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Current first team forward or winger Yoane Wissa is the most recent player to reach 100 appearances for Brentford. Brentford Football Club is an English professional football club based in Brentford, Hounslow, London. Between 1897 and 1920, the first team competed in the London League, Southern League and Western League. [1]
Brentford reached its first major competitive cup final in the 1984–85 season, but lost 3–1 against Wigan Athletic in the 1985 Football League Trophy final at Wembley Stadium. [51] In the 1988–89 season, the Bees' reached the sixth round of the FA Cup, which ended after a 4–0 defeat to Liverpool at Anfield .
Between 1897 and 1920, the first team competed in the London League, Southern League and Western League. [1] Since 1920, the first team has competed in the Football League, the Premier League and other nationally and internationally organised competitions. [1] All players who won a full international cap while contracted to Brentford are listed ...
Brentford's 1946–47 squad, for the first competitive season after the Second World War, was propped up by the ageing core of the 1939–40 pre-war squad, though Jack Holliday, Joe James (both retired), Les Smith, Tommy Cheetham and George Poyser had by then left the club and free-scoring Bob Thomas could not be convinced to remain. [59]
Prior to achieving promotion to the Premier League via the Championship play-offs in 2021, [2] Brentford's 9 failed attempts to gain promotion through the EFL play-offs was a national record. [ 6 ] Brentford has never won a major cup, with the club's furthest advancement being the semi-final of the EFL Cup ( 2020–21 ) and the quarter-finals ...
Brentford was the second of centre back Brett Johnson's two league clubs. He made 12 appearances during the 2008–09 season. He made 12 appearances during the 2008–09 season. Ipswich Town loanee Jordan Rhodes scored seven goals in 14 games in the second half of the 2008–09 season.
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, Nathan Collins, Mikkel Damsgaard, Mark Flekken, Aaron Hickey, Keane Lewis-Potter, Ben Mee, Frank Onyeka, Kevin Schade and Yehor Yarmolyuk.
The 2008–09 season was Brentford's second consecutive campaign in League Two, after relegation to the fourth tier for the first time in 9 years at the end of the 2006–07 season. [1] Manager Andy Scott , who was beginning his first full season in the job, had signed a new five-year contract in April 2008. [ 2 ]