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Bradford City A.F.C. was founded in
Bradford , England, in 1903, bringing an
association football club to the
West Riding of Yorkshire as an alternative to
rugby league . They were immediately elected to the
Football League to replace
Doncaster Rovers in
Division Two , and made their permanent home in the
Valley Parade stadium. Under the management of
Peter O'Rourke the club won
promotion to
Division One in 1908, and the
FA Cup in 1911 (team pictured) . After subsequent
relegations , they remained in the third and fourth tiers of the
English football league system until
1985–86 . During that time, they endured several periods of financial hardship, and in 1985, their ground suffered
a disastrous fire in which 56 people died. After coming close to returning to the top division of the League in
1987–88 , the club enjoyed mixed fortunes before finally achieving promotion to the
Premier League in
1998–99 . After two seasons in the top tier, the club's playing and financial misfortunes multiplied; successive relegations saw them fall into the
bottom tier of The Football League, before promotion in
2012–13 brought them back up a division. (
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