Brentford FC

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Brentford FC
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Basic data
Surname Brentford Football Club
Seat London Brentford
founding 1889
president EnglandEngland Cliff Crown
Website brentfordfc.co.uk
First soccer team
Head coach DenmarkDenmark Thomas Frank
Venue Griffin Park , Brentford
Places 12,763
league EFL Championship
2019/20 3rd place
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Away

The FC Brentford (officially: Brentford Football Club ) is an English football club based in Brentford , west of London area. The club, nicknamed both The Bees and The red and white army , rose to the second-rate Football League Championship after the 2013/14 season .

history

Founding phase and time until 1939

The club was founded in 1889, initially with the aim of establishing a winter activity for the local rowing club Brentford Rowing Club . The club always played in the lower leagues of the Football League in its early years and could not celebrate any notable successes. In 1904, Brentford FC moved to Griffin Park, which is still used as home ground today . In 1921 the club was a founding member of the Third Division South and from the late 1920s until the 1930s it experienced positive sporting development. In the 1929/30 season Brentford won all 21 home games. Despite this record, which is unique in English football to this day, the club missed promotion. After further narrow but unsuccessful attempts, Brentford finally rose to the Second Division in 1933 . Only two years later they even qualified for the First Division and finished their first season in the top English division on a surprisingly good fifth place, the best result in the club's entire history to date. The club was able to establish itself in the elite class in the further course of the decade, including two sixth places in the two following seasons, until the outbreak of World War II interrupted the game.

1945-1989

During the war, the club took part in the London War Cup and initially lost the final at Wembley Stadium to Reading FC in 1941 , but then won against Portsmouth FC just a year later . The club rose in the first season after the resumption of play and after a continuous sporting downward trend Brentford had to move to the third division in 1954 and even in the fourth division in 1962 . Nevertheless, the club's attendance record fell during this time: on February 26, 1949, 38,678 spectators came to the FA Cup game against Leicester City . The continued existence of the club was acutely jeopardized in the late 1960s by an impending takeover by the Queens Park Rangers and could only be averted by an emergency loan of 104,000 pounds. Brentford shuttled steadily between the third and fourth division during this time. The increases in 1963, 1972 and 1978 were offset by decreases in 1966 and 1973. The highlights of this period were reaching the final of the Freight Rover Trophy at Wembley Stadium in 1985, in which the club lost to Wigan Athletic , and the 1989 FA Cup , after three wins against higher-class teams, up to the quarter-finals, in which one then lost to the current champions from Liverpool .

1990 until today

After a 45-year absence, Brentford managed to return to the second division in 1992 as the championship first, which was now called Division One after the introduction of the Premier League . After the direct relegation in the following season , the club failed several times only narrowly on renewed promotion. In 1994, Brentford signed a former Chelsea player to coach David Webb , the key goalscorer of the 1970 FA Cup final . With him, the club reached the play-off games twice . In the final of the elimination games in 1997 , the club lost to Crewe Alexandra at Wembley Stadium . In the following year, the club then even rose again to the fourth division and returned as champions of this division in 1999 and the new coach and president Ron Noades in the third division. In 2002, the club under coach Steve Coppell just missed promotion to the second division due to a defeat in the play-off final against Stoke City , after the direct promotion had been lost in the last few minutes. Also in 2005, under the new coach Martin Allen and after a fourth place in the final table, Sheffield Wednesday had to give way with 1: 3 goals after both play-off finals. On January 20, 2006, Greg Dyke, the former CEO of the BBC, was appointed as the new president after taking over the Bees United initiative through a Brentford Supporters Trust . In the 2005/06 season, the club also drew attention in the FA Cup when it defeated the first division relegation candidate from Sunderland 2-1 in the fourth round . Again the playoffs were reached. But despite a 1-0 away win in the first semi-final against Swansea City , they were eliminated because of the 2-0 home defeat against the Welsh and missed promotion.

After relegation in the 2006/07 season, Brentford FC returned after the 2008/09 season as champions of Football League Two in the third-tier Football League One. At the end of the 2013/14 season, after more than 20 years, he was promoted to the second highest division in English professional football, the Football League Championship .

Current squad 2018/19

Status: January 22, 2019

No. position Surname
1 EnglandEngland TW Daniel Bentley
2 EnglandEngland FROM Moses Odubajo
3 EnglandEngland FROM Rico Henry
4th ScotlandScotland MF Lewis Macleod
5 ScotlandScotland Robert Rowan
7th SpainSpain ST Sergi Canós
8th EnglandEngland MF Nico Yennaris
9 FranceFrance ST Neal Maupay
10 EnglandEngland MF Josh McEachran
11 EnglandEngland ST Ollie Watkins
12 South AfricaSouth Africa MF Kamohelo Mokotjo
14th EnglandEngland MF Josh Dasilva
17th DenmarkDenmark MF Emiliano Marcondes
No. position Surname
19th Saint Kitts NevisSt. Kitts and Nevis MF Romaine Sawyers
21st AlgeriaAlgeria ST Said Benrahma
22nd DenmarkDenmark FROM Henrik Dalsgaard
23 FranceFrance FROM Julian Jeanvier
24 IrelandIreland ST Chiedozie Ogbene
25th EnglandEngland TW Ellery Balcombe
26th EnglandEngland FROM Ezri Konsa
28 EnglandEngland TW Luke Daniels
29 FranceFrance FROM Yoann Barbet
30th IrelandIreland FROM Tom Field
33 FinlandFinland ST Marcus Forss
34 DenmarkDenmark FROM Mads Bech Sørensen

Well-known former players

Trainer

League affiliation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ First team. In: brentfordfc.com. Brentford FC, accessed August 8, 2017 .
  2. ^ Robert Rowan: Brentford plan tributes to former technical director . BBC Sports. November 22, 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2018.