Brighton & Hove Albion
Brighton & Hove Albion
Brighton & Hove Albion, founded in 1901, embody the modern rise of a proud south-coast club. Nicknamed the Seagulls, they play at the American Express Community Stadium, where a vibrant fanbase and forward-thinking leadership fuel momentum. From near-extinction and exile to the top flight, Brighton’s journey blends resilience, smart recruitment, and an academy that trusts youth. On the pitch, they prize technical control, intelligent pressing, and brave build-up play; off it, data-driven decisions and sustainable growth define the model. Community roots run deep, from initiatives to identity. Brighton stand for progress with personality—and football that’s as bold as the shoreline.
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Brighton & Hove Albion On This Day: History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year
Published October 2024
Paperback
By Dan Tester
The third edition – re-written and revised – of Brighton & Hove Albion On This Day revisits all the memorable moments from the club’s rollercoaster past, featuring all the crucial games, great players and inspirational managers.
Chuck in quirky anecdotes, random facts, legendary characters, colourful chairmen, triumphant titles, raw relegations, plus the 14-year battle to secure a new home, the Premier League years, and, of course, the first European tour, and you’ve got a deliciously dippable Albion diary – with an entry for every day of the year, and more for busier times.
Learn about the club’s incredible history in easily digestible bite-sized chunks.
An absolute must for every Albion fan’s bookshelf!
Embers
Paperback
By David Atherall
Published May 2025
Danny’s jobless.
Brighton are homeless.
Everything feels hopeless.
It’s the summer of 1996 and sixteen-year-old Danny has fled the pain of secondary school as quickly as his dad has fled the family home. He doesn’t know what his future holds, his only ambition being to earn enough money to follow Brighton & Hove Albion up and down the country. The future of his beloved Seagulls is equally uncertain – the club’s board have sold their 96-year-old home, The Goldstone Ground, without a plan for what’s next and the fans are furious.
“This excellent tale will bring back memories for many, and is thoroughly recommended to those who were too young to be there as we battled to save the club.”
Attila the Stockbroker”This amazing story highlights how important that season was for every Brighton fan. It stirred a lot of great memories.”
Paul McDonald, Brighton winger, 1996-97
More Than Ninety Minutes: Brighton and Hove Albion 1995-1997
Hardcover
By Stewart Weir, Paul Hayward
A stunning pictorial look at the bleakest two years in the history of Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club
Build a Bonfire: How Football Fans United to Save Brighton and Hove Albion
Hardcover
By Stephen North, Paul Hodson
This is an account of what happened to Brighton and Hove Albion FC, a club that nearly died and which was saved by its fans. In July 1995 the club owners, Bill Archer and Greg Stanley, announced that with the support of the chief executive, David Bellotti, they had decided to sell the club’s 95-year-old Goldstone Ground to a property developer for #7.5 million. With no new site to go to, the club was to share Portsmouth’s stadium for the 1996-97 season, requiring a round trip of anything up to 200 miles for fans wishing to watch “home” games. All this was done without consulting anyone connected with the club. To combat this move supporters mounted a campaign to save their club. Using interviews with people involved in the struggle, this book traces the events leading up to the sale of the ground and charts the progress of the fans in their fight against the board. The battle culminated in Dick Knight’s group gaining a controlling interest in the club at the end of the 1996-97 season. The book also explores possible implications for other clubs.
Eric & Dave: A Lifetime of Football and Friendship
Hardcover
By Spencer Vignes
“What an amazingly tale of friendship and rivalry.” – Luxmy Gopal, BBC Breakfast
“An enchanting story.” – Adrian Chiles, BBC Radio 5 Live
A must for football fans who fondly remember the romance of the pre-Premier League era.” – Choice Magazine
Meet Eric Gill and Dave Hollins, once feted as two of the finest goalkeepers in Britain. Between them they have more stories to tell spanning the past ten decades than there are holes in a football net.
Their unique friendship started as a rivalry, two men wrestling over the same goalkeeper jersey at Brighton & Hove Albion in the 1950s. Seventy years later they remain the best of pals, having lived long, eventful lives bookended by the horrors of World War Two and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Journey back to when footballers earned GBP20 a week and goalkeepers wore string gloves, as Eric and Dave recall how they dodged Hitler’s bombs before pitting their wits against some of sport’s most iconic names: a list that includes Stanley Matthews, Pele and George Best not to mention their shared nemesis, Brian Clough.
Touching, inspiring and searingly honest, Eric and Dave is a salutary reminder that youth is not a time of life but a state of mind.
Bloody Southerners: Clough and Taylor's Brighton & Hove Odyssey
Hardcover
By Spencer Vignes
Brian Clough and Peter Taylor stunned the football world by becoming joint managers of Brighton & Hove Albion in 1973.
Brighton Up: The Inside Story of Brighton & Hove Albion's Journey from Despair to Triumph and the Premier League
Hardcover
By Nick Szczepanik
Brighton & Hove Albion: From Despair to Triumph tells the story of how Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club bounced back from the heartbreak of missing out on promotion to the Premier League by the narrowest of margins, to achieve that ultimate goal. Acclaimed sports journalist Nick Szczepanik, a lifelong Brighton fan with strong contacts at the club, documents its travails over two turbulent seasons.
Match of My Life - Brighton & Hove Albion
Hardcover
By Paul Camillin
Written by sixteen of the club’s most-famous players, “Match of My Life – Brighton & Hove Albion” features these stars’ greatest matches for the Seagulls. Each chapter features each player’s unique story behind their chosen matches and reflects upon their time with the Albion. Peter Ward, Brian Horton and Steve Foster look back to games from the club’s golden era of the late 1970s and early 1980s – which culminated in the 1983 FA Cup Final against Manchester United. That match is covered in great depth by defender Gary Stevens, who was voted by BBC viewers as Man of the Match.All of the key moments in the club’s history are covered – including every promotion, the club’s four championship wins as a Football League club, while Robbie Reinelt recalls the day his goal saved Albion from extinction, and Hove-born Adrian Thorne, relives a final-day five-goal haul helped clinch the Albion’s first-ever championship in 1959, lifting the club to then unprecedented heights of Football League Division Two. Each player’s personal account includes new revelations and unique insight making “Match of My Life – Brighton & Hove Albion” the definitive book with which fans can relive the Albion’s greatest triumphs.
We Want Falmer!
Hardcover
By Steve North, Paul Hodson
May 3rd 1997; Brighton & Hove Albion drew 1-1 at Hereford United to stay in the Football League. The nail-biting contest took place at the end of a two year struggle by the club s fans to save their club from extinction after chairman Bill Archer sold the Goldstone Ground, with no new stadium in place, leaving the club homeless. We Want Falmer, by Paul Hodson and Stephen North and published by Brighton-based Stripe Publishing, chronicles, through the words of the main protagonists, the next 14 years and the extraordinary, ingenious, humorous, emotional and unique campaign that included marches, petitions, a referendum, soaking Des Lynam, forming a political party, bombarding John Prescott with flowers, a top 20 hit… that, ultimately, ended in a beautiful new home for the football club they all love.
Seagulls! The story of Brighton and Hove Albion FC
Hardcover
By Timothy Carder, Roger Harris
A comprehensive history, up to 1993, of Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club.
