West Bromwich Albion Football Club is an English professional football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands. The club was formed in 1878 and has played at its home ground, The Hawthorns, since 1900. Albion was one of the 12 founding members of the Football League in 1888, the first professional football league in the world. As of 2020–21, the club has played for 82 seasons in the Premier League, the top tier of English football.
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West Bromwich Albion Football Club is an English professional football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands. The club was formed in 1878 and has played at its home ground, The Hawthorns, since 1900. Albion was one of the 12 founding members of the Football League in 1888, the first professional football league in the world. The team has played in navy blue and white stripes for most of the club’s history, and the club badge features a throstle perched on a hawthorn branch. Albion has been champions of England once, in 1919–20, and has been runners-up twice. Albion teams have reached ten FA Cup finals and won the Cup on five occasions. As of 2020–21, the club has played for 82 seasons in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. It has a number of long-standing rivalries with other West Midlands clubs, with its traditional rivals being Aston Villa and Wolves. In 1953–54, Albion came close to being the first team to win the League and Cup double in the 20th century. They succeeded in winning the FA Cup, beating Preston North End 3–2 towards the end of the season, but injuries and a loss of form meant that they became known as Wolverhampton Wanderers. They won the League Cup at the first attempt in 1966, beating Birmingham City 2–1 in the final. They gained promotion to the top flight in 1948–49, and there followed the longest unbroken spell in English football of 24 years, with a total of 24 seasons.
They reached the FA FA Cup final in 1968, the year the league was founded, and won it. The first win came in 1888 and the most recent came in 1968. Albion’s second FA Cup success came in 1892, beating Aston Villa 3–0, but they met Villa again in the 1895 final, but lost 1–0. In 1885 the club turned professional, and in 1886 they reached the final for the first time, losing 2–0 to Blackburn Rovers in a replay. In 1888 the team won the trophy for thefirst time, beating strong favourites Preston North end 2-1 in a final. The team suffered relegation to Division Two in 1900–01, their first season at the Hawthorns. They were promoted as champions the following season but relegated again in 1903–04. The following season they reached another FA Cup Final, where they were defeated by Second Division Barnsley. In 1930–31, they won promotion, but were relegated three years later, but gained promotion again in 1935, losing to Sheffield Wednesday. In 1950–51, they gained promotion, beating Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 in thefinal, but losing 3-1 to Sheffield United in the semi-final. In 1960–61, they reached a final, losing 1-0 to Birmingham City in the quarter-finals. In 1961–62, they were relegated again, but won promotion as Division One champions. In 1962–63, they became the first club to win both the League League and FA Cup.
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