Small Heath Alliance founded in Birmingham, later Birmingham City F.C. (1875–1877)

Small Heath Alliance, the predecessor of Birmingham City F.C., was founded in 1875 in Birmingham. The club played its first home games on waste ground off Arthur Street, Bordesley Green, before moving to Muntz Street from 1877. It was later renamed Small Heath, then Birmingham, and finally Birmingham City in 1943.

Episodes

Background and detail

Background. Birmingham City Football Club is a professional club based in Bordesley, Birmingham, England. It was formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance and later renamed Small Heath in 1888, Birmingham in 1905, and Birmingham City in 1943. The founding year is the only date the supplied passages confirm; no month or day is given for the club's establishment.

Early History. Small Heath Alliance played their first home games on waste ground off Arthur Street, Bordesley Green. From 1877, the club played home games at Muntz Street. Small Heath first entered the Birmingham Senior Cup in 1878–79, ten years before the foundation of the Football League. The club won the Birmingham Senior Cup for the first time in 1905, defeating West Bromwich Albion 7–2 in the final.

Organizational Development. Small Heath became the first football club to become a limited company with a board of directors, under the name of Small Heath F.C. In 1892, Small Heath, along with other Alliance teams, were invited to join the newly formed Football League Second Division. The club was relegated in 1908 and remained in the Second Division until after the First World War.

People involved

Sources

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.