Charlton Athletic F.C.

Charlton Athletic Football Club are a football club from southeast London. The club was founded in 1905 and currently plays at The Valley in Charlton.

Return to The Valley

In 1992, at last, they returned to a new and improved Valley. Under the leadership of manager Alan Curbishley, Charlton returned to the top flight (now known as the Premiership) in 1998, only to be relegated again on the last day of the season.

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1992 - Premiership

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They returned to the Premiership in 2000, where they look likely to remain for some time. After a poor start to the 2002/03 season, losing all of their first four home games, the team found its form with runs of four and five consecutive wins taking them up the table. Curbishley was rewarded for this success with the Manager of the Month award for February 2003. In the same month the players Scott Parker and Paul Konchesky (both graduates of the club's youth academy) were selected for the England squad for a friendly against Australia. While only Konchesky actually played in the match, it was the first time ever that two Charlton players had been picked in the same England squad.

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2000 - 2002/03 season - 2003 - Scott Parker - England - Australia

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While Charlton remains a club with a reputation for spending its money sensibly, the current squad boasts an encouraging blend of quality players from home and abroad. In January 2004 Scott Parker was sold to Chelsea in controversial circumstances for around £10 million, and in the following summer, many new players were bought, including the Danish international Dennis Rommedahl, Francis Jeffers and Danny Murphy from Liverpool.

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Chelsea - £ - Dennis Rommedahl - Danny Murphy - Liverpool

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Charlton became the first Premiership club to establish a formal youth academy in the United States; the club opened an academy in Tucson, Arizona in May 2005, and will eventually expand the academy throughout Arizona. Charlton already operates youth academies in Spain and South Africa, as well as in its London home.

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United States - Tucson, Arizona - 2005 - Arizona - Spain - South Africa

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