One of the founder members of the Football League in 1888, Burnley Football Club have been Football League champions twice and FA Cup winners once.

The Lancashire football club has been outside top-flight football since the mid-1970s and from 1985 had a seven-year spell in the lowest tier of the Football League, narrowly avoiding relegation to the Conference.

Burnley FC was originally set up as a rugby club, but Burnley Rovers switched to football in 1882 and adopted their current name. The following year the football club moved to their current home, Turf Moor, at the invitation of the town's cricket club.

Burnley FC's first honour was a Second Division title in 1897-98. Further successes over the next few decades included an FA Cup triumph in 1914, when the football club beat Liverpool 1-0, and a First Division title in 1920-21, when the side enjoyed an unbeaten run of 30 league matches.

The outbreak of the Second World War saw the Clarets back in the Second Division, but Burnley FC soon won promotion in the first season of organised football after the war.

A high point was the 1959-60 campaign when Burnley Football Club scooped the First Division title on the last day of the season.

The 1960s saw the Clarets compete in Europe, reaching the quarter-finals of the European Cup in 1961 before being beaten by Hamburg, but by the end of that decade the football club began to struggle and were eventually relegated in 1979-80, plunging even further in 1985 to the bottom of the League.

After Burnley FC's narrow escape from relegation to the Conference in the late 1980s, 1992 saw a turning point in the football club's fortunes when Burnley FC became only the second team to win all four divisional titles in domestic football.

Since then, the football club has enjoyed a steady rise until achieving promotion in the 1999-2000 campaign to the old First Division, where Burnley FC has since remained.