Burnley Club Information
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Burnley Football Club, nicknamed The Clarets, are a professional English football club managed by Owen Coyle and based in Burnley, Lancashire. They were founder members of The Football League in 1888 and in 2009-10 will return to the top division after a 33 year absence and play in the Premier League for the first time. The club colours are claret and blue and their home ground since 1883 has been Turf Moor.
Burnley have been Football League Champions twice, in 1920-21 and 1959-60, and were FA Cup winners on 25 April 1914, beating Liverpool 1-0 at Crystal Palace. The Clarets also reached the 1961 quarter-finals of the European Cup before losing to Hamburger SV (Germany).
As recently as 1960 they were league champions, but have been outside the top flight since 1976 and from 1985 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 defeating Sheffield United 1-0 in the Championship play-off final.
Club colours
In the early years, various designs and colours were used by Burnley. Throughout their first eight years these were various permutations of blue and white. After three years of amber and purple stripes with black shorts, for much of the 1890s a combination of black with amber stripes was used, although the club wore a shirt with pink and white stripes during the 1894-95 season. Between 1897 and 1900 the club used a plain red shirt and from 1900 until 1910 the club changed to an all green shirt with white shorts. In 1910 the club changed their colours to claret and sky blue, the colours that they have now had for the majority of their history.
Burnley's Turf Moor Stadium
Burnley have played their home games at Turf Moor since 1883. It now consists of 4 stands, the James Hargreaves Stand (The Longside), the Jimmy McIlroy Stand, the Bob Lord Stand and the David Fishwick Stand for away fans. The current capacity is 22,546, all seated. Post war crowds in the old stadium were in the 40,000 - 50000 range with the record attendance set in 1924 against Huddersfield in a FA Cup match with 54,755 attending the match.
In 2008, plans were made to extend the stadium to a capacity of around 28,000. This capacity increase would include a second tier attached to the Bob Lord stand, along with a complete re-development. In addition, a new stand was planned to replace the Cricket Field Stand, which would also hold a cricket pavilion and hotel. In late 2008, these plans were put on hold as general economic conditions worsened in the U.K.
On promotion to the Premier League in 2009, it was estimated that approximately £1M of work would be required to bring the ground up to Premier League standards.
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