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This article deals with the history of Birmingham City Football Club, a professional association football club based in the city of Birmingham, England. For a season-by-season breakdown of the club's performance, see Birmingham City F.C. seasons. ==1875–1919== Birmingham City were founded as Small Heath Alliance in 1875, and from 1877 played their home games at Muntz Street. The club turned professional in 1885, and three years later became the first football club to be organised as a limited company with a board of directors, under the name of Small Heath F.C. Ltd.〔 From 1889–90 they played in the Football Alliance, which ran alongside the Football League. In 1892, Small Heath, along with the other Alliance teams, were invited to join the newly formed Football League Second Division. In that first season Small Heath were Second Division champions, scoring no fewer than 90 goals in the 22 matches, but were denied promotion after losing test matches against Newton Heath.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Division 2 1892/93 )〕 The following season promotion to the First Division was secured after a second-place finish and test match victory over Darwen.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Division 2 1893/94 )〕 At an Extraordinary General Meeting held in March 1905, director T. D. Todd proposed that, Small Heath being the only major football club in the city〔Aston Villa were based in the municipal borough of Aston Manor, which was added to the county borough of Birmingham only in 1911.〕 since Birmingham St George's had folded in 1892, the club should be renamed Birmingham City F.C. The shareholders were not in favour, though they were prepared to go as far as plain Birmingham Football Club instead (there had been an earlier side by this name who had competed in the FA Cup). Even this was a step too far for some; one reporter referred to "the Small Heath club now masquerading as Birmingham".〔Matthews, ''Complete Record'', p. 12.〕 A new ground with reported capacity of 75,000, known as St Andrew's Ground, was built and opened the following year,〔Matthews, ''Complete Record'', pp. 12–13.〕 though matters on the field failed to live up to their new surroundings. Birmingham were relegated in 1908, obliged to apply for re-election two years later, and remained in the Second Division until after the First World War.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Birmingham City )〕 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「History of Birmingham City F.C.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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