2025/26 OPPOSITION FOCUS: BRENTFORD

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As we gear up for the 2025/26 Premier League campaign we take a closer look at our opponents

2025-06-18T08:00:00.000Z

2025/26 OPPOSITION FOCUS: BRENTFORD

As we gear up for the 2025/26 Premier League campaign we take a closer look at our opponents

2025-06-18T08:00:00.000Z

As we gear up for the 2025/26 Premier League campaign we take a closer look at our opponents

Today we look at the Bees...

What's their history?

Formed in 1889, Brentford initially played amateur football before entering into the London League in 1896.

Elected into the Southern League two years later, they would win the Second Division in 1901 and move into long-time home Griffin Park three years later.

Going on to be elected into the Football League in 1920, the Bees regularly picked up silverware with league titles in both 1933 and 1935 to propel themselves up to the top flight.

Peaking at a 5th-place finish in the top flight in 1935/36, three relegations would leave them in the Fourth Division by 1962.

14 consecutive seasons were spent in the Third Division starting in 1978, and Brentford became a club who floated between the third and fourth tiers for a period.

Despite winning the League Two title in 2009, the Championship barrier wasn’t breached by Brentford until 2014, when they were promoted as League One champions under Mark Warburton.

Reaching the play-offs in their first season in the second tier since 1993, there would be consistent mid-table finishes in the campaigns which followed, until 2019/20 when a 3rd-place finish again saw the Bees in the play-offs.

Going all the way to Wembley, they were beaten by London rivals Fulham under the guidance of current Clarets boss Scott Parker, behind closed doors during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Down but not out, Thomas Frank would then guide his side to the Premier League via the play-offs the following year, remaining in the top-flight ever since.

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Stadium

After opening towards the end of 2020, Brentford made the move from Griffin Park to the Gtech Community Stadium, with their first game taking place in September in a pre-season friendly against Oxford United.

The upcoming season will see the Bees compete at the Kew Bridge based venue for the fifth consecutive campaign, after securing promotion to the Premier League in the first season in their new home.

As well as playing host to Brentford, the Gtech was selected as one of the stadiums for the 2022 UEFA Women's Euros and it recently hosted the international Unity Cup semi-finals and final last month.

The Clarets have played just twice at the London ground, with the first time coming in March 2022 and then most recently in October 2023, in Burnley's last Premier League campaign.

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Last season

After promotion in 2021, last season was the Bees' fourth consecutive campaign in the Premier League, where they went on to secure a 10th place finish.

Brentford enjoyed another established season in the top-flight, where the London side secured 16 wins, which is a club-record for the Bees in the Premier League.

Among those 16 wins, the Bees picked up wins against the likes of Newcastle United, Manchester United and Nottingham Forest, as well as reaching the Carabao Cup quarter-finals.

Their biggest victory of the campaign was against Southampton, as Brentford ran out 5-0 winners and they finished the 2024/25 season with two joint top-scorers as Yoane Wissa and Bryan Mbeumo bagged 20 goals each in all competitions.

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Memorable moment

30/10/2021 - Burnley 3 - 1 Brentford (Turf Moor)

A dominant first-half display from the Clarets saw the hosts three goals to the good before half-time, with the Bees clawing a goal back late on in the second-half.

Goals from Chris Wood, Matt Lowton and yet another from Maxwel Cornet, gave Brentford a Halloween nightmare and gave Sean Dyche a nine-year anniversary to remember.

The best 45 minutes of the season up to that moment could have resulted in an even bigger lead, with only a VAR goal review and some fine saves keeping the score down, with the game virtually won by half-time.

Visitors Brentford did score a late consolation in a quieter second period, but it didn’t spoil the day for the former Clarets boss and his team.

Burnley: Pope, Lowton, Mee, Tarkowski, Taylor, Gudmundsson, Brownhill, Westwood, McNeil, Cornet (Vydra 68), Wood.

Unused substitutes: Hennessey, Cork, Barnes, Lennon, Rodriguez, Collins, Pieters, Bardsley.

Brentford: Fernandez, Henry, Jansson, Pinnock, Jensen (Janelt 68), Norgaard, Onyeka (Ghoddos 58), Canos (Roerslev 77), Forss, Toney

Unused substitutes: Cox, Stevens, Goode, Mbeumo, Fosu-Henry, Bidstrup