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Brentford ended a 74-year absence from English football's top flight when they won promotion to the Premier League in which year?
WhyThey went up through the Championship play-offs at Wembley. -
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What is Brentford FC's traditional nickname?
WhyIt buzzes, and the insect features on the club crest. -
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Which manager led Brentford from 2015 to 2018 before leaving to take charge of Aston Villa?
WhyHe later guided Villa back to the Premier League. -
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Championship side Brentford reached the 2020‑21 League Cup semi-finals. Who beat them 2‑0 in that semi?
WhyTottenham won the semi in January 2021. Brentford had beaten Newcastle 1-0 in the quarter-finals. -
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Brentford reached the 2011 Football League Trophy final at Wembley but lost 1‑0. Who beat them?
WhyPeter Murphy scored the only goal as Carlisle won the 2011 final. -
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Brentford FC was formed by members of which local sporting club, whose members voted to play football rather than rugby?
WhyThe founders were more accustomed to oars and the river than to grass. -
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Brentford's historic home ground was famously said to be the only English league ground with what on each of its four corners?
WhyFans could get a pint at whichever corner they chose. -
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In January 2006 Brentford knocked which Premier League club out in the FA Cup fourth round?
WhyDJ Campbell scored both goals in a 2-1 win over Sunderland. Martin Allen's side then went out to Charlton in the fifth round. -
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Brentford's then-record sale came in 2020 when which striker joined Aston Villa for a fee reported around £28 million?
WhyHe had just finished as the Championship's joint-top scorer that season. -
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Which Danish playmaker joined Brentford in January 2022, months after suffering a cardiac arrest at Euro 2020?
WhyHis half-season comeback preceded a summer switch to Manchester United. -
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Which club beat Brentford 1‑0 in the 1997 Second Division play-off final at Wembley?
WhyDario Gradi's Crewe won 1-0 at Wembley to go up to the second tier. -
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Brentford sold striker Neal Maupay in 2019 to which Premier League club?
WhyHe joined a south-coast side for what was then their own club-record fee. -
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Who was Brentford's long-serving manager from 1926 to 1949, guiding the club from the third tier up to the First Division?
WhyHis 23-year reign is comfortably the longest in the club's dugout history. -
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Brentford signed goalkeeper David Raya in 2019 from which Championship club?
WhyHe had spent seven years at this Lancashire club before the move. -
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Uwe Rösler left Brentford in December 2013 to manage which club?
WhyRösler joined Wigan, the FA Cup holders, and Mark Warburton took over at Brentford. -
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Brentford missed automatic promotion on the last day of 2001‑02 and then lost the Second Division play-off final 2‑0 in Cardiff. Who beat them?
WhyStoke won the final 2-0 at the Millennium Stadium. Steve Coppell's Brentford had lost the automatic spot to Reading on the final day. -
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What was Brentford's highest-ever finish in the top division of English football, reached in the 1935‑36 season?
WhyIn their debut top-flight campaign they surged into the top five after Christmas. -
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On the last day of 2012‑13, Marcello Trotta's stoppage-time penalty hit the bar and the other side broke away to score and win the League One title. Which club?
WhyJames Coppinger scored on the break at Griffin Park and Doncaster took the title. -
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Which Sweden international did Brentford sign from Leeds United in 2019 and later appoint club captain?
WhyA commanding centre-back who marshalled the promotion-winning defence. -
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Who is Brentford's all-time record goalscorer, with 163 goals between 1954 and 1961?
WhyOne half of the 1950s 'Terrible Twins' strike partnership. -
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Brentford lost the 2020 Championship play-off final at Wembley to which club?
WhyBeaten by their nearest West London neighbours, who went up in their place. -
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In 2022, Brentford's stadium was renamed after which company acquired the naming rights?
WhyA British home-appliance brand best known for cordless vacuum cleaners. -
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Who scored Brentford's first-ever Premier League goal, on the opening night of the 2021‑22 season?
WhyA Spanish winger struck first; a Dane headed the second from a long throw. -
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In their first Championship season, 2014‑15, Brentford finished fifth. Which club knocked them out in the play-off semi-finals?
WhyMiddlesbrough won both legs. Norwich beat Ipswich in the other semi-final and then beat Boro in the final. -
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Brentford went up to the Championship as League One runners-up in 2013‑14. Who were the champions?
WhyWolves won League One with 103 points. Rotherham went up through the play-offs. -
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In 1994‑95 Brentford finished second in Division Two, but league restructuring meant only the champions went up automatically. Which club beat them on penalties in the play-off semi-final?
WhyHuddersfield knocked Brentford out on penalties and then beat Bristol Rovers in the final. Birmingham were the champions who went up automatically. -
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Brentford secured their first-ever Premier League promotion by winning the Championship play-off final against which club?
WhyA Welsh side was beaten 2-0 at Wembley in the final. -
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Griffin Park, Brentford's home from 1904, was named after the griffin emblem of which brewery, which owned the land?
WhyThe griffin was the emblem of Fuller, Smith & Turner, the Chiswick brewery that owned the orchard the ground was built on. -
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In 1920 Brentford, along with 20 other Southern League clubs, became founder members of which newly-created tier of the Football League?
WhyA whole batch of Southern League sides joined together to create this new bottom rung. -
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Brentford's record home attendance of 38,678 was set at their old West London ground in a 1949 FA Cup tie against which club?
WhyThe Foxes came to town for the cup that February. -
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Which businessman bought Brentford in 1998, named himself manager and won the fourth-tier title in 1998‑99?
WhyRon Noades had just sold Crystal Palace. He took over at Griffin Park, managed the team himself and won the title at the first attempt. -
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Which club beat Brentford 2‑1 in the 2013 League One play-off final at Wembley?
WhyYeovil won 2-1 to reach the second tier for the first time in their history, only weeks after the Trotta penalty heartbreak. -
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Which Danish manager led Brentford to their first Premier League promotion?
WhyHe took over the Bees in 2018, having previously been an assistant at the club. -
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Brentford's analytics-led, statistics-driven recruitment model is most associated with which owner?
WhyHe founded the sports-modelling firm Smartodds. -
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Who managed Brentford when they won the League Two title in 2008‑09?
WhyAndy Scott took over in 2007 and led the Bees to the 2008-09 League Two championship. -
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Dean Holdsworth helped Brentford win the 1991‑92 third-tier title. Which club did he join in the summer of 1992?
WhyHoldsworth joined Wimbledon's Crazy Gang in 1992, a few months after firing Brentford to the title. -
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From which League One club did Brentford sign striker Ivan Toney in 2020?
WhyHe had been the third tier's standout marksman the previous season before moving to west London. -
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Mark Warburton left Brentford in 2015 to become manager of which club?
WhyWarburton moved to Rangers in 2015 and won them promotion back to the Scottish top flight. He joined Forest later, in 2017. -
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Brentford's traditional home kit displays red and white in what pattern?
WhyThink Sheffield United or Southampton, not Celtic-style hoops. -
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Brentford marked their Premier League debut on 13 August 2021 with a 2‑0 home win over which club?
WhyThe Bees stunned a big London rival under the Friday-night lights. -
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At which ground did Brentford play their home matches from 1904 until 2020?
WhyNamed after a mythical winged beast, it stood in West London for well over a century.
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About Brentford
Brentford began with a show of hands: members of Brentford Rowing Club voted to take up football rather than rugby, and west London gained the club everyone knows as the Bees. From 1904 to 2020 the red-and-white vertical stripes played at Griffin Park, famously said to be the only English league ground with a pub on each of its four corners, before the move to the stadium that has carried the Gtech name since a 2022 naming-rights deal. This free Brentford quiz covers the whole story — the rowing-club origins, the Griffin Park decades, and the data-driven rise that ended 74 years outside the top flight.
The old days reward knowing. Brentford were founder members of the Third Division in 1920, one of 21 Southern League clubs who formed the new tier, and under Harry Curtis — manager for 23 years from 1926 to 1949 — climbed from the Third Division to the First, finishing fifth in 1935-36, still the club's highest-ever placing. Griffin Park's record crowd of 38,678 squeezed in for a 1949 FA Cup tie against Leicester City, and Jim Towers remains the record goalscorer with 163 goals between 1954 and 1961. The modern chapter belongs to Matthew Benham, the professional gambler whose analytics-first recruitment rebuilt the club: Dean Smith laid the foundations from 2015 until Aston Villa came calling in October 2018, and Thomas Frank absorbed the pain of losing the 2020 play-off final to Fulham at Wembley before beating Swansea City 2-0 a year later to end the 74-year wait. On the opening night of 2021-22, Sergi Canós scored the club's first Premier League goal in a 2-0 home win over Arsenal.
Expect the full spread — transfers, records, managers and cult heroes. The recruitment model is a quiz in itself: David Raya signed from Blackburn Rovers and Pontus Jansson from Leeds United in 2019, with Jansson later made club captain; Ivan Toney arrived from League One Peterborough United in 2020; Ollie Watkins left for Aston Villa the same year in a then-record sale reported around £28 million, after Neal Maupay's 2019 move to Brighton. And in January 2022, Christian Eriksen — months after his cardiac arrest at Euro 2020 — joined a Danish head coach at Brentford. Difficulty climbs from easy openers (the nickname, the pubs on Griffin Park's corners) to genuinely hard deep cuts about record crowds, Harry Curtis-era finishes and exact fees.
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Brentford ended a 74-year absence from English football's top flight when they won promotion to the Premier League in which year?
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2021. They went up through the Championship play-offs at Wembley.
What is Brentford FC's traditional nickname?
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The Bees. It buzzes, and the insect features on the club crest.
Which manager led Brentford from 2015 to 2018 before leaving to take charge of Aston Villa?
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Dean Smith. He later guided Villa back to the Premier League.
Championship side Brentford reached the 2020‑21 League Cup semi-finals. Who beat them 2‑0 in that semi?
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Tottenham Hotspur. Tottenham won the semi in January 2021. Brentford had beaten Newcastle 1-0 in the quarter-finals.
Brentford reached the 2011 Football League Trophy final at Wembley but lost 1‑0. Who beat them?
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Carlisle United. Peter Murphy scored the only goal as Carlisle won the 2011 final.
Brentford FC was formed by members of which local sporting club, whose members voted to play football rather than rugby?
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Brentford Rowing Club. The founders were more accustomed to oars and the river than to grass.
Brentford's historic home ground was famously said to be the only English league ground with what on each of its four corners?
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A pub. Fans could get a pint at whichever corner they chose.
In January 2006 Brentford knocked which Premier League club out in the FA Cup fourth round?
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Sunderland. DJ Campbell scored both goals in a 2-1 win over Sunderland. Martin Allen's side then went out to Charlton in the fifth round.
Brentford's then-record sale came in 2020 when which striker joined Aston Villa for a fee reported around £28 million?
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Ollie Watkins. He had just finished as the Championship's joint-top scorer that season.
Which Danish playmaker joined Brentford in January 2022, months after suffering a cardiac arrest at Euro 2020?
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Christian Eriksen. His half-season comeback preceded a summer switch to Manchester United.
Which club beat Brentford 1‑0 in the 1997 Second Division play-off final at Wembley?
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Crewe Alexandra. Dario Gradi's Crewe won 1-0 at Wembley to go up to the second tier.
Brentford sold striker Neal Maupay in 2019 to which Premier League club?
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Brighton & Hove Albion. He joined a south-coast side for what was then their own club-record fee.
Who was Brentford's long-serving manager from 1926 to 1949, guiding the club from the third tier up to the First Division?
Show answer
Harry Curtis. His 23-year reign is comfortably the longest in the club's dugout history.
Brentford signed goalkeeper David Raya in 2019 from which Championship club?
Show answer
Blackburn Rovers. He had spent seven years at this Lancashire club before the move.
Uwe Rösler left Brentford in December 2013 to manage which club?
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Wigan Athletic. Rösler joined Wigan, the FA Cup holders, and Mark Warburton took over at Brentford.
Brentford missed automatic promotion on the last day of 2001‑02 and then lost the Second Division play-off final 2‑0 in Cardiff. Who beat them?
Show answer
Stoke City. Stoke won the final 2-0 at the Millennium Stadium. Steve Coppell's Brentford had lost the automatic spot to Reading on the final day.
What was Brentford's highest-ever finish in the top division of English football, reached in the 1935‑36 season?
Show answer
5th. In their debut top-flight campaign they surged into the top five after Christmas.
On the last day of 2012‑13, Marcello Trotta's stoppage-time penalty hit the bar and the other side broke away to score and win the League One title. Which club?
Show answer
Doncaster Rovers. James Coppinger scored on the break at Griffin Park and Doncaster took the title.
Which Sweden international did Brentford sign from Leeds United in 2019 and later appoint club captain?
Show answer
Pontus Jansson. A commanding centre-back who marshalled the promotion-winning defence.
Who is Brentford's all-time record goalscorer, with 163 goals between 1954 and 1961?
Show answer
Jim Towers. One half of the 1950s 'Terrible Twins' strike partnership.
Brentford lost the 2020 Championship play-off final at Wembley to which club?
Show answer
Fulham. Beaten by their nearest West London neighbours, who went up in their place.
In 2022, Brentford's stadium was renamed after which company acquired the naming rights?
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Gtech. A British home-appliance brand best known for cordless vacuum cleaners.
Who scored Brentford's first-ever Premier League goal, on the opening night of the 2021‑22 season?
Show answer
Sergi Canós. A Spanish winger struck first; a Dane headed the second from a long throw.
In their first Championship season, 2014‑15, Brentford finished fifth. Which club knocked them out in the play-off semi-finals?
Show answer
Middlesbrough. Middlesbrough won both legs. Norwich beat Ipswich in the other semi-final and then beat Boro in the final.
Brentford went up to the Championship as League One runners-up in 2013‑14. Who were the champions?
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Wolverhampton Wanderers. Wolves won League One with 103 points. Rotherham went up through the play-offs.
In 1994‑95 Brentford finished second in Division Two, but league restructuring meant only the champions went up automatically. Which club beat them on penalties in the play-off semi-final?
Show answer
Huddersfield Town. Huddersfield knocked Brentford out on penalties and then beat Bristol Rovers in the final. Birmingham were the champions who went up automatically.
Brentford secured their first-ever Premier League promotion by winning the Championship play-off final against which club?
Show answer
Swansea City. A Welsh side was beaten 2-0 at Wembley in the final.
Griffin Park, Brentford's home from 1904, was named after the griffin emblem of which brewery, which owned the land?
Show answer
Fuller's. The griffin was the emblem of Fuller, Smith & Turner, the Chiswick brewery that owned the orchard the ground was built on.
In 1920 Brentford, along with 20 other Southern League clubs, became founder members of which newly-created tier of the Football League?
Show answer
Third Division. A whole batch of Southern League sides joined together to create this new bottom rung.
Brentford's record home attendance of 38,678 was set at their old West London ground in a 1949 FA Cup tie against which club?
Show answer
Leicester City. The Foxes came to town for the cup that February.
Which businessman bought Brentford in 1998, named himself manager and won the fourth-tier title in 1998‑99?
Show answer
Ron Noades. Ron Noades had just sold Crystal Palace. He took over at Griffin Park, managed the team himself and won the title at the first attempt.
Which club beat Brentford 2‑1 in the 2013 League One play-off final at Wembley?
Show answer
Yeovil Town. Yeovil won 2-1 to reach the second tier for the first time in their history, only weeks after the Trotta penalty heartbreak.
Which Danish manager led Brentford to their first Premier League promotion?
Show answer
Thomas Frank. He took over the Bees in 2018, having previously been an assistant at the club.
Brentford's analytics-led, statistics-driven recruitment model is most associated with which owner?
Show answer
Matthew Benham. He founded the sports-modelling firm Smartodds.
Who managed Brentford when they won the League Two title in 2008‑09?
Show answer
Andy Scott. Andy Scott took over in 2007 and led the Bees to the 2008-09 League Two championship.
Dean Holdsworth helped Brentford win the 1991‑92 third-tier title. Which club did he join in the summer of 1992?
Show answer
Wimbledon. Holdsworth joined Wimbledon's Crazy Gang in 1992, a few months after firing Brentford to the title.
From which League One club did Brentford sign striker Ivan Toney in 2020?
Show answer
Peterborough United. He had been the third tier's standout marksman the previous season before moving to west London.
Mark Warburton left Brentford in 2015 to become manager of which club?
Show answer
Rangers. Warburton moved to Rangers in 2015 and won them promotion back to the Scottish top flight. He joined Forest later, in 2017.
Brentford's traditional home kit displays red and white in what pattern?
Show answer
Vertical stripes. Think Sheffield United or Southampton, not Celtic-style hoops.
Brentford marked their Premier League debut on 13 August 2021 with a 2‑0 home win over which club?
Show answer
Arsenal. The Bees stunned a big London rival under the Friday-night lights.
At which ground did Brentford play their home matches from 1904 until 2020?
Show answer
Griffin Park. Named after a mythical winged beast, it stood in West London for well over a century.
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