The ground has an all-seated capacity of 20,146. [12] The club had previously occupied four different grounds in the 25 years since their formation in East London; limited expansion space on the Isle of Dogs meant The Lions had to move to boost support and attendances. [69] After a strong start to the 2012–13 season, including a 13-game unbeaten run and flirting with the play-offs,[70] Millwall finished poorly, with only five wins in the last 23 games, narrowly avoiding relegation on the last day of the season. Huski first signed as a partner sponsor for the 2018/19 season and has developed into Millwall’s first-ever principal partner for the 2019/20 season — the biggest in the football club’s history. [9] The estimated cost of The Den was £10,000. [137] As of the 2020–21 season, Crystal Palace play in the Premier League, Millwall play in the Championship, and Charlton play in League One. The traditional club crest is a lion rampant, referred to in t… Millwall wore a special one-off camouflage kit to commemorate the centenary of the First World War against Brentford on 8 November 2014. [67] The Lions celebrated the 125th anniversary of the club on 2 October 2010, which was the closest home game date to the first fixture Millwall ever played against Fillebrook on 3 October 1885. [75] After a month of searching, Millwall appointed St Johnstone boss Steve Lomas as their new manager on 6 June 2013. [96] There have been many variations of the lion; the first was a single red lion, often mistakenly said to be chosen because of the club's Scottish roots. [29] The goalscoring record is held by former manager Neil Harris, with 138 in all competitions. [9] The first match played at the new ground was on 22 October 1910 against reigning Southern League champions Brighton & Hove Albion, who won 1–0. [57], Millwall's first game back in the Championship was a 3–0 away win at Bristol City. In Millwall's 93 seasons in the Football League from 1920–21 to 2019–20, the club have been promoted eleven times (five times as champions in 1928, 1938, 1962, 1988, and 2001) and relegated nine times. seasons for Millwall's top goalscorer each year since 1895. [21] The Lions were pushing for promotion to the First Division toward the end of the decade, but one week into the 1939–40 season, World War II broke out and Millwall were robbed of their aim. 1 1955-1972 2 1972-1973 3 1973-1974 4 1974-1992 5 1992-1994 6 1994-1999 7 1999-2007 8 2007-2010 9 2010-2011 10 2011-2013 11 2013-2014 12 2014-present The 1955 badge was not used on the kit from 1959-1960 and 1964-1967. [46] The Lions knocked Arsenal out of the 1994–95 FA Cup in a third-round replay, beating them 2–0 at Highbury. [89] In Millwall's return to the Championship in the 2017–18 season the team went on a club record 17-game unbeaten run; their longest streak in the second tier, which surpassed a record of 15 set in 1971. It went on sale to fans, with proceeds going to Headley Court, a rehabilitation centre for injured members of the British Armed Forces. [134] Since their first competitive game in 1921, Millwall have won 37, drawn 26 and lost 12. [171] The club and fans have a historic association with football hooliganism, which came to prevalence in the 1970s and 1980s with a firm known originally as F-Troop, eventually becoming more widely known as the Millwall Bushwackers, who were one of the most notorious hooligan gangs in England. [120][118][121], Millwall's fiercest rival is West Ham United. Millwall players inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame:[141]. [4] The Lions reached the 1999 Football League Trophy Final with a golden goal win against Gillingham in the semi-finals, and a 2–1 aggregate victory over Walsall in the regional final. Scotland Yard withdrew its threat to sue, stating: "In light of the efforts made and a donation to a charity helping injured police officers, the Metropolitan Police Service has decided not to pursue legal action against Millwall F.C. Millwall Fc. The club also share a rivalry with Leeds United, and contest the South London derby with local rivals Crystal Palace and Charlton Athletic. This has led to a siege mentality among supporters of the club, which gave rise to the Millwall fans' famous terrace chant, No one likes us, we don't care, being sung in defiant defence of themselves and their team. [13], Millwall, who had now also dropped "Athletic" from their name, were invited to join the Football League in 1920 for the 1920–21 season, along with 22 other clubs, through the creation of the new Football League Third Division. [63] Before Donachie took charge, Millwall had taken only six points from their first ten games. [178] As a result, rival hooligan firms gained access to the stadium. Promoted to the top flight for the first time in the club's history. Download the vector logo of the Millwall FC (1980's logo) brand designed by in Adobe® Illustrator® format. [3][5], In April 1889, a resolution was passed for Millwall to drop "Rovers" from their name, and they began playing under the name Millwall Athletic, inspired by their move to their new home The Athletic Grounds. [3] J.T. The News of the World, however, bore the headline: "Millwall Thugs Deck Linesman With Concrete". [35] When Millwall's unbeaten home record of 59 games came to an end against Plymouth Argyle in 1967, the windows of the away team's coach were smashed. [66] Several of his key signings helped propel Millwall toward the play-offs, and eventual promotion. [2] As for change colours, white shirts and blue shorts or yellow shirts and black shorts have been the Lions primary away colours. The club proposed plans to improve the Den and signed international players. [35] In 1982 Millwall club chairman Alan Thorne threatened to close the club because of violence sparked by losing in the FA Cup to non-league side Slough Town. Content is available under CC BY-SA 3.0 unless otherwise noted. [162] The club's heaviest loss in all competitions was a 9–1 defeat at Aston Villa in an FA Cup fourth-round second-leg in 1946. Summary. The attendance was 90,000, the largest crowd Millwall have ever played in front of, which included King George VI, whom the team were introduced to before kick-off. File:Millwall FC logo (1992-1994).svg; File:Millwall FC logo (two lions).png; File:Millwall FC logo.png; Last edited on 3 April 2017, at 16:28. The continued investment of Berylson, who has since become the club's major shareholder and chairman,[64] has steered The Lions on a better course on and off the pitch. [72] They played Wigan Athletic at Wembley Stadium on 14 April 2013, losing 2–0 to the eventual cup winners. [184] Some legal experts said it would have been difficult to hold a football club responsible for something that occurred away from its ground and involved people who did not attend the match. [5][6] They were founding members of the Southern Football League which they won for the first two years of its existence, and were runners-up in its third. In the closed season Nigel Spackman was appointed as the new manager, but he lasted only four months after a string of bad results. On that night, approximately 20,000 people packed into a ground that usually only held half that number to watch Luton beat Millwall 1–0. [192] Other examples of this include archive footage of their hooligan element's past bad behaviour being shown, when disorder has occurred at other grounds, not involving them. The match finished 2–2 and the teams shared the cup for six months each. The two teams supporters clashed away from The Den before the game, with an Everton fan being slashed across the face with a knife. "[179][180] Trouble was reported at Loftus Road on 26 March 1966 during a match between Queens Park Rangers and Millwall, at a time when both sides were near the top of the league table pushing for promotion to Division Two, but the London derby was won 6–1 by the west London based team, QPR. [52] When Millwall took to the field at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff they were only the second team from outside the top flight to play in the Cup final since 1982, and were the first team from outside the Premier League to reach the final since the foundation of the top tier in 1992. A police spokeswoman said that 47 police officers and 24 police horses were injured, and the Metropolitan Police considered suing the club after the events. [81][82] The following season, Holloway was sacked on 10 March 2015 with the team second from bottom in the Championship, and Neil Harris was reinstated as caretaker manager until the end of the season. Millwall have a long-standing rivalry with West Ham United. [178] The FA commissioned an inquiry which concluded that it was "not satisfied that Millwall F.C. The Lions - The Den. [132][133] The clubs have played each other 40 times and are evenly matched; Millwall has won 18, Leeds 17 and five games have ended in a draw. [41] Striker Teddy Sheringham, who later played for England and was the highest-scoring player throughout the Football League in the 1990–91 season,[42] was sold to Nottingham Forest for £2 million after Millwall's 6–2 defeat to Brighton & Hove Albion in the Second Division play-offs. [14] The Southern League was shorn of its status, with almost all its clubs deciding to leave—Millwall followed suit. [242] Working with local people from the surrounding boroughs of Lewisham, Southwark and the wider Millwall Community. After a play-off final defeat in the 2008–09 season against Scunthorpe United and losing out on automatic promotion on the last day of the 2009–10 season to Leeds United by one point, Millwall made it back to Wembley, finally breaking the play-off hoodoo run of five successive failures in 1991, 1994, 2000, 2002 and 2009, with a 1–0 win in the 2010 League One play-off final against Swindon Town, securing a return to the Football League Championship after a four-year absence. Paphitis later introduced a membership scheme whereby only fans who would be prepared to join and carry membership cards would be allowed into The Den. [120] A senior Metropolitan Police officer said, it was "some of the most shocking football violence seen for some time". [185][186], In January 2009, hundreds of Millwall fans perceived as "high risk" individuals gained access to an FA Cup fourth-round match away at Hull City. Download the vector logo of the Millwall FC brand designed by Barginboy05 in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format. https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Millwall_FC?oldid=1931796. This was a team that included; goalkeeper Bryan King, defender Harry Cripps, goalscoring midfielder Derek Possee, Millwall's most capped international player to date, Eamon Dunphy[28] and the club's longest serving player, Barry Kitchener. Former boxing promoter, born Frank Maloney. [98], The club crest has been a rampant lion since 1936, which was also introduced by Charlie Hewitt. [78] Millwall sacked Lomas on 26 December 2013, after winning only five of his first 22 games in charge. On 22 October 1910, Millwall crossed the river to South London, moving to Cold Blow Lane in New Cross. [9] This was their first purpose-built ground, with a grandstand that seated 600 people and an overall capacity of between 10,000 and 15,000. 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