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West Bromwich Albion Football Club ( ), also known as West Brom, The Albion, The Throstles or WBA, are an English professional association football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands. The club was formed in 1878 by workers from Salter's Spring Works in West Bromwich, and have played their home games at The Hawthorns since 1900.
Albion were one of the founding members of The Football League in 1888 and have spent the majority of their existence in the top tier of English football. They have been champions of England once, in 1919 � 20, but have had more success in the FA Cup, with five wins. The first came in 1888, the year the league was founded, and the most recent in 1968, their last major trophy. They also won the Football League Cup at the first attempt in 1966. Since the early 1980s the club has been less successful. From 1986 to 2002 they spent their longest ever period out of the top division, although there has been something of a revival in recent years: 2010 � 11 will be the club's fifth season in the Premier League since 2002.
The team have played in blue and white stripes for most of their history. They have a number of long-standing rivalries with other Midlands clubs; their traditional rivals have always been Aston Villa, but more recently their major rivalry has been with Wolverhampton Wanderers, with whom they contest the Black Country derby.
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| Name |
class="unsortable"Nat. |
Years |
Apps |
Goals |
Position |
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| nowrap="nowrap"BillyBassett |
England |
1886 � 99 |
311 |
77 |
Outside right |
| nowrap="nowrap"JessePennington |
England |
1903 � 22 |
496 |
0 |
Left back |
| nowrap="nowrap"W. G.Richardson |
England |
1929 � 45 |
354 |
228 |
Centre forward |
| nowrap="nowrap"RayBarlow |
England |
1944 � 60 |
482 |
48 |
Left half |
| nowrap="nowrap"RonnieAllen |
England |
1950 � 61 |
458 |
234 |
Centre forward |
| nowrap="nowrap"DonHowe |
England |
1952 � 64 |
379 |
19 |
Right back |
| nowrap="nowrap"TonyBrownTony Brown (English footballer) |
England |
1963 � 81 |
720 |
279 |
Wing half/Inside forward |
| nowrap="nowrap"JeffAstle |
England |
1964 � 74 |
361 |
174 |
Centre forward |
| nowrap="nowrap"JohnOsborneJohn Osborne (footballer) |
England |
1967 � 72
1973 � 78 |
312 |
0 |
Goalkeeper |
| nowrap="nowrap"JohnWile |
England |
1970 � 83 |
619 |
29 |
Centre half |
| nowrap="nowrap"WillieJohnston |
Scotland |
1972 � 79 |
261 |
28 |
Outside left |
| nowrap="nowrap"BryanRobson |
England |
1974 � 81 |
249 |
46 |
Central midfielder |
| nowrap="nowrap"DerekStatham |
England |
1976 � 87 |
373 |
11 |
Left back |
| nowrap="nowrap"LaurieCunningham |
England |
1977 � 79 |
114 |
30 |
Winger |
| nowrap="nowrap"CyrilleRegis |
England |
1977 � 84 |
302 |
112 |
Centre forward |
| nowrap="nowrap"RussellHoult |
England |
2001 � 07 |
213 |
0 |
Goalkeeper |
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| Name |
class="unsortable"Nat. |
Years |
P |
W |
D |
L |
class="unsortable"Achievements |
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| nowrap="nowrap"LouisFord |
England |
1890 � 92 |
58 |
18 |
10 |
30 |
FA Cup winners 1892 |
| nowrap="nowrap"EdwardStephenson |
England |
1894 � 95 |
36 |
14 |
5 |
17 |
FA Cup runners-up 1895 |
| nowrap="nowrap"FrankHeaven |
England |
1896 � 02 |
214 |
86 |
45 |
83 |
Division Two champions 1901 � 02 |
| nowrap="nowrap"FredEveriss |
England |
1902 � 48 |
1520 |
656 |
331 |
533 |
Promotion as Division Two winners 1910 � 11, FA Cup runners-up 1912, 1935, Division One winners 1919 � 20, Division One runners-up 1924 � 25, Promotion as Division Two runners-up 1930 � 31, FA Cup winners 1931 |
| nowrap="nowrap"JackSmithJack Smith (footballer born 1911) |
Wales |
1948 � 52 |
179 |
70 |
46 |
63 |
Promotion as Division Two runners-up 1948 � 49 |
| nowrap="nowrap"VicBuckingham |
England |
1953 � 59 |
301 |
130 |
78 |
93 |
Division One runners-up 1953 � 54, FA Cup winners 1954 |
| nowrap="nowrap"JimmyHagan |
England |
1963 � 67 |
201 |
78 |
49 |
74 |
League Cup winners 1966, League Cup runners-up 1967 |
| nowrap="nowrap"AlanAshman |
England |
1967 � 71 |
182 |
64 |
49 |
69 |
FA Cup winners 1968, European Cup Winners Cup quarter-finalists 1968 � 69, League Cup runners-up 1970 |
| nowrap="nowrap"JohnnyGiles |
Ireland |
1975 � 77,
1984 � 85 |
159 |
60 |
42 |
57 |
Promotion from Division Two 1975 � 76 |
| nowrap="nowrap"RonAtkinson |
England |
1978 � 81,
1987 � 88 |
212 |
85 |
68 |
59 |
Division One 3rd place 1978 � 79, UEFA Cup quarter-finalists 1978 � 79 |
| nowrap="nowrap"OsvaldoArdiles |
Argentina |
1992 � 93 |
55 |
30 |
11 |
14 |
Promotion as Division Two play-off winners 1992 � 93 |
| nowrap="nowrap"GaryMegson |
England |
2000 � 04 |
221 |
94 |
50 |
77 |
Promotion as Division One runners-up 2001 � 02, 2003 � 04 |
| nowrap="nowrap"TonyMowbray |
England |
2006 � 09 |
140 |
57 |
32 |
51 |
Promotion as Championship winners 2007 � 08 |
| nowrap="nowrap"RobertoDi Matteo |
Italy |
2009 � |
53 |
30 |
14 |
9 |
Promotion as Championship runners-up 2009 � 10 |
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