Birmingham City (BCFC) is one of Birmingham's two professional soccer teams (the other is Aston Villa F.C.). Originally known as The Small Heath Alliance, they became Birmingham F.C. in 1905 and Birmingham City F.C. in 1945.

After a number of years in the second flight league, Birmingham gained promotion to the FA Premier league for the 2002/3 season, under the guidance of Manager Steve Bruce in an playoff final win over Norwich City, Darren Carter became a hero for a few months after scoring the winning penalty.

In The 2003/2004 season Birmingham City got off to a brilliant start staying in the top 4 for the first month and after 6 weeks had statistically the best defence in the season after a very succesful season till the last 14 or so games they stumbled and ended up on an set of 7 games without an win.

In the off-season between the end of the 03/04 season and the beginning of the 04/05 season they signed Muzzy Izzet, Jesper Grønkjær, Mario Melchiot, Emile Heskey, Darren Anderton, Julian Gray, and finally signed Dwight Yorke on the final day of the summer transfer window. Mikael Forssell also agreed to rejoin Birmingham on a year-long loan deal from Chelsea F.C..

Honours

FA Cup
Finalists 1956, 1931
League Cup
Winners 1963
Finalists 2001
Division Two
Champions 1995, 1955, 1948, 1921, 1893

Famous past & present players

Christophe Dugarry
Jesper Grønkjær
Emile Heskey
Dwight Yorke
Trevor Francis
Darren Anderton

External links:

Official Club site

4thegame.com's Birmingham City page

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