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Nigel Clough spent seven seasons as the club's player-manager in the Conference and then led them into the Football League as champions of the Conference in 2008–09. They lost the 2014 League Two play-off final , but went on to win the League Two title in 2014–15 and were promoted from League One in 2015–16.
First Football League match: Shrewsbury Town 3–1 Burton Albion, 8 August 2009; First League Cup match: Reading 5–1 Burton Albion, 11 August 2009; First Football League Trophy match: Burton Albion 1–5 Chesterfield, 1 September 2009; First match at Pirelli Stadium: Burton Albion 2–2 Chester City, 16 July 2005
The club was brought to national attention when they were drawn at home against eleven-times winners Manchester United in the third round of the 2005–06 FA Cup. The Brewers held the Premier League team to a 0–0 draw at home, but lost the replay 5–0 in front of over 11,000 Burton fans, setting a record for number of away fans at Old Trafford .
The English football champions are the winners of the top-level league in English men's football, which since the 1992–93 season has been called the Premier League. Following the codification of professional football by the Football Association in 1885, [ 1 ] the Football League was established in 1888, after meetings initiated by Aston Villa ...
The Anglo-Italian League Cup was created in 1969 to match English cup winners against the winners of the Coppa Italia, and was permanently disbanded in 1976. [7] In 1985, the Full Members Cup and Football League Super Cup were created as substitutes for UEFA competitions after UEFA responded to the Heysel Stadium disaster by banning English clubs.
Winners Runners-up Play-off winners 2004–05: Sunderland (4) Wigan Athletic: West Ham United 2005–06: Reading: Sheffield United: Watford: 2006–07: Sunderland (5) Birmingham City: Derby County 2007–08: West Bromwich Albion (3) Stoke City: Hull City 2008–09: Wolverhampton Wanderers (3) Birmingham City: Burnley 2009–10: Newcastle United ...
Brighton & Hove Albion Reading Stoke City: Shaun Goater (Manchester City) 28 2002–03: Portsmouth: 98 Leicester City: 92 Wolverhampton Wanderers: Sheffield Wednesday Brighton & Hove Albion Grimsby Town: West Ham United West Bromwich Albion Sunderland: Wigan Athletic Crewe Alexandra Cardiff City: Svetoslav Todorov 26 2003–04: Norwich City: 94 ...
The West Bromwich Albion team that won the League Championship and Charity Shield in 1919–20 West Bromwich Albion Football Club was founded as West Bromwich Strollers in 1878 by workers from George Salter's Spring Works and turned professional in 1885. Albion won the FA Cup for the first time in 1888 and later that year became one of the founder members of the Football League. In the 1900 ...