2007–08 season | |||
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Managing director | Jason McGill | ||
Manager |
Billy McEwan (until 19 November 2007) Colin Walker (from 19 November 2007) |
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Ground | Bootham Crescent | ||
Conference Premier | 14th | ||
FA Cup |
First round (eliminated by Havant & Waterlooville) |
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FA Trophy |
Semi-final (eliminated by Torquay United) |
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Conference League Cup |
Fifth round (eliminated by Northwich Victoria) |
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Top goalscorer |
League: Onome Sodje Martyn Woolford (14) All: Onome Sodje Martyn Woolford (17) |
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Highest home attendance | 3,625 vs Torquay United, FA Trophy, 15 March 2008 | ||
Lowest home attendance | 763 vs Northwich Victoria, Conference League Cup, 6 February 2008 | ||
Average home league attendance | 2,258 | ||
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The 2007–08 season was the eighty-sixth season of competitive association football and fourth season in the Football Conference played by York City Football Club, a professional football club based in York, North Yorkshire, England. They finished in seventeenth-place in the twenty-four-team 2007–08 Conference Premier.
York entered the 2007–08 FA Cup in the fourth qualifying round, losing to Havant & Waterlooville at home. They reached the semi-final of the 2007–08 FA Trophy, being beaten by Torquay United. York were knocked out in the fifth round of the 2007–08 Conference League Cup, after a penalty shoot-out defeat at home to Northwich Victoria.
Thirty-four players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were sixteen different goalscorers. Winger Martyn Woolford played in all fifty-seven first-team matches over the season. Onome Sodje and Woolford finished as joint top scorers with seventeen goals each. Sodje scored fourteen in league competition, two in the FA Cup and one in the Conference League Cup, while Woolford scored fourteen in league competition, two in the FA Trophy and one in the Conference League Cup. The winner of the Clubman of the Year award was David McGurk.
York retained the previous season's home and away kits. The home kit included red shirts with a white collar, bar a section under the neck which was red, and white trims on the sleeves, white shorts and red socks. The away kit comprised yellow shirts with a with a green collar, bar a section under the neck which was yellow, and white trims on the sleeves, blue shorts and blue socks. A third kit was used this season, which included light blue shirts with a maroon collar, bar a section under the neck which was light blue, and maroon trims on the sleeves, maroon shorts and light blue socks. CLP Industries continued as shirt sponsors for the third successive season.