Football clubs promoted and relegated most often?

StonehamPark

#Brighton-Nil

Oct 30, 2010

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BC, Canada

• May 7, 2015

• #1

Which football club has been promoted and relegated most often?

Three English League clubs have changed divisions on a record 28 occasions. Notts County have been promoted 13 times but relegated on 15 occasions since being among the founder members of the Football League in 1888.

Birmingham City have been promoted and relegated 14 times each since joining the league in 1892. During the same period Grimsby Town have been promoted 12 times, but relegated on 16 occasions as well.

Next come Leicester City, with 22 changes of division, including eight in the last 20 years. Manchester City have been promoted on 11 occasions but relegated 10 times.

The recent specialists have been Brighton and Hove Albion, promoted ten times and relegated on nine occasions since 1958. That included five changes of division (three up, two down) in six seasons between 2001 and 2006. Middlesbrough were promoted or relegated ten times between 1982 and 1998.

Worldwide, the record for successive promotions and relegations is apparently held by the Norwegian club SK Brann: they went up in 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985 and 1987, but down in 1980, 1982, 1984 and 1986.

http://www.espn.co.uk/espn/story/_/id/12816551/which-football-club-promoted-relegated-most-often

 

Monkey Man

Your support is not that great

Jan 30, 2005

3,157

Neither here nor there

• May 7, 2015

• #2

I remember seeing a questionnaire some years ago asking "what division do you consider to be the natural home for your club"?

It's quite a tricky one with Brighton. I've seen us in all four and rarely have we been mid-table ... we always seem to be on our way out of the division one way or the other.

I guess at the moment the Championship is our level, but with the facilities we have and the fanbase, we're entitled to believe we could survive in the Premier League. Before crashing into League 1, probably.

 

Garry Nelson's Left Foot

Well-known member

Jul 7, 2003

13,112

tokyo

• May 7, 2015

• #3

We're due a change of division next season. In my lifetime (35 years) we've not spent more than five seasons in the same division. The good news is both of those five year stints ended in not just promotion but waltzing our way to the league title: league 2 in 2001 and League 1 in 2011. So bet your mortgage on us winning the title next year

 

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TomandJerry

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Oct 1, 2013

11,448

• May 7, 2015

• #4

QPR?

 

Mackenzie

Old Brightonian

Nov 7, 2003

33,534

East Wales

• May 7, 2015

• #5

Monkey Man said:

I remember seeing a questionnaire some years ago asking "what division do you consider to be the natural home for your club"?

It's quite a tricky one with Brighton. I've seen us in all four and rarely have we been mid-table ... we always seem to be on our way out of the division one way or the other.

I guess at the moment the Championship is our level, but with the facilities we have and the fanbase, we're entitled to believe we could survive in the Premier League. Before crashing into League 1, probably.

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Third division is our level, I'm hoping that that might be upgraded now we've got the infrastructure.

 

el punal

Well-known member

Aug 29, 2012

11,763

Bitterne,Southampton. In the land of wrong stripes

• May 7, 2015

• #6

Garry Nelson's Left Foot said:

We're due a change of division next season. In my lifetime (35 years) we've not spent more than five seasons in the same division. The good news is both of those five year stints ended in not just promotion but waltzing our way to the league title: league 2 in 2001 and League 1 in 2011. So bet your mortgage on us winning the title next year

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Just be thankful that you're not a few decades older! Before 1958 we were stuck in the old Division 3 South since 1920 (I think!). Can you imagine the reaction on here if that was the present day. I think the longest stay in any division in recent times was 1965 - 1972 when we were in Division 3, just prior to our glory years.

 

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Hampster Gull

New member

Dec 22, 2010

13,462

• May 7, 2015

• #7

MacKenzie said:

Third division is our level, I'm hoping that that might be upgraded now we've got the infrastructure.

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This. We are now upgrading and have high expectations but we need a very long spell at this level or above to change your statement