The 30-year-old wants to finish his career with the Tigers, but not before he's capped it with a special achievement
Barry Cooper Hull City correspondent
09:00, 16 Feb 2026
Lewie Coyle has opened up on his promotion dreams
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Lewie Coyle has opened up on his promotion dreams(Image: Pro Sports Images)
Skipper Lewie Coyle admits it would be a dream come true if he could lead Hull City to promotion to the Premier League over the next 15 games.
Coyle extended his love affair with his hometown club last week when he penned a new contract until 2029, extending a stay that began in 2020, before he captained City to the League One title.
Six years on, and attention is now on guiding the Tigers to what some would consider an unlikely promotion to the top table of English football.
The Tigers return to Championship action on Saturday lunchtime when they host QPR, looking to get back to winning ways, after going through something of a mini-blip in the past two league games.
Successive home games in the Championship without victory were followed by a 4-0 FA Cup loss to in-form Chelsea, and they'll be desperate to regain that winning feeling.
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While promotion is a long, long way off at this stage given how much football is to be played, City find themselves in a fantastic position.
"No, I'd probably be lying if I said I thought that's exactly how it goes," Coyle told Hull Live when quizzed about potentially finishing his career at the MKM Stadium. "In my wildest dreams, I would have signed for Hull all that time ago and finished my career there. This latest contract gives me that chance of making that a reality.
"I'm not saying I'm going to be done at 33, 34, hopefully, make a few more years after that. When I signed to this football club, my main goal and ambition at the time then was to get us promoted back to the Championship, which thankfully in the first season it happened.
"There's been a few indifferent seasons, a few ups, a few downs, but six years later we're sat fourth (before the weekend games) in the Championship with a real chance to secure a play-off place and push to get promoted this year.
"That'd be a dream come true to captain this football club back to the Premier League. The timing of which I've signed my new contract, it seems that everything's hopefully fallen into place."
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