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West Bromwich Albion Football Club are an English professional football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands. They have competed in England's top-flight for a total of over 70 seasons overall, but as of this current season, the team plays in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football. 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 but have won the league title only once, in 1919–20. They 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 and they spent their longest ever period out of the top division from 1986 to 2002. During their exile from the top tier, in 1991, the Baggies fell to the third tier for the first time. However, Albion won promotion over their Black Country Neighbours, Wolves, in 2002, despite being 10 points ahead of them. For most of the 2000s, Albion yo-yoed between the Premiership and the second tier, before they were a mainstay in the top flight for the majority of the following decade. After relegation in 2018, Albion returned to the Premiership two years later, but went down the following year.

• ...that Billy Mercer (pictured) became caretaker assistant manager of Sheffield Wednesday in October 2006, having previously played for rivals Sheffield United?

• ...that Garry Parker ran the full length of the pitch at Wembley Stadium to score a goal for Nottingham Forest in the final of the Simod Cup against Everton in 1989, which Forest won 4-3?

• ...that the England national football team trained on the football pitch of the Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College, as it is the only one identical to the one in Russia on which they played in October 2007?

• ...that English football referee Matt Messias once urged a Portsmouth defender not to kick an opposing player during a match against Newcastle United because "the devil was trying to get him sent off"?

• ...that William Bambridge, the father of England Football international Charles Bambridge was a member of the Te Waimate mission, New Zealand who became official photographer to Queen Victoria?

The Premier League (officially known as the Barclays Premier League for sponsorship reasons, colloquially known as The Premiership), is an English professional league for football clubs. At the top of the English football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. The Premier League is currently contested by 20 clubs, operating a system of promotion and relegation with The Football League. Seasons run from August to May, with teams playing 38 games each.

The competition formed as the FA Premier League on 20 February 1992 and the first games were played on 15 August that year, following the decision of clubs in the Football League First Division to break away from The Football League to take advantage of a lucrative television rights deal; The Football League had served as England and Wales' primary football competition since 1888.

2025–26 in English football

Leagues

• 2025–26 Premier League
• 2025–26 English Football League
• 2025–26 EFL Championship
• 2025–26 EFL League One
• 2025–26 EFL League Two
• 2025–26 National League

Cups

• 2025–26 FA Cup
• FA Community Shield
• 2025–26 FA Trophy
• 2025–26 EFL Cup
• 2025–26 EFL Trophy
• 2025–26 FA Youth Cup