Brentford Football Club Brentford Football Club is a professional football club in Brentford, West London, England, which competes in the Premier League, the highest tier of English football, having gained promotion via the playoffs at the end of the 2020–21 Champi ...

is an English professional

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club based in

Brentford Brentford is a suburban town in West London, England and part of the London Borough of Hounslow. It lies at the confluence of the River Brent and the Thames, west of Charing Cross. Its economy has diverse company headquarters buildings whi ...

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. Between 1892 and 1920, the

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competed in the West London Alliance,

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, London League, Southern League and Western League. Since 1920, the first team has competed in the

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, the

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and other nationally and internationally organised competitions. Statistically Brentford's best league season was 1929–30 in the

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, earning 2.12 points a game and winning all 21 home matches, a national record which still stands as of . The 1932–33 and 1934–35 Third Division South and

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title-winning seasons yielded 2.10 and 2.07 points per game respectively, while the 94 points accumulated during the 2013–14 second-place finish in

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is Brentford's record points total. Prior to achieving promotion to the Premier League via the Championship play-offs in 2021, Brentford's nine failed attempts to gain promotion through the

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was a national record. Brentford has never won a major cup, with the club's furthest advancement being the semi-final of the

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(

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) and the quarter-finals of the

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( 1937–38, 1945–46, 1948–49, 1988–89). The club has reached three

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finals (

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) and finished as runners-up on each occasion. In 1992–93, the club reached the semi-finals of the

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on its only entry into the competition.

Key

*Pld = Matches played *W = Matches won *D = Matches drawn *L = Matches lost *GF = Goals for *GA = Goals against *Pts = Points *Pos. = Final position *QR2 = Second qualifying round *QR3 = Third qualifying round *QR4 = Fourth qualifying round *QR5 = Fifth qualifying round *QR6 = Sixth qualifying round *IR = Intermediate qualifying round *R1 = First round *R1S = Southern area first round *R2 = Second round *R2S = Southern area second round *R3 = Third round *R4 = Fourth round *R5 = Fifth round *QF = Quarter-finals *QFS = Southern area quarter-finals *GrpS = Southern area group stage *SFS = Southern area semi-finals *FS = Southern area finals

Seasons

''Correct as of the end of the 2021–22 season. For information on the season in progress, see 2022–23 Brentford F.C. season''.

Notes

References

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