Charlton Athletic F.C. Reserves
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| Full name | Charlton Athletic Football Club Under-21 Development Squad |
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| Nickname(s) | The Addicks |
| Founded | 1905 |
| Ground | Sparrows Lane, New Eltham, London |
| Chairman |
 Roland Duchatelet |
| Head coach |
 Nathan Jones
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| League | Professional Development League 2 (South Division) |
The Charlton Athletic Football Club Under-21 Development Squad is the reserve team of Charlton Athletic. They play majority of their home games at the club's training ground in New Eltham, London.
From 1999 until 2007, Charlton Reserves were members of the FA Premier Reserve League Southern however due to the relegation of the first team at the end of the 2006/2007 season, from the Premier League to the Football League Championship, they were demoted to the Football Combination Central where they played against other Football League reserve teams and successful Football Conference reserve sides. At the end of the 2008–09 season the first team were again relegated to Football League One and the reserve side was dissolved as a competitive team.
The side consists mainly of Charlton's academy players who are aiming to break into the first team squad and in the near future, while senior players occasionally play when returning from injury. The current senior professional development coach for the under-21 squad is Nathan Jones.
In 1999 the team joined the FA Premier Reserve League Southern. Led by reserve-team coach Glynn Snodin had relative success in their first season, finishing 2nd, however in comparison the next 3 seasons were disappointing as the club finished 8th, 7th & 7th respectively. After this however things picked up, and Charlton became unexpected winners of the league in 2003/2004, and this was then followed by a second success at the Charlton team won the division again in 2004/2005, just a season later. This was followed by another good season, seeing the Addicks finish fourth, however popular reserve-team coach Snodin left to join Southampton as first-team coach. Snodin was replaced by Mark Robson for the remainder; however, this was short-lived as Charlton faced a managerial re-shuffle after the resignation of Alan Curbishley, Mervyn Day and Keith Peacock.
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