Cambridge United to feature in TV documentary series

Cambridge United have played at the Abbey Stadium since 1932

Cambridge United are to be the subject of the latest football documentary TV series, to be made by CBS Sports.

An initial three episodes will be screened at the start of the 2025-26 season as part of the CBS coverage of the English Football League, but aimed primarily at US and Canadian audiences.

Filming will begin in the final weeks of the current campaign and further episodes are being planned to follow in due course.

Cambridge are 22nd in League One, seen points from safety, and facing the possibility of relegation.

A club statement said the series "will seek to capture the drama of the end of season on the pitch, whilst showcasing the club set against the iconic city of Cambridge through its supporters and stakeholders.

"Additional episodes will focus on the history and heritage of the club, highlight the city as being the birthplace of the rules of Association Football and provide an insight into pre-season and start of the 2025-26 season."

Cambridge will hope that the series can emulate some of the success of Welcome to Wrexham, a series which launched in 2022 following the takeover of the Welsh club by Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.

However, chief executive Alex Tunbridge said it would initially be a "modest production" in terms of "scale and scope".

He added: "This is not the first opportunity of the kind we have been presented with. However, with the forthcoming rebrand and the recent changes to our football operations we believe now is the right time to share the Cambridge story overseas.

"We have a lot to be proud of as a club and as a city and we hope to use the CBS Sports platforms to educate and engage a new audience. CBS Sports have more than 50 million subscribers and we hope to be able to share a piece of Cambridge with as many of them as possible."

Cambridge United were founded in 1912 and elected into the EFL in 1970.

They have played in the second tier of English football and reached the FA Cup quarter-finals on two occasions, and the last eight of the League Cup once, but lost their league status in 2005.

It took the club a decade to regain it and they were subsequently promoted to League One in 2021.

Paul Barry has been the club's majority shareholder since 2019 and the following year a new shares issue was approved to allow two US investors, Adam Webb and Mark Green, to each take a 10% stake.

Last October, however, Barry and Green each bought half of Webb's stake, leaving him to concentrate on his ownership of Scottish club St Johnstone.