Blackburn Rovers

Full name	Blackburn Rovers Athletic & Football Club
Nickname	Rovers
Founded	1875
Ground	Ewood Park, Blackburn
Capacity	31 367
Chairman	Robert Coar
Manager	Mark Hughes
League	FA Premier League
2003-04	Premier League, 15th
Missing image Kit_body_whitehalf.png Image:kit_body_whitehalf.png 　 Home colours 　 Away colours

Blackburn Rovers is an English Premier League football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire.

Contents

1 Introduction 2 Contact details 2.1 Address 2.2 Phone numbers 3 Current Squad 3.1 Goalkeepers 3.2 Defenders 3.3 Midfielders 3.4 Strikers 4 Grounds 5 Club honours 6 Performance in the top division 7 Club managers 8 External links

Introduction

Blackburn Rovers was established in 1875, and in 1888 became a founder member of the English Football League. In 1890 Rovers moved to its permanent home at Ewood Park.

Until the formation of the Premier League in 1992, the majority of Blackburn Rovers' success was pre-1930 when they won the league and F.A. Cup on several occasions.

In the early 1990s Jack Walker, a local boy and life-long supporter who made millions in the steel industry, invested heavily in the club. He lured former Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish as manager and a number of shrewd player purchases followed, most notably Alan Shearer. This lifted the club back into the Premier League and after finishing runners-up to Manchester United in 1993/1994, Rovers won the championship the following year. A slump followed in the late 1990s, with relegation to League Division One. The team returned to form in 2000 and secured promotion back into the Premier League and in 2002 won the League Cup, beating Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. Blackburn Rovers is still the only team to win the F.A. Cup three years in succession, for which they were awarded a special trophy in 1886, and is one of only a handful of clubs to be a founder member of both the Football League and the Premier League.

Contact details

Address

Ewood Park,
Nutall Street,
Blackburn,
Lancashire,
BB2 4JF.
United Kingdom.

Phone numbers

Telephone: 01254-698888
Fax: 01254-671042
Ticket Office: 01254-671666

Current Squad

Goalkeepers

1.	Brad Friedel
13.	Peter Enckelman
26.	David Yelldell

Defenders

2.	Lucas Neill
4.	Lorenzo Amoruso
6.	Craig Short
14.	Nils-Eric Johansson
15.	Aaron Mokoena
22.	Dominic Matteo
23.	Vratislav Gresko
24.	Andy Todd
25.	James McEveley
29.	Ryan Nelsen	Missing image Flag_of_New_Zealand.png New Zealander
33.	Michael Gray	(on loan to Leeds United)

Midfielders

5.	Garry Flitcroft
7.	Brett Emerton
8.	Tugay Kerimoğlu
12.	Morten Gamst Pedersen
18.	Steven Reid
20.	David Thompson
21.	Jonathan Douglas
31.	Robbie Savage

Strikers

9.	Jonathan Stead
10.	Paul Dickov
17.	Matt Jansen
19.	Paul Gallagher
27.	Jay Bothroyd	(on loan from Perugia)

Grounds

Date	Ground
1876-77	Oozehead Ground
1877-78	Pleasington Cricket Ground
1878-81	Alexandra Meadows
1881-90	Leamington Road
1890-present	Ewood Park

Club honours

Date	Honour
1884,1885,1886,1890,1891,1928	F.A. Cup winners
1882,1960	F.A. Cup runners-up
2002	Worthington (League) Cup winners
1987	Full Members Cup winners
1994-95	Premier League champions
1993-94	Premier League runners-up
1911-12, 1913-1914	League division 1 champions
1938-39	League division 2 champions
1957-58	League division 2 runners-up
1974-75	League division 3 champions
1979-80	League division 3 runners-up

Performance in the top division

Blackburn Rovers has spent a total of sixty-four seasons in the national top division, finishing in these positions:

Position	frequency
15th	6 times
6th	5
4th	5
8th	4
9th	4
10th	4
12th	4
14th	4
16th	4
1st	3
3rd	3
7th	3
5th	2
11th	2
13th	2
17th	2
22nd	2
18th	1
19th	1
20th	1
21st	1
2nd	1

As with Chelsea and Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers has, over the years, finished the season in every league position.

Club managers

Period	Manager
1884-1896	Thomas Mitchell
1896-1803	J Warmsley
1903-1925	R B Middleton
1922-1926	Jack Carr
1926-1930	Bob Crompton
1931-1936	Arthur Barritt
1936-1938	Reg Taylor
1938-1941	Bob Crompton
1944-1947	Eddie Hapgood
1947	Will Scott
1947-1949	Jack Bruton
1949-1953	Jackie Bestall
1953-1958	Johnny Carey
1958-1960	Dally Duncan
1960-1967	Jack Marshall
1967-1970	Eddie Quiqley
1970-1971	Johnny Carey
1971-1973	Ken Furphy
1974-1975	Gordon Lee
1975-1978	Jim Smith
1978	Jim Iley
1978-1979	John Pickering
1979-1981	Howard Kendall
1981-1986	Bobby Saxton
1987-1991	Don Mackay
1991-1996	Kenny Dalglish
1995-1997	Ray Harford
1997-1998	Roy Hodgson
1998-1999	Brian Kidd
1999-2000	Tony Parkes
2000-2004	Graeme Souness
2004-	Mark Hughes

External links

• Blackburn Rovers official website (http://www.rovers.co.uk)
• BBC Sport: Blackburn news/results (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/blackburn_rovers/default.stm)

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