Birmingham team

Birmingham City Football Club

Birmingham is a city with a long standing tradition of excellence in football. The Birmingham football club, nicknamed the Blues, will play the 2011-2012 season in the Football League Championship, after playing in the Premier Football League in the previous year. The Birmingham team was originally founded in 1875, as the Small Heath Alliance, and changed to simply Small Heath in 1888. It wasn’t until 1905 that the Birmingham football club took the name of its host city. They were Birmingham until 1943, when they added city to the end, and became the Birmingham City Football Club, commonly referred to as Birmingham FC.

The Birmingham football club has a renown history of success. They were the first champions of the Football League Second Division. The team, which was the Small Heath Alliance at the time, played their home games on waste ground near off Arthur Street, until moving to the legendary Muntz Street in 1877, which was called Coventry Road at the time. Muntz Street was the home of the club for nearly thirty years. In 1888, just three year after the club turned professional, they became the first limited company football club, which meant they had a board of directors. This board of directors was called the Small Heath F.C. LTD.

The club played in the Football Alliance from 1889, until they were invited to be a founding member of the Football League Second Division in 1892. In the inaugural year, the Birmingham team won the division championship, but just barely missed on the promotion to the second division, by the test match system. The next year, they finished second in the division, but achieved the promotion via their victory over Darwen. Since that point, the vast majority of the Birmingham team’s history has been spent in the highest level of competition for an English football club.

The biggest rival for the Birmingham FC

The biggest rival for the Birmingham FC is Aston villa. This rivalry goes back a long way, partly due to the incredible proximity to each other. When Birmingham FC broke the gentleman’s agreement that neither team would take the name of the host city in 1905, matters became exacerbated. Birmingham FC also moved to a new stadium, St Andrews Ground, in 1906, but failed to live up to the prestigious expectations that came with the incredible new stadium, and spent much of the next couple decades in the Football League Second Division.

It wasn’t until the 1920-1921 season, under captain Frank Womack, that the team was able to capture another division two title. That team also had legendary Scotsman Johnny Crosbie, and rookie Joe Bradford, who went on to win 12 caps with the English National Team. Though they were able to reach the FA cup final in 1931, and despite the goal-keeping prowess of Harry Hibbs, the Birmingham FC struggled in the First Division for most of the ’30s, and was relegated to the second division for the 1939 season, which was the last full football season played before World War II. The club won another Second Division title in 1947.

The finest eras in the history of the Birmingham team

When Arthur Turner became manager of the club in 1954, it began one of the finest eras in the history of the Birmingham team. He was able to guide them to another Second Division championship at the end of the year, and their highest ever finish in the First Division in the 1955-1956 season, when they placed sixth. Birmingham FC also became the first English club team to take part in European competition, when they played in the inaugural Inter-Cities Fair Cup. They lost to Barcelona in the semi-finals. In 1961 they beat Internazionale in both the home match and away. It wasn’t until forty years later that any other English club team was able to win a competitive match in San Siro.

In 1963, the Birmingham football club was able to beat their rivals, Aston Villa in the League Cup final 3-1 on aggregate, despite being heavy underdogs. After ten years in the First Division, the Birmingham team was relegated to the second division in 1965, and this began an era of much turmoil and little success. Birmingham Football Club was able to make a couple appearances in the first division, but they were relegated to the third division in 1989. It wasn’t until 2001, under Steve Bruce that the Birmingham team was able to get back to the First Division.

The Birmingham Bluenoses

The Birmingham football club has worn a variety of different kits, but the constant has always been

the color blue. In fact supporters of the team are called bluenoses. They currently play in the City of Birmingham Stadium, which has a capacity of 55,000. The team has a renown following. Bluenoses are famous for a number of reasons, including defacing Ondré Nowakowski’s sculpture, Sleeping Iron Giant, by repeatedly painting the nose of the giant head, which lies on a mound by St Andrew’s ground, blue. There are two major fan-based magazines based on the Birmingham team. Made in Brum, which first debuted in 2000, and Zulu, which has been around much longer, both have a high readership. Hooligans who follow the esteemed club are called Zulus. The Zulus were made infamous by a 2004 film, Green Street, which depicts a series of fictional brawls between the Zulus and the Green Street Elite, who follow the West Ham United Football Club.

Leading Birmingham FC back to greatness

Birmingham’s lauded history of first class football in England is no guarantee of future success, and through the Birmingham City Football Club is currently in the Second Division, all signs point to the club entering a new era of greatness. Manager Chris Hughton has the club primed and ready for another shot at a Second Division title. The Birmingham City Football Club shows every sign of continuing their excellence in European and international play, as they have qualified for the Europa League. Carson Yeung, a businessman primarily based out of Hong Kong, is the largest shareholder at 29.9%. He took over the team with an eye toward leading Birmingham back to greatness.

 

 

Birmingham FC Shirts

The Birmingham City Football Team has a long history of contributing to the design of all uniform kits for the sport of football. They also have a legacy of great team kits throughout their long history of over 100 years. And, like their nickname, the Blues, the color blue has long been a part of it.

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