Swansea City Association Football Club is a Welsh professional football club based in Swansea, Wales that plays in the Championship, the second tier of English football. The official Arms used by the council today were granted by the College of Arms in 1922. In July 2001, following relegation back to Third Division, the club was sold to managing director Mike Lewis for £1. The first season back in the Championship produced a 10th-place finish, including a quarter-final appearance in the FA Cup. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Since the 1970s, the core component of the badge was a swan. [40], On 6 November 2017, assistant coach Claude Makélélé left the club to join Belgian side Eupen. It will only be 45 days since the Swans’ Play-Off semi-final defeat to Brentford and 52 days since North End last faced competitive league … Please help us improve our website Swansea have played their home matches at the Liberty Stadium since 2005, having previously played at the Vetch Fieldsince the club wa… Wilfred Milne holds the record for Swansea appearances, having played 586 matches between 1920 and 1937, closely followed by Roger Freestone with 563 between 1991 and 2004. Davies re-signed the 36-year-old Ivor Allchurch from Cardiff City, but despite winning the Welsh Cup, the season saw some of the club's heaviest defeats, and the manager only lasted the season. Such claims cannot be supported by documentary evidence, although there is certainly some connection, since the Arms of de Breos appear in the design of the Seal. Swansea City statistics over 100 years. That same season, Swansea won the Football League Trophy for the first time since 1994, and the FAW Premier Cup for a second successive year. On 11 July, Swansea paid a club record transfer fee of £12 million to secure the signing of striker Wilfried Bony from Vitesse Arnhem; Bony was the leading goalscorer in the 2012–13 Eredivisie with 31 goals and was named Dutch Player of the Year. 1960s supporters club badge. But the Swans were 0–2 up at half-time thanks to Jimmy McLaughlin and Eddie Thomas. However, eventually, the black swan made a comeback. After the initial optimism, the Liverpool connection had not caused history to repeat itself. Since 1970, when the following logo was adopted, the football club has been experimenting with completely different types of logo, which featured a swan. Few gave the Swans, struggling for their lives at the bottom of Division Two, any chance of causing an upset against the league leaders. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. [79] Swansea's 8–1 win against Notts County in the FA Cup in 2018 is their largest winning margin of the competition, and the largest winning margin at their home ground, the Liberty Stadium. The early history of the Arms of Swansea is obscure. Swansea vs Arsenal 1968, the Vetch Field’s Record Attendance. Lewis subsequently sold on his stake to a consortium of Australian businessmen behind the Brisbane Lions (An Australian Rules Football team that is based in Brisbane) football team, fronted by Tony Petty. [21][22] This triumph, in a record victory, was Swansea's first major piece of silverware and qualified them for the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League. Thus began a remarkable climb from the Fourth Division to the top of the entire league. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. During his short-lived reign, his evident lack of ability led to senior players Christian Edwards and Dave Penney ejecting Cullis from the dressing room during half time and giving the team talk themselves in a 4–0 defeat to Blackpool, which proved to be his second and last game in charge.