Birmingham City F.C. Seasons
Birmingham City Football Club, an association football club based in Birmingham, England, was founded in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance. For the first thirteen years of their existence, there was no league football, so matches were arranged on an ''ad hoc'' basis, supplemented by cup competitions organised at local and national level. Small Heath first entered the FA Cup in the 1881–82 FA Cup, 1881–82 season, and won their first trophy, the Walsall Senior Cup, Walsall Cup, the following season. During the 1880s, they played between 20 and 30 matches each season. In 1888, the club became a private company limited by shares, limited company under the name of Small Heath F.C. Ltd, and joined the Combination, a league set up to provide organised football for those clubs not invited to join the Football League which was to start the same year. However, the Combination was not well organised and folded in April 1889 with many fixtures still outstanding. Small Heath were founder mem ...
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