Barnsley F.C.
| Full name | Barnsley Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Reds, The Tykes | ||
| Founded | 1887 | ||
| Ground | Oakwell Stadium, Barnsley | ||
| Capacity | 23,009 | ||
| Chairman | English Gordon Shepherd | ||
| Manager | English Andy Ritchie | ||
| League | League One | ||
| 2005-06 | League One, 5th | ||
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Barnsley Football Club are an English football league team, based in the town of Barnsley and nicknamed the Tykes. They were founded in the 1887 as Barnsley St. Peter's. The height of their success was on April 24 1912, when they beat West Bromwich Albion 1-0 at Bramall Lane to win the FA Cup. They also reached the final in 1910 but lost to Newcastle United at Goodison Park. Both results came in replays after draws at Crystal Palace.
The greatest highlight of Barnsley's recent past was a surprise 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. The price of not being able to sustain success, factored with the ITV Digital crisis, the club went into administration in 2002. Only a late purchase from ex-Leeds United chairman, Peter Ridsdale, saved the club from folding. Ridsdale has since departed the club, with Gordon Shepherd and local businessman Patrick Cryne taking control.
Barnsley are contesting the 2005/06 season in Football League One.
History
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 Clint Marcelle, Neil Redfearn, Adrian Moses and David Watson. Barnsley reached the FA Cup quarter-final in 1998, having beaten Manchester United 3-2 after a fifth round replay, only to lose to Newcastle United in the quarter finals. However, 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 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 sacked soon afterwards and replaced by Glyn Hodges, who prevented Barnsley from suffering a second successive relegation in 2002-03 despite being statistically the worst manager in Barnsley's history.
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. Andy Ritchie, Paul Hart's assistant was given the job on a temporary basis and was confirmed as the permanent manager in the summer of 2005, despite speculation that previous manager Danny Wilson was set to return.
Barnsley finished fifth in League One at the end of the 2005-06 season and qualified for the playoffs. They could be about to achieve their first successful season in almost a decade but after playing the first leg of the playoffs at home and loosing 1 - 0 to Huddersfield Town A.F.C. then looks like they wont be successful after all and the 2005-06 season will go down as yet another poor season for Barnsley.
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)
- Dave Bassett (1999-2000)
- Nigel Spackman (2000-2002)
- Steve Parkin (2002-2003)
- Glyn Hodges (2003)
- Gudjon Thordarson (2003-2004)
- Paul Hart (2004-2005)
- Andy Ritchie (2005-Present)
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 the Football League
- 1909-10 - FA Cup runner-up
- 1911-12 - FA 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 FA Premiership
- 1996-97 - Football League runner-up; promoted to FA 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
- 2005-06 - League one playoffs position No 5 (SF Barnsley 0 Huddersfield Town 1)
Source: Football Club History Database
Current Squad
The squad as of the 20th of April 2006 is as follows.
Current squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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