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Burnley Football Club is a professional association football club based in Burnley, Lancashire. The team are playing in the Premier League, the highest level of English football in the 2016–17 season after winning the England's secondtier league in the 2015–16 season in the Football League Championship. Nicknamed The Clarets, due to the dominant colour of their home shirts, they were one of the founder members of the Football League in 1888.
Burnley have been Football League Champions twice, in 1920–21 and 1959–60, have won the FA Cup once, in 1914, and have won the Community Shield twice, in 1960 and 1973. The Clarets also reached the 1961 quarter-finals of the European Cup. They are one of only three teams to have won all top four professional divisions of English football, along with Wolverhampton Wanderers and Preston North End.The club colours of claret and blue were adopted in 1910 in tribute to the dominant club of English football at the time,Aston Villa. Their home ground since 1883 has been Turf Moor and their current manager is Sean Dyche.
Burnley have played their home games at Turf Moor since 1883. The stadium is located on Harry Potts Way, in honour of the 1958–1970 team manager. It now consists of 4 stands, the James Hargreaves Stand (The Longside), the Jimmy McIlroy Stand (Bee Hole End), the Bob Lord Stand and the David Fishwick Stand (The Cricket Field Stand) for away fans. The current capacity is 21,800 all seated. Post-World War I crowds in the stadium averaged in the 30,000–40,000 range with the record attendance set in 1924 against Huddersfield Town in a FA Cup match when 54,755 attended the match.
In 2008, plans were made to extend the stadium to a capacity of around 28,000. This capacity increase would include a secondtier attached to the Bob Lord stand, along with a complete re-development. In addition, a new stand was planned to replace the Cricket Field Stand, which would also hold a cricket pavilion and hotel. In late 2008, these plans were put on hold as general economic conditions worsened in the UK.On promotion to the Premier League in 2009, it was estimated that approximately £1 million of work would be required to bring the ground up to Premier League standards.
On 25 November 2009, chairman Barry Kilby stated that at the end of the season, the club would look back into the proposed re-development of the Cricket Field stand.On 16 December 2009, the new ground development plans were unveiled in the match day programme against Arsenal. These include a brand new Cricket Field stand, re-development of the Bob Lord stand and 2 corners filled in. However the building work would have to wait for an increase in attendance and promotion and stabilisation back in the Premier League.
Burnley securing promotion from the Championship on May 3rd delivered their third season in the Premier League. The first two, in 2009/10 and 2014/15, both resulted in an immediate relegation back to the Championship. The 2016/17 season will give Burnley another opportunity to cement their place in the league. In order to stay in the Premier League past the 2016/17 season, there are several key areas that will decide the fate of the Clarets.
The manager has been in charge since 30th October 2012 and has overseen one Premier League campaign already. A charismatic leader, Dyche is key to success for Burnley. Should the season not start as well as hoped, the club or Dyche could decide that his tenure has no further merit. Burnley have achieved success based on consistency and any major change at the helm could unsteady the ship.
Winning at HomeThe critical success factor for any club is winning games at home. In 2009/10, Burnley managed to win 7 out of their 19 home games (37%). In 2014/15, this dropped to only 4 games won at Turf Moor (21%). Last season, Burnley only lost two games at home all season and they must take this “fortress” attitude into the Premier League. The first three home fixtures will be Swansea City, Hull City and Watford so they must target these has winnable games.
Start the Season Well
It would be difficult, before the season starts, to measure what a good start to the season would be. Three winnable home games are interspersed with trips to Liverpool, Chelsea, reigning champions Leicester City and Arsenal. Any points picked up on their early road trips could prove invaluable in determining their survival in the Premier League.At the start of the 2014/15 season, it would be 8th November before Burnley would pick up 3 points. At that point, Burnley had managed to accumulate only 4 points from their first ten games resulting in being anchored to the bottom of the league table. A repeat of that start would not augur well for maintaining their Premier League status.
Be Difficult to BeatThe accumulation of points despite difficult opposition will increase confidence at Turf Moor. This lesson was learned during their debut season in the Premier League. Burnley had picked up good wins against Manchester United and Everton and were sitting in 9th place just before the end of November 2009. However, Burnley would only win three more games from the last 25 games of the season and they finished in 18th place. It would only be five points that separated Burnley from safety. Had Burnley converted 6 of those losses into draws then it would have been West Ham who were relegated. Eight of those defeats were by a single goal so it could have been achieved.
Burnley are masters of their own destiny. With an excellent manager, a fantastic team ethic, loyal fan base and a desire to succeed, Burnley are geared up to make 2016/17 their best season in the Premier League. Having seen Bournemouth and Watford more than just survive last season, Burnley are just as capable of repeating this success. It won’t be easy, bookmakers already have them odds on to be relegated straight away, but Burnley just might prove the doubters wrong this time.
Burnley went into the 2014/15 campaign knowing that they faced beyond an uphill task, this wasn’t far off Everest. Indeed, the Clarets had a minuscule budget, even small in terms of Championship teams, but Sean Dyche’s modest and hard-working mindset saw them promoted as runners-up in the Championship, and knew they had to be fearless in the harsh world of the Premier League. Eventual relegation in 19th place was about right for a hard-working team who simply lacked the cutting edge too often.
Burnley had been written off before the first kick of a ball, and despite an opening day loss to Chelsea, the 3-1 defeat gave the Clarets much confidence going forward. Not long after Sean Dyche’s hard-working side held Manchester United to a 0-0 draw, further boosting their belief that they belong in the Premier League against the world’s elite.Despite the eventual relegation, there were many high points for the Clarets. Every Saturday that Turf Moor hosted Premier League football was a cause for celebration, but the stunning 1-0 win over Manchester City coupled with a 2-2 draw at the Etihad Stadium had Clarets pinching themselves.
That belief and confidence though soon dissipated. . The Clarets wouldn’t win a league match until November, though, when they saw off Hull 1-0 at Turf Moor for their first victory after 11 games, leaving them bottom of the table with only seven points from nine games, despite the victory against Hull. The Christmas period resulted in a renewed sense of optimism for Burney, wherein they went four matches unbeaten, including the aforementioned superb comeback from 2-2 down to earn a draw at Manchester City.
Danny Ings form picked up for a while too, scoring five goals in six Premier League games. Despite the commendable efforts of Ings though, goals were in short supply for the Clarets were ultimately the downfall to their 19th place finish, having scored only 33 goals in 38 games – only 0.8 goals per game. Turf Moor was the lowest-scoring stadium in the Premier League this season (35 goals in 19 games).With Danny Ings off the new season in the Championship poses a great unknown for Burnley – will Dyche stay? Will other players like Kieran Trippier leave
Burnley Football Club is an English football club based in Burnley. The club was founded in 1882 and has competed in the English football league system from its conception in 1888. Their first season in Europe came when they entered the 1960–61 European Cup after winning the 1959–60 First Division Title, reaching the quarter-final stages, where they lost 5–4 on aggregate to Hamburger SV. Thus far, Burnley's only other appearance in European cup competition was in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in the 1966-67 season.
1960–61 European CupThe Clarets won their second league championship in the 1959–60 season and thus qualified for the European Cup the following season. Their first opponents were Stade de Reims, the French champions. Burnley won the first leg 2–0 at Turf Moor, however lost the away leg at the Parc des Princes 3–2. This was enough to send the English club through to the quarter-finals, where the West German champions Hamburger SV awaited. Burnley again won the home leg, though a crushing 4–1 defeat at the Volksparkstadion saw them leave the competition.
1966–67 Inter-Cites Fairs CupAfter finishing third in the 1965–66 season, Burnley entered the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in the 1966–67 season, along with fellow English clubs West Bromwich Albion and the eventual beaten finalists Leeds United. Burnley, just as in the European Cup previously, would be undone by a West German team in the shape of Eintracht Frankfurt.
2010–11 UEFA Europa LeaguBurnley were also reported to have been in with a chance with qualifying for the UEFA Europa League in 2010–11 despite eventually finishing the 2009–10 season in the Premier League relegation zone. This was due to England possibly being offered an extra Europa League spot to the team highest placed in the UEFA Respect Fair Play ranking who hadn't already qualified for European football: the teams above Burnley with the exception of Fulham (Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United and Chelsea) had all already qualified; Fulham would join them if they beat Atlético Madrid in the 2010 UEFA Europa League Final. However, England dropped from third in the league to seventh meaning Burnley would not participate,and Fulham lost the Final meaning the place would have not been available to the Lancashire club anyway. The places eventually went to Gefle, Randers and MYPA.
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