 Burnley Football Club, nicknamed The Clarets, were founder members of The Football League in 1888. Burnley have played at their home ground, Turf Moor, since 1883. As recently as 1960 they were league champions, but have been outside the top flight since 1976 and from 1985 had a seven-year spell in the lowest tier of the Football League. In 1987 they narrowly avoided relegation to the Conference. Between 2000 and 2009 they played in the second tier of English football, until they gained promotion to the Premier League for the first time after defeating Sheffield United 1-0 in the Championship play-off final. |
