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Millwall Football Club (pronounced /ˈmɪlwɔːl/) (LSE: MWH) is an English professional football team based in Bermondsey in the London Borough of Lewisham, South East London. They currently play in Football League One. Their traditional strip consists of blue shirts, white shorts and blue socks.
Their current strip is blue shirts, white shorts with blue trim and blue socks. Their ground is called The New Den and is near South Bermondsey Rail station. They have retained the Millwall name despite having last played in the Millwall area in 1910.
The team nickname is The Lions, previously, The Dockers. They changed the nickname after being referred to as "Lions" for their acts of giant killing in their FA Cup run of 1900, when they reached the semi final. They adopted a lion emblem, and the motto: We Fear No Foe Where E'er We Go. The emblem, however, was not added to their shirts until 1936. They also reached the semi final in 1903, and 1937, while they went one better and reached the final in 2004, losing to Manchester United. Their 1937 appearance was notable as they became the first team in the old third division to reach the last four, knocking out three First Division sides on the way, including Derby County who were defeated in front of Millwall's official record crowd of 48,762, with hundreds more locked out.[1] Their original, but now unused, nickname "The Dockers" arose from the job of many of the club's supporters. Millwall were the only club up to the early 1960s allowed to kick-off home games at 3.15pm, instead of 3pm, specifically to allow the dockers and Deal porters to finish their morning shift and arrive at the game on time.[2] In recent years the club has started to once again recognise its unique link with London's docks by introducing 'Docker Days', and archiving the club's dock roots in the Millwall FC Museum.
Despite the club's best efforts over many years to reverse the slur, it has an enduring reputation for having some of the most violent supporters in English football.[3][4]
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Current squad
- As of 13 February 2010.
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Notable former players
- Australia
- Barbados
- Belgium
- Brazil
- England
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- Republic of Ireland
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- Scotland
- Trinidad & Tobago
- United States of America
- Wales
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Honours
- Football League Second Division (second tier)
- Football League Third Division (third tier)
- Champions: 1927-28, 1937-38 (then Division Three South), 2000-01 (by then known as the Second Division)
- Football League Fourth Division (fourth tier)
- UEFA Cup
- Best performance: Round 1 (2004-05)
- FA Cup
- Runners-up: 2004.
- Semi Finalists: 1900, 1903, 1937.
- Football League Cup
- Best performance: Quarter-finals (1973-74, 1976-77, 1994-95)
- Football League Group Cup
- Full Members Cup
- Best performance: Quarter-finals (1988-89)
- Football League Trophy
- War Cup South
- FA Youth Cup
- Winners: 1979, 1991.
- Runners-up: 1994.
- Southern League
- Champions: 1895, 1896.
- Runners-up: 1897.
- Western League
- United League
- London League
- East London Senior Cup
- Winners: 1887, 1888, 1889.
- East London FA Cup
Notes
References
- Lions of the South, James Murray, Millwall Football Club. Indispensible Publicatations and Millwall F.C. 1988. ISBN 1871220017
- Millwall 1910 - 1993. Goodbye to The Den. Deano Standing and Rob Bowden. 1993. Sports and Leisure Print Limited Mitcham, Surrey
- The Millwall History Files [1]
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