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The 1920–21 season was the 33rd season of competitive football played by Burnley Football Club. Burnley began the season confidently, despite not having played a match for almost four months before their first league fixture of the season. After losing their first three games, Burnley embarked on a 30-match unbeaten league run from 4 September 1920 until 26 March 1921, winning the Football League First Division and becoming English champions for the first time in their history. Burnley's unbeaten run stood as a Football League record for over 80 years, until it was bettered by Arsenal in the 2003–04 season. Burnley ended the 1920–21 season on 59 points, having won 23 games, drawn 13, and lost 6. The team reached the third round of the FA Cup, defeating Leicester City away and Queens Park Rangers at home, before unexpectedly losing away to Second Division side Hull City. Burnley won the East Lancashire Charity Cup, beating Blackburn Rovers 8–2 over two legs, but fared poorly in the Lancashire Senior Cup, losing to Manchester City. As league champions, Burnley qualified for the Charity Shield, in which they were beaten 0–2 by FA Cup winners Tottenham Hotspur. Burnley also played two friendly matches during the season. The first, against Blackburn Rovers, marked the opening of Accrington Stanley's new stadium; the other was a benefit match for Patsy Gallacher, against a representative team from the Scottish Football League. Burnley used 23 different players during the season and had nine different goalscorers. Their top scorer was Scottish forward Joe Anderson, with 31 competitive goals, including 25 in the league. Eight new players were signed by Burnley during the course of the season, and nine were released. Match attendances were the highest they had ever been at Turf Moor, with an average gate of over 30,000. The highest attendance of the campaign was a crowd of 42,653, who saw Burnley beat Bolton Wanderers 3–1 on 26 February 1921; the lowest was 22,000, for the match against Sunderland on the final day of the season. ==Background and pre-season== The 1920–21 campaign was the second season of competitive football in England after the First World War. Burnley's chairman, Harry Windle, had been elected to the position in 1909, and manager John Haworth was marking his 11th consecutive year in charge. After finishing as runners-up to West Bromwich Albion in the Football League First Division the previous season, there was a sense of eager anticipation within the club before the season began.〔 Team captain Tommy Boyle claimed that his side was capable of building on its success of the previous season and winning the league championship,〔Simpson (2007), p. 150〕 despite Burnley not having won a trophy since their FA Cup victory in 1914.〔Simpson (2007), p. 131〕 Burnley did not play any pre-season friendly games other than a practice match between the first team and the reserves, which was watched by a crowd of around 10,000 at Turf Moor.〔Lee & Whalley (2002), p. 39〕 The team's last competitive match had ended in a 0–2 defeat against Manchester United in the Lancashire Senior Cup on 8 May 1920, almost four months earlier.〔Simpson (2007), p. 148〕 The strip for 1920–21 was very little changed from that of the previous season; the claret jersey with light blue sleeves and a light blue stripe around the collar was kept along with the white shorts, but the claret socks were replaced by black.〔Simpson (2007), p. 586〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1920–21 Burnley F.C. season」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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