West Brom have been suffering from 'yo-yo' syndrome over the last few years, moving between the Premier League and the Football League several times since their first promotion in 2002.

West Brom's first spell in the Premier League only lasted a season, but football manager Gary Megson guided them back into the top flight in 2004.

Bryan Robson was the boss the next season, when Albion produced their great escape to dodge the relegation bullet becoming the first football team to avoid the drop after being bottom of the Premier League at Christmas.

A season later West Brom were relegated once more, only to make it back to the top under current boss Tony Mowbray following a successful 2007-08 campaign that saw them win the Football League Championship title. This was the West Midlanders' first football trophy for four decades and marked the end to a remarkable season in which they also reached the FA Cup semi-finals.

West Brom were set up in 1878 by employees at George Salter's Spring Works in West Bromwich. The football club took the name West Bromwich Strollers in 1879 after walking to Wednesbury to buy a ball. They were renamed West Bromwich Albion in 1880 with Albion being a district of West Bromwich.

West Brom were FA Cup in finalists in 1886 and 1887, finally winning the football trophy at the third time of asking in 1888 when they beat Preston North End. The same year West Brom became one of the 12 founder members of the Football League and in 1892 they won the FA Cup yet again.

West Brom won their one and only Football League title in 1920 and, despite playing the majority of their football in the top flight down the years, they rarely threatened to repeat that feat.

Another FA Cup win boosted West Brom's football trophy cabinet in 1931, which was repeated again in 1954 and for the fifth and final time in 1968, with a League Cup win in 1966 sandwiched between.

The leanest years came following relegation to Division Two in 1986. Those 16 years out of the top tier, an unwanted Albion record, were marked by a drop to Division Three for the first time.

West Brom were back in the second tier, though, by 1993 and it took nine seasons to make that leap into the Premier League, the start of the football roller-coaster ride.