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Oxford United vs Reading

Manager

Leam Richardson

League Position
14

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Established
1871 (155 years old)

Sport
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Soccer

Venue

Select Car Leasing Stadium
(24,161 Capacity)

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Location
Reading, Berkshire

Nicknames
The Royals

Competitions
English League 1
FA Cup
EFL Cup
EFL Trophy

Last Edit
smudgie: 30/Aug/26

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		Upcoming
08 Sep 26	Oxford UnOxford United	6:45pm	ReadingReading
12 Sep 26	CambridgeCambridge United	2:00pm	ReadingReading
15 Sep 26	ReadingReading	7:00pm	BrentfordBrentford
19 Sep 26	ReadingReading	2:00pm	Notts CouNotts County
26 Sep 26	Wycombe WWycombe Wanderers	2:00pm	ReadingReading

		Results
05 Sep 26	ReadingReading	2 - 0	BlackpoolBlackpool
02 Sep 26	ReadingReading	5 - 0	MansfieldMansfield Town
25 Aug 26	StevenageStevenage	0 - 3	ReadingReading
22 Aug 26	AFC WimblAFC Wimbledon	0 - 0	ReadingReading
18 Aug 26	ReadingReading	1 (3) - 1 (1)	Wycombe WWycombe Wanderers

Description

Reading Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Reading, that plays in the Championship. The club competed in the 2012–13 Premier League season, having gained promotion at the end of the 2011–12 season, after winning the Championship. Reading is competing in the Championship again this season having been relegated after one year back in the top flight.

Reading are nicknamed The Royals, due to Reading's location in the Royal County of Berkshire, though they were previously known as The Biscuitmen, due to the town's association with Huntley and Palmers. Established in 1871, the club is one of the oldest teams in England, but did not join The Football League until 1920, and had never played in the top tier of English football league system before the 2006–07 season.

The club played at Elm Park for 102 years between 1896 to 1998. The club moved in 1998 to the new Madejski Stadium, which is named after the club's Co chairman Sir John Madejski.

The club holds the record for the number of successive league wins at the start of a season, with a total of 13 wins at the start of the 1985–86 Third Division campaign and also the record for the number of points gained in a professional league season with 106 points in the 2005–06 Football League Championship campaign. Reading finished eighth in their first ever season as a top flight club.