Birmingham City Football Club Information

Birmingham City Football Club is also well-known as the Blues (or Bluenoses – due to the colour of their kit) is an English professional
football club that currently play in the Premier League. The club is situated in the city of Birmingham. The first home ground of the team was Bordesley Green (Arthur Street). During the history they have changed a lot of stadiums. Among them were: Sparkbrook (Ladypool Road), Small Heath (Muntz Street), St Andrew’s stadium. The present home ground is St. Andrews. It is a football stadium with a capacity over 30,000 that located in Birmingham, England. The owner of the club is David Gold. He is an English businessman. The current manager is Stephen Roger “Steve” Bruce. He previously played for such football clubs as: Gillingham, Norwich City, Manchester United, Sheffield United and Birmingham City. The whole list of managers includes:

• 1892 – 1808 – Alfred Jones
• 1908 -1910 – Alec Watson
• 1910 – 1915 – Bob McRoberts
• 1915 – 1923 – Frank Richards
• 1923 – 1927 – Billy Beer
• 1928 – 1933 – Leslie Knighton
• 1933 – 1939 – George Liddell
• 1945 -1948 – Harry Storer
• 1971 – 1975 – Bob Brocklebank
• 1954 – 1958 – Arther Turner
• 1959 – 1960 – Pat Beasley
• 1960 -1964 – Gil Merrick
• 1965 – Joe Mallett
• 1965 – 1970 – Stan Cullis
• 1970 – 1975 – Fred Goodwin
• 1975 – 1977 – Willie Bell
• 1977 – 1978 – Sir Alf Ramsey
• 1978 – 1982 – Jim Smith
• 1982 – 1986 – Ron Saunders
• 1986 – 1987 – John Bond
• 1987 – 1989 – Garry Pendrey
• 1989 – 1991 – Dave Mackay
• 1991 – Lou Macari
• 1991 – 1993 – Terry Cooper
• 1993 – 1996 – Barry Fry
• 1996 – 2001 – Trevor Francis
• 2001 – Steve Bruce

The Blues were formed by a group of cricketers from Holy Church in Bordesley Green. The club had different names: Small Heath Alliance (1875-88), Small Heath (1888-05), Birmingham (1905-45). Eventually in 1945 it got the name of Birmingham City. The club was one of the founder member of the Football League Second Division. Bluenoses had successful periods and dark moments, nevertheless a list of their honors is enlarged from year to year:

In 1999 Birmingham City Football Club received a licence to operate an Academy. Terry Westley took over a post of the manager of the Academy and Steve Spooner was apponted coach. Among the graduates are such young qualified players as: Darren Carter, Craig Fagan (now plays for Derby County), Andrew Johnson (now plays for Everton), Mat Sadler and Colin Doyle (they are the players of the first team). Also the club has a reserve team that consists of younger players, players recovering from injury, academy players gaining experience. The first-team squad includes: