The West Yorkshire club reached the peak of their success in the late 1990s when they achieved Premier League status, but Bradford's recent history has also been hit by tragedy after their ground witnessed the worst fire disaster in English football in 1985.

The1984-85 season should have been remembered as the campaign Bradford won the Division Three title and returned to Division Two for the first time in 48 years. Instead, it was overshadowed by the deaths of 56 people and more than 250 injured, after a stand at City's Valley Parade ground caught fire during the final game of the season.

Three years later the Bradford narrowly missed out on promotion under Terry Dolan, after being beaten in the semi-final play-offs by Middlesbrough and by 1990 they were back in Division Three.

Promotion to the new Division One was achieved via the play-offs in 1996, with Chris Kamara at the helm, and three years later, under Paul Jewell, runners-up Bradford made it back into the top flight for the first time in 77 years.

Their first season in the Premiership was a struggle, but Bradford survived in 17th place. However, relegation did strike in 2000-01 after City finished bottom of the table, having won only five matches all season.

Since then the Bantams have not only been hit by financial difficulties, but also by two further relegations, in 2004 and 2007, leaving Bradford in League Two.

Bradford was set up in 1903 in an attempt to promote football in the rugby league-dominated West Riding of Yorkshire and it entered the Football League Division Two the same year.

After winning the championship in 1908, Bradford were promoted to Division One and three years later picked up their first and only major trophy in 1911 by winning the FA Cup.

Bradford's fortunes declined during the 1920s. Relegations in 1922 to Division Two and in 1927 to Division Three North kick-started a period of ups and downs between those divisions until 1958, when the Bantams were placed in Division Three.

After suffering relegation to Division Four in 1961, Bradford spent the next 24 years alternating between the League's lowest two tiers.