Hull City promotion parade: Route of open-top bus parade through city streets revealed
The route and timings of Hull City’s open-top bus parade through the city streets to celebrate promotion back to the Premier League has been revealed.
Hull City Council is to host a civic reception for the players following their dramatic last-gasp win to secure promotion to the top tier of English football.
Thousands of fans are set to line the streets of the city centre for the parade, which will begin at Ferensway at 3.10pm and arrive at City Hall around an hour later for the reception.
However, the action will begin over an hour earlier as an event will be held outside the City Hall in Queen Victoria Square from 2pm, with with pitch-side announcer Steve Jordan and DJ Eddie Richards warming up the crowd from 3pm.
Players, coaches and other members of staff will give speeches and thank the fans for their support before the event ends at 5.15pm.
The parade route will be:
- Ferensway (junction with Anlaby Road)
- Beverley Road
- Sutton Road
- Ings Road
- Holderness Road
- Witham
- North Bridge
- Freetown Way
- Ferensway
- Carr Lane
- City Hall (Queen Victoria Square)
Coun Mike Ross, leader of the council, said: “I would like to offer huge congratulations to Hull City on their fantastic victory at Wembley, and on securing their well-deserved return to the Premier League.
“Their journey to this moment has not been an easy one - from being tipped as relegation candidates at the start of the season, to all the uncertainty relating to who they would face in the play-offs at the end - the team have come through it all.
“The club, players and fans have shown the true resilience associated with our city to overcome the odds, and can now prepare for the global audiences the Premier League attracts to further showcase themselves and Hull as a city to the rest of the world.”