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Nicknamed "The Bees", the club was founded in 1889 and played home matches at Griffin Park from 1904 before moving to the Brentford Community Stadium in 2020.
Jul 4, 2023 · But how, and where, did it all start? Here’s the first part of our history of the club. In 1889 the Brentford Council (or ‘Local Board as it was called in those days) opened a new recreation ground in the town and it was resolved that a club should be formed to use the ground.
- Formation
- Professionalism
- A New Home: Griffin Park
- League Football
- Harry Curtis
- The Top Flight
- Post-War
- Takeover
- Austerity
- Wembley
The formation of Brentford Football Club in 1889 is owed to the decision by the Brentford Local Board [a forerunner of today's councils] to open a new Recreation Ground in the town. At a meeting convened on 10 October at the Pavilion of the Oxford and Cambridge Public House, adjacent to Kew Bridge, it was resolved that a Club should be formed to ut...
In 1899, Brentford were found guilty by The Football Association of paying their players, an act common with most leading amateur clubs in London but illegal. As punishment, The FA effectively forced the Club to turn professional. By this time, Brentford were competing in the Southern League, the leading organisation for clubs based in the South of...
On 1 September 1904 Brentford played their first game at their new home - Griffin Park - a draw against Plymouth Argyle in a Western League fixture.The Edwardian period was one of struggle for the Club, now nicknamed “The Bees,” eventually being relegated back to the Second Division of the Southern League in 1913. With the outbreak of the First Wor...
Brentford become London Combination Champions in 1919 with help from several star footballers who were stationed in London at the time and guested for the Club. It was this success that persuaded the Southern League management committee to promote Brentford to an enlarged 22 club top division without kicking a ball. A year later, the Club was elect...
In May 1926, former Football League referee Harry Curtis was appointed as Secretary Manager. Curtis would transform Brentford, taking them from a struggling third tier club to the First Division in only nine years. An FA Cup run to the Fifth Round in 1927 was followed by winning all 21 home league matches in 1929/30, an achievement still not better...
In the Club’s first season in the top flight, they finished in fifth place, the highest of any London club, above Arsenal and Chelsea. Attendances at Griffin Park averaged around 25,000 with Brentford enjoying a halcyon period alongside football’s big names. The Second World War broke out in September 1939, and, like the Great War before it, footba...
The first peacetime league campaign in 1946-1947 saw the Club relegated to the Second Division. Seven years of second tier football followed before a further demotion in 1954 to Division Three (South). Following the decision by The Football League to run four national divisions in 1958, Brentford’s descent from First to Fourth Division was complete...
However, the strategy of spending thousands of pounds and running at a large weekly loss in order to bring success was brought to a head in January 1967.The shock news broke that Dunnett had secretly arranged with Chairman of local rivals Queens Park Rangers - Jim Gregory - for Rangers to take over Griffin Park the following season and close Brentf...
To repay this sum, a period of austerity was brought in, the Club scrapping its Reserve and Youth Teams. It was 1972 before Brentford again rose out of the Fourth Division, under the management of Frank Blunstone. This lasted only a season before immediate relegation back to the basement division, with many supporters blaming the sale of star strik...
The 1980s would prove to be largely uneventful, except for a Wembley appearance in 1985 in the Freight Rover Trophy Final and reaching the FA Cup Sixth Round in 1989. However, one significant development was the creation of the Club’s Football in the Community Scheme in 1987, which since that time has evolved into a charitable Community Sports Trus...
Aug 13, 2021 · Doncaster Rovers visited Griffin Park for a winner-takes-all clash: A win for Rovers would secure the title and consign Brentford to the play-offs, while a Bees win would see them promoted to the...
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Jun 9, 2023 · In 2021/22 Brentford lost 18 times in all but last season that figure was halved and the Gtech became a fortress with 10 victories and only two home defeats, one to a brilliant Arsenal team who hammered us on a sleepy Sunday lunchtime soon after the Queen’s death and the other a totally undeserved 2-1 loss to Newcastle who we totally ...
Brentford FC (nickname the Bees) is a professional English football club based in Brentford in the London Borough of Hounslow. Founded in 1889 to serve as a winter pursuit for the Brentford Rowing Club, the club spent its early years in the lower divisions of the Football League and achieved little of note, apart from a move to its present day ...
Aug 13, 2021 · Brentford mark their Premier League debut with a deserved win over Arsenal at a jubilant Brentford Community Stadium.
