Burnley

Burnley Football Club, based in Burnley, Lancashire, are a football club currently competing in the English second tier, the Championship. Nicknamed the Clarets, due to their home kit colour, the club were one of the founder members of the Football League in 1888. Burnley have played their home games at Turf Moor since 1883.

The club were almost ever-present in the top flight during their early history, winning the Football League championship title twice, in 1920-1921 and 1959-1960, and also lifting the FA Cup once, in 1914. Despite a mixed few decades, the club reached the 1961 quarter-finals of the European Cup, a season after Jimmy Adamson and Jimmy McIlroy led the Clarets to the First Division title. 

Burnley are one of only three clubs to have won all top four professional divisions of English football, joining Wolverhampton Wanderers and Preston North End on an elite list. The Clarets' main rivals are local neighbours Blackburn Rovers, with the two clubs competing in heated games named the 'East Lancashire Derby', but the club also hold rivalries with Preston N.E., Rochdale and Blackpool.

The club suffered a tough few years after a successful decade in the 1960s, remaining outside the top flight from 1976 to 2009, including a seven-year spell in the bottom tier of English football between 1985 and 1992, narrowly avoiding relegation to the Conference in 1987. 

After returning to the second tier in 2000, Burnley were able to finally make their return to the top tier of English football after a 33-year wait after winning the 2009 Championship Play-off Final, earning the label as the smallest town to boast a Premier League side. 

Despite gaining a famous 1-0 win against reigning champions Manchester United, Burnley's stay in the Premier League was only a season-long one. The loss of manager Owen Coyle to bitter rivals Bolton in January 2010 didn't help, with Brian Laws failing to guide the club to survival after being appointed Coyle's replacement and Burnley suffering relegation back into the Championship.

Since their last appearance in the Premier League in 2011, Burnley have been regular promotion contenders without ever managing to secure their return to the top flight. Since his arrival in October 2012, current manager Sean Dyche has been able to build one of the league's strongest squads, despite losing prolific striker Charlie Austin to QPR in 2013, and Burnley are in a promising position to achieve promotion back to the Premier League.  

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