Premier League 2024-25 season of Brighton & Hove Albion FC! This comprehensive guide explores the Seagulls’ squad, including key players, their iconic stadium, and the latest kit design. Get ready for an exciting season on the south coast!
Brighton & Hove Albion FC is a professional football club based in the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England. Founded in 1901, and nicknamed the “Seagulls” or “Albion”, Brighton played their early professional football in the Southern League before being elected to the Football League in 1920.
Brighton & Hove Albion play its matches at Falmer Stadium, but is popularly known as American Express Community Stadium, or simply Amex because of the sponsorship, which has a capacity of 35,750 seats, and which succeeded Withdean Stadium, the sports venue used by the club between 1999 and 2011 and which has a capacity of 8850 spectators. Its official colors are blue and white.
Nicknamed the “Seagulls” or “Albion”, Brighton began their professional games in the Southern League, before being elected to play in the Football League in 1920. The club rose to greater prominence in the late 1970s and early 1920s. 80, precisely between 1979 and 1983, when it rose to the English First Division and reached the 1983 FA Cup Final, losing the final to Manchester United. Soon after, they were relegated to the English Second Division, now known as the EFL Sky Bet Championship.
Mismanagement over the next few years pushed Brighton into the lower divisions, to the point where they almost left the Football League for the Conference, but they managed to avoid it in the 1997 and 1998 seasons. A boardroom takeover saved the team from the sale off; soon after, promotions followed until the team reached the EFL Sky Bet Championship in 2002 since then the team has figured between the third and second divisions of English football.
On the 17th of April 2017, Brighton sealed their access to the Premier League after 34 years, after 3 falls in the play-offs. It will be the club’s first participation in the new format of the competition.
Brighton & Hove Albion FC Profile summary
Team | Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club |
Nickname(s) | The Seagulls, Albion |
Home Stadium | Falmer Stadium |
Stadium Capacity | 31,800 |
Location | Falmer |
Founded | 1901 |
Website | http://www.seagulls.co.uk/ |
League | Premier League 2024–25 |
Manager | Graham Potter |
Brighton & Hove Albion FC 2024–25 Home Stadium
From 1901 to 1997, Brighton played at the historic Goldstone Ground, before the club was forced to sell the stadium in 1997 due to financial problems affecting the company. Thus, the team moved to Priestfield Stadium in Gillingham for two years, before the mobilization of the fans returned the club’s headquarters to the city, where the old Withdean Stadium had been used since 1999, pending the completion of a new installation. The current stadium is 2011 the Falmer Stadium, also known as AMEX Community Stadium after the name of the sponsor American Express.
Brighton & Hove Albion FC 2024–25 Kit
The team’s historic uniform is in blue-white vertical stripes, adopted in 1905. From 1964 to 1970 they opted for a completely blue shirt, which was later revived in the club’s heyday, in the Eighties and, more recently, in the 2020-21 season.
Here is Brighton & Hove Albion 2024–25 Kit, Home, Away, and Third Jersey by Nike.
Brighton & Hove Albion FC 2024–25 Players, Squad?
38 | Thomas McGill | England | 25/03/2000 |
Carl Rushworth | England | 02/07/2001 | |
23 | Jason Steele | England | 18/08/1990 |
1 | Bart Verbruggen | Netherlands | 18/08/2002 |
19 | Valentín Barco | Argentina | 23/07/2004 |
5 | Lewis Dunk | England | 21/11/1991 |
30 | Pervis Estupiñán | Ecuador | 21/01/1998 |
3 | Igor | Brazil | 07/02/1998 |
2 | Tariq Lamptey | Ghana | 30/09/2000 |
43 | Ed Turns | Wales | 18/10/2002 |
29 | Jan Paul van Hecke | Netherlands | 08/06/2000 |
34 | Joël Veltman | Netherlands | 15/01/1992 |
4 | Adam Webster | England | 04/01/1995 |
26 | Yasin Ayari | Sweden | 06/10/2003 |
20 | Carlos Baleba | Cameroon | 03/01/2004 |
40 | Facundo Buonanotte | Argentina | 23/12/2004 |
8 | Mahmoud Dahoud | Syria | 01/01/1996 |
11 | Billy Gilmour | Scotland | 11/06/2001 |
13 | Pascal Groß | Germany | 15/06/1991 |
41 | Jack Hinshelwood | England | 11/04/2005 |
27 | Kacper Kozłowski | Poland | 16/10/2003 |
12 | Marc Leonard | Scotland | 19/12/2001 |
7 | Solly March | England | 20/07/1994 |
6 | James Milner | England | 04/01/1986 |
22 | Kaoru Mitoma | Japan | 20/05/1997 |
15 | Jakub Moder | Poland | 07/04/1999 |
49 | Andrew Moran | Ireland | 15/10/2003 |
19 | Jeremy Sarmiento | Ecuador | 16/06/2002 |
15 | Caylan Vickers | England | 22/12/2004 |
Jensen Weir | England | 31/01/2002 | |
Mats Wieffer | Netherlands | 16/11/1999 | |
24 | Simon Adingra | Ivory Coast | 01/01/2002 |
10 | Julio Enciso | Paraguay | 23/01/2004 |
28 | Evan Ferguson | Ireland | 19/10/2004 |
9 | João Pedro | Brazil | 26/09/2001 |
Adrian Mazilu | Romania | 13/09/2005 | |
Yankuba Minteh | Gambia | 22/07/2004 | |
Ibrahim Osman | Ghana | 29/11/2004 | |
Abdallah Sima | Senegal | 17/06/2001 | |
21 | Deniz Undav | Germany | 19/07/1996 |
18 | Danny Welbeck | England | 26/11/1990 |
Brighton & Hove Albion FC captain
The captain of Brighton & Hove Albion FC is Lewis Dunk. He is a central defender who has been with the club since his youth career in 2003. He was appointed captain by the head coach at the time, Graham Potter, before the 2019-2020 season.
Brighton & Hove Albion FC world rankings
Brighton & Hove Albion FC is currently ranked #106 according to the latest rankings in July 2024 [IFFHS Club World Ranking].
Brighton & Hove Albion FC trophies
Club Domestic | ||
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Championship | Runner-up | 2016/2017, 1978/1979 |
League One | Winner | 2010/2011, 2001/2002 |
League Two | Winner | 2000/2001 |
FA Cup | Runner-up | 1982/1983 |
Community Shield | Winner | 1910/1911 |
Source: FootballArroyo.co.uk