA Cup in 1987 and the Football League Trophy in 2017.
Coventry City Football Club was formed by employees of Singer, which was a British motor vehicle manufacturing organisation, in 1883. Sixteen years later, they changed their name to what they have been known as ever since, Coventry City.
Under the guidance of Noel Cantwell, Coventry City finished sixth in the First Division in the 1969/70 season, their highest finish in English league football so far.
Coventry City qualified for the Inter-City Fairs Cup for the 1970/71 season. In the second round, they came up against Bayern Munich.
At the close of the 1976/77 season, Coventry City narrowly avoided relegation, but not without controversy.
Coventry City reached the semi-finals of the League Cup in the 1980/81 campaign, the furthest point they had ever reached in the competition.
In 1987, Coventry City won their first and only major trophy ever, lifting the FA Cup.
Coventry City also won the FA Youth Cup in 1987.
Coventry were founding members of the Premier League in the 1992/93 season, finishing 15th in its inaugural campaign.
Player-manager Gordon Strachan took the helm in November 1996 and managed to avoid relegation on the last day of the season, though they were helped by a three-point deduction imposed on Middlesbrough for cancelling a fixture.
Dion Dublin was top scorer in the Premier League in the 1997/98 as Coventry once again hit their highest ever finish in the Premier League era reaching 11th position, they had previously finished in that spot in the 1993/94 campaign.
After a 106 years, Coventry City move out of Highfield Road and into the 32,609-seater Ricoh Arena in 2005.
The Sky Blues came close to going into administration during a disastrous period for the club in 2007.
The next few years were marred by financial peril as supporters grew increasingly wary of the SISU ownership.
In March 2017, Robins returned for his second spell in charge. He led the club to the EFL Trophy, their first trophy in 30 years, but he was unable to stop Coventry getting relegated to League Two.
Their revival and climb back up the leagues started in the 2017/2018 season.
A solid eighth place finish in the 2018/19 League One season was then succeeded by winning the title in the shortened 2019/20 season to gain promotion back to the Championship.
Robins kept Coventry in the Championship for the next two seasons despite increasing financial pressures and more problems with the stadium owners.
It was a cruel way for the season to end - a £170million clash between clubs that have both gone through the mill during their decades away from the big time.
Coventry City's fiercest traditional rivals are Leicester City. However, in recent years, Coventry City's fortunes have been far worse than Leicester's and it has been difficult to maintain intensity in the mutual animosity between supporters.
Coventry return to Championship action on Wednesday night when they square off against fellow play-off chasers Hull City (1945 BST).
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