page_title: History of Burnley F.C.
section_title: Premier League promotions, relegations and back in Europe (2009–present)
hierarchical_section_title: History of Burnley F.C. / Premier League promotions, relegations and back in Europe (2009–present)
caption_attribution_description: Sean Dyche during post-match press conference as manager of Burnley.
context_page_description: Burnley Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Founded on 18 May 1882, the club was one of the first to become professional, putting pressure on the Football Association to permit payments to players. As a result, the club was able to enter the FA Cup for the first time in 1885–86, and it was one of the 12 founding members of the Football League in 1888–89.
  The team struggled in the early years of the Football League and were relegated to the Second Division at the end of the 1896–97 season. Burnley achieved promotion back to the First Division in 1913; the following year they won the FA Cup for the only time, defeating Liverpool in the final. In the 1920–21 campaign, the team were crowned champions of England for the first time. During that season they embarked on a 30-match unbeaten run, a then English record. Burnley remained in the top tier of English football until 1930, when the team suffered relegation to the second tier, where they stayed until 1947. They attained a second league championship in 1959–60 with a last-day victory over Manchester City.
context_section_description: Promotion made the town of Burnley the smallest to host a Premier League club. The team started the season well and became the first newly promoted side in the competition to win their first four home games, including a 1–0 win over defending champions Manchester United. However, manager Coyle left the club in January 2010 to manage local rivals Bolton Wanderers. He described Bolton as "five or 10 years ahead" of Burnley. He was replaced by Brian Laws, but their form plummeted under the new manager and the team were relegated after a single season in the Premier League. Laws was dismissed in December 2010 and replaced by Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe, who guided the team to an eighth-place finish in the Championship in his first season, narrowly missing out on a play-off place. Nonetheless, he left the club in October 2012 to rejoin Bournemouth; Howe citing personal reasons for the move. He was replaced in the same month by Watford manager Sean Dyche.
  Before the start of the 2013–14 season, Turf Moor and Gawthorpe returned to club ownership again after a seven-year period. Burnley were tipped as one of the relegation candidates as Dyche had to work with a tight budget and a small squad and they had lost top goal scorer Charlie Austin to Championship rivals Queens Park Rangers. However, the team finished second and were automatically promoted back to the Premier League in Dyche's first full season in charge, as the new strike partnership of Danny Ings and Sam Vokes had 41 league goals between them. Dyche only used 23 players throughout the season, which was the joint-lowest in the division, and he had paid a transfer fee for only one player since his appointment—£400,000 on striker Ashley Barnes. The stay in the top flight lasted again only a single season as they finished 19th out of 20 clubs and were subsequently relegated. Burnley won the Championship title on their return in 2015–16, when they equaled their 2013–14 club record of 93 points, and ended the season with a run of 23 league games undefeated. The new signing Andre Gray finished as the league's top goal scorer with 25 goals.
  The side finished the 2016–17 season in 16th place, six points above the relegation zone, and were thus ensured to play consecutive seasons in the top flight for the first time in the Premier League era. They were eliminated by National League club Lincoln City in the FA Cup fifth round at home (1–0), however, which meant a second defeat at home in the competition against non-league opposition while in the top flight since 1975. The club completed construction of Barnfield Training Centre in 2017, which replaced the 60-year-old Gawthorpe. Dyche was involved in the design and had willingly tailored his transfer spending as he and the board focused on the club's infrastructure and future. Burnley finished the 2017–18 season with more points collected on the road than at home and ultimately secured a seventh-place finish, their highest league finish since 1973–74. They qualified for the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League, their first competitive European campaign in 51 years. The team crashed out in the play-offs against Greek side Olympiacos, after they had eliminated Scottish club Aberdeen and Turkish side İstanbul Başakşehir in the previous qualifying rounds.
  The 2019–20 season was interrupted for three months because of the COVID-19 pandemic before being completed behind closed doors; in that period, Dyche's assistant manager Ian Woan tested positive for the coronavirus. They concluded the campaign in 10th place, five points away from the European spots. Goalkeeper Nick Pope also missed out on the Premier League Golden Glove award after conceding two goals against Brighton & Hove Albion in the last match.
caption: Manager Sean Dyche has guided Burnley to two promotions to the Premier League
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