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Barnsley Football Club is a professional association football club in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, which plays in the Championship, the second tier of English football. Nicknamed ’ the Tykes ’, they were founded in 1887 by Reverend Tiverton Preedy. The club ‘s colours were primitively blue, but were changed to bolshevik and blank in 1904. Their home grate since 1888 has been Oakwell.

Barnsley won the FA Cup in 1912 and were runners-up in 1910. The golf club won the 2016 Football League Trophy, beating Oxford United 3–2 in the final examination, and the 2016 Football League play-offs, beating Millwall 3–1 in the final. Barnsley have spent more seasons in the second tier of English football than any early clubhouse in history. In 2017, a majority impale in the club was sold to a consortium led by Chien Lee of NewCity Capital, Paul Conway of Pacific Media Group and joined by amerind businessman Neerav Parekh and baseball musician and executive Billy Beane. Barnsley ‘s rivals include mate Yorkshire clubs Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United and Leeds United as their biggest rivals, with Huddersfield Town and Rotherham United besides considered as rivals. [ 3 ]

history [edit ]

Beginnings and FA Cup glory [edit ]

Barnsley were established in 1887 as “ Barnsley St. Peter ‘s ” by a clergyman, Tiverton Preedy, and played in the Sheffield and District League from 1890 and then in the Midland League from 1895. In 1897, the club dropped “ St Peter ‘s ” from its name to become simply Barnsley. They joined the Football League in 1898, and struggled in the Second Division for the beginning ten, due in part to ongoing fiscal difficulties. In 1910, the club reached the FA Cup final, where they lost out to Newcastle United in a replay catch. In 1912, they reached the FA Cup concluding again, and defeated West Bromwich Albion 1–0 after a replay to win the trophy for the first time in their history. When league football restarted after the inaugural World War, the 1919–20 season brought some significant changes to the league. The chief dispute was that the First Division would be increased from 20 teams to 22. The bottom team from the former season was Tottenham Hotspur and they were relegated. The first extra place in the First Division went to Chelsea, who retained their plaza despite finishing second bottom and consequently in the relegation places. Derby County and Preston North End were promoted from the Second Division which left one plaza to be filled. Having finished the previous season ‘s second Division in third base place ( 1914–15 ), Barnsley expected to achieve First Division status for the beginning time, but the Football League rather chose to call a vote of the clubs. Henry Norris, the then Arsenal president, had recently moved Woolwich Arsenal north of the River Thames to Highbury, and needed First Division football to attract fans to their newly home. He was late to admit some underhandedly dealings, allegedly including the bribe of some member clubs to vote for Arsenal ‘s inclusion. They won the vote and Barnsley were consigned to the moment tier of English football. [ citation needed ]

Pre-war and post-war era [edit ]

The golf club did however come close to reaching the top division in the early years. In 1921–22, they missed out on promotion by goal remainder. During the years preceding and following the second World War, the club found themselves sliding between the Second and Third Division. In 1949, the baseball club signed Danny Blanchflower from Glentoran, and he impressed at Oakwell that two years late he was signed by First Division slope Aston Villa, late signing for Tottenham Hotspur and being voted FWA Player of the Year doubly, american samoa good as being the master of the twentieth hundred ‘s first league and cup double over winning team in 1960–61. Around the time of Blanchflower ‘s departure, a young centre-forward called Tommy Taylor broke into the Barnsley team, scoring 26 goals in 44 games for Barnsley. In April 1953, he became one of the most expensive players in English football at the prison term when Matt Busby signed him for Manchester United for a tip of £29,999. Taylor went on to be a prolific goalscorer at the highest level over the future five years, winning two league titles and besides scoring 16 times in 19 appearances for the England home football team, before losing his life in the Munich air calamity in February 1958. [ citation needed ] When the Northern and Southern sections of the Third Division were replaced by home Third and Fourth Divisions for the 1958–59 season, Barnsley were distillery in the Second Division, but went down to the Third Division at the conclusion of that season. In 1965, Barnsley were relegated to the Football League Fourth Division for the first fourth dimension, winning promotion three years subsequently. They went down to the Fourth Division again in 1972, and this time stayed down for seven seasons, finally returning to the Third Division in 1979. Two years late, they went improving again and cursorily established themselves as a decent Second Division english throughout the 1980s, although they still failed to clinch that elusive First Division place, despite the initiation of the play-offs in the second half of the ten, which gave teams finishing ampere abject as fifth and finally sixth the opportunity of winning promotion. [ citation needed ]

Division One and the Premier League [edit ]

For the 1994–95 season, Barnsley turned to midfielder Danny Wilson to manage the clubhouse. His first temper brought a sixth-place ending in the First Division, which would normally have meant a play-off place, but a restructure of the league meant that they missed out. They finished 10th a year late before last emerging as serious promotion contenders in the 1996–97 season, last clinching runner-up spotlight and automatic forwarding and gaining the peak flight place that they had spent 99 years trying to win. Barnsley lasted just one season in the Premier League but they did reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, defeating Manchester United in the fifth turn. They besides made their commemorate sign that season with Gjorgji Hristov for £2 million. Wilson then departed to take over at Sheffield Wednesday, being succeeded as Barnsley coach by striker John Hendrie, who had been a key player in the promotion-winning team. Barnsley were the alone team from outside the Premier League to reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup in the 1998–99 season, but lone finished 13th in the league. Hendrie was then replaced as director by Dave Bassett, who rejuvenated the team and took them to one-fourth place in 1999–2000. The team lost in the play-off final to Ipswich Town, the concluding play-off final at Wembley before the stadium was closed for renovation. [ 4 ]

mix fortunes in the twenty-first century [edit ]

The team were relegated to the Second Division in 2002 ; administration threatened the being of the baseball club as Barnsley suffered greatly due to the ITV Digital crisis. A recently purchase by Barnsley ‘s then mayor, Peter Doyle, saved the baseball club from folding. In 2006, the side won in the play-off final examination at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, where they beat Swansea City 4–3 on penalties to earn forwarding to the Championship. The director at this time was Andy Ritchie, who was in his first season in charge after replacing Paul Hart. The team struggled in their first season back in the Championship. In November 2006, with Barnsley in the delegating zone, Ritchie was sacked in privilege of Simon Davey, who managed to steer the team off from delegating in the second gear half of the season, and the finally finished 20th. The take after season, Barnsley reached the semi-final of the FA Cup, beating Premier League side Liverpool 2–1 at Anfield and defending champions Chelsea 1–0 ; the team lost 1–0 against colleague Championship side Cardiff City at Wembley in the semi-final. In October 2008, the club fielded the youngest player in the Football League ‘s history when Reuben Noble-Lazarus came on against Ipswich Town aged 15 years and 45 days. [ citation needed ] Barnsley ended the 2011–12 season as one of alone two football clubs to turn a profit in the Championship ; they stayed up only because Portsmouth were given a 10-point deduction for going into presidency. In 2016, Barnsley won the Football League Trophy after a 3–2 win against Oxford United. [ 5 ] They gained promotion to the Championship following a 3–1 gain over Millwall in the play-off final subsequently that season. [ 6 ] In September 2016, Barnsley were caught up in an ongoing scandal in English football, with adjunct director Tommy Wright alleged to have accepted “ bungs ” in exchange for working as an ambassador for a third-party player ownership consortium. Wright was initially suspended before being sacked by Barnsley. [ 7 ]

New ownership [edit ]

Barnsley owners Chien Lee and Paul Conway at Oakwell In December 2017, Patrick Cryne and his family sold an 80 % impale in the club to NewCity Capital ‘s Chien Lee and Pacific Media Group ‘s Paul Conway ; they were joined by indian investor Neerav Parekh and former baseball actor Billy Beane, as part of the external investor consortium. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Barnsley were relegated to the third base tier in 2017–18 ; [ 10 ] afterwards. the newly owners used a datum border on to identify talents, focusing on young players and team rebuild. [ 11 ] The club appointed Daniel Stendel as lead passenger car, [ 12 ] who played high weight-lift football ; Barnsley were promoted back to the Championship the play along season. [ 13 ] In the 2019–20 season, under new coach Gerhard Struber, [ 14 ] Barnsley avoided delegating from the Championship. [ 15 ] In 2020–21, Barnsley, with the youngest police squad and one of the smallest budgets in the league, finished in one-fifth stead and made it to the EFL Championship play-offs for the beginning fourth dimension in 24 years. [ 16 ] The Wall Street Journal called Barnsley a “ Moneyball experiment ”. [ 17 ] In 2021, Barnsley named Markus Schopp as Barnsley ‘s new bus. [ 18 ] In November 2021, Barnsley sacked Markus Schopp. Three weeks later they appointed Poya Asbaghi .

stadium [edit ]

The stadium ‘s mention, Oakwell, originates from the well and oak tree that were on the site when first built. Oakwell is a multi-purpose sports development in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, used primarily by the baseball club for playing its home fixtures, and its reserves. While the mention ‘Oakwell ‘ by and large refers to the main stadium, it besides includes several neighbouring venues which form the facilities of the Barnsley academy – an indoor train flip, a smaller stadium with seating on the confederacy and west sides for around 2,200 spectators, and several discipline pitches used by the unlike Barnsley squads. Until 2003, the stadium and the huge come of land that surrounds it was owned by Barnsley themselves ; however, after falling into government in 2002 the council purchased the chief Oakwell Stadium to allow the club to pay its creditors and stay participants in the Football League. [ citation needed ]

Rivalries [edit ]

According to a view, ‘The League of Love and Hate ‘ conducted in August 2019, Barnsley supporters named companion Yorkshire clubs Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United and Leeds United as their biggest rivals, with Huddersfield Town and Rotherham United following. [ 19 ]

Colours and strip [edit ]

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home strip [edit ]

Barnsley have played their family games in crimson shirts for most of their history. The lone exception to this is the menstruation 1887–1901, where it is speculated that the team first wore blue shirts with claret arms, then circa 1890 the team wore cocoa and white stripes, before moving on to blue and white stripes around 1898. The team inaugural tire red shirts in 1901. Since this clock, the team have worn bolshevik shirts often with a white pare, although in more holocene times a black trim has sometimes been used. As with most football clubs the shirt purpose varies from season to season. One finical design that stands out is the 1989–90 season shirt which featured white stars on a loss background and has been named as one of the worst shirts ever. Manufacturers logos were added to the shirt in 1976–77, while sponsors were first added in the 1980–81 season. [ citation needed ]

away strip [edit ]

Barnsley ‘s away shirt in the 1998–99 temper The cabaret ‘s away strip ( used for away or cup fixtures where there is a clash of colours ) differs from season to season but normally follows the design of the temper ‘s family strip with a pas seul on the color. The most coarse color for the away shirt has been ashen but many others have been used, including blue, yellow, black, beige, dark green and even black and blasphemous stripes. One noteworthy away strip was the 2001–02 “ Its merely like watching Brazil ” kit out, where the team wore the tinge of the five-time World Cup winners Brazil for their away games. [ citation needed ]

Players [edit ]

current police squad [edit ]

As of 2 September 2021[22]

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Out on lend [edit ]

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As of 10 September 2021[23]

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As of 1 September 2021[24]

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staff [edit ]

As of November 2021.[25]

ownership structure [edit ]

  • Chien Lee
  • Pacific Media Group
  • Cryne family
  • Neerav Parekh
  • Billy Beane

Board [edit ]

  • Owner(s):
    • Co-Chairman: Chien Lee
    • Co-Chairman: Paul Conway
    • Director: Neerav Parekh
    • Director: James Cryne
    • Director: Grace Hung
    • Director: Dickson Lee
  • Chief Executive Officer: Khaled El-Ahmad
  • Finance and Operations Director: Mr Robert Zuk

Coaching staff [edit ]

Managers [edit ]

musician of the Season [edit ]

source : Barnsley F.C .

Honours [edit ]

Chart of table positions of Barnsley in the Football League [ 26 ] [ 27 ]

league [edit ]

Football League Championship and predecessors ( tier 2 )
Football League One and predecessors ( tier 3 )
Football League Two and predecessors ( tier 4 )

cup [edit ]

FA Cup
Football League Trophy

club records [edit ]

Barnsley have spent more seasons at the second level of English football than any other team. [ 29 ]

References [edit ]