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Brentford's nickname is "The Bees". [89] The nickname was unintentionally created by students of Borough Road College in the 1890s, when they attended a match and ...
Brentford's most memorable wartime moment came on 30 May 1942, when two Les Smith goals gave the Bees a 2–0 victory over Portsmouth in the London War Cup final at Wembley Stadium. [47] During 1945–46 , the final season of wartime football, Brentford reached the sixth round of the FA Cup for the second time in club history and at the end of ...
Forwards Jim Towers and George Francis were in prolific form and had scored 24 of the Bees' 37 league goals at that point of the season. [2] After a dip around the turn of the year, Brentford clawed their way back to the higher reaches of the Third Division South table and won six matches in a row in March and early April to move up to 4th. [3]
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 began the season as one of the top teams in League One, with five wins from the opening eight league matches putting the club at the top of the table. [6] A 3–2 defeat to Huddersfield Town on 17 September led to a dip in form and a run of two wins in 9 matches in all competitions dropped the Bees dropped to 4th place.
Jeff Taylor finished his Brentford career on 98 appearances. [2] John Dick is the highest scorer on this list, with 48 goals from 83 appearances. [3] Current Brentford players who have made between 25 and 99 appearances are Kristoffer Ajer, Sepp van den Berg, Nathan Collins, Mikkel Damsgaard, Mark Flekken, Aaron Hickey, Keane Lewis-Potter, Ben Mee, Frank Onyeka, Kevin Schade and Yehor Yarmolyuk.
Brentford had a good start to the season, winning four of the first five matches and going top on the opening day. [6] The majority of the team's goals were scored by forwards Gerry McAloon, Fred Durrant and George Wilkins, [7] but when the goals dried up in September 1946, Brentford's form took a turn for the worse. [6]
During the 1962–63 English football season, Brentford competed in the Football League Fourth Division for the first time in the club's history. 67 goals from former international forwards John Dick, Billy McAdams and Johnny Brooks helped fire the Bees to the division title and an immediate return to the Third Division.