Bradford City AFC

Bradford City Association Football Club are based at Valley Parade – capacity: 21,536. The club was founded in 1903 and was instantly elected into Division Two of the Football League despite not having played a previous game: The Football League saw the election as a chance to promote football in the rugby league-dominated county of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Promotion to the top tier followed in 1908 and the club won the FA Cup in 1911, its only major honour.

Bradford City Association Football Club are based at Valley Parade – capacity: 21,536. The club was founded in 1903 and was instantly elected into Division Two of the Football League despite not having played a previous game: The Football League saw the election as a chance to promote football in the rugby league-dominated county of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Promotion to the top tier followed in 1908 and the club won the FA Cup in 1911, its only major honour.

Turnover and pre-tax profit figures are in millions. Results below pertain to Bradford City AFC (1983) Ltd. We have no data after 2001/02 – which reflects a period when after the club reached the Premiership in 1999 it fell into a subsequent financial crisis that followed relegation two years later.

Financial Overview

Year
Turnover
Pre-tax profit
Wages / Turnover ratio (%)
Employees

2001/02

18.039

-11.069

45.9

514

2000/01

31.449

-2.688

 

 

1999/00

21.073

2.572

 

 

1998/99

7.802

-1.183

 

 

1997/98

6.030

-0.230

 

 

1996/97

7.596

1.735

 

 

1995/96

2.959

-0.261

 

 

1994/95

3.876

1.136