page_title: 2016–17 Hull City A.F.C. season
section_title: Mike Phelan
hierarchical_section_title: 2016–17 Hull City A.F.C. season / Events / Mike Phelan
caption_attribution_description: Davis and King Harry the bread
context_page_description: The 2016–17 season was Hull City's first season back in the Premier League following their promotion via the 2016 Football League play-offs in the previous season in their 113th year in existence. Along with the Premier League, the club competed in the FA Cup and EFL Cup.
  Hull were relegated back to the Championship on 14 May 2017, following their 4–0 away defeat to Crystal Palace.
  The season covered the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.
context_section_description: On 2 August 2016, the club sacked the first team coach Keith Bertschin.
  On 3 August 2016, Mohamed Diamé turned down a new contract with the club and signed a three-year deal with Newcastle United for an undisclosed fee.
  On 12 August 2016, Calaum Jahraldo-Martin signed for Oldham Athletic on a free transfer.
  On 17 August 2016, Sam Clucas signed a new three-year deal with the club.
  On 18 August 2016, Hull signed defender Bradley Maslen-Jones on a one-year contract from Peterborough United on a free transfer.
  On 30 August 2016, Hull signed goalkeeper David Marshall on a three-year deal from Cardiff City for an undisclosed fee, they also signed centre midfielder Ryan Mason on a three-year deal from Tottenham Hotspur for an undisclosed fee that broke the previous club record signing. The third signing of the day was centre forward Will Keane from Manchester United on a three-year deal for £1 million.
  On transfer deadline day, 31 August 2016, centre midfielder James Weir signed on a three-year deal from Manchester United for an undisclosed fee. Hull also brought in Dieumerci Mbokani on a season-long loan from Dynamo Kyiv and Markus Henriksen on loan from AZ until January 2017, when the loan became permanent.
  On 9 September 2016, caretaker manager Mike Phelan was named Premier League Manager of the Month for August.
  On 13 October 2016, Stephen Clemence left the club to take up a role at Aston Villa.
  On 13 October 2016, Mike Phelan became Hull's permanent head coach.
  On 24 October 2016, Neil McDonald was appointed as assistant head coach.
  On 1 November 2016, Gary Walsh left Hull and joined former manager Steve Bruce at Aston Villa as goalkeeper coach.
  On 7 November 2016, Jarrod Bowen signed a two-year extension to his contract with the club.
  On 17 November 2016, Tony Pennock was promoted to first team coach and Jon Beale took over as manager of the Tigers Academy.
  On 23 December 2016, Hull extended the contracts of six first team players, including winger Robert Snodgrass, defenders Michael Dawson, Andrew Robertson and Harry Maguire, midfielder Jake Livermore and striker Abel Hernández, to until the end of the 2017–18 season.
  On 1 January 2017 Jonathan Edwards and Harvey Rodgers moved on loan to Accrington Stanley for the remainder of the season.
  On 3 January 2017, head coach Mike Phelan was sacked by Hull City, less than three months after being made permanent. The decision was made following a 3–1 away defeat to West Bromwich Albion the previous day, leaving the Tigers bottom of the Premier League and three points adrift of safety.
  On 4 January 2017, it was announced that assistant head coach, Neil McDonald, goalkeeping coach, Bobby Mimms, and head scout, Stan Ternent had left the club.
caption: Harry Maguire and Curtis Davies mark Everton's Romelu Lukaku, in Phelan's final home match as Hull boss, being fired in January 2017.
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