Brighton & Hove Albion

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Brighton & Hove Albion
The coat of arms of the Brighton & Hove Albion
Basic data
Surname Brighton & Hove Albion
Football Club
Seat Brighton , England
founding 1901
Board Tony Bloom
Website brightonandhovealbion.com
First soccer team
Head coach Graham potter
Venue AMEX Stadium
Places 30,750
league Premier League
2019/20 15th place
home
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Brighton & Hove Albion (officially: Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club ) - also known as The Seagulls ( German  Die Möwen ) - is an English football club from the southern English seaside resort of Brighton ; Hove is a district to the west of the center of Brighton. Brighton & Hove Albion has played in the Premier League since the 2017/18 season .

society

The club's most famous former player is Mark Lawrenson , who later moved to Liverpool for a record transfer fee . In 1983 they reached the FA Cup final , which was only lost on May 26th in the replay (2: 2 n. V. and 4: 0 re.) Against Manchester United . In addition, the team played from 1979 to 1983 in the then first-class Football League First Division . The team also won the FA Community Shield against Aston Villa in 1910 as champions of the Southern League .

Until a few years ago, the home stadium was the Goldstone Ground in the district of Hove. With 36,747 spectators, the club had its best visit on December 27, 1958, when it played against Fulham FC . For a long time, the club was trying to get a new stadium; the plans could not be realized for a long time. That is why the home games were held at Withdean Stadium , one of the last stadiums in English professional football to have a career. Withdean is a little north of the center of Brighton. Since the beginning of the 2011/12 season, the club has played its home games in the Football League Championship in the new Falmer Stadium . This new stadium, built with sponsorship as the American Express Community Stadium ('The Amex' for short) near the village of Falmer and the campus of the University of Sussex on the north-western outskirts of Brighton, offers space for 30,750 spectators.

The team plays in blue and white striped jerseys. In the 2005/06 season Brighton finished last in the Football League Championship and therefore had to relegate to Football League One . Most recently, the Seagulls occupied seventh place in the table in the 2007/08 season and thus barely missed the relegation games for promotion. In the League Cup, the team surprisingly defeated Manchester City on penalties 5-3.

On April 12, 2011, the team of Gus Poyet sealed five league games before the end of the season by a 4-3 home win against Dagenham & Redbridge, the renewed promotion to the second highest English division in professional football, the Football League Championship . As a promoted team, they finished in a good tenth place in the 2011/12 season , which they surpassed with fourth place in the following season. This qualified the Seagulls for the promotion games to the Premier League, which they repeated in the 2013/14 season , but failed both times.

On April 17, 2017, the team sealed promotion to the Premier League for the first time in the club's history with a 2-1 win over Wigan Athletic .

Squad for the 2019/20 season

  • Status: February 6, 2020
No. Nat. Surname birthday in the team since Contract until
goal
01 AustraliaAustralia Mathew Ryan 04/08/1992 2017 2022
23 EnglandEngland Jason Steele 08/18/1990 2018 2021
27 EnglandEngland David Button 02/27/1989 2018 2021
Defense
04th IrelandIreland Shane Duffy 01/01/1992 2016 2023
05 EnglandEngland Lewis Dunk 11/21/1991 2010 2023
15th EnglandEngland Adam Webster 01/04/1995 2019 2023
21st ItalyItaly Ezequiel Schelotto 05/23/1989 2017 2020
22nd SpainSpain Martin Montoya 04/14/1991 2018 2022
30th BrazilBrazil Bernardo 05/14/1995 2018 2022
33 EnglandEngland Dan Burn 05/09/1992 2018 2022
50 EnglandEngland Alex Cochrane U21 04/21/2000 2021
midfield
06th EnglandEngland Dale Stephens 12/12/1989 2014 2021
07th IsraelIsrael Biram Kayal 05/02/1988 2015 2020
08th MaliMali Yves Bissouma 08/30/1996 2018 2023
11 BelgiumBelgium Leandro Trossard 04/12/1994 2019 2023
13 GermanyGermany Pascal Groß 06/15/1991 2017 2022
18th AustraliaAustralia Aaron Mooy 09/15/1990 2019 2020
20th EnglandEngland Solly March 07/20/1994 2013 2022
24 NetherlandsNetherlands Davy Pröpper 09/02/1991 2017 2023
48 WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Andrew Crofts 05/29/1984 2019 2021
61 EnglandEngland Ryan Longman U23 11/06/2000 2020
Storm
07th FranceFrance Neal Maupay 08/14/1996 2019 2023
16 IranIran Alireza Jahanbakhsh 08/11/1993 2018 2023
17th EnglandEngland Glenn Murray 09/25/1983 2017 2020
19th ColombiaColombia José Izquierdo 07/07/1992 2017 2021
44 IrelandIreland Aaron Connolly 01/28/2000 2018 2022
46 ColombiaColombia Steven Alzate 09/08/1998 2017 2023

Trainer

League affiliation

successes

literature

  • Tim Carder, Roger Harris: Seagulls! The Story of Brighton & Hove Albion FC Goldstone Books, Brighton 1993, ISBN 0-9521337-0-9 .
  • Tim Carder, Roger Harris: Albion A – Z - A Who's Who of Brighton & Hove Albion FC Goldstone Books, Brighton 1997, ISBN 0-9521337-1-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Men's Team , brightonandhovealbion.com