" How big can they become? Can they climb the Leagues? "

" BRADFORD CITY "

This Season

64 matches all season,
6 extra times,
4 penalty shoot-outs (all successful),
beat 3 premier league sides,
1 major cup final,
10,500 regular fans and a massive reserve when needed in the 4th Division.
32,000 fans at Wembley for the cup final,
25,000 fans for the play off final,
and 1 PROMOTION.


Bradford just had 6 consecutive years in Division 4 and averaged over 10,500 home crowds
Capacity over 25,000.

Fair play, they have had one hell of a season.

I don't know if there is money in the club to push them on again but they certainly seem to have a manager and a few players who could take them further with strengthening.

When they were in the Premier League, they were never a fashionable club but due to their season I think they have won a few more fans in football.

Fair play, they have had one hell of a season.

I don't know if there is money in the club to push them on again but they certainly seem to have a manager and a few players who could take them further with strengthening.

When they were in the Premier League, they were never a fashionable club but due to their season I think they have won a few more fans in football.

Carl they are local owners, Bradford born and Bred, not sure how wealthy they are, but their fans have loved this season.
They are a very proud and passionate club. But u need big money to go all the way. The manager looks good.

Can be league 1 team with stability.

Can be league 1 team with stability.

Dando, Yes Def Championship with their support and ground.

Big support, decent ground. In the Prem not so long ago. With a bit of backing I reckon they could be challenging for promotion to the Prem within 6 years

Remember going to Bradford in 94, drinking in a pub overlooking a roundabout on a main road, copper on a motorbike was to busy nosing at us and not watching where he was going, he went straight up the arse of the car in front and fell off his bike.

You can imagine the reception he got.

Can be league 1 team with stability.

Dando, Yes Def Championship with their support and ground.

Got great support and ground.

I am sure Stevenage went from Conference to League 2 then won the play offs vs Torquay then got to the League 1 play offs and lost v Sheff Utd.. So I don't see why they can't challenge to get in the Champ.

Look at Yeovil.

They should be much higher then they are.

Much bigger club then Wigan

10,000 fans in League Two is fantastic, doubt we'd get that considering we only had 12,000 in the bottom half of the Championship a few years ago. I can see them getting into the Championship very soon.

20th May 2013

Bradford City rise again as a cut-price success on and off the field

The Bantams' ascent to League One repaid the exemplary way that the club have been run in recent years

Guardian report


Bradford City 3
James Hanson 15, Rory McArdle 19, Nahki Wells 28
Northampton 0


Bradford City achieved promotion by handing out a lesson, and not just to Northampton Town. This emphatic victory rewarded an accomplished performance and the ascent to League One repaid the exemplary way that the club have been run in recent years.

Looking around Wembley, which was awash with proud Bradford fans for the second time in three months following February's Capital One Cup final, it was clear that the club are harvesting the fruit that was planted after relegation from the third tier in 2007.

Back then the joint chairmen, Mark Lawn and Julian Rhodes, introduced a scheme to offer supporters the cheapest season tickets in the Football League and even for this triumphant campaign, six years on, season tickets were available for less than £200. Prices were set following consultation between club management and the 21-member supporters' board, the first of its kind in England, and go a long way towards explaining why Bradford have attracted average home attendances of around 10,000 – not just this season but also last term, when they were struggling against relegation from the Football League. Phil Parkinson's success as a manager since he arrived in August 2011 has been to produce a team that have contributed to the synergy with the bumper home crowd.

"I think the season-ticket deal that the chairmen have done for the supporters is fantastic," said the manager. "If you're a supporter and you've got value for money, you tend to be more forgiving if the players make mistakes. Whereas if you've paid over the odds, you've got a bit of anger inside you. So when I came in we knew that if we can give the crowd something to respond to, they would get right behind us. We've got a mantra in the team that if we can out-work and out-tackle everybody, then the supporters can really identify with the players, and the support we've had has been incredible."

Parkinson's entire squad cost just £7,500, having paid a fee for no one other than the striker James Hanson, who opened the scoring against Northampton with a looping header from Garry Thompson's cross. Rory McArdle scored a virtually identical goal four minutes later and then, in the 28th minute, Nahki Wells volleyed a third past the Northampton goalkeeper Lee Nicholls, who made several saves after that to prevent heavier damage.

Northampton's manager, Aidy Boothroyd, has also presided over an upturn in his club's fortunes since succeeding Gary Johnson midway through last season, when the Cobblers were in the League Two relegation zone, but the progress that has been made since then offered no consolation for the way his team froze at Wembley.

"It's great to have got here but when you get to a final like this, you want to be a winner, nothing else," said Boothroyd, who also insisted that defeat was not made any easier by the fact that it was against Bradford, the club that he has supported as a child. Boothroyd was at Valley Parade with his father 28 years ago when 56 people lost their lives in the Bradford fire disaster.

Parkinson attended a memorial service for those victims on the anniversary of the tragedy, 11 May. "I felt since I've been here that there is a close bond between the city and the football club and obviously that [tragedy] is a major factor to it," he added. "The supporters have a special connection with the club. I felt the bond was probably lost a little before but we've got that back this year."

Man of the match Gary Jones(Bradford City)


http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013 ... ootball%29

Would love them to go up again from momentum as it would be interesting to see Bradford vs Leeds in the modern game. That'd be one dirty old game.

doubt Bradford will be big one day as the Bantam is too scared of other symbols and Bantams cant fly really high...

I was told they only charge a tenner to get in , that's why they get a reasonable crowd, pity our owners are'nt so enlightened.

I was told they only charge a tenner to get in , that's why they get a reasonable crowd, pity our owners are'nt so enlightened.

I went to watch them in the 4th Division it was £20 Adult in Advance and £25 on the day in the 4th Division and the crowd that day was over 11,000, excellent support for a team never in the top 3.

Surely we should be talking about how big Cardiff City can become in the prem

I was told they only charge a tenner to get in , that's why they get a reasonable crowd, pity our owners are'nt so enlightened.

Hi lads, This season's season tickets were £249 or you could buy a flexi card for £50 then that entitled you to pay a tenner in.
We sold around 6,000 st and aroun 2000 flexi cards. Really glad to get out of league 2 . We have no debt at all . Both our Chairmen are very Different blokes, One's a gobshite looks like a rag and bone man, Proper City fan who even used to travel in back of vans to away games when he was younger, The other is worth a lot more, Doesn't talk much so we don't know much about him. We have a bit of money to strengthen the team so i think we will do well in league 1.
If we ever get back in the Championship i would be happy staying there. We had been crippled with debt since our premier ship days and unless you can compete i find it boring and when relegated in massive debt. Over the last few years more and more Asians are also watching us including Asian girls.

Bob, can you tell Paul(Macca) to ph me lost his tel

Surely we should be talking about how big Cardiff City can become in the prem

We have over a dozen times, its good to talk about other clubs as well

Bob, can you tell Paul(Macca) to ph me lost his tel

Iv'e lost his number but i'll make sure he gets the message.

Bob, can you tell Paul(Macca) to ph me lost his tel

Iv'e lost his number but i'll make sure he gets the message.

Cheers Bob, I will def be at some of your games next season, its good to see all the old faces

Bob, can you tell Paul(Macca) to ph me lost his tel

Iv'e lost his number but i'll make sure he gets the message.

Cheers Bob, I will def be at some of your games next season, its good to see all the old faces

Sheff Utd at home . Wolves away .

Bob, can you tell Paul(Macca) to ph me lost his tel

Iv'e lost his number but i'll make sure he gets the message.

Cheers Bob, I will def be at some of your games next season, its good to see all the old faces

Sheff Utd at home . Wolves away .

I remember Sheff Utd on Manningham lane in 1983, mental.

Wolves will be a good day out.

Bob, can you tell Paul(Macca) to ph me lost his tel

Iv'e lost his number but i'll make sure he gets the message.

Cheers Bob, I will def be at some of your games next season, its good to see all the old faces

Sheff Utd at home . Wolves away .

I remember Sheff Utd on Manningham lane in 1983, mental.

Wolves will be a good day out.

Well that's how it was back then, But now it's good to go to the games have a drink with lads enjoy the game.

Bob, can you tell Paul(Macca) to ph me lost his tel

Iv'e lost his number but i'll make sure he gets the message.

Cheers Bob, I will def be at some of your games next season, its good to see all the old faces

Sheff Utd at home . Wolves away .

I remember Sheff Utd on Manningham lane in 1983, mental.

Wolves will be a good day out.

Well that's how it was back then, But now it's good to go to the games have a drink with lads enjoy the game.

Totally agree Bob, weve all moved on and grown up.

They do offer very cheap season tickets to attract those big crowds but they are definitely way too big a club for League Two. Should be Championship at least !