Burnley F.C.

Burnley
Full name	Burnley Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Clarets
Short name	Burnley
Founded	1882
Ground	Turf Moor, Burnley (Capacity: 22,546)
Chairman	Mike Garlick and John Banaszkiewicz
Manager	Sean Dyche
Current League	Premier League
2020–21	Premier League, 17th
Website	Club home page
Current season

Burnley Football Club are a professional Football League club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Nicknamed the Clarets, due to the dominant colour of their home shirts, they were one of the founder members of the Football League in 1888. The club colours of claret and blue were adopted in 1910 in tribute to the dominant club of English football Aston Villa. It was thought the colours might lift and inspire Burnley too. Their home ground since 1883 has been Turf Moor.

Burnley have been Football League Champions twice, in 1920–21 and 1959–60, and have won the FA Cup once, in 1914. The Clarets also reached the 1961 quarter-finals of the European Cup. They are one of only three teams to have won all top four professional divisions of English football, other two being Wolverhampton Wanderers and Preston North End.

The club spent most of its early history in England's top two divisions, but remained outside the top flight from 1976 to 2009. From 1985 to 1992 they had a seven-year spell in the lowest tier of the Football League. In 1987 they narrowly avoided relegation to the Conference. Between 2000 and 2009 they played in the second tier of English football, until they gained promotion to the Premier League for the first time in 33 years after winning the 2009 Championship Play-off Final, but were relegated after a single season.

Players

First-team squad

As of 29 July 2021

No. Position Player 1 GK Nick Pope 2 DF Matthew Lowton 3 DF Charlie Taylor 4 MF Jack Cork 5 DF James Tarkowski 6 DF Ben Mee (captain) 7 MF Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson 8 MF Josh Brownhill 9 FW Chris Wood 10 FW Ashley Barnes 11 MF Dwight McNeil

No. Position Player 13 GK Wayne Hennessey 16 MF Dale Stephens 18 MF Ashley Westwood 19 FW Jay Rodriguez 22 DF Nathan Collins 23 DF Erik Pieters 25 GK Will Norris 26 DF Phil Bardsley 27 FW Matěj Vydra 28 DF Kevin Long

Out on loan

No. Position Player 15 GK Bailey Peacock-Farrell (on loan at Sheffield Wednesday until 30 June 2022)

Under-23s and Academy

For more details on this topic, see Burnley F.C. Under-23s and Academy.

Club alumni

Former players

Main article: Burnley F.C. players

Managers

Main article: Burnley F.C. managers

Honours

Domestic

Leagues

Premier League/Division One'

• Football League Division 1 Winners: 1920–21, 1959–60

Championship/Division Two

• Football League Division 2 Winners: 1897–98, 1972–73
• Football League Championship Runners-Up: 2013-14
• Football League Championship Play-off Winners (Promoted): 2008–09

League One/Division Three

• Football League Division 3 Winners: 1981–82
• Football League Division 2 Play Off Winners (Promoted): 1993–94

League Two/Division Four

• Football League Division 4 Winners: 1991–92

Burnley are one of a few teams to win the championship of all top four professional divisions since the current structure emerged in 1958 (the others are Wolverhampton Wanderers and Preston North End).

Cups

FA Cup

• Winners: 1914

FA Community Shield

• Winners: 1973
• Shared: 1960

Anglo-Scottish Cup

• Winners: 1978–79

External links

• Burnley FC official website
• Burnley FC – Vital Burnley
• Burnley FC – Clarets Mad
• The Longside forum
• The Longside
• Burnley FC – Clarets Trust