They went on to win the Division One South title, earning promotion to the Essex Senior League. The club's first league season saw them reach the semi-finals of Division One Knock-Out Cup. Their first competitive match was a 3–2 away loss to Little Oakley on 4 August 2018. After joining the pyramid, Carmichael-Brown stepped down as manager and was replaced by former East Thurrock United assistant manager Jay Devereux. Ahead of the 2018–19 season, the club joined the English football league system, initially being placed in Division One of the Spartan South Midlands League, before being moved to the Eastern Counties League after appealing that it was more suited to their Essex roots. In early 2018, Chelsea player and Spanish international César Azpilicueta invested in the club and became a co-owner.
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The team included Scott Pollock, who went on to sign professional terms with Northampton Town. In 2017 the club won the EE Wembley Cup, a competition that Carmichael-Brown had created in 2015. At one point in 2016, the club was rumoured to be interested in signing professional footballer Adebayo Akinfenwa. Hashtag United played various teams including a Comedians XI whom they beat 19–1, Google, the GB Deaf Team, Barawa and a Manchester City staff team, with opponents fielding former professional footballers such as Paul Dickov, Graeme Le Saux and Ray Parlour, and celebrities including Omid Djalili. By September 2016, the team's Instagram account had over 100,000 followers, their Twitter account 41,000, and a 'penalty challenge' video uploaded to YouTube had accumulated over one million views. įrom their foundation, the team primarily played five, seven and eleven-a-side exhibition matches, which were filmed and uploaded to their YouTube channel. Carmichael-Brown had begun making YouTube videos in 2007 as a student at the University of Reading, and the team initially consisted of friends from school and university. Hashtag United Football Club was formed in March 2016 by Spencer Carmichael-Brown, a football YouTuber who went by the name of Spencer FC.
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