History of Bradford City A.F.C.

For information on a breakdown of Bradford Citys

league and cup history, see List of Bradford City A.F.C.
seasons.
Bradford City Association Balls Up The Bumhole

for two seasons. Following Richmonds self-proclaimed

six weeks of madness and the collapse of television
channel ITV Digital, the club suered its rst spell in
administration. Another period under administration followed, and City dropped through the leagues of professional English football back to the bottom tier of The
Football League, until promotion in 201213 brought
them back up a division.

1 Early successes (19031919)

See also: 1903 in association football
League football was established in the West Riding of

Bradford Citys 1911 FA Cup winning side

Clubalso known informally as Bradford Cityare an

English football club founded in Bradford in 1903 to introduce the sport to the West Riding of Yorkshire, which
until then had been almost entirely inclined towards rugby
league. Before they had even played their rst game, City
were elected to The Football League to replace Doncaster
Rovers in Division Two, and took over the Valley Parade
stadium, which has been their permanent home ground
ever since. The club won the Division Two title in 1908
and the FA Cup in 1911, both under the management of
Peter O'Rourke, before they were relegated from Division Manningham F.C., the rst rugby league champions in the world,
who were later to switch codes to become Bradford City A.F.C.
One in 192122.
City were relegated again ve seasons later, but when
O'Rourke was reappointed as manager before the 1928
29 season, they broke several club records to earn promotion back to Division Two. After eight seasons in Division Two, City returned to Division Three, and they remained in the third and fourth tiers of the English football
league system until 198586. During that time, they endured several periods of nancial hardship, and in 1985,
their ground suered a disastrous re in which 56 people
died, on a day the club and their fans were supposed to be
celebrating promotion.

Yorkshire in 1894 when the West Yorkshire League was

formed.[1] A year later the Bradford Schools Football
and Athletic Association abandoned its rugby roots to instead adopt the association football code.[2] Several clubs
across Bradford, including Bradford (Park Avenue), also
adopted the code during the latter years of the 19th century. By 1901, a team called Bradford City had played
in the leagues within the city, playing for two seasons,
but disbanded at the end of the 190203 season.[3] On
30 January 1903, Scotsman James Whyte, a sub-editor
of the Bradford Observer, met with Football Association representative John Brunt at Valley Parade, the home
of Manningham Football Club, to discuss establishing
a Football League club within the city.[3] Manningham
FC were a rugby league club formed in 1880 and became a founding member of the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895.[4] A series of meetings was held, and
on 29 May 1903, at the 23rd annual meeting of Man-

In 198788, the club came close to returning to the top

division when they missed out on promotion on the nal
day of the season. Following relegation back to Division
Three, after Georey Richmond became chairman in
January 1994 the clubs fortunes were lifted. He helped
to take them to their rst appearance at Wembley and
subsequently into the Premier League, where they played
1

1 EARLY SUCCESSES (19031919)

ningham FC, the committee decided to leave the rugby

code and switch to association football.[3] The Football
League, which saw the invitation as a chance to introduce football to the rugby league-dominated area of the
West Riding, elected the club, which had been renamed
Bradford City, to the league with a total of 30 votes to
replace Doncaster Rovers.[5]
Bradford City became the rst league football team from
the county, before they even had a team or played a
game.[6] They and Chelsea, who were elected to the
league two years later, share the distinction of being the
only clubs to join the league without having played a
competitive xture.[5] A summer archery contest, which
had been organised to raise money for the rugby league
club, was used to nance the new club,[6] and Manninghams colours of claret and amber were adopted as Bradford Citys kit, but with Manninghams hoops changed to
stripes.[4]
Robert Campbell was appointed by a 13-man subcommittee to be the clubs rst secretary-manager from
a shortlist of 30 applicants. Secretarial duties were carried out by committee member Whyte, with Campbells
role more on the playing side.[7] The committee assembled a squad at the cost of 917 10s 0d.[8] Their rst
game was a 20 defeat away at Grimsby Town on 1
September 1903,[9] and rst home game was six days later
against Gainsborough Trinity, played in front of a crowd
of 11,000 including the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress
of Bradford.[10] It was not until the third game against
Burton United that the club recorded their rst victory,
on the way to a 10th-place nish in Division Two.[8] The
club faced having to apply for re-election in their second season, until ve wins in the nal six games lifted
the club to eighth position.[8] In November 1905, Peter
O'Rourke, one of the clubs centre-halves, was appointed
manager, with his last game as a player coming the following month.[7] He guided City to nishes of 11th and
fth and then earned promotion to Division One in 1907
08. The season had started with an 81 victory over
Chestereld and included another six victories when City
scored ve goals or more,[11] before promotion and then
the title were assured with successive victories over Derby
County and Burnley in April.[12]
Ahead of their rst campaign in Division One, Bradford City embarked upon their rst continental tour; despite victories over German side Aachen and Belgian club
Verviers, the clubs rst league victory in the top division
did not come until the fth attempt with a 41 defeat of
Bury.[13] It was their only win in the rst 14 games.[14] Results improved in the second half of the season but it was
not until a 10 win on the nal game of the season against
Manchester United with a goal from Frank O'Rourke that
City prevented an immediate relegation back to Division
Two.[13] The following season included a ten-game undefeated spell as Bradford nished seventh, but this was
bettered in the 191011 season, which is Bradford Citys
most successful campaign. Their league nish of fth re-

Bradford Citys 1911 FA Cup Final winning goalscorer Jimmy

Speirs

mains the clubs highest position, and an FA Cup triumph,

with a 10 win over Newcastle United in the 1911 nal
is the clubs only major honour.[15] The rst- and thirdround victories were secured with solitary goals from
Dicky Bond,[16] but he missed the nal four games of
the run because of club suspension,[17] the rst of which
was a 10 defeat of Burnley in the fourth round in front
of 39,146 fans, a crowd which remains Valley Parades
highest attendance.[15] The biggest win of the run came in
the semi-nals with a 30 victory over Blackburn Rovers.
Citys supporters were taken to the nal in London on 11
special trains,[18] but the game with Newcastle at Crystal
Palace ended in a goalless draw and was even described
as a decidedly dull and uneventful game.[19] The draw
meant a replay was necessary. It took place four days later
on 26 April 1911 at Old Traord, Manchester, when a
single goal from Jimmy Speirs in the 15th minute gave
Bradford a 10 victory. They were the rst winners of
a new trophy, appropriately made by Bradford jewellers
Fattorinis.[20]
Bradfords defence of the FA Cup was ended in the fourth
round by Barnsley, who went on to succeed Bradford as
the holders. The 32 defeat, played at Bramall Lane,
Sheeld, following two draws, brought an end to 11 consecutive clean sheets in the FA Cup[21] a competition
record.[22] The sequence also included a 12th clean sheet
in the second replay against Barnsley which was aban-

3
doned because of crowd trouble.[23] The cup run had included the rst Bradford derby between City and crosscity rivals Bradford (Park Avenue).[24] In the league, City
nished 11th, the rst of four consecutive mid-table nishes before league football was suspended because of
the First World War. Citys FA Cup hero Speirs, who
had joined Leeds City, was one of many footballers to
lose his life during the war. Bradford City players who
died included Bob Torrance, another FA Cup winner, and
Evelyn Lintott, as well as several reserve team players.
Frank Buckley and Jock Ewart were seriously wounded,
and Dicky Bond was taken prisoner-of-war.[25] In 1921,
Bond laid a commemorative wreath on the Cenotaph in
memory of his fallen colleagues prior to a league game at
Arsenal.[25]

Inter-war years (19191946)

Attendances at Valley Parade dropped from a high in 1928

29 until the Second World War and uctuated until the re in
1985.[26]

With several retirements during the war, it was a newlook side that took to the eld for the 191920 season,
when league football resumed.[27] The 15th-place nish
in the league was Citys lowest since their rst season
in Division One, and a fourth-round FA Cup exit away
at Bristol City was blamed on a pre-game trip to Frys
chocolate works.[27] It was a position replicated the following season. After ten campaigns in Division One, City
were relegated back to Division Two, when they lost all of
their nal ve games of the 192122 season.[28] It would
be 77 years until Bradford City again competed in the top
division of English football.[29]

table following a then record 80 defeat to Manchester

City on the nal day of the season.[31] New manager
Colin Veitch missed out on guiding the club to an immediate promotion when they nished sixth,[32] but at the
end of the season the players had not been paid and the
bank was unable to advance any more money because of
the clubs overdraft. Had it not been for donations by
fans, Bradford City would not have started the following
campaign.[33] A new board was appointed, and they reinstated Peter O'Rourke as manager.[32] Success was immediate, when the 192829 season started with a record 11
1 victory over Rotherham United,[15] as the side scored
a club record 128 goals to earn promotion by just one
point.[15][32] Citys successful team had also brought the
fans back and the average attendance of 18,551 is the
highest average recorded by the club, since 1925, when
The Football League started to keep ocial records.[26]
O'Rourke left for a second time in May 1930,[30] after
he resigned because he was not allowed to sign a player
he wanted.[31] City spent eight seasons back in Division
Two but the nearest they came to stepping up to the top
ight was in 193334 when at one point they topped the
division. Their sixth-place nish was the highest position since the club had been in Division One and would
not be bettered until the 1980s.[31][34] Relegation back to
Division Three (North) came in 193637.[35] City were
runners-up in the Division Three North Challenge Cup a
year later before they won the same competition in the
last year before league football was again suspended because of war.[36][37]

3 Lower divisions (19461981)

New manager Jack Barker lasted just eight months until
he was replaced by former Leeds United player Jack Milburn upon the resumption of league football in 1946.[38]
Milburn led City to fth position in his rst season but
only lasted another season himself.[35] With only one
team promoted from Division Three (North) each season, City remained at that level until they were placed in
Division Three in 195859 after a league re-organisation,
following a 20-year high position of third the previous
season.[39] In 1960, eight years after part of the grounds
Midland Road stand had been closed following examinations of the foundations ordered as a result of the 1946
Burnden Park disaster,[40] the entire stand was closed,
leaving the ground with just three stands.[41] After just
three years in Division Three, City dropped into Division
Four in 196061,[39] although that season they did defeat Division One side Manchester United in Citys rst
ever League Cup tie.[42] United, like many other top ight
clubs, would not enter the competition again until six
years later.[42]

Having lost O'Rourke as manager in 1921, after he had

struggled to cope with the death of his son two years
earlier,[30] Bradfords results suered back in Division
Two. Both Bradford City and Bradford (Park Avenue)
had been relegated in 1922, and with the rise of fellow
West Yorkshire side Hudderseld Town, attendances in
Bradford dropped. Citys average attendance fell from
a record high of 22,585 in 192021 to between 12,000
and 14,000 in Division Two.[31] Five consecutive bottom Despite a club record 91 defeat to Colchester United on
half nishes culminated in relegation to Division Three 30 December 1961, City came fth in 196162, thanks to
(North) in 192627,[28] when they nished bottom of the David Layne's 34 league goalshis total remains a club

4 BANTAM PROGRESSIVISM (19811990)

record for a season[15][39] but missed out on promotion

by just one point.[39] Layne left for Sheeld Wednesday
and City nished 23rd the following season, forcing them
to apply for re-election.[39] In 1966, the club directors
moved the pitch 2.74 metres (3.00 yd) closer to the main
stand, creating enough space for them to add a new safe
standing area on the Midland Road side of the ground and
open all four stands for the rst time since 1960.[41][43]
Attendances continued to drop and a new record low of
1,353 was set on 12 May 1966 against Wrexham. It
prompted chairman Staord Heginbotham to hold a crisis
meeting in the citys St Georges Hall to raise new funds
and safeguard the future of the club.[44] The clubs indierent form on the eld continued, with another reelection and two narrow promotion failures, before promotion was gained in 196869.[45] Only the previous season, City had had three managers, when Grenville Hair,
who had replaced Willie Watson, died just two months
into his reign, after he collapsed at the end of a training
session.[46]
Striker Bobby Ham, whose 18 goals had helped City into
Division Three, was again top goalscorer the following
season,[47] but the clubs stint in Division Three was shortlived. Once Ham, and fellow Bradford-born striker Bruce
Bannister, who scored 60 goals during seven seasons with
the club, both left, City were relegated back into the
bottom division in 197172.[48][49][50] The spell in Division Three had also been notable for the debut of Ces
Podd, who went on to play a record 502 league games
during 14 seasons with the club.[51] City spent ve seasons back in Division Four. In 197576 they had their
best FA Cup run in more than 50 years after defeating Norwich City,[52] before they were knocked out in
the quarter-nals by eventual winners Southampton 1
0.[53][54] A year later more than 40 goals from the trio
of Dominican striker Joe Cooke, Terry Dolan and Don
Hutchins helped City to another promotion when they
nished in fourth position.[55] The clubs board failed to
strengthen the squad the following season,[56] resulting in
an instant return to Division Four. Under new manager
George Mulhall, City spent three seasons in mid-table,
although a late spell of form nearly earned promotion in
197980.[56]

Bantam progressivism (1981

1990)

See also: Bradford City stadium re

In May 1981, City appointed former England international defender Roy McFarland as their new manager.[57]
After starting the 198182 season with a defeat and
a draw, City went top of the table during a run of
nine successive league victories, equalling a 30-year club
record.[58] The run came to an end against Sheeld
United in front of 13,711 fans at Valley Parade, producing
then club record gate receipts of 17,938.[58] Arctic con-

Roy McFarland guided City to promotion in 198182 as playermanager before he was poached by Derby County.

ditions across Britain meant City played only once during

December, but they went back to the top of the Division
Four table in January. City nished the season second,
ve points behind Sheeld United, and were promoted
back to Division Three.[59] Three months into the following campaign, McFarland and his assistant Mick Jones
handed in their resignation and left for Derby County.
Derby had to pay a large ne and compensation to City for
poaching the pair.[57] Chairman Bob Martin turned to another England centre-back and appointed Trevor Cherry
as McFarlands replacement from West Yorkshire rivals
Leeds United.[57] Cherry and assistant Terry Yorath continued to build on McFarlands start to the period which
would later be called Bantam Progressivism by fanzine
The City Gent.[60] Despite not recording their rst win
for more than two months, the pair guided City to 12th
position.[61]
The club were again in nancial diculties, and in June
1983, Martin called in the receivers and the club was put
up for sale.[61] A Save Bradford City Fund was launched
on 24 July,[61] and former chairman Staord Heginbotham and former board member Jack Tordo bought
the club, forming a new company, and enabling the team
to start the new league campaign. Centre forward Bobby
Campbell was sold to Derby County to balance the books
and John Hawley brought in as his replacement.[61] City
struggled on the pitch and won just one of their rst 15
games leaving them in the relegation zone.[61] Campbell
had played just 11 games during four months with Derby
and so he returned to Bradford initially on a loan transfer. His return coincided with a club record ten successive
league victories.[15][61] Campbell nished the season with
nine goals, Hawley with 22, but City nished seventh and
missed out on promotion.[61][62]

5
Division Three.

5 Richmond era and administration (1990 onwards)

Helping the club into the top ight is a dream I have had
for a long time. Dreams don't always come true, but I
have been fortunate that so many of mine in football have
been fullled, but this is the biggest one of all.
Stuart McCall, following promotion to the Premier
League[68]
For three seasons, City nished in mid-table in Division Three and the new Division Two, when the leagues
were renamed following the formation of the Premier
League. In January 1994, Georey Richmond took over
as chairman.[69] He cleared the debts, loaned the club
2.3 million,[69] and promised the fans he would take the
club to the Premier League within ve years.[70] In his
A memorial, erected on the clubs new main stand, to the victims rst season as chairman, the club nished in seventh-place
of the re in 1985
with Frank Stapleton as manager. Stapleton was sacked
and was replaced by Lennie Lawrence. Lawrence could
The good form continued the following season, and from only nish 14th in his rst season, before he left for Luton
1995 to be replaced by his assistant
October to mid-December 1984, City embarked on a 13- Town in November
[71]
Chris
Kamara.
match unbeaten run, during which time Campbell became the clubs all-time leading goalscorer, beating Frank Kamara secured a play-o spot with a nal day victory
O'Rourkes 70-year-old record.[63] City went top of the over Hull City, before City defeated Blackpool in the
division and held onto their lead, opening an 11-point play-o semi-nals.[71] The nal against Notts County
cushion by February. Promotion was secured in April was Citys rst game at Wembley. Goals from Des Hamiland the clubs rst championship title since 1929 after ton and Mark Stallard gave them a 20 win, which sea 20 win over Bolton Wanderers.[63] The success was cured promotion to Division One.[71] Kamara used 42
overshadowed when re ripped through Valley Parades players in 199697 when City avoided relegation with
main stand 40 minutes into the nal game of the season a 30 victory in the nal game against Queens Park
on 11 May 1985 against Lincoln City. A total of 56 peo- Rangers.[71][72] Kamara was sacked in January 1998 afple died and the club did not play another game at Valley ter an FA Cup defeat to Manchester City, when RichParade for nearly 20 months.[64]
mond claimed the manager had taken the club as far as
[73]
Richmond again elevated from within and
City instead played home games at Elland Road, Leeds he could.
Paul
Jewell,
who
had been at the club since 1988, was
Road and Odsal during the 198586 season, when
installed
as
manager,
originally on a caretaker basis.[74]
they came 13th, and for the rst half of the 198687
campaign.[61] They returned to Valley Parade, which had He was appointed full-time in May 1998 and Richmond
new appointment with a multi-million transundergone a 2.6m redevelopment, on Boxing Day 1986 backed his[74]
Jewell signed strikers Lee Mills, from Port
fer
budget.
[65]
After managing the side duragainst Derby County.
Vale
and
Isaiah
Rankin, from Arsenal, for 1 million and
ing the nancial hardship and time away from their home
[75]
and signed former captain
1.3
million
respectively,
ground, Cherry was dismissed only ten days after the reStuart
McCall
from
Rangers
on
a free transfer to lead the
[65]
turn to Valley Parade.
Club coach Terry Dolan was
[76]
[74]
side.
Despite
a
poor
start,
the club secured promoappointed as manager and he led the side away from reletion
to
the
top
division
for
the
rst
time in 77 years with a
gation and to a nish of 10th-place. By September 1987,
Wolverhampton
Wanderers in the nal
32
victory
over
Dolans side topped Division Two for the rst time in 54
[29]
199899
season.
game
of
the
[66]
They nished fourth after a nal day defeat to
years.
Ipswich Town and missed out on promotion after they
lost to Middlesbrough in the play-os.[66] Leading players
Stuart McCall and John Hendrie, who had both stayed for
another season in a bid to take City into Division One,[67]
both left, and within two seasons City again dropped into

Citys success meant that Dean Windass, who had

signed from Oxford United in March, became the clubs
third 1 million signing of the season. Windass had
originally been signed for 950,000, but an additional
fee of 50,000 was paid to Oxford because of Citys

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The main stand of Bradford Citys Valley Parade ground, which

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promotion.[77] Jewell broke the clubs transfer record to

add a fourth seven-gure signing when he paid 1.4
million to Leeds United for David Wetherall.[78] Jewell
added other senior players including Neil Redfearn and
Dean Saunders, prompting the media to call his team
"Dads Army".[79] When City defeated Middlesbrough 1
0 with a late goal from Saunders, his goal celebration
mocked the critics comments.[80] City failed to win another game until their eighth game of the season, and Sky
Sports pundit Rodney Marsh said they would be relegated
and promised to shave o his hair at a home game if
they avoided such a fate.[81] A run of nine home games
without defeat and consecutive victories in April gave
City hope of avoiding relegation on the nal day of the
season. A nal day 10 victory over Liverpool, with a
goal from Wetherall, who had played every minute of the
season,[82] and Wimbledon's defeat, meant City survived
with a record low of 36 points.[83][84]
Less than two months after City stayed up, Jewell left to
join Sheeld Wednesday, to be replaced by his assistant,
Chris Hutchings.[85] The club entered the Intertoto Cup,
the rst time they had competed in a European competition, in which they were defeated by FC Zenit Saint Petersburg in the semi-nals.[86] Richmond gave Hutchings
more money than Jewell to spend in the transfer market, and Bradford paid a club record 2.5 million for
David Hopkin and 1.5 million for Ashley Ward,[87][88]
and signed Italian striker Benito Carbone on wages of
40,000 per week.[69] Richmond also continued to redevelop the ground, which increased the capacity to
25,136, but later referred to his spending as his six
weeks of madness.[89] In their second season in the Premier League, City struggled for form and Hutchings was
sacked after a start to the season in which he recorded just
one victory from 12 league games.[90] Under new manager Jim Jeeries, the club were unable to avoid relegation, which was conrmed with a 21 defeat at Everton,
when they missed two penalties,[91] before nishing the
season with just 26 points.[92]
Jeeries was sacked in December 2001 following a train-

ing ground rift with captain McCall.[94][95] Nicky Law

was appointed his successor,[96] and the club nished
the season in 15thspot. During the summer, with
debts of nearly 13 millionas a result of the collapse of ITV Digital and the fall-out from Richmonds
self-proclaimed six weeks of madnessthe club were
forced into administration.[97][98] The players were all
released,[99] but Carbone waived much of the money
owed to him,[100][101] to help the club survive under new
owners Julian Rhodes and Gordon Gibb.[69] City fullled their xtures during the 200203 season but nished 19th.
Former England captain Bryan Robson took over as new
manager during the following season,[102] but, under his
management, City won only seven games from 28 and
were relegated in 23rd-place.[103] Robson left and was
replaced by his assistant Colin Todd.[104] The club went
into administration for a second time,[105] but Todd led
them to 11th in each of the following two seasons. Following fan pressure and a poor run of results, Rhodes
sacked Todd on 12 February 2007, with City just three
points above the relegation zone.[106] Wetherall was appointed player-manager on a temporary basis and then for
the rest of the season, but City were relegated following
a 30 defeat to Chestereld.[107] During the summer of
2007, former midelder Stuart McCall returned as manager with City in the bottom tier for the rst time in 25
years.[107][108] He set himself a target of earning promotion back to League One in his rst season,[109] but twice
missed out on promotion before he left the club in February 2010 with City lying 16th in League Two.[110]

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