During the 2010–11 English football season,

Charlton Athletic F.C. Charlton Athletic Football Club is a professional association football club based in Charlton, London, Charlton, south-east London, England. The team compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system. Thei ...

competed in

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Season summary

Charlton managed to start off their first season after relegation from the Championship with some good results and looked safe bets for an automatic return to the second tier of English football, but a late slump saw Charlton fall to fourth, still good enough for a playoff spot. After a 2–1 defeat at the County Ground and a 2–1 win at the Valley saw Charlton draw 3–3 on aggregate with

Swindon Town Swindon Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The team, known as the "Robins", currently compete in , the fourth level of the English football league system. Founded as Swindon A ...

, the two teams went to a penalty shootout.

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missed his penalty to give Swindon the win, thus condemning Charlton to another season in the third tier. Charlton also suffered demoralising defeats in the first rounds in both domestic cups. In the

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, Charlton lost 1–0 to

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at Victoria Stadium, while, in the League Cup, Charlton lost 1–0 after extra time to

Hereford United Hereford United Football Club was an association football club based in Hereford, England. They played at Edgar Street for their entire history. They were nicknamed 'The Whites' or 'The Lilywhites', after their predominantly white kit, or 'Th ...

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Kit

Spanish company

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remained Charlton's kit manufacturers, and introduced a new home and a new away kit for the season, the home kit featuring a white vertical stripe last seen on the club's centenary kit in 2005, the away kit featuring black shorts and socks and a blue and black striped shirt. The kits were sponsored by krbs.com, but, for the match against

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on 19 December, the club wore kits sponsoring the Street Violence Ruins Lives campaign, with proceeds going to the Rob Knox Memorial Fund.

Rob Knox Robert Arthur Knox (21 August 1989 – 24 May 2008) was an English actor who portrayed the character of Marcus Belby in the film ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'', and had signed to appear in its sequel ''Harry Potter and the Deathly H ...

was an actor and a Charlton fan who was stabbed to death in a street attack in May 2008.

Players

First-team squad

:''Squad at end of season''

Left club during season

Transfers

In

Out

Loans in

Loans out

Competitions

League One

League table

Matches

Play-offs

FA Cup

League Cup

Football League Trophy

References

Notes

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