Hull City Association Football Club is a professional association football club based in Kingston upon Hull , East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The club competes in the Premier League in the 2026–27 season following promotion via the playoffs . They play their home games at the MKM Stadium , after moving from Boothferry Park in 2002. [ 2 ] The club's traditional home colours are black and amber, often featuring in a striped design on the shirt, hence their nickname, the Tigers . [ 3 ] Hull also contest the Humber derby with both Grimsby Town and Scunthorpe United . [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
