1893. The year Coventry City Football Club was founded. A crucial moment in the club’s history from the English industrial city of Coventry was promotion to Division One in 1967 – England’s top division at the time. For over 30 years – from 1967 to 2001 – the club stayed up there in the top echelon of English football. Probably the most successful phase in the Sky Blues‘ club history. Finally, an unforgettable highlight also falls during this period: with the victory of the FA Cup in 1987, the CCFC secured its only major national title to date. In front of over 90,000 spectators at London’s Wembley Stadium, Coventry defeated Tottenham Hotspur 3-2 in a thrilling final.
Five years later, Coventry became one of the founding members of the Premier League in 1992, replacing Division One as the top flight. In the following years, the club always managed, although sometimes just barely, to stay in the Premier League. But at the beginning of the 2000s they fell into the second division, and later the Sky Blues even slipped down to the fourth division. But the club from the city of around 380,000 people got back on its feet: back to the third division of League One, back to the second highest division of the Football League Championship. The latter a remarkable milestone that Coventry City achieved in 2020 during the Corona pandemic and emerged as champions.