Barnsley F.C.
| Barnsley F.C. | |
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| Ground | Oakwell, Barnsley |
| Formed | 1887 |
| Elected to league | 1898 |
| Club colours | Red and White |
| Change colours | Black |
| Head Coach | Andy Ritchie (temp.) |
| Nicknames | Tykes |
| Mascot | Toby Tyke |
Barnsley Football Club are an English football league team, based in the town of Barnsley and nicknamed the Tykes. They were founded in the 1892 as Barnsley St. Peter's. The height of their success was in 1912, when they beat West Bromwich Albion to win the FA Cup. They also reached the final in 1910 but lost to Newcastle United.
The greatest highlight of Barnsley's recent past was an improbable promotion to the Premier League in 1997. However, the Tykes were relegated the following year.
The club has more recently been relegated to Division Two. Factored with the ITV Digital crisis, the club went into administration. Only a late purchase from ex-Leeds United chairman, Peter Ridsdale, saved the club from folding.
Barnsley are contesting the 2004/05 season in Football League One.
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Modern Times
In the summer of 1994, Barnsley appointed 34-year-old midfielder Danny Wilson (formerly of Sheffield Wednesday) as their new player-manager following the departure of Viv Anderson, who had taken the assistant manager's job at Middlesbrough.
Barnsley finally reached the Premiership at the end of the 1996-97 season after 100 years of trying for a place in the top flight of English football. They finished runners-up in Division One thanks to the efforts of manager Danny Wilson along with key players including Adrian Moses and David Watson. Barnsley reached the F.A Cup quarter final in 1998, having beaten Manchester United 3-2 after a Fifth Round replay. But Wilson's team were unable to stave off relegation and they were relegated along with the other newly promoted teams, Bolton Wanderers and Crystal Palace. Wilson left soon afterwards to take charge of Sheffield Wednesday.
Barnsley striker John Hendrie, 35, was given the manager's job for the 1998-99 season but was dismissed after failing to get to the playoffs. His successor Dave Bassett, who had achieved five promotions in 14 years with Wimbledon, Sheffield United and Nottingham Forest, took Barnsley to the Division One playoff final in 1999-2000 but they lost to Ipswich Town at Wembley in the last-ever playoff final before the old stadium was closed for redevelopment.
Dave Bassett resigned a short time after Barnsley's playoff final defeat to make way for the inexperienced Nigel Spackman. This change had little effect on the club and Spackman was dismissed within a year. He was replaced by Rochdale's Steve Parkin, who appeared to have secured a mid table position before a slump during the final weeks of the season saw Barnsley condemned to relegation from the upper tier of the league for the first time in over 20 years. Parkin was let go soon afterwards and replaced by Glyn Hodges, who prevented Barnsley from suffering a second successive relegation in 2002-03.
Gudjon Thordarson, who had won the Division Two playoffs with Stoke City in 2001-02, was named as Barnsley's manager for the 2003-04 season and had an impressive start. But a dip in form during the winter saw Barnsley's promotion challenge fade away and Thordarson was dismissed in February in favour of former Nottingham Forest manager Paul Hart.
Paul Hart remained in charge at Barnsley until February 2005 before being sacked, as Barnsley had failed to get anywhere near the playoff places in Coca Cola League One. Whoever gets the permanent manager's job at Oakwell has a clear aim - to win promotion for Barnsley at the end of the 2005-06 season.
Managers
- Arthur Fairclough (1898-01)
- John McCartney (1901-04)
- Arthur Fairclough (1904-12)
- John Hastie (1912-14)
- Percy Lewis (1914-19)
- Peter Saint (1919-26)
- John Cummins (1926-29)
- Arthur Fairclough (1929-30)
- Brough Fletcher (1930-37)
- Angus Seed (1937-53)
- Tim Ward (1953-60)
- Johnny Steele (1960-71)
- John McSeveny (1971-72)
- Johnny Steele (1972-73)
- Jim Iley (1973-78)
- Alan Clarke (1978-80)
- Norman Hunter (1980-84)
- Bobby Collins (1984-85)
- Alan Clarke (1985-89)
- Mel Machin (1989-93)
- Viv Anderson (1993-94)
- Danny Wilson (1994-98)
- John Hendrie (1998-1999)
- Nigel Spackman (1999-2000)
- Dave Basset (2000-2002)
- Steve Parkin (2002-2003)
- Glyn Hodges (2003)
- Gudjon Thordarsson (2003-2004)
- Paul Hart (2004-2005)
History
- 1892-93 - Founder member of Sheffield League, as "Barnsley St. Peter's"
- 1893-94 - Sheffield League Division Two runner-up
- 1895-96 - Joined Midland League
- 1897 - Dropped "St Peter's" to become simply Barnsley
- 1897-98 - Midland League runner-up. Also played in Yorkshire League
- 1898 - Elected to Football League
- 1909-10 - F.A. Cup runner-up
- 1911-12 - F.A. Cup Winners
- 1921-22 - Missed promotion on goal average
- 1932 - Relegated to Division Three North
- 1933-34 - Football League Division Three North Champions; promoted to Division Two
- 1938 - Relegated to Division Three North
- 1938-39 - Football League Division Three North Champions; promoted to Division Two
- 1939-40 - Football League programme abandoned due to outbreak of war
- 1953 - Relegated to Division Three North
- 1953-54 - Football League Division Three North runner-up
- 1954-55 - Football League Division Three North Champions; promoted to Division Two
- 1959 - Relegated to Division Three
- 1965 - Relegated to Division Four
- 1967-68 - Football League Division Four runner-up; promoted to Division Three
- 1972 - Relegated to Division Four
- 1978-79 - Missed runner-up spot on goal difference; promoted to Division Three
- 1980-81 - Football League Division Three runner-up (on goal difference); promoted to Division Two
- 1990-91 - Missed play-off spot on goal difference
- 1992-93 - Division Two re-designated Division One on formation of F.A. Premiership
- 1996-97 - Football League runner-up; promoted to F.A. Premiership
- 1998 - Relegated to Football League Division One
- 1999-00 - Not promoted after play-offs (SF Birmingham City 0 Barnsley 4, Barnsley 1 Birmingham City 2, Agg 5-2 F Barnsley 2 Ipswich Town 4 @ Wembley)
- 2002 - Relegated to Division Two
Source: Football Club History Database
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