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[4] [5] The 1894–95 season was when Brentford first got their nickname, The Bees. A group of people from Borough Road College had come to a match to support their friend Joseph Gettins who was playing for Brentford at the time. They shouted their school chant, 'Buck up Bs!' but it was misheard by the media as 'Buck up bees!', and the name stuck.
Brentford Football Club is an English professional football club based in Brentford, Hounslow, London. Between 1892 and 1920, the first team competed in the West London Alliance, West London League, London League, Southern League and Western League. [2]
Brentford reached the sixth round of the FA Cup and the semi-finals of the Football League Trophy in 1988–89 and despite Perryman's shock resignation on the eve of the 1990–91 season, [27] his assistant Phil Holder took over and led the Bees into their first playoff campaign in May 1991 and to promotion to the second-tier as champions 12 ...
Brentford set an English football record when the club won all 21 home games during the 1929–30 Third Division South season. [23] Despite the record (which still stands as of 2023), the Bees finished as runners-up to Plymouth Argyle and failed to win promotion to Second Division . [ 24 ]
Brentford F.C. is a professional English football club, based in Brentford, and currently playing in the Premier League. The club was founded in 1889 by members of the defunct Brentford Rowing Club and plays its home games at the Gtech Community Stadium , having played at Griffin Park between 1904 and 2020.
The 1954–55 Third Division South season marked Brentford's fall from the top-flight to the basement in just seven years. [1] It was the Bees' first Third Division South season since 1932–33 and though he had a limited budget, [1] manager Bill Dodgin Sr. did not conduct a fire sale and managed to keep his squad intact. [2]
Brentford won just three of the final 15 matches of the season, with the one bright spot being the emergence of inside right Henry White. [3] Low attendances meant the Bees finished a mid-table season £7,000 in debt (equivalent to £708,500 in 2025) and 1914–15 would become the final season of competitive football until 1919–20 , after the ...
Brentford opened the league season with a run of just two wins from the opening 11 matches, which left the club bottom of the table by late September 2010. [11] However, some cheer was had in the League Cup, [11] with the Bees progressing to the fourth round to equal the club record for its furthest progression in the competition. [12]