Blackburn Rovers F.C.

Association football club in England

Football club

Blackburn Rovers Football Club is a professional football club, based in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, which competes in the Championship, the second grade of the English football league system. The club was established in 1875, becoming a initiation extremity of The Football League in 1888 and the Premier League in 1992. In 1890, Rovers moved to Ewood Park. Blackburn Rovers have been english champions three times, and have won six FA Cups, one Football League Cup and one Full Members ‘ Cup. [ 3 ] The baseball club has spent most of its universe in the top escape of English football. [ 4 ] In 1992, Rovers gained promotion to the modern Premier League a year after being taken over by local entrepreneur Jack Walker, who installed Kenny Dalglish as coach. In 1995, Rovers became Premier League champions. [ 5 ] In the 1998–99 season, the club was relegated. It was promoted back to the Premier League two years later, in the 2000–01 season, before suffering delegating again in the 2011–12 season. Rovers have not returned to the Premier League since. It has qualified for the UEFA Champions League once, and the UEFA Cup six times : once as League Cup winners, four times through league placement and once via the Intertoto Cup. The club ‘s motto is “ Arte et Labore “, meaning “ By Skill and Hard Work ” in Latin. They have a long-standing competition with nearby clubhouse Burnley, with whom they contest the East Lancashire bowler hat .

history

early years

Blackburn Rovers cup winners in 1883–84. The first FA Cup win for the team. The photograph includes the East Lancashire Charity Cup ; the FA Cup and the Lancashire Cup. Back row ( left to mighty ) : J. M. Lofthouse, H. McIntrye, J. Beverly, Kurt Edwards, F. Suter, J. Forrest, R. Birtwistle ( referee ) Front row ( left to right ) : J. Douglas, J. E. Sowerbutts, J. Brown, G. Avery, J. Hargreaves . FA Cup winning side of the 1890–91 season The golf club was founded following a merging, at the Leger Hotel, Blackburn, on 5 November 1875. The meeting was organised by two young men, namely John Lewis and Arthur Constantine, two old-boys of Shrewsbury School. The purpose of the meeting was “ to discuss the possibility of forming a football club to play under Association rules ”. [ 6 ] The first meet played by Blackburn Rovers took stead in Church, Lancashire on 18 December 1875 and was a 1–1 draw. [ 7 ] On 28 September 1878, Blackburn Rovers became one of 23 clubs to form the Lancashire Football Association. [ 8 ] On 1 November 1879 the club played in the FA Cup for the beginning clock, beating the Tyne Association Football Club 5–1. [ 8 ] Rovers were finally put out of the rival in the third gear round after suffering a heavy 6–0 get the better of by Nottingham Forest. [ 9 ] On 25 March 1882 the club won through to the concluding of the FA Cup against the Old Etonians. Blackburn Rovers was the foremost peasant team to reach the final, [ 10 ] but the result was a 1–0 kill by the Old Etonians. [ 11 ] Rovers finally won the FA Cup on 29 March 1884 with a 2–1 victory over the scots team Queen ‘s Park. [ 12 ] The like teams played the FA Cup final again the adjacent season, with Blackburn Rovers again emerging triumphant, with a 2–0 score. [ 12 ] Rovers repeated this success yet again the following season, winning the final replay 2–0 against West Bromwich Albion. For this three-in-a-row of FA Cup victories, the baseball club was awarded a particularly commissioned argent shield. [ 12 ] The 1885–86 season was the give birth of the legal professional football player, and Blackburn Rovers spent £615 on player wages for the season. [ 13 ]

Blackburn Rovers were founder members of the Football League in 1888. [ 14 ] Blackburn Rovers again reached the FA Cup final on 29 March 1890 at the Kennington Oval. [ 15 ] The club claimed the trophy for the fourth time, by beating Sheffield Wednesday a brawny 6–1 with leave forth William Townley scoring three goals and becoming the first player to achieve a hat-trick in the FA Cup final. [ 16 ] The 1890–91 season saw Blackburn Rovers win the FA Cup for the fifth time against Notts County with a 3–1 victory. [ 17 ] During the 1897–98 season the club were relegated but were elected back into the beginning division at the Football League ‘s AGM along with Newcastle United. [ 18 ] The season did, however, mark the beginning of Bob Crompton ‘s 45-year association with the club, both as a actor and finally as an FA Cup succeed coach .

early twentieth century

Blackburn Rovers continued to struggle during the early years of the twentieth century, but the results began a gradual improvement. major renovations were made to Ewood Park : in 1905 the Darwen End was covered at a cost of £1680 and the new Nuttall Stand was opened on New Year ‘s Day 1907. During the first three decades of the twentieth century, Blackburn Rovers were still considered a crown side in the English league. They were First Division champions in 1911–12 and 1913–14, and F.A Cup winners in 1927–28 with a 3–1 victory against Huddersfield Town, but the F.A Cup winnings was their end major trophy for closely 70 years .

Mid twentieth century

Blackburn Rovers maintained a estimable mid-table position in the First Division until they were ultimately relegated ( along with Aston Villa ) from the acme flight ( for the beginning time since the basis of the league ) in the 1935–36 season. When the league resumed after the war, Blackburn Rovers were relegated in their second season ( 1947–48 ). At this fourth dimension the custom of burying a coffin began. The baseball club remained in the second division for the play along ten years. After promotion in 1958, they again returned to the mid-table situation they had occupied in the earlier separate of the hundred. During this time, they rarely made a dangerous challenge for a major trophy – although they did reach the 1960 FA Cup Final when managed by Scot Dally Duncan. Rovers lost this plot 3–0 to Wolverhampton Wanderers after playing most of the game with only 10 men on the field following an injury to Dave Whelan, who broke a stage. There were brief hopes of a reelect to glory in the 1963–64 season, when a remarkable 8–2 away win over West Ham United in east London on Boxing Day took them to the top of the league. however, their go of the league was ephemeral, and they finished the season some means down the mesa, as the style was seized by a Liverpool side who would record a further 12 league titles over the next 26 years, while Blackburn ‘s fortunes took a identical different route. They were relegated from the First Division in 1966 and began a 26-year expatriate from the top division .

1970s and 1980s

During the 1970s, Blackburn Rovers bounced between the Second and Third Divisions, winning the Third Division title in 1975, but never mounted a challenge for promotion to the First Division despite the efforts of consecutive managers to put the clubhouse back on lead, and fell back into the Third Division in 1979. They went up as runner-up in the Third Division in 1980 and, save for one season in League One in 2017–18, have remained in the upper berth two tiers of the English league ever since. A second consecutive promotion was about achieved the following year, but the club missed out on finish dispute, and promotion-winning coach Howard Kendall moved to Everton that summer. Kendall ‘s successor, Bobby Saxton alone managed mid-table finishes for the future three seasons, then closely achieved promotion in the 1984–85 season, but a poor polish the comply class ( barely one place above delegating ) followed by an abysmal beginning to the 1986–87 season cost Saxton his caper. Saxton was replaced by Don Mackay, who steered them to a decent stopping point that season and besides victory in the Full Members Cup. In the follow three seasons Mackay re-established Rovers as promotion contenders, but they fell good short of forwarding each time ; the closest they came was in 1988–89 reached the second Division play-off concluding in its last season of the home-away two-legged format – but lost to Crystal Palace. A kill in the 1989–90 Second Division playoff semi-finals brought more frustration to Ewood Park, but the postdate season saw the cabaret taken over by local steelworks owner and lifelong athletic supporter Jack Walker ( 1929–2000 ). [ 19 ]

1990s

Following the Walker takeover Rovers finished 19th in the second Division at the end of the 1990–91 season, but the newly owner had made millions of pounds available to spend on new players and appointed Kenny Dalglish as director in October 1991. [ 20 ] Rovers secured promotion to the new FA Premier League at the end of 1991–92 season as play-off winners, ending 26 years outside the top flight. [ 21 ] Rovers made headlines in the summer of 1992 by paying an english record fee of £3.5million for the 22-year-old Southampton and England centre forward Alan Shearer. [ 22 ] After finishing fourthly in 1992–93 [ 23 ] and runner-up in 1993–94, [ 24 ] they went on to win the Premier League style in 1994–95. [ 25 ] The title chase went down to the last game of the season, but despite Rovers losing to Liverpool they edged out rivals manchester United to win the backing. Kenny Dalglish moved upstairs to the position of Director of Football at the end of the Premier League winning season, and handed over the reins to his adjunct Ray Harford. [ 26 ] Blackburn Rovers made a hapless begin to the 1995–96 season, and found themselves in the bottom half for most of the first one-half of the season. Rovers besides struggled in the Champions League and finished bottom of their group with just four points. [ 27 ] A awful beginning to the 1996–97 Premier League campaign saw Harford resign in recently October with the clubhouse bottomland of the division, having failed to win any of their first gear ten games. delegating looked a real possibility, just two seasons after winning the league. After an abortive try to bring in Sven-Göran Eriksson as coach, long-serving coach Tony Parkes took over as director for the perch of the campaign, narrowly steering the side to survival. That summer, the director ‘s problem was taken by Roy Hodgson, who joined the club from Internazionale. [ 28 ] UEFA Cup football was secured with a 6th-place finish. however, Rovers made a inadequate starting signal to the 1998–99 campaign and Hodgson was sacked in December less than an hour after a 2–0 base defeat by bottom side Southampton, a leave that locked Rovers in the relegation zone. [ 29 ] He was replaced as director by Brian Kidd. [ 30 ] however Kidd failed to save Rovers from relegation .

2000s

The Jack Walker Stand during a match In 1999–2000 Rovers began the season as promotion favourites, but with the cabaret levitate just above the Division One delegating zone Brian Kidd was sacked in October [ 31 ] and replaced in March by Graeme Souness. [ 32 ] Jack Walker died barely after the get down of the 2000–01 season, [ 33 ] and the golf club dedicated its promotion challenge in memory of their benefactor. appropriately, they returned to the Premier League after a much improved season, finishing second gear behind Fulham. In 2001–02, record bless Andy Cole was bought in for £8million, [ 34 ] and Rovers won their first-ever League Cup by beating Tottenham Hotspur 2–1 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Cole scoring the achiever in the 69th moment. [ 35 ] The following season Rovers finished sixth to qualify for the UEFA Cup for the second season running. Souness left just after the start of 2004–05 to take blame at Newcastle, [ 36 ] and he was replaced by Welsh national coach Mark Hughes. [ 37 ] Hughes secured Rovers ‘ Premier League survival for the 2004–05 season deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as an FA Cup semi-final against Arsenal, with Rovers finishing 15th once again. He led the team to sixth the surveil season and Rovers ‘s third european reservation in five years. Rovers reached the semi-final of the 2006–07 FA Cup, but lost to Chelsea in supernumerary time, and finished that season ‘s league in tenth, qualifying for the Intertoto Cup, which led to a short-change rivulet in the 2007–08 UEFA Cup. In May 2008, Mark Hughes left Blackburn Rovers for the vacancy at Manchester City. He was replaced by Paul Ince, [ 38 ] Ince ‘s first job was to persuade some of the wantaway players to stay. [ 39 ] with Archie Knox coming in as his assistant. [ 40 ] Ince ‘s fourth dimension in charge started well, but following a run of football team games without a win he was sacked in December 2008. [ 41 ] Sam Allardyce was appointed as Ince ‘s replacement [ 42 ] and in 2009–10 he led the team to a tenth-place finish and a League Cup semi-final .

2010 onwards

In November 2010, the indian company V H Group bought Blackburn Rovers under the name of Venky ‘s London Limited for £23 million. [ 43 ] The new owners immediately sacked coach Sam Allardyce and replaced him with first-team coach Steve Kean, initially on a irregular basis, but by January 2011 he had been awarded a full-time narrow until June 2013. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] Kean ‘s appointment was shrouded in a great deal of controversy since his agent Jerome Anderson had earlier played a major character in advising Venky ‘s during the coup d’etat of the cabaret in the precede months. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] [ 48 ] In December 2011, Blackburn Rovers posted an annual pre-tax loss of £18.6m for the year ending 30 June 2011. Despite this, the owners of Blackburn Rovers provided assurances over the retain fund of the cabaret, even if they were relegated. [ 49 ] On 7 May 2012, the baseball club was relegated to the championship after being defeated at home by Wigan Athletic in the penultimate game of the season, ending football team years in the Premier League. [ 50 ] At the start of the 2012–2013 season, Kean was given a prospect by owners to win forwarding and kept his job as the coach. ultimately though, pressure from the supporters who had been calling for the director ‘s removal for months resulted in his resignation as coach on 29 September 2012. [ 51 ] On 7 May 2017, five years to the day after dropping out of the Premier League, the club was relegated again to League One. On 24 April 2018, they were promoted rear to the second tier with a 1–0 win at Doncaster Rovers. [ 52 ] In the 2018–2019 season, Rovers finished 15th in the Championship and in the 2019–20 season the golf club finished 11th in the division. [ 53 ]

Players

current police squad

As of 31 August 2021[54]

notice : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
For recent transfers, see 2021–22 Blackburn Rovers F.C. season.

Out on loanword

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

Development/Academy team

luminary erstwhile and existing players

For a list of notable Blackburn Rovers players in sortable-table format see List of Blackburn Rovers F.C. players.

Awards

player of the season

Club honor

league

Cups

Season-by-season record

managerial history

team colours and badge

Unlike most teams, Blackburn Rovers have only ever had one design to their base kit. The distinctive blue and white halve jersey is wide acknowledged as the “ town discolor ”. Although the design has remained the like, the side in which the colors drop has frequently changed. Blue has resided on the wearers left since 1946 however prior to this regulation the amobarbital sodium and white much switched order about annual. Blackburn Rovers ‘ first ever kit is however indefinite. The 1905 ledger ; Book of Football by Jonathan Russell describes Blackburn Rovers ‘ first kit as a white jersey with Maltese Cross on the wearers left front, Trousers and a gloomy and whiten skull cap. The maltese Cross ill-famed with the public schools in which the founders of the club were educated. In contrast an account from the Blackburn Standard on 6 January 1894 accounts the first kit as dark blue aristocratic and white quartered jersey ( quarter account for the shirts four panels movement and back ), white knickers and united states navy hose. This account is a lot more synonymous with the kit today. photographic evidence from 1878 shows the team in Blue and egg white halved ( quartered ) jersey, white shorts and blue socks, complete with amobarbital sodium and blank ceiling and maltese dog Cross. Through its history the clubhouse has adopted four badges as its crest ; the Maltese Cross, the towns coat of arms, Lancashire Rose and the deliver day Blackburn Rovers Badge. From 1875 to approximately 1882 The Maltese Cross was present on the club ‘s first ever home plate kit and was worn by both the Shrewsbury and Malvern school teams. Two early Malvernians and two erstwhile Salopians played in that inaugural team, so there is a clear connection with these public schools. During FA Cup finals it is tradition for the club to adopt the town ‘s coat of arms as their badge. This custom has carried through all eight FA Cup finals the cup has been a region of all the way to their last FA Cup concluding against Woverhampton Wanderers in 1960. From roughly 1882 and excluding cup finals the club did not use a badge until 1974. In this class the clubhouse opted for an embroider Lancashire Rose with the club ‘s initials “ B.R.F.C. ” below. This badge lasted unaltered for 15 years until it was 1989 due to visibility issues of the night red rose on the blue amobarbital sodium of the shirt. From 1989 to the introduce day the stream Blackburn Rovers badge has been used. It has encompassed the previous badge in a newer design for the Lancashire Red Rose. Circling the rose is the team list “ Blackburn Rovers F.C. ” and the date in which the club was founded “ 1875 ”. At the base of the badge is the baseball club motto, “ Arte Et Labore ” which translated means, “ by skill and by british labour party ”. This motto has been taken from the town motto which was adopted in 1852 .

Kit

As of 2021, the golf club ‘s kit has been manufactured by Macron, and sponsored by sporting mark, Recoverite Compression since 2020. [ 58 ]

Grounds

Oozehead Ground 1875–1877

Rovers first gear home footing was a field at Oozehead on Preston New Road to the north west of the town. This field was cultivated land and was owned by a local farmer ; when Blackburn Rovers were n’t using the discipline it was used to graze cows. In the center of the field was a big water hole, which on peer days was covered with timber and turf. [ 59 ]

Pleasington Cricket Ground 1877

due to the rough conditions at Oozehead, the committee felt an established sports ground would be best to play on. Therefore, during the 1877 season they acquired the use of Pleasington ‘s cricket prime to the south west of the town. Play stopped on this ground after Henry Smith of Preston North End died of a heart attack whilst play. [ 59 ]

Alexandra Meadows 1877–1881

still adopting cricket grounds, the committee acquired the use of the East Lancashire Cricket Club ‘s land in the center of the town, Alexandra Meadows. Sources differ as to the date of the first match played by Rovers at Alexandra Meadows. A program from Clitheroe F.C. states that Clitheroe was the first team to beat Blackburn at Alexandra Meadows on 17 November 1877. [ 60 ] other sources indicate that the first match took put on 2 January 1878 with a Blackburn victory against Partick Thistle. [ 61 ] [ 62 ] It was on this labor Blackburn Rovers played for the first fourth dimension under artificial light against Accrington on 4 November 1878. [ 59 ]

International Venue

England Wales 26 February 1881 Friendly 0–1

Leamington Road 1881–1890

due to the increasing demand in football in the area and in particular for Blackburn Rovers the committee felt that a private ground was more fit. consequently, in 1881 the baseball club moved to Leamington Road, Blackburn Rovers ‘ inaugural function built grind including a 700-person capacity seated grandstand, costing £500. The beginning bet on played at this ground was held on 8 October 1881 against Blackburn Olympic resulting in a 4–1 acquire for Rovers. Whilst at Leamington Road and under James Fielding [ 63 ] the golf club won three FA Cups and was inaugurated into the Football League as a initiation Member in 1888. however, despite the club ‘s success, they had to leave Leamington Road due to increases in lease costs. [ 59 ]

International Venue

Ewood Park 1890–present

Built in April 1882 as Ewood Bridge. The background was an all purpose sporting venue hosting football, athletics and frump race. The Blackburn Rovers committee felt this was the ideal venue for the club after having already played numerous games there in 1882. The first gear game played at the raw Ewood Park anchor was on 13 September 1890 against Accrington, the 0–0 draw was viewed by 10,000 people and on 31 October 1892 artificial lights were installed. [ 59 ] Ewood sits on the depository financial institution of the River Darwen in Blackburn, Lancashire .

1913 terrorist incidental

An undertake was made to destroy the reason in 1913. As part of the suffragette fail and arson campaign, suffragettes carried out a series of bombings and arson attacks countrywide to publicise their campaign for women ‘s right to vote. [ 64 ] In November 1913, suffragettes attempted to burn down Ewood Park ‘s grandstand but were foiled. [ 65 ] In the like class, suffragettes succeeded in burning down Arsenal ‘s then South London stadium, and besides attempted to burn down Preston North End ‘s ground. [ 65 ] More traditionally male sports were targeted in order to protest against male authority. [ 66 ]

International Venue

Supporters and rivalries

Blackburn Rovers supporters have formed several subscribe clubs related to the team, and about all of them are partially focused on making trips to Ewood Park easier. Rovers base games were well attended as a share of the Blackburn population throughout the 2000s with median attendances of around 25,000, equal to approximately a quarter of Blackburn ‘s population ( approximately 100,000 ). [ citation needed ] The supporters ‘ long-running fanzine is called 4,000 Holes. Clement Charnock and his brother Harry were Blackburn Rovers fans who introduced football into Russia in the 1880s. Rovers ‘ basal rivals are Burnley, with whom they contest the East Lancashire bowler hat. other rivalries for the Rovers include Preston North End, Bolton Wanderers and Wigan Athletic, all by proximity. There is besides a competition with Manchester United over the Premier League dispute in the 1990s, though most Manchester United fans would consider this competition nonreversible. [ citation needed ]

Statistics and records

Records

Most League appearances:

Derek Fazackerley, 593+3 substitute, 1970–71 to 1986–87

Record goalscorer:

Simon Garner, 194 goals ( 168 league ), 1978–79 to 1991–92

Record attendance at Ewood Park:

62,255 vanadium Bolton Wanderers, FA Cup 6th round, 2 March 1929

Transfer Fee Paid:

£8m to Manchester United for Andrew Cole in December 2001
£8m to Huddersfield Town for Jordan Rhodes in August 2012

Transfer Fee Received:

£18m from Manchester City F.C. for Roque Santa Cruz in June 2009

Record win:

11–0 five Rossendale United, Ewood Park, FA Cup 1st round 13 October 1884

Record League win:

9–0 volt Middlesbrough, Ewood Park, Division 2, 6 November 1954

Record away win:

8–2 five West Ham United, Division 1, 26 December 1963

Record League defeat:

0–8 volt Arsenal, Division 1, 25 February 1933, 0–8 five Lincoln City, Division 2, 29 August 1953 [ 67 ]

Record home League defeat:

0-7 v Fulham, 3 November 2021

Record aggregate League score:

13 : 5–8 volt Derby County, 6 September 1890

Most points gained in a season (2pts):

60 ( 1974–75 )

Most points gained in a season (3pts):

91 ( 2000–01 )

Fewest points gained in a season (2pts):

20 ( 1965–66 )

Fewest points gained in a season (3pts):

31 ( 2011–12 ) [ 68 ]

Most consecutive League appearances:

Walter Crook, 208 ( 1934–46 )

Most goals scored by a player in a season:

Ted Harper, 43, Division 1, 1925–26

Most goals scored by a player in a match:

Tommy Briggs, 7 v Bristol Rovers, Ewood Park, Division 2, 5 February 1955

Most hat-tricks in a season:

8, 1963–64

Most individual hat-tricks:

13, Jack Southworth, 1887–1893

Most FA Cup appearances:

Ronnie Clayton, 56, 1949–1969

Most League Cup appearances:

Derek Fazackerley, 38, 1969–1987

Youngest player to appear for Rovers:

Harry Dennison, aged 16 year and 155 days against Bristol City, Division 1, 8 April 1911

Oldest player to appear for Rovers:

Bob Crompton, 40 year and 150 days against Bradford, Division 1, 23 February 1920

Longest undefeated FA Cup run:

24 games including 3 back-to-back FA Cup wins, 1884–86. hush an FA Cup commemorate Reference for above facts [ 69 ] [ 70 ]

References

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