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Barnsley have played their home games in red shirts for most of their history. The only exception to this is the period 1887–1901, where it is speculated that the team first wore blue shirts with claret arms, then circa 1890 the team wore chocolate and white stripes, before moving on to blue and white stripes around 1898.
In the 1994–95 season, the Tykes finished sixth in the First Division. In an ordinary season this would have meant occupying a playoff place, but due to the Premier League reducing from 22 to 20 clubs, only two teams would be promoted (with fifth placed club occupying the final playoff place) and Barnsley missed out.
15 May 2011 – Mark Robins resigns as manager after 2 years in charge of Barnsley. [1] 20 May 2011 – Barnsley are granted permission by Rochdale to speak to manager Keith Hill. [2] 1 June 2011 – Keith Hill is appointed as manager on a year contract. David Flitcroft is appointed as assistant manager. [3]
2 Squad. Toggle Squad subsection ... The 2014–15 season was Barnsley's first season back in Football League One after being relegated the ... Barnsley : 2–1: Port ...
As the season neared its closing stages, it looked as if either Barnsley or Mark McGhee's Wolverhampton Wanderers would join Bolton. In Barnsley's final home game of the season, a Yorkshire derby against Bradford City, the team knew a win would be enough to secure promotion to the top tier of English football for the first time in the club's ...
However, Barnsley's increasingly rapid turnover of managers was to continue during the season with Bassett leaving in December, a surprise decision to most. [1] Nigel Spackman was brought in to replace Bassett, [ 2 ] and the team eventually finished in sixteenth position, above Sheffield Wednesday by virtue of goal difference.
In June 1993, Barnsley appointed Viv Anderson as player-manager [1] but endured a poor 1993–94 season and were stuck in a relegation battle for most of the season but a good run of 7 wins from 9 league games in the 2nd half of the season (picking up 21 points out of the possible 27), was just enough to keep the Tykes in the division despite losing 7 out of the final 10 league games.
The Red's promotion hopes were hampered when they lost influential captain Neil Redfearn who was sold to Charlton Athletic after making 338 first team appearances for Barnsley. The season was mostly unremarkable in terms of results and on 19 April 1999, Hendrie was sacked with the club nowhere near the top six and Hendrie's assistant Eric ...