Swansea City AFC

Swansea City AFC (Welsh: Clwb Droed-cymdeithas Dinas Abertawe) is a football club from Swansea, Wales, the team plays in the English Premier League.



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[hide] *1 Football League Trophy  ==Football League Trophy[ Edit] == Swansea City Cardiff City with arch-rival is the only team that ever played in the highest English Division (the former First Division). In 1912 was the former Swansea Town founded, and began in the Southern League. The first competitive match played it on 7 september 1912, against Cardiff City. It was 1-1. Swansea played from 1912 to2005 in The Vetch Field. The club grew more and more out of the stadium. In addition, it hit more and more in decline and more and more replacement was necessary. On23 July 2005 it played against Fulham the opening game of the new Liberty Stadium (it was 1-1). The name of the new stadium comes from the sponsor Liberty Properties.The fans call it rather the White Rock Stadium, such as the original name is.
 * 2 Football League Two
 * 3 Football League Championship
 * 4 Premier League
 * 5 Palmares
 * 6 Performance
 * 7 Players
 * 7.1 Selection 2013/2014
 * 7.2 Loaned players
 * 7.3 former players
 * 8 In Europe
 * 9 Swansea City AFC and the Dutch national football team
 * 10 external link

Just like in 1993/94 during the season 2005/06 Swansea won the Football League Trophy by winning 2-1 vs. Carlisle United. The game was played in the for 42,000 spectators to Cardiff Millennium Stadium . The Swans also ended that season in sixth place in the League. That place gave them right to the play-offs promotion to theChampionship to enforce. It played In the final against Barnsley. After the regular time was 2-2 and it lost on penalty shootout: 3-4. ==Football League Two[ Edit] == Swansea played many years in the Football League Two, and knew in the season 2002/2003 narrowly relegation to the Conference, the amateur football, avoid. It came all to on the last day. On 3 May 2003, Swansea one point more than Exeter City. One of the two teams would relegate that day. Swansea knew by, amongst others, two penalty kicks 4-2 to beat Hull City. Exeter won the home match against Southend United 1-0, but that still was not enough to prevent relegation. Swansea was saved from destruction. ==Football League Championship[ Edit] == In the season 2007/08, the team captured the title in the Football League One. As a result, Swansea played in the season 2008/09, for the first time in 24 years, again in the Championship. The club holds eighth place, followed by the seventh place in the season 2009/10. ==Premier League<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the following season 2010/2011 forced Swansea via the play-offs promotion to the Premier League off. In the final of the play-offs, on 30 may 2011 in Wembley Stadium in London, was Reading FC 4-2 reports, inter alia, by three hits from striker Scott Sinclair <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="164" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1] .

<p lang="en" len="63" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The fanatical following of Swansea is called "The Jack Army". ==Palmares<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Performance<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==