Following the War, the Clarets continued to make their mark on the domestic game and in the 1920-21 season the team enjoyed an unbeaten run of thirty league matches as they led the club to a first-ever First Division title, having been runners-up the previous season.

That record stood for over 80 years until being bettered by Arsenal in the 2003/04 season.

Champions in 1921

By the outbreak of the Second World War, the Clarets were back in the Second Division.  However, the first season of organised football after the War saw them promoted as runners-up to Manchester City - and they also reached their first Wembley final where they lost the F.A. Cup to Charlton Athletic by 1-0.

This led to the most exciting time in the Club's history.  By the late 1950's and early 1960's the Claret and Blue of Burnley had become the most feared colours in the domestic game.  After several near misses, the First Division title again came Burnley's way on the very last day of the 1959-1960 season and two seasons later the Turf Moor Club claimed the double nobody wants - runners-up to Ipswich in the League and Tottenham Hotspur in the F.A. Cup Final, losing 3-1 in an epic Wembley battle.

Champions in 1960

The 1960's also saw two European campaigns.  The 1960 championship side beat French Champions, Reims, in the first round but then went out to Hamburg at the next stage.  Finishing third in the 1965-66 season was good enough to earn a place in the Inter- Cities Fairs Cup (now known as the U.E.F.A. Cup) and Burnley marched on splendidly.  Stuttgart (Germany) and Lausanne (Switzerland) were early casualties before Burnley pulled-off a surprise win against Naples.  Eintracht Frankfurt were the quarter final opponents and after a draw in Germany, a place in the last four looked very much on the cards but the Clarets were beaten 2 -1 at Turf Moor.

That exciting decade ended with Burnley starting to struggle and they were eventually relegated in 1979 - 80.  Two seasons later, they were back in the highest echelon after winning the Second Division title, but only three seasons followed in the top flight before relegation and four years later, Burnley were relegated to the Third Division for the first time in their history.  The 1981 -82 season saw the Clarets win that Division, but they found life back in the Second Division tough and were relegated again straight away, despite reaching the semi-finals of the League Cup and quarter-finals of the F.A. Cup.

Two seasons later the unbelievable happened and Burnley found themselves in the basement division - just ten years after their last game in the top flight.  Their second season in the Fourth Division saw the introduction of automatic relegation to the Vauxhall Conference for the bottom club and Burnley had to win their last game of the season to avoid the drop.  Amid emotional scenes of drama of the very highest quality the Clarets scored a 2-1 win against Leyton Orient and sent Lincoln City into the Vauxhall Conference.

Unconfined joy in 1987

That near miss sparked a revival in Burnley's fortunes with a trip to Wembley in the Sherpa Van Trophy coming just twelve months later.  That match ended in a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Wolverhampton Wanderers, but Burnley were back.

The 1990's have proved to be an interesting time in the Club's history.

In 1992 the Clarets created history by becoming only the second team to win all four divisional titles in domestic soccer - Wolves being the first - when they won the fourth Division and escaped from the league basement after seven seasons.

Since then they have been promoted to the new First Division via a Wembley play-off success against Stockport County, but unfortunately, lasted only one season in that Division before relegation.

Now the Club is very much geared towards the future.  There has been a £6.5 million redevelopment of Turf Moor with two new stands giving Burnley an all seater stadium with a capacity of 22,619.  The Club has also installed an all-weather pitch at Gawthorpe Training Ground, a facility that is the envy of many Clubs in higher divisions.

In the 1998 close season, Burnley had a new playing surface laid incorporating under soil heating.

Stan Ternent was appointed as manager with Sam Ellis as assistant manager in June 1998, following on from former England star Chris Waddle who was in charge as a player-manager the previous season. They are a well-established management team and have brought the club forward.

The Club released a superb video 'Rhapsody in Claret and Blue', the Official History of Burnley Football Club. The video charts the history of the football team from the start of the Football League until 1999.  Mr. Barry Kilby, Chairman, stated ' I am delighted to launch the Official History Video of Burnley Football Club.  I have a great passion for the heritage of this club and feel that tradition and history should be recorded for posterity, hence the production of this unique video'.

The last day of the 1999/2000 season saw Burnley win promotion to the First Division, when they dramatically beat Scunthorpe United 2 - 1 at Glanford Park.  Promotion felt much more special to Burnley, as it meant that after a seventeen-year wait Burnley would be able to contest in the same division as arch-rivals Blackburn Rovers.

In February of that season, Burnley made one of the biggest signings in their illustrious history, when securing the services of former England and Arsenal prolific goal scorer Ian Wright.  Ian signed on a free transfer from Celtic until the end of the season, when he eventually retired from the game.

The 2000/2001 campaign saw the Clarets hold their own in the First Division.  The Club also reached another milestone when Stockport County striker Ian Moore became the first £1 Million signing in the Club's history.

After weeks of speculation, Steve Cotterill was appointed as the new manager of Burnley Football Club in June 2004.