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Burnley Football Club ( ) is an english association football club based in Burnley, Lancashire, that presently competes in the Premier League, the circus tent tier of English football. Founded on 18 May 1882, it was one of the beginning to become professional ( in 1883 ), and subsequently put pressure on the Football Association to permit payments to players. The baseball club entered the FA Cup for the first time in 1885–86 and was one of the 12 founder members of the Football League in 1888–89. From the 1950s until the 1970s, under chair Bob Lord, the club became celebrated for its youth policy and scouting system, and was one of the first gear to set up a purpose-built trail ground.

Burnley have been champions of England doubly, in 1920–21 and 1959–60, have won the FA Cup once, in 1913–14, and have won the FA Charity Shield doubly, in 1960 and 1973. They have been runner-up in the First Division doubly, in 1919–20 and 1961–62, and FA Cup runner-up doubly, in 1946–47 and 1961–62. The team besides reached the quarter-finals of the 1960–61 european Cup. Burnley are one of only five sides to have won all four professional divisions of English football, along with Wolverhampton Wanderers, Preston North End, Sheffield United and Portsmouth. When the team won the 1959–60 Football League, the town of Burnley became one of the smallest to have an english first-tier champion. [ a ] The team have played home games at Turf Moor since 1883, after they had moved from their master premises at Calder Vale. The cabaret discolor of claret and blue were adopted before the 1910–11 temper in tribute to the then Football League champions Aston Villa. The club is nicknamed “ the Clarets ” because of the dominant color of its dwelling shirts. Burnley ‘s current emblem is based on the town ‘s coat of arms. The team have a long-standing competition with nearby club Blackburn Rovers, with whom they contest the East Lancashire Derby .

history [edit ]

early beginnings and the first base major honor ( 1882–1946 ) [edit ]

A black and white image of a football team with a trophy in the middle One of the earliest photograph Burnley sides, with the Lancashire Cup in the in-between of the photograph The club was founded on 18 May 1882 by members of rugby team Burnley Rovers, who voted for a chemise to association football, since other sports clubs in the sphere had changed their codes to football. [ 1 ] The suffix “ Rovers ” was dropped a few days later. [ 1 ] The team played their first recorded peer on 10 August against local side Burnley Wanderers at home reason Calder Vale and won 4–0. [ 2 ] In February 1883, the club was invited by Burnley Cricket Club to a pitch adjacent to the cricket field at Turf Moor, where it has remained since. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] That same year saw them win their foremost silverware : the Dr Dean Trophy, a smasher rival between amateurish clubs in the Burnley area. [ 5 ] By the conclusion of 1883, the golf club turned professional and signed many Scottish players, who were regarded as the best footballers by the Burnley committee. As a solution, Burnley refused to join the Football Association ( FA ) and its FA Cup, since the association barred professional players. [ 6 ] In 1884, they led a group of 35 other clubs in the formation of the breakaway British Football Association ( BFA ) to challenge the domination of the FA. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] This threat of secession led to an FA rule change in July 1885 allowing professionalism, which made the BFA excess. [ 7 ] Burnley made their first appearance in the FA Cup in 1885–86 ; however, most professionals were prohibited entry due to FA rules that year, [ b ] so they fielded their modesty side and lost 11–0 to Darwen Old Wanderers. [ 6 ] In October 1886, Turf Moor became the first master anchor to be visited by a member of the Royal Family, when Prince Albert Victor attended a match between Burnley and Bolton Wanderers. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] The club was among the twelve founders of the Football League in 1888–89 and one of the six based in Lancashire. [ 9 ] In the second match, William Tait became the first base player to score a league hat-trick, [ 10 ] when his three goals gave Burnley their inaugural address winnings in the rival. [ 11 ] In 1889–90, they claimed their first base Lancashire Cup, after beating local rivals Blackburn Rovers in the concluding. [ 12 ] dub at this luff were “ Turfites ”, “ Moorites ” or “ Royalites ”, as a resultant role of their land ‘s diagnose and the royal connection. [ 13 ] Burnley were relegated to the Second Division for the first base time in 1896–97. [ 14 ] The team won the division the next temper ; merely two of thirty matches were lost before forwarding was gained through a four-team play-off series called test matches, although the last game against First Division golf club Stoke was controversial. The tie finished 0–0 as both needed alone a draw for a top flight set ; it was later named “ [ thyroxine ] he match without a shot at goal ”. The Football League soon withdrew the trial match organization in favor of automatic promotion and relegation and expanded both divisions from 16 to 18 clubs after a motion by Burnley. [ 15 ] They were relegated again in 1899–1900 and found themselves at the kernel of controversy when their goalkeeper, Jack Hillman, attempted to bribe opponents Nottingham Forest in the last equal of the temper. [ 16 ] It is possibly the earliest record case of match fix in football. [ 17 ] The slope continued to play in the Second Division and even finished in bed place in 1902–03 ( but were re-elected ), [ 18 ] as the golf club got into fiscal difficulties. [ 19 ]
Harry Windle was named president in 1909, after which the baseball club ‘s finances turned around. [ 20 ] He appointed coach John Haworth in 1910, [ 21 ] who changed the club ‘s discolor from green to the claret and bluing of Aston Villa, the then First Division champions, as Haworth and the Burnley committee believed it might bring a change of luck. [ 22 ] In 1912–13, they won promotion to the first tier and reached the FA Cup semi-final. Burnley won their first major honor the follow year, beating Liverpool in the 1914 FA Cup Final. [ 14 ] Bert Freeman scored the entirely finish, as Burnley became the first base club to defeat five top tier sides in one cup season. Tommy Boyle became the first captain to receive the trophy from a reigning sovereign ( King George V ). [ 23 ] [ 24 ] The team finished second to West Bromwich Albion in 1919–20, [ 25 ] before winning their inaugural ever First Division championship in 1920–21. [ 14 ] Burnley lost the opening three games, but went unbeaten in the following thirty league matches, setting an english record. [ 26 ] Haworth ‘s end in 1924 was followed by a regular deterioration of their position, which culminated in demotion in 1929–30. [ 27 ] They struggled in the second grade and avoided a further relegation in 1931–32 by two points. [ 18 ] [ 28 ] The years through to the outbreak of the Second World War were characterised by mid-table league finishes. [ 18 ]

Progressive and golden earned run average ( 1946–1976 ) [edit ]

In the first season of post-war League football, Burnley gained promotion through moment position and reached the 1947 FA Cup Final but were defeated by Charlton Athletic after extra time. [ 29 ] The team ‘s refutation was nicknamed “ The Iron Curtain ”, since they only conceded 29 goals in 42 league matches. [ 29 ] Burnley finished third base in their foremost season back in the lead flight as they began to assemble a squad capable of competing for award. [ 14 ] [ 30 ] Alan Brown was appointed director in 1954, [ 30 ] and Bob Lord president a year former. The club became one of the most progressive around under their tenures. [ 32 ] [ 33 ] Burnley were one of the first to set up a purpose-built training center ( Gawthorpe ), [ 34 ] and they became renowned for their youth policy and scouting system, which yielded many young talents. [ 32 ] Brown besides introduced short corners and loose kick routines. [ 35 ] In 1958, erstwhile Burnley player Harry Potts was appointed director. [ 36 ] His squad chiefly revolved around the duet of captain Jimmy Adamson and Jimmy McIlroy, the team ‘s playmaker. [ 37 ] Potts often employed the then unfashionable 4–4–2 formation and he implemented a total Football play style. [ 36 ]
Burnley's training ground at Gawthorpe Gawthorpe (2017 photograph) was one of the first purpose-built was one of the foremost purpose-built educate grounds Burnley clinched a second gear First Division title in 1959–60. They had not topped the table until the last match was played out. [ 38 ] [ c ] The police squad cost lone £ 13,000 ( equivalent to £310,000 in 2021 [ d ] ) in transfer fees—£8,000 on McIlroy in 1950 and £5,000 on left-back Alex Elder in 1959. The other players came from their young academy. [ 32 ] With 80,000 inhabitants, the township of Burnley became one of the smallest to have an English first tier champion. [ 32 ] [ a ] They travelled to the United States after the temper ended to represent England in the International Soccer League, the first modern international american soccer tournament. [ 40 ] The play along season, Burnley played in european rival for the first time in the 1960–61 european Cup. They defeated early finalists Stade de Reims in the first round, but went out against Hamburger SV in the quarter-finals. [ 41 ] The team finished the 1961–62 First Division as runner-up to newcomers Ipswich Town after winning lone two of the last thirteen matches, and had a run to the 1962 FA Cup Final but lost against Tottenham Hotspur. Adamson was named FWA Footballer of the year, however, with McIlroy as runner-up. [ 42 ] The maximal wage in the Football League was abolished in 1961, which meant that clubs from small towns like Burnley could nobelium retentive compete financially with sides from bigger towns and cities. [ 43 ] The controversial deviation of McIlroy to Stoke City in 1963 [ e ] and Adamson ‘s retirement in 1964 besides damaged the club ‘s fortunes. [ 44 ] Burnley retained their place in the First Division throughout the decade, however, finishing third base in 1965–66 to qualify for the 1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. [ 14 ] Potts was replaced by Adamson as director in 1970 after a 12-year enchantment. Adamson hailed his team as the “ team of the Seventies ”, but he was ineffective to halt the swoop as relegation followed in 1970–71. [ 46 ] Burnley won the Second Division title in 1972–73, and were invited to play in the 1973 FA Charity Shield as a result, [ fluorine ] where they emerged as winners against Manchester City. [ 47 ] In 1975, the team were victims of one of the great FA Cup shocks of all clock when Wimbledon, then in the Southern League, won 1–0 at Turf Moor. [ 50 ] Adamson left the club in January 1976, and relegation from the First Division followed later that year. [ 51 ] During this period, a dribble in home attendances combined with an enlarge debt forced Burnley to sell asterisk players such as Martin Dobson and Leighton James, which caused a rapid descent. [ 52 ]

Near oblivion and recovery ( 1976–2009 ) [edit ]

Refer to caption Graph showing Burnley ‘s performance from the inauguration season of the Football League in 1888–89 to the salute The team were relegated to the Third Division for the first base fourth dimension in 1979–80. [ 14 ] Under the management of early Burnley player Brian Miller, [ 53 ] they returned to the second tier as champions in 1981–82. however, this return was ephemeral and lasted only one class. [ 14 ] Managerial changes continued to be made in a search for success ; Miller was replaced by Frank Casper in early 1983, he by John Bond before the 1983–84 temper and Bond himself by John Benson a season former. [ 53 ] Bond was the first director since Frank Hill ( 1948–1954 ) without a previous playing career at the club. He was criticised by the fans for signing expensive players increasing Burnley ‘s debt, and for selling the young talents Lee Dixon, Brian Laws and Trevor Steven. [ 54 ] Benson was in tear when Burnley were relegated to the Fourth Division for the first time at the end of the 1984–85 temper. [ 53 ] The team avoided delegating to the Football Conference, the highest level of non-League football, on the last day in 1986–87, after they won against Orient and their rivals drew or lost. [ 55 ] The board had reportedly attempted to purchase about bankrupt Welsh club Cardiff City and relocate it to Turf Moor, if Burnley were relegated, in what would have been the Football League ‘s first franchise operation. [ 56 ]
In 1988, Burnley played Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Final of the Associate Members ‘ Cup, but lost 2–0. The match was attended by 80,000 people, a record for a match between two sides from the fourthly tier. [ 57 ] The team won the Fourth Division in 1991–92 under director Jimmy Mullen. He had succeeded Frank Casper in October 1991 and won his first nine league matches as coach. [ 58 ] By winning the fourth tier, the Clarets became only the moment club to win all four professional divisions of English football, after Wolverhampton Wanderers. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] Burnley won the second gear Division play-offs in 1993–94 and gained promotion to the second tier. [ 61 ] Relegation followed after one season, [ 14 ] and in 1997–98 entirely a stopping point day victory over Plymouth Argyle ensured a specialize escape from delegating back into the one-fourth tier. [ 62 ] Chris Waddle was player-manager that season with his adjunct Glenn Roeder, [ 63 ] but their departures and the appointment of Stan Ternent that summer saw the baseball club start to make build up. [ 64 ] They finished second in 1999–2000 and were promoted to the second grade. [ 14 ] During the 2000–01 and 2001–02 seasons, Burnley emerged as good contenders for a promotion play-off rate. [ 14 ] In early 2002, fiscal problems caused by the collapse of ITV Digital brought the club close to administration. [ 65 ] Ternent was sacked in 2004, after he avoided relegation with a police squad composed of many loanees and some players who were not entirely fit. [ 66 ] Steve Cotterill was then appointed as director but was replaced in November 2007 by Owen Coyle. [ 67 ] The 2008–09 political campaign, Coyle ‘s first wax season in charge, ended with promotion to the Premier League. Sheffield United were defeated in the Championship play-off Final, which meant a return to the crown trajectory after 33 years. [ 68 ] Burnley besides reached the semi-final of the League Cup for the first clock time in over 25 years but were beaten on sum by Tottenham in the last minutes of the second leg. [ 69 ] [ 70 ]
promotion made the township of Burnley one of the smallest to host a Premier League baseball club. [ 71 ] [ 72 ] The team started the season well and became the inaugural newly promoted side in the competition to win their first gear four home games. [ 73 ] however, Coyle left the club in January 2010 to manage local rivals Bolton Wanderers. [ 74 ] He was replaced by erstwhile Burnley player Brian Laws, but the team ‘s kind plummeted and they were relegated after a unmarried season. [ 75 ] Laws was dismissed in December 2010 and replaced by Eddie Howe, who was succeeded by Sean Dyche in October 2012. [ 67 ] In his first full season in charge, Dyche guided Burnley back to the Premier League in 2013–14 on a tight budget and with a small police squad. [ 76 ] The team went down after one season but won the Championship deed on their return in 2015–16, when they equaled their 2013–14 club record of 93 points, and ended the season with a run of 23 league games undefeated. [ 14 ] [ 77 ] The side stayed up this time ; the 2016–17 season ended with them in 16th station. [ 14 ] The club completed construction of Barnfield Training Centre that season, which replaced Gawthorpe. Dyche was involved in the education reason ‘s purpose and had willingly tailored his transfer budget as both he and the board focused on the club ‘s infrastructure and future. [ 34 ] [ 78 ] Burnley finished one-seventh in 2017–18, which meant qualification for the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League and a reappearance to European football after 51 years. [ 79 ] The team failed to reach the group stage, as they were eliminated in the play-off round by Greek clubhouse Olympiacos. [ 80 ] In December 2020, American investment party ALK Capital acquired an 84 % stake in Burnley for £170 million. [ 81 ] It was the foremost clock the club was run by anyone other than local businessmen and Burnley supporters. [ 82 ]

Club identity [edit ]

Kits and colours [edit ]



Burnley ‘s strip in the inaugural season of the Football League ( 1888–89 ). note that the actual kit out had long sleeves. In the early years, Burnley used assorted kit designs and color. Throughout the first base nine years, there were versatile permutations of blasphemous and white, the color of the cabaret ‘s forerunners Burnley Rovers. [ 22 ] After two years of claret and amber stripes, for much of the mid-1890s a combination of black with amber was used, although the team wore a shirt with pink and white stripes during the 1894–95 season. between 1897 and 1900, the club used a knit red shirt and from 1900 until 1910 it wore an all-green jersey. In 1910, Burnley changed their colours to claret and blue, which they now have had for most of their history, save for a enchantment in blank shirts during the 1930s and the second World War. [ 22 ] The borrowing of the claret and blue combination paid court to Football League champions Aston Villa, who wore those colours. Burnley ‘s committee and coach John Haworth believed it might bring a change of luck. The club decided to re-register its colours as claret and blue in 1946, partially due to readers ‘ letters to the Burnley Express. [ 22 ] Burnley ‘s jerseys were manufactured by local companies until 1975, when Umbro became the first to have its logo on the cabaret ‘s shirt. Since 1975, the team have had a kind of kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors. The club ‘s first kit patronize was POCO in 1982, while the mobile bet on Golf Clash became its first sleeve sponsor in 2017. [ 83 ] [ 84 ] The team ‘s yellow aside kit for the 2006–07 season, produced by Erreà, won the “ Best Kit Design ” class at the 2007 Football League Awards. [ 85 ]

crest [edit ]

A coat of arms of a town with an inscription on the bottom reading "Pretiumque et causa laboris" Burnley ‘s coat of arms formed the foundation for the club ‘s current cap. Burnley ‘s first use of a crest was in December 1887, when they wore the Royal Arms on the shirt. [ 83 ] Prince Albert Victor watched the team turn against Bolton Wanderers at Turf Moor in October 1886—the first gear travel to to a professional football ground by a penis of the Royal Family. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] To commemorate the visit, the cabaret received a fix of white jerseys featured with a gloomy girdle and embellished with the Royal coat of arms. The crest was regularly worn on the shirts until 1895, when it disappeared. [ 83 ] During the 1914 FA Cup Final, watched by King George V, [ 24 ] it featured again on the kits. [ 83 ] From 1914, the team played in unadorned shirts, although they wore the coat of arms of Burnley in the 1934–35 FA Cup semi-final and the 1947 FA Cup Final. [ 83 ] [ 86 ] After winning the First Division for a second time in 1960, Burnley were allowed to wear the town ‘s crest on their shirts. In 1969, it was replaced by a erect “ BFC ” monogram. The initials were placed horizontally and lettered with gold in 1975. [ 83 ] Burnley used a designed badge with elements from the town and the club on their home shirts from 1979, [ g ] before they returned to the horizontal interpretation of the “ BFC ” monogram in 1983, which was lettered in white. [ 83 ] [ 87 ] In 1987, the club returned to the crown used from 1979 to 1983. [ 83 ] To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the 1959–60 First Division title win in 2009, Burnley decided to reinstate the logo used from 1960 to 1969. The pursue season, its Latin motto Pretiumque et Causa Laboris ( english : “ The pry and the causal agent of [ our ] labor ” ) was replaced with the inscription “ Burnley Football Club ”. [ 83 ] [ 88 ] The club ‘s current badge is based on the town ‘s coating of arms. [ 87 ] The stork at the circus tent of the peak refers to the Starkie family, who were big in the Burnley area. In its mouth it holds the Lacy knot, the badge of the de Lacy family, who held Burnley and Blackburnshire in medieval times. The stork stands on a hill ( the Pennines ) and cotton plants—which represents the cotton making inheritance of the town. In the blacken ring, the hand represents Burnley ‘s motto, “ Hold to the Truth ”, derived from the Towneley class. The two bees refer to the township ‘s industry and the saying “ american samoa busy as a bee ”, but besides allude to the erstwhile Bee Hole end at Turf Moor. Beneath the crinkled, claret line is a reference point to the River Brun, which runs through the settlement. The leo represents royalty and hints at Prince Albert Victor ‘s visit in 1886. [ 87 ] [ 88 ]

stadium [edit ]

A football stand photographed from another stand, while some footballers are on the pitch The James Hargreaves Stand pictured before kick-off in 2001 The team have played their home games at Turf Moor since February 1883, which replaced their original premises at Calder Vale. [ 4 ] The Turf Moor site has been used for sport since at least 1843, when Burnley Cricket Club moved to the area. [ 3 ] [ 89 ] In 1883, they invited Burnley to a gear adjacent to the cricket reason. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Both clubs have remained there since, and only Lancashire rivals Preston North End have continuously occupied their stadium— Deepdale —for farseeing. [ 4 ] The labor in the first place consisted of just a pitch and the initial grandstand was not built until 1885. [ 3 ] In 1888, the beginning league match at Turf Moor saw Burnley issue as 4–1 winners over Bolton Wanderers, Fred Poland netting the first league goal at the stadium. [ 11 ] Turf Moor ‘s capacitance was increased to 50,000 under the chair Harry Windle during the 1910s. [ 23 ] The establish hosted its alone FA Cup semi-final in 1922, between Huddersfield Town and Notts County, and five years later it hosted its merely wax international match, between England and Wales for the british Home Championship. [ 90 ] [ 91 ] From the end of the Second World War until the mid-1960s, crowd in the stadium averaged in the 20,000–35,000 range, and Burnley averaged a club-record attendance of 33,621 in the 1947–48 First Division. [ 92 ] The attendance phonograph record for a single match was already set in 1924 against Huddersfield Town in an FA Cup third gear round tie, when 54,775 spectators attended. [ 93 ] In 1960, in an FA Cup fifth beat replay plot against Bradford City, there was an official attendance of 52,850. Some of the gates were broken down, however, and many countless fans poured into the earth. [ 94 ] Turf Moor consists of four stands : the James Hargreaves Stand ( once the Longside ), the Jimmy McIlroy Stand ( once the Bee Hole End ), the Bob Lord Stand, and the Cricket Field Stand for family and away fans. [ 4 ] [ 95 ] The current capacity is 21,944 all-seated. [ 95 ] Turf Moor ‘s field had a slope until 1974, when the pitch was raised to minimise it. [ 4 ] During the mid-1990s, the ground undergo further renovation when the Longside and Bee Hole End terraces were replaced by all-seater stands as a consequence of the Taylor Report. [ 96 ] In 2019, the club built two corner stands for disable home supporters between the Jimmy McIlroy and both the James Hargreaves and Bob Lord Stands to meet the Accessible Stadium Guide regulations. [ 97 ] [ 98 ]

Supporters and rivalries [edit ]

Supporters [edit ]

A two-tiered football stand with supporters who hold claret and light blue flags. The Burnley fans with a tifo display at Turf Moor Burnley ‘s supporters are chiefly drawn from East Lancashire and West Yorkshire. [ 99 ] The golf club is one of the best defend sides in English football per head, [ 100 ] with average attendances of 20,000 in the Premier League in a town of approximately 73,000 inhabitants. [ 101 ] [ 102 ] Besides a firm, local sports fan base, [ 103 ] it has numerous supporters ‘ clubs across the United Kingdom and overseas. [ 104 ] The club ‘s fans have had a long-standing friendship with supporters of Dutch team Helmond Sport since 1995. Burnley and Helmond have a small follow who regularly make an oversea journey to visit each early ‘s matches. [ 105 ] A frequently sung tone since the early 1970s is “ No Nay Never ”, an adaptation of the song “ The Wild Rover “, which has lyrics to offend chief rivals Blackburn Rovers. [ 106 ] In the early 1980s, a bully firm known as the Suicide Squad emerged from within Burnley ‘s fanbase. [ 107 ] The group former featured on the 2006 bully objective series The Real Football Factories. [ 108 ] In 2011, 12 members were sentenced to jail for a full of 32 years, after a high-profile incidental with Blackburn Rovers supporters in 2009. [ 109 ] The firm disbanded after the verdict. [ 110 ] luminary Burnley fans have included football pioneer Jimmy Hogan, who was a regular attendant at Turf Moor ; [ 111 ] journalist Alastair Campbell, who has been regularly involved in events with the club ; [ 112 ] and cricketer James Anderson, who besides worked in Burnley ‘s ticket position on a half-time basis. [ 113 ] In 2019, Burnley fan Scott Cunliffe was honoured by the UEFA with the # EqualGame Award “ for his work as role model highlighting diverseness, inclusion and approachability in football ” ; he ran to every away Premier League footing during Burnley ‘s 2018–19 campaign and raised more than £55,000 for Premier League clubs ‘ residential district trusts and residential district projects in Burnley. [ 114 ] [ 115 ] A popular drink served at home matches since the First World War is “ Béné & Hot ” —the French liqueur Bénédictine topped up with hot urine. The East Lancashire Regiment soldiers acquired a taste for the drink in while stationed at the birthplace of the beverage in Fécamp, Normandy, during the war. They drank it with hot urine to keep warm in the trenches, and the surviving soldiers late returned to the East Lancashire area with the liqueur. In surfeit of 30 bottles are sold at each dwelling game, which makes the club one of the world ‘s biggest sellers of Bénédictine ; Turf Moor is the alone british football establish to sell it. [ 116 ] The club ‘s official matchday program is named “ Turf ”, and was voted the best at the Football League Awards in 2009 and 2012. It was besides voted the “ Best Championship Matchday Programme of 2016 ” by peers and “ Premier League Programme of the year ” in 2019 by the Independent Programme View. [ 117 ]

Rivalries [edit ]

Burnley ‘s independent rivals are Blackburn Rovers, with whom they contest the East Lancashire bowler hat, named after the area both clubs hail from. Games between these sides from mill towns are besides known under the identify “ Cotton Mills bowler hat ”. [ 118 ] [ 119 ] Both are laminitis members of the Football League and have won the First Division and the FA Cup. [ 118 ] The two clubs are separated by merely 14 miles ( 23 kilometer ) and besides the geographic proximity, [ 119 ] they besides have a long-standing history of competition ; the earliest competitive brush was a Football League match in 1888. [ 120 ] Four years earlier, however, they had met for the first prison term in a friendly, “ with considerable pride at bet on ”. [ 6 ] [ 121 ] Burnley hold the better neck and neck read, as the side have won 42 games to Blackburn ‘s 41. [ 120 ] Burnley ‘s closest geographic rivals are actually Accrington Stanley, but as they have never competed at the lapp degree ( although defunct cabaret Accrington did ), there is no significant competition between them. [ 122 ] early rivalries include those with nearby clubs Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers and Preston North End. [ 123 ] Burnley besides share a Roses competition with West Yorkshire sides Bradford City and Leeds United. [ 124 ] [ 125 ] The team contested inflame matches with Halifax Town, Plymouth Argyle, Rochdale and Stockport County in the 1980s and 1990s during their time in the lower leagues, although feelings of animosity were chiefly nonreversible ; according to the Football Fans Census in 2003, Halifax and Stockport supporters considered Burnley to be their main rivals. [ 123 ] [ 124 ]

Players [edit ]

First-team team [edit ]

As of 31 August 2021[126]

note : Flags indicate home team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Out on loanword [edit ]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Under-23s and Academy [edit ]

management [edit ]

Position Name
Manager Sean Dyche
Assistant manager Ian Woan
First team coach Tony Loughlan
Head of recruitment Martin Hodge
Academy manager Vacant

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Managers [edit ]

Burnley-born Harry Bradshaw was Burnley ‘s first director and was the first to win a league title with the club, taking them to the clear of the Second Division at the end of the 1897–98 season. [ 129 ] John Haworth was the beginning coach in the clubhouse ‘s history to win a major honor, the FA Cup in 1914 ; under Haworth, Burnley besides became champions of England for the inaugural time in 1920–21. [ 21 ] Harry Potts led the club to its second First Division title during the 1959–60 campaign. Jimmy Adamson ( 1972–73 Second Division ), Brian Miller ( 1981–82 Third Division ), Jimmy Mullen ( 1991–92 Fourth Division ) and Sean Dyche ( 2015–16 Football League Championship ) besides led Burnley to league titles. [ 77 ] [ 130 ]

Owners [edit ]

In 1897, the golf club incorporated as a limit caller. [ 131 ] From their establishment until 2020, Burnley were run by local businessmen and supporters. [ 82 ] In December 2020, Velocity Sports Partners ( VSP ), the sports investment arm of american management fast ALK Capital, acquired an 84 % venture in Burnley for £170 million. [ 81 ] [ 82 ] Alan Pace, managing collaborator of ALK Capital, subsequently replaced Mike Garlick as the baseball club ‘s president. [ 132 ]

Board of directors [edit ]

Position Name
Chairman Alan Pace
Members John Banaskiewicz
Dave Checketts
Prof. Antonio Dávila
Mike Garlick
Stuart Hunt
Mike Smith

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Chairmen [edit ]

The following have been president of the golf club ‘s board of directors : [ 133 ]

Period Name
1882–83 Albert Jobling
1883–1885 John Rawcliffe
1885–1887 John Bradley
1887–1896 Wyatt Granger
1896–1899 Charles Sutcliffe
1899–1909 Edwin Whitehead
1909–1930 Harry Windle
1930–1932 William Bracewell
1932–1934 Edward Tate
1934–1948 Tom Clegg
Period Name
1948–1952 Ernest Kay
1952–1955 Wilfred Hopkinson
1955–1981 Bob Lord
1981–1985 John Jackson
1985–1998 Frank Teasdale
1998–2012 Barry Kilby
2012–2015 John Banaszkiewicz
Mike Garlick[134]
2015–2020 Mike Garlick[135]
2020– Alan Pace[132]

Honours and achievements [edit ]

Burnley were the second, and are one of only five teams to have won all four professional divisions of English football, along with Wolverhampton Wanderers, Preston North End, Sheffield United and Portsmouth. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] The clubhouse ‘s honours include the following : [ 14 ] [ 136 ]

league [edit ]

First Division ( Tier 1 ) [ h ]
second Division / Championship ( Tier 2 ) [ planck’s constant ]
third Division / Second Division ( Tier 3 ) [ heat content ]
Fourth Division ( Tier 4 ) [ hydrogen ]

cup [edit ]

FA Cup
FA Charity Shield [ 139 ]
Texaco Cup [ 141 ]
Anglo-Scottish Cup
associate Members ‘ Cup

regional [edit ]

Lancashire Cup [ 142 ] [ j ]

  • Winners: (12) 1889–90, 1914–15, 1949–50, 1951–52, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1969–70, 1971–72, 1992–93

Records and statistics [edit ]

The record for the most first team appearances in all competitions for Burnley is held by goalkeeper and one-club man Jerry Dawson, who played 569 games between 1907 and 1929. [ 144 ] The golf club ‘s top goal scorer is George Beel, who scored 188 goals from 1923 to 1932. [ 144 ] He besides holds the record for the most league goals scored in a season, when he netted 35 times in the 1927–28 First Division. [ 18 ] Jimmy Robson and Willie Irvine have both scored the most goals ( 37 ) in competitive matches in a single season in 1960–61 and 1965–66, respectively. [ 145 ] During the latter season, Irvine became top goal scorer in the beginning grade, a alone feat in the golf club ‘s history. [ 146 ] In 1962, Jimmy Adamson won the FWA Footballer of the Year award, the inaugural and to date alone time a Burnley musician achieved this. [ 147 ] Jimmy McIlroy is the most capped player while at the club, as he made 51 appearances for Northern Ireland between 1951 and 1962. [ 148 ] The first Burnley player to play in a full moon international match was John Yates, who took to the field for England against Ireland in March 1889. He scored a hat-trick but was never called up again. [ 149 ] In January 1957, 17-year-old Ian Lawson netted a phonograph record four goals on his debut against Chesterfield in the FA Cup one-third cycle. [ 150 ] The youngest musician to play for the club is Tommy Lawton, who was aged 16 years and 174 days on his debut against Doncaster Rovers in the Second Division on 28 March 1936. [ 151 ] His debut made him the then youngest centre-forward always to play in the Football League. [ 152 ] The oldest actor is Len Smelt, who played his last match aged 41 years and 132 days against Arsenal in the First Division on 18 April 1925. [ 153 ] The baseball club ‘s largest win in league football was a 9–0 victory against Darwen in the 1891–92 Football League. [ 154 ] Burnley ‘s largest victories in the FA Cup have been 9–0 wins over Crystal Palace ( 1908–09 ), New Brighton ( 1956–57 ) and Penrith ( 1984–85 ). [ 154 ] The largest get the better of is an 11–0 loss to Darwen Old Wanderers in the 1885–86 FA Cup first attack, when Burnley fielded their substitute side, as most professionals were prohibited submission due to rules of the FA that year. [ 6 ] [ 154 ] [ bacillus ] The team ‘s longest unbeaten run in the league was between 6 September 1920 and 25 March 1921, to which they remained unbeaten for 30 games on their manner to the First Division title. It stood as the longest stretch without get the better of in a single English professional league season until Arsenal bettered it in 2003–04. [ 154 ] [ 155 ] The club ‘s highest home attendance is 54,775, for an FA Cup third base round couple against Huddersfield Town on 23 February 1924 ; Burnley ‘s record home attendance in the league is 52,869, for a First Division game against Blackpool on 11 October 1947. [ 93 ] The highest transfer tip received is £25 million from Everton for defender Michael Keane in 2017, [ 156 ] while the highest transfer fee paid by the club was both for forward Chris Wood from Leeds United in 2017 and for defender Ben Gibson from Middlesbrough in 2018. The pair were bought for a tip of £15 million each. [ 157 ] [ 158 ] Bob Kelly broke the global transportation phonograph record in 1925, when he moved from Burnley to Sunderland for £6,500 ( equivalent to £380,000 in 2021 [ d ] ). [ 159 ]

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References [edit ]

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  • Quelch, Tim (2017). From Orient to the Emirates: The Plucky Rise of Burnley FC. Pitch Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1785313127.
  • Simpson, Ray (2007). The Clarets Chronicles: The Definitive History of Burnley Football Club 1882–2007. Burnley F.C. ISBN 978-0955746802.
  • Wiseman, David (2009). The Burnley FC Miscellany. DB Publishing. ISBN 978-1859837177.