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Birmingham City (BCFC) is one of Birmingham's two professional soccer teams (the other is Aston Villa F.C.). Originally known as The Small Heath Alliance, they became Birmingham F.C. in 1905 and Birmingham City F.C. in 1945.
After a number of years in the second flight league, Birmingham gained promotion to the FA Premier league for the 2002/3 season, under the guidance of Manager Steve Bruce in an playoff final win over Norwich City, Darren Carter became a hero for a few months after scoring the winning penalty.
In The 2003/2004 season Birmingham City got off to a brilliant start staying in the top 4 for the first month and after 6 weeks had statistically the best defence in the season after a very succesful season till the last 14 or so games they stumbled and ended up on an set of 7 games without an win.
In the off-season between the end of the 03/04 season and the beginning of the 04/05 season they signed Muzzy Izzet, Jesper Grønkjær, Mario Melchiot , Emile Heskey, Darren Anderton, Julian Gray, and finally signed Dwight YorkeDwight Yorke (born November 3, 1971 in Canaan, Tobago) is a Trinidad and Tobago football player. He currently plays for Birmingham City; he previously played for Aston Villa, Manchester United, and Blackburn Rovers. He was capped 55 times for the Trinidad on the final day of the summer transfer window. Mikael ForssellMikael Forssell (born March 15, 1981) is a Finnish International footballer originally born in Steinfurt, Germany. He is under contract with Chelsea F. Biography Starting his career in 1997 as a youth player at HJK Helsinki in Finland, Mikael was soon spo also agreed to rejoin Birmingham on a year-long loan deal from Chelsea F.C.Chelsea Football Club (also known as the Blues previously also known as the Pensioners , founded in 1905, is a Premier League football team that plays at Stamford Bridge football ground in west London. Despite the club's name, it is not based in the Chels.
1 Current first-team squad
As of November 2004.
- Maik TaylorMaik Taylor is a Northern Irish Association Football (soccer) player, born 4 September 1971. His position is goalkeeper. He currently plays for Birmingham City F. but has previously represented Southampton F. Fulham F. Barnet F. and Farnborough Town F.
- Olivier Tebily
- Jamie Clapham
- Kenny Cunningham
- Matthew Upson
- Muzzy Izzet
- Jesper Grønkjær
- Robbie SavageRobbie Savage (born Wrexham, Clwyd, 18 October 1974) is a professional football player, who is currently playing for Birmingham City F. He also plays for the Welsh national team. He started his playing career as a trainee at Manchester United, but was rel
- David Dunn
- Stan Lazaridis
- Ian Bennett
- Martin Taylor
- Emile Heskey
- Neil Kilkenny
- Nico Vaesen
- Clinton Morrison
- Martin Grainger
- Julian Gray
- Damien Johnson
- Matthew Sadler
- Stephen Clemence
- Christopher Cottrill
- Andrew Barrowman
- Carl Motteram
- Mario Melchiot
- Samuel Oji
- Sam Alsop
- Darren Anderton
- Dwight Yorke
