| View Show MyGen Profile GeneratorBrighton & Hove Albion F.C. are an English football team based in the coastal city of Brighton & Hove, East Sussex. They will be playing in the Football League One during the 2006/07 season after their relegation from the Championship. The team are nicknamed 'Seagulls' as befits a sea-side club and partially as a response to the similar sounding nickname ('Eagles') of their arch rivals Crystal Palace, rather than the more obvious seaside link. Prior to this nickname they were known as 'the Dolphins' or 'the Twins'. The team usually play in blue and white stripes.Founded in 1901, Brighton played their early professional football in the Southern League. They were elected to the Football League in 1920. Between 1979 and 1983 they were in the old First Division. In 1983 they reached the final of the FA Cup, which they drew 2–2, but lost 4–0 in a replay to Manchester United but went on to win the Charity Shield. They were relegated from the First Division in the same season. But over the next decade or so, financial problems dragged the Seagulls down the league and in 1997 they narrowly avoided relegation to the Nationwide Conference. A boardroom takeover saved Brighton from going out of business, and by 2001 they had climbed out of the basement division. A second successive promotion was achieved, but they were relegated after just one season. Promotion was gained at the first attempt, but the Seagulls went down again two years later.Well known former managers of the Seagulls include Jimmy Melia, Brian Clough, Barry Lloyd, Liam Brady, Steve Gritt, Micky Adams, Peter Taylor, Steve Coppell and most recently Mark McGhee. Well known former players include Peter Ward, Mark Lawrenson, Tony Grealish, Chris Coward, Jimmy Case, Steve Foster, Dean Saunders, Gary Stevens, Frank Worthington, Bobby Zamora, and Martin Keown.Brighton currently play at Withdean Stadium in Brighton, where they have been tenants since 1999. For two years before that they ground-shared with Gillingham, after their previous stadium — the Goldstone Ground — was sold (BY TRAITORS TO THE CLUB) to help pay off debts. They are hoping to move into a long-awaited new 22,000-seat stadium at Falmer in 2009; the new stadium has been on the cards since the late 1990s.
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