Swansea City A.F.C.

Swansea City ( officially: Swansea City Association Football Club ) - also known as The Swans ( German Swans ) - is a football club from Swansea in Wales, who since the 2011/12 season in the top division, the Premier League, plays and in February 2013 with the League Cup for the first time won a trophy in England. The club was founded in 1912 as Swansea Town and 1969/1970 renamed Swansea City.

Association

1961 Swansea Town was the first Welsh club, who played in the European Cup, when the team against the East German representatives Motor Jena was eliminated in the first round of the European Cup Winners' Cup. From the 1960s, who also wrote the attendance record of the club. On February 17, 1968 32,796 visitors came to the former Vetch Field Stadium in the FA Cup tie against Arsenal.

Swansea City won nine times previously the Welsh Football Cup; 1926 and 1964, the club reached the semi-finals in the FA Cup. Succeeded in 1981 under coach John Toshack for the first time, the rise in the first English league (then First Division ), but after two years the club went off again.

Since April 2004, Kenny Jackett was coach of the team. After the club played in the lowest English professional league since 2001, succeeded in 2005 via the playoffs made ​​it into the Football League One ( third division ), where at first, sixth place and thus the renewed opportunity for advancement through the playoffs has been reached. In the semifinals, although the first leg went against FC Brentford 0-1 lost, but in the return game, the Swans won 2-0 in Brentford and so reached the play-off final against Barnsley FC, which at the Millennium Stadium on 27 May 2006 by Cardiff was discharged. After regulation time and extra time, the score was 2-2, so the shoot had to decide. Here Swansea City defeated after two misses with 3:4 and thus missed the promotion to the Football League Championship. This succeeded at the end of the 2007/08 season by winning the championship in the Football League One.

In the season 2010/11 Swansea City finally reached with the new coach Brendan Rodgers in the playoffs for promotion to England's top division, the Premier League. In the final of the Reading FC was defeated before over 86,000 spectators at Wembley 4-2, with Scott Sinclair scored a hat trick. This is the first Welsh club Swansea, who must compete in the Premier League.

A stir the club saw in his first Premier League 2011/12 season, in which you, as a team with the lowest budget in the league, at home, among other top clubs Arsenal FC ( 3-2 ) and Manchester City ( 1-0) defeated and already succeeded on the 35th Round of premature relegation. 2013 was achieved with the new coach Michael Laudrup after a next round against Chelsea in the semi-finals (2-0 in the first leg in London 0-0 in the return match ) the final of the League Cup. This was won by the club on 24 February 2013 Wembley Stadium with a 5-0 victory against fourth division Bradford City. Never before had a team can win the League Cup Final later. The goals for Swansea achieved Nathan Dyer ( 2), Jonathan DeGuzman (2) and Michu. A total of 33,000 fans were present at the stadium. In the environment of the game, the news made the rounds that supposedly a film about the rocket -like development of Swansea City in the last ten years was planned. By winning the League Cup, Swansea qualified for participation in the UEFA Europa League 2013 /14 and reached, after victories in the qualifying rounds and the play-offs, and the group stage of the Europa League.

Stadiums

From 1912 to 2005 Swansea City played at the Vetch Field. The stadium got its name ( " vetch - field " ) from his building site, a hillside with vetches Barrens. Even in 1968, it captured 33,000 spectators (FA Cup against Arsenal ), as last it was permitted to continue for 11,500 spectators.

Since 2005, the city plays in the Liberty Stadium, a 27 -million pound new building with 20,000 seats, which the club shares with the Ospreys rugby team and the fans of " White Rock " ( White Rock ) is called.

Rivalry

Arch rival of the Swans is Cardiff City, with whom you many years arguing for supremacy in Wales. Encounters both clubs are always risk games, which often led to numerous arrests in the past. Different League affiliations were temporarily rest the rivalry.

Achievements

  • League Cup: 2013
  • Football League Trophy: 1994, 2006
  • Welsh Cup: 1913, 1932, 1950, 1961, 1966, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1989, 1991

Squad 2013/14 season

League membership

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