Birmingham City Logo — Birmingham City (officially: Birmingham City Football Club ) — also known as The Blues — is one of two British professionals — football clubs from Birmingham (the second club is Aston Villa ). After relegation from the Premier League the club played in the 2008/09 season in the Football League Championship , the second-highest division of English football , but rose again the following season. The club was initially founded as a “Small Heath Alliance,” whose first sports field was exactly opposite the present St. Andrews in the Arthur Street, and changed in the course of his story several times the name of “Small Heath” in 1888 on “Birmingham Football Club “in 1905 for another 40 years later still valid in the official name” Birmingham City Football Club. “
In the years 1931 and 1956 the club reached the finals in each of the FA Cup , were added in 1963 by a 3-1 final win after round match against local rivals Aston Villa and in 2011 after a 2-1 final victory against Arsenal in each with the League Cup the only major trophy in club history. Between 1986 and 2002 saw Birmingham City saw its athletic difficult time, as the club well out of the top English league and was passed through two phases even in the third division had.
The nickname of the team, “The Blues” has its origin in the blue and white team colors. The supporters of the club are leaning out “Bluenoses” called. The club plays its home games in St. Andrew’s Stadium of which offers about 30,000 spectators.