Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.

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Brighton & Hove Albion
Full name	Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Seagulls, The Albion
Founded	21 August 1901
Ground	Falmer Stadium (Capacity: 30,750)
Owner	Tony Bloom
Chairman	Tony Bloom
Head Coach	Fabian Hürzeler
Current League	Premier League
2024–25	Premier League, 8th
Website	Club home page
Current season

Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club is an English football club based in the coastal city of Brighton & Hove, East Sussex. It is often referred to just as Brighton. They currently play in the Premier League after being promoted from the EFL Championship.

The team is nicknamed the "Seagulls" or "Albion". The team has historically played in blue and white stripes, though this changed to all white briefly in the 1970s and again to plain blue during the club's most successful spell in the 1980s. Crystal Palace is considered the club's main rival, although the grounds are 40 miles apart.

Founded in 1901, Brighton played their early professional football in the Southern League before being elected to the Football League in 1920. The club enjoyed greatest prominence between 1979 and 1983 when they played in the First Division and reached the 1983 FA Cup Final, losing to Manchester United after a replay. They were relegated from the top division in the same season. Mismanagement brought Brighton close to relegation from the Football League to the Conference which they narrowly avoided in 1997 and 1998. A boardroom takeover saved Brighton from liquidation, and following successive promotions they returned to the second tier of English football in 2002 and have played in the second and third tiers ever since.

Players

First-team squad

As of 29 January 2026

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK Bart Verbruggen 3 DF Igor 4 DF Adam Webster 5 DF Lewis Dunk (captain) 6 DF Jan Paul van Hecke 7 MF Solly March 8 MF Brajan Gruda 9 FW Stefanos Tzimas 10 FW Georginio Rutter 11 MF Yankuba Minteh 13 MF Jack Hinshelwood 14 MF Tom Watson 17 MF Carlos Baleba 18 FW Danny Welbeck

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 FW Charalampos Kostoulas 20 MF James Milner 21 DF Olivier Boscagli 22 MF Kaoru Mitoma 23 GK Jason Steele 24 DF Ferdi Kadıoğlu 25 MF Diego Gómez 26 MF Yasin Ayari 27 MF Mats Wieffer 29 DF Maxim De Cuyper 30 MF Pascal Groß 34 DF Joël Veltman 38 GK Tom McGill

Out on loan

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 DF Eiran Cashin (at Blackburn Rovers until 30 June 2026) 28 FW Evan Ferguson (at Roma until 30 June 2026) 32 MF Jeremy Sarmiento (at Middlesbrough until 30 June 2026) 33 MF Matt O'Riley (at Marseille until 30 June 2026) 36 MF Malick Yalcouyé (at Swansea City until 30 June 2026)

No. Pos. Nation Player 39 GK Carl Rushworth (at Coventry City until 30 June 2026) 40 MF Facundo Buonanotte (at Leeds United until 30 June 2026) 42 DF Diego Coppola (at Paris FC until 30 June 2026) MF Ibrahim Osman (at Birmingham City until 30 June 2026) MF Yoon Do-young (at Dordrecht until 30 June 2026)

Under 21s and academy

Main article: Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Under-21s and Academy

The Under-21s and Academy are the youth teams of Brighton & Hove Albion. The under-21 players play in the Premier League 2, the highest tier of under-21 team football in England. They also compete in the EFL Trophy, the Premier League Cup, the National League Cup, the Premier League International Cup and the Sussex Senior Challenge Cup.

The academy teams culminate with the under-18's squad, who compete in the U18 Premier League Division South.

Academy players who have been named in a first-team matchday squad during the 2025–26 season.

No. Pos. Nation Player 49 MF Joe Knight 51 DF Charlie Tasker 53 MF Harry Howell

No. Pos. Nation Player 54 DF Freddie Simmonds 58 MF Nehemiah Oriola 62 GK Nils Ramming

Honours

Domestic

League

• Football League Third Division South/Football League Third Division/Football League Second Division/Football League One

Winners (3) 1957–58, 2001–02, 2010–11

• Football League Fourth Division/Football League Third Division/Football League Two

Winners (2) 1964–65, 2000–01

• Southern Football League

Winners (1) 1909–10

Cup

• FA Charity Shield

Winners (1): 1910

• Sussex Senior Challenge Cup

Winners (13): 1943, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2017

• The Sussex Royal Ulster Rifles Charity Cup

Winners: (2) 1959–60, 1960–61

External links

• Official website
• Official picture website
• Brighton & Hove Albion play-off record