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Burnley are making their first appearance in the Premier League after winning promotion via the Championship play-offs. The Clarets ran out 1-0 winners against Sheffield United at Wembley thanks to a brilliant Wade Elliott strike.
The Lancashire club are back in England's top flight after an absence of 33 years but they have a glorious past with two league titles and an FA Cup among their trophy cabinet. They are one of the few clubs to have won the title in each of the four divisions.
Burnley were among the 12 founder members of The Football League in 1888 and ended their first campaign in ninth. Their first trophy arrived in 1890 with the Lancashire Cup after a 2-0 final triumph over local rivals Blackburn Rovers.
They dropped down to the Second Division in 1897 and changed their colours from green to their now traditional claret and sky blue for the 1910/11 season. They returned to the top flight two years later, then claimed the FA Cup win with victory over Liverpool in 1914.
The league title was clinched in 1921 after Burnley came second the previous season. On the way to the championship, they went on a 30-match unbeaten run, which was a record for unbeaten matches in a season until Arsenal's unbeaten streak during the whole of 2003/04.
Relegation to the second tier came in 1930 but the Turf Moor club bounced back in 1946 before reaching the FA Cup final a year later.
In 1960, Burnley claimed another league title sealing it on the final day with a 2-1 win at Manchester City. In their debut season in Europe, the Clarets reached the 1961 quarter-finals of the European Cup when they bowed out to Hamburger SV.
They finished league runners-up in 1962 and also reached the FA Cup final but lost out to Tottenham Hotspur. Seven years later, Burnley went on a run to the quarter-finals of the Fairs Cup before exiting to Eintracht Frankfurt.
The year 1971 saw Burnley relegated but they won promotion with the second Division title two years after. Things went downhill fast for the Clarets as they fell into the Second Division again in 1976 and then four years later came relegation into the Third Division followed by a drop into the Fourth Division in 1985.
Burnley clinched the Fourth Division title in 1992 and two years later won promotion through the play-offs to the league's second tier. They went down after just a season but won promotion back to England
Sores From - http://www.premierleague.com
*Overview
Burnley are making their first appearance in the Premier League after winning promotion via the Championship play-offs. The Clarets ran out 1-0 winners against Sheffield United at Wembley thanks to a brilliant Wade Elliott strike.
The Lancashire club are back in England's top flight after an absence of 33 years but they have a glorious past with two league titles and an FA Cup among their trophy cabinet. They are one of the few clubs to have won the title in each of the four divisions.
*club heritage
Burnley were among the 12 founder members of The Football League in 1888 and ended their first campaign in ninth. Their first trophy arrived in 1890 with the Lancashire Cup after a 2-0 final triumph over local rivals Blackburn Rovers.
They dropped down to the Second Division in 1897 and changed their colours from green to their now traditional claret and sky blue for the 1910/11 season. They returned to the top flight two years later, then claimed the FA Cup win with victory over Liverpool in 1914.
The league title was clinched in 1921 after Burnley came second the previous season. On the way to the championship, they went on a 30-match unbeaten run, which was a record for unbeaten matches in a season until Arsenal's unbeaten streak during the whole of 2003/04.
Relegation to the second tier came in 1930 but the Turf Moor club bounced back in 1946 before reaching the FA Cup final a year later.
In 1960, Burnley claimed another league title sealing it on the final day with a 2-1 win at Manchester City. In their debut season in Europe, the Clarets reached the 1961 quarter-finals of the European Cup when they bowed out to Hamburger SV.
They finished league runners-up in 1962 and also reached the FA Cup final but lost out to Tottenham Hotspur. Seven years later, Burnley went on a run to the quarter-finals of the Fairs Cup before exiting to Eintracht Frankfurt.
The year 1971 saw Burnley relegated but they won promotion with the second Division title two years after. Things went downhill fast for the Clarets as they fell into the Second Division again in 1976 and then four years later came relegation into the Third Division followed by a drop into the Fourth Division in 1985.
Burnley clinched the Fourth Division title in 1992 and two years later won promotion through the play-offs to the league's second tier. They went down after just a season but won promotion back to England
Sores From - http://www.premierleague.com
