2009–10 Burnley F.C. season

The 2009–10 season marked Burnley's first season in the Premier League and the end of the club's 33-year absence from the top flight of English football.

Burnley

2009–10 season
Chairman	Barry Kilby
Manager	Owen Coyle (until 5 January) Brian Laws
Premier League	18th
League Cup	Third round
FA Cup	Fourth round
Top goalscorer	League: Steven Fletcher (8) All: Steven Fletcher (12)
Highest home attendance	21,761 (vs. Bolton Wanderers)
Lowest home attendance	18,397 (vs. Fulham)
Average home league attendance	20,593
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Burnley became the first newly promoted club to chalk up four successive home victories at the start of a Premier League season.^[1] The club ended the season in 18th position, however, and were relegated back to the Championship.

In June 2009 manager Owen Coyle signed a contract extension to remain at the club until the end of the 2012–13 season,^[2] but left in January to manage Bolton Wanderers.^[3] Eight days later Brian Laws was named as his replacement.^[4]

Team kit

The team kits for the 2009–10 season are produced by Erreà and the shirt sponsor is Cooke Oils. Both the home and away kits have been designed to replicate those worn by the Burnley team of 1960, when they were last crowned the champions of English football 50 years ago. The traditional V-neck claret and blue home jersey features the 50th anniversary logo, is embroidered with the club crest worn in that era and is finished with a claret and blue trim on the neck and sleeves and accompanied by plain white shorts and claret and blue hooped stockings identical to those worn by The Clarets when they won the First Division title. The away jersey is a white shirt with claret and blue trim on the V-neck and sleeves with black shorts and white stockings with claret and blue trim.

Home

Away

First-team squad

As of 27 January 2010.

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   PER Diego Penny 2 DF   SCO Graham Alexander (vice-captain) 4 DF   NIR Michael Duff 5 DF   ENG Clarke Carlisle 6 DF   SCO Steven Caldwell (captain) 7 MF   SCO Kevin McDonald 9 FW   SCO Steven Fletcher 10 FW   NIR Martin Paterson 11 MF   ENG Wade Elliott 12 GK   DEN Brian Jensen 14 DF   ENG Tyrone Mears 15 DF   CAN David Edgar 16 MF   IRL Chris McCann 17 DF   ENG Richard Eckersley 19 FW   ENG Jay Rodriguez (on loan to Barnsley) 20 FW   ENG Robbie Blake 21 DF   CMR André Bikey 22 FW   ENG David Nugent (on loan from Portsmouth)

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 DF   ENG Stephen Jordan 24 DF   SCO Brian Easton (on loan to Hamilton Academical) 25 MF   ENG Adam Kay 27 MF   SCO Alex MacDonald 28 DF   IRL Kevin Long 29 FW   FRA Frédéric Nimani 30 FW   SCO Steven Thompson 31 GK   ENG Nicky Weaver 33 MF   ENG Chris Eagles 34 DF   SCO Danny Fox 35 DF   ENG Chris Lynch 36 DF   ENG Nik Kudiersky 37 MF   ENG Chris Anderson 38 MF   ENG Alex-Ray Harvey 39 FW   ENG Wes Fletcher (on loan to Grimsby Town) 40 DF   ENG Ben Hoskin 42 MF   ENG Jack Cork (on loan from Chelsea)

Transfers

In

#	Pos	Player	From	Fee	Date
14	DF	Tyrone Mears	Derby County	£500,000	30 June 2009
9	FW	Steven Fletcher	Hibernian	£3,000,000	30 June 2009
15	DF	David Edgar	Newcastle United	Tribunal	1 July 2009
24	DF	Brian Easton	Hamilton Academical	£350,000	14 July 2009
17	DF	Richard Eckersley	Manchester United	Compensation	15 July 2009
32	MF	Fernando Guerrero	Independiente del Valle	Season-long loan	6 August 2009
21	DF	André Bikey	Reading	Undisclosed	18 August 2009
22	FW	David Nugent	Portsmouth	Six month loan	1 September 2009
41	GK	Jonathan Lund	Grimsby Town	Free	7 October 2009
28	DF	Kevin Long	Cork City	Undisclosed	26 November 2009 (officially joined club in January)
29	FW	Frédéric Nimani	AS Monaco	Five-month loan	22 January 2010
31	GK	Nicky Weaver	Dundee United	Free	27 January 2010
18	DF	Leon Cort	Stoke City	£1,500,000	27 January 2010
34	DF	Danny Fox	Celtic	Undisclosed	29 January 2010
22	FW	David Nugent	Portsmouth	End of season loan	1 February 2010
42	MF	Jack Cork	Chelsea	End of season loan	1 February 2010

Out

#	Pos	Player	To	Fee	Date
	MF	Steve Jones	Walsall	Released	1 June 2009
	GK	Gábor Király	1860 München	Released	1 June 2009
	MF	Alan Mahon	Tranmere Rovers	Released	1 June 2009
27	MF	Alex MacDonald	Falikirk	Loan	10 July 2009
22	FW	Besart Berisha	Arminia Bielefeld	£75,000	5 August 2009
25	MF	Adam Kay	Chester City	Loan	21 August 2009
35	DF	Chris Lynch	Chester City	Loan	21 August 2009
26	MF	Remco van der Schaaf	Brøndby	18-month Loan	18 January 2010
39	FW	Wes Fletcher	Grimsby Town	Loan	18 January 2010

Coaching staff

Position	Name	Nationality
Manager:	Brian Laws	English
Assistant manager:	Russ Wilcox	English
First-team coach:	Stuart Gray	English
Youth team coach:	Terry Pashley	English
Chief scout:	Tim Henderson	English
Goalkeeping coach:	Billy Mercer	English
Fitness coach:	Tom Little	English

Statistics

Appearances and goals

Numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.

Players with names struck through and marked † left the club during the playing season.

Players with names in italics and marked * were on loan from another club with Burnley.

Key to positions: GK – Goalkeeper; DF – Defender; MF – Midfielder; FW – Forward

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	League		FA Cup		League Cup		Total		Discipline
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	PER	Diego Penny	0 (1)	0	0	0	1 (1)	0	1 (2)	0	0	0
2	MF	SCO	Graham Alexander	33	7	2	1	0	0	35	8	3	0
3	DF	NOR	Christian Kalvenes †	3 (3)	0	1	0	1	0	5 (3)	0	0	0
4	DF	NIR	Michael Duff	10 (1)	0	2	0	0 (1)	0	12 (2)	0	4	0
5	DF	ENG	Clarke Carlisle	27	0	0	0	1	0	28	0	7	0
6	DF	SCO	Steven Caldwell	12 (1)	1	0	0	0	0	12 (1)	1	1	1
7	MF	SCO	Kevin McDonald	15 (11)	1	2	0	2	0	19 (11)	1	5	0
8	MF	ISL	Joey Guðjónsson	1 (9)	0	1 (1)	0	2	0	4 (10)	0	1	0
9	FW	SCO	Steven Fletcher	35	8	1	1	1 (1)	3	37 (1)	12	1	0
10	FW	NIR	Martin Paterson	17 (6)	4	0 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	18 (8)	4	2	0
11	MF	ENG	Wade Elliott	34 (4)	4	2	0	0	0	36 (4)	4	5	0
12	GK	DEN	Brian Jensen	38	0	2	0	1	0	41	0	3	0
14	DF	JAM	Tyrone Mears	38	0	1	0	0	0	39	0	7	0
15	DF	CAN	David Edgar	2 (2)	0	1	0	1	0	4 (2)	0	0	0
16	MF	IRL	Chris McCann	7	0	1	0	0	0	8	0	1	0
17	MF	ENG	Richard Eckersley	0	0	1	0	2	0	3	0	2	1
18	DF	GUY	Leon Cort	15	0	0	0	0	0	15	0	0	0
19	FW	ENG	Jay Rodriguez	0	0	0	0	1 (1)	0	1 (1)	0	1	0
20	MF	ENG	Robbie Blake	20 (11)	2	1 (1)	0	0 (1)	0	21 (13)	2	1	0
21	DF	CMR	André Bikey	26 (2)	1	1	0	2	0	29 (2)	1	5	0
22	FW	ENG	David Nugent *	20 (10)	6	0	0	0	0	20 (10)	6	0	0
23	DF	ENG	Stephen Jordan	23 (2)	0	0	0	0	0	23 (2)	0	3	1
24	DF	SCO	Brian Easton	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0
25	MF	ENG	Adam Kay	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	MF	NED	Remco van der Schaaf	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	MF	SCO	Alex MacDonald	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	DF	IRL	Kevin Long	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	FW	FRA	Frédéric Nimani *	0 (2)	0	0	0	0	0	0 (2)	0	1	0
30	FW	SCO	Steven Thompson	1 (19)	4	1 (1)	0	1	0	3 (20)	4	0	0
31	GK	ENG	Nicky Weaver	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	MF	ECU	Fernando Guerrero * †	0 (7)	0	0	0	2	0	2 (7)	0	0	0
33	MF	ENG	Chris Eagles	20 (14)	2	2	0	2	1	24 (14)	3	3	0
34	DF	SCO	Danny Fox	13 (1)	1	0	0	0	0	13 (1)	1	3	0
35	DF	ENG	Chris Lynch	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	DF	ENG	Nik Kudiersky	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	MF	ENG	Chris Anderson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	MF	ENG	Alex-Ray Harvey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	FW	ENG	Wes Fletcher	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	FW	ENG	Ben Hoskin	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
41	GK	ENG	Jonathan Lund	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	MF	ENG	Jack Cork *	8 (3)	1	0	0	0	0	8 (3)	1	0	0

Match details

Premier League

Main article: 2009–10 Premier League

Premier League match details

Date	League position	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Ref
15 August 2009	16th	Stoke City	A	L	0–2		27,385 (2,888 away)	^[5]
19 August 2009	12th	Manchester United	H	W	1–0	Blake 19'	20,872 (2,490 away)	^[6]
23 August 2009	7th	Everton	H	W	1–0	Elliott 34'	19,984 (2,383 away)	^[7]
29 August 2009	9th	Chelsea	A	L	0–3		40,906 (1,036 away)	^[8]
12 September 2009	11th	Liverpool	A	L	0–4		43,817 (2,998 away)	^[9]
19 September 2009	9th	Sunderland	H	W	3–1	Alexander 13' pen., Nugent (2) 67', 86'	20,196 (2,208 away)	^[10]
26 September 2009	11th	Tottenham Hotspur	A	L	0–5		35,462 (1,156 away)	^[11]
3 October 2009	9th	Birmingham City	H	W	2–1	Fletcher 53', Bikey 62'	20,102 (1,047 away)	^[12]
18 October 2009	10th	Blackburn Rovers	A	L	2–3	Blake 5', Eagles 90'	26,689 (2,800 away)	^[13]
24 October 2009	11th	Wigan Athletic	H	L	1–3	Fletcher 4'	19,430 (965 away)	^[14]
31 October 2009	10th	Hull City	H	W	2–0	Alexander (2) 20' pen., 77'	20,219 (1,977 away)	^[15]
7 November 2009	10th	Manchester City	A	D	3–3	Alexander 19' pen., Fletcher 32', McDonald 87'	47,205 (2,828 away)	^[16]
21 November 2009	9th	Aston Villa	H	D	1–1	Caldwell 9'	21,178 (2,344 away)	^[17]
28 November 2009	11th	West Ham United	A	L	3–5	Fletcher (2) 68', 74', Eagles 90'	34,003 (1,889 away)	^[18]
5 December 2009	13th	Portsmouth	A	L	0–2		17,822 (1,222 away)	^[19]
12 December 2009	13th	Fulham	H	D	1–1	Elliott 60'	18,397 (304 away)	^[20]
16 December 2009	13th	Arsenal	H	D	1–1	Alexander 28' pen.	21,309 (1,839 away)	^[21]
20 December 2009	14th	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	L	0–2		27,410 (1,296 away)	^[22]
26 December 2009	13th	Bolton Wanderers	H	D	1–1	Nugent 56'	21,761 (2,357 away)	^[23]
28 December 2009	14th	Everton	A	L	0–2		39,419 (2,888 away)	^[24]
16 January 2010	15th	Manchester United	A	L	0–3		75,120 (3,010 away)	^[25]
26 January 2010	18th	Bolton Wanderers	A	L	0–1		23,986 (4,654 away)	^[26]
30 January 2010	18th	Chelsea	H	L	1–2	Fletcher 50'	21,131 (2,130 away)	^[27]
6 February 2010	15th	West Ham United	H	W	2–1	Nugent 14', Fox 55'	21,001 (2,286 away)	^[28]
9 February 2010	16th	Fulham	A	L	0–3		23,005 (1,105 away)	^[29]
21 February 2010	19th	Aston Villa	A	L	2–5	Fletcher 10', Paterson 90'	38,709 (1,191 away)	^[30]
27 February 2010	19th	Portsmouth	H	L	1–2	Paterson 31'	19,714 (839 away)	^[31]
6 March 2010	19th	Arsenal	A	L	1–3	Nugent 50'	60,043 (1,452 away)	^[32]
10 March 2010	18th	Stoke City	H	D	1–1	Nugent 52'	20,323 (1,743 away)	^[33]
13 March 2010	18th	Wolverhampton Wanderers	H	L	1–2	Thompson 73'	21,217 (2,300 away)	^[34]
20 March 2010	18th	Wigan Athletic	A	L	0–1		18,498	^[35]
28 March 2010	19th	Blackburn Rovers	H	L	0–1		21,546 (2,375 away)	^[36]
3 April 2010	19th	Manchester City	H	L	1–6	Fletcher 72'	21,330 (2,356 away)	^[37]
10 April 2010	18th	Hull City	A	W	4–1	Paterson 35', Alexander (2) 64' pen., 70' pen., Elliott 90'	24,369	^[38]
17 April 2010	19th	Sunderland	A	L	1–2	Thompson 82'	41,341	^[39]
25 April 2010	19th	Liverpool	H	L	0–4		21,553 (2,219 away)	^[40]
1 May 2010	19th	Birmingham City	A	L	1–2	Thompson 87'	24,578	^[41]
9 May 2010	18th	Tottenham Hotspur	H	W	4–2	Elliott 42', Cork 54', Paterson 71', Thompson 88'	21,161 (2,400 away)	^[42]

Final league table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
16	Wigan Athletic	38	9	9	20	37	79	−42	36
17	West Ham United	38	8	11	19	47	66	−19	35
18	Burnley (R)	38	8	6	24	42	82	−40	30	Relegation to the Football League Championship
19	Hull City (R)	38	6	12	20	34	75	−41	30
20	Portsmouth (R)	38	7	7	24	34	66	−32	19^[a]

Source: Premier League
(R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Portsmouth were docked nine points for entering administration.^[43]

FA Cup

Main article: 2009–10 FA Cup

FA Cup match details

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Ref
Third round	2 January 2010	Milton Keynes Dons	A	W	2–1	Alexander 23' pen., Fletcher 35'	11,816 (1,913 away)	^[44]
Fourth round	23 January 2010	Reading	A	L	0–1		12,910 (1,070 away)	^[45]

Football League Cup

Main article: 2009–10 Football League Cup

Football League Cup match details

Round	Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Score F–A	Scorers	Attendance	Ref
Second round	25 August 2009	Hartlepool United	A	W	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Fletcher (2) 84', 108'	3,501 (500 away)	^[46]
Third round	22 September 2009	Barnsley	A	L	2–3	Fletcher 21', Eagles 52'	6,270 (1,066 away)	^[47]

Friendlies

Burnley hosted an impromptu friendly against Accrington Stanley at Turf Moor on 8 September 2009, with all gate receipts going towards the "Save our Stanley" campaign to support the club while it faced financial difficulties.^[48]

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