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| Full name | West Bromwich Albion Football Club | |
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| Nickname(s) | The Baggies, The Throstles, The Albion | |
| Short name | WBA | |
| Founded | 1878 | |
| Ground | The Hawthorns (Capacity: 26,850) | |
| Owner |  Lai Guochuan
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| Chairman | Lai Guochuan
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| Head Coach |  Carlos Corberán
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| Current League | Championship | |
| 2023–24 | Championship, 5th | |
| Website | Club home page | |
  
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West Bromwich Albion Football Club, also known as West Brom, The Baggies, The Throstles, Albion or WBA, is an English professional football club based in West Bromwich in the West Midlands. The club was formed in 1878 and has played at its home ground, The Hawthorns, since 1900. The club currently competes in Championship, the second tier of English football.
Albion were one of the founding members of The Football League in 1888 and have spent the majority of their existence in the top tier of English football. They have been champions of England once, in 1919–20, but have had more success in the FA Cup, with five wins. The first came in 1888, the year the league was founded, and the most recent in 1968, their last major trophy. They also won the Football League Cup at the first attempt in 1966. The club's longest consecutive period in the top division was between 1949 and 1973, and from 1986 to 2002 they spent their longest ever spell out of the top division. The 2014–15 season is their ninth season in the top flight since 2002.
The team has played in blue and white stripes for most of the club's history. Albion have a number of long-standing rivalries with other West Midland clubs; their traditional rivals have always been Aston Villa, though rivalry also exists with Wolverhampton Wanderers, with whom they contest the Black Country derby.
On the 14th of June 2014 it was announced that Alan Irvine would take over the vacant Manager role.
Reserves and Academy[]
- Main article: West Bromwich Albion F.C. Reserves and Academy
Club alumni[]
Former players[]
- Main article: West Bromwich Albion F.C. players
Managers[]
- Main article: West Bromwich Albion F.C. managers
Rivalries[]
Albion maintain two infamous fierce rivalries. Historically, the main one of the two has been Aston Villa, based in North Birmingham. The two clubs contested three FA Cup Finals between 1887 and 1895, with Villa winning two and Albion winning one. Matches between the two sides are known as a West Midlands derby.
Albion's other main rivals are Black Country rivals and geographically closest rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Other, less significant rivalries exist with Birmingham City and Stoke City.
Honours[]
Domestic[]
Leagues[]
- Football League First Division (old), Premier League (modern)
- Champions: 1919–20
- Runners up: 1924–25, 1953–54
- Football League Second Division (old), Division One, Football League Championship (modern)
- Champions: 1901–02, 1910–11, 2007–08
- Runners up: 1930–31, 1948–49, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2009–10
- Football League Third Division (old), Division Two, Football League One (modern)
- Play-off Winners: 1992–93
Cups[]
- Winners: 1966
- Finalists: 1967, 1970
- Winners: 1920, 1954 (shared with Wolves)
- Runners-up: 1931, 1968
- Bass Charity Vase
- Winners: 1999, 2000, 2003
- FA Youth Cup
- Winners: 1976
- Finalists: 1955, 1960
- Tennent Caledonian Cup
- Winners: 1977
- Birmingham Senior Cup
- Winners: 1886, 1895, 1988, 1990, 1991, 2012, 2014
- Finalists: 1887, 1888, 1890, 1892, 1894, 1903, 1905, 2002
- Staffordshire Senior Cup
- Winners: 1883, 1886, 1887, 1889, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1924, 1926, 1932, 1933, 1951, 1969 (shared with Stoke City)
- Watney Cup
- Finalists: 1971
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2 Furlong · 5 Bartley · 6 Ajayi · 7 Wallace · 8 Molumby · 9 Maja · 11 Diangana · 12 Dike · 18 Grant · 19 Swift · 24 Palmer · 27 Mowatt · 31 Fellows · 36 Taylor · – McNair · – Cole · – Wildsmith · – Frabotta · – Diakité · – Heggem · – Dobbin · Manager: Carlos Corberán |
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