Coventry City are an English football team competing in the EFL Championship. Known as the Sky Blues or the Singers, they ply their trade at Coventry Building Society Arena.
📜 Coventry City History
The club was founded in 1883 as Singers FC by employees of the Singer Cycle Company, who held a meeting at the company's factory gentleman's club. As the club began to generate support from the wider area from fans not connected with the company, it was renamed Coventry City in 1898.
Coventry joined the Football League after the First World War, and after a period of struggle they began to enjoy some success. They scored 100 or more goals in 3 consecutive seasons in the 1930s, earning them the nickname "The Old Five" based on how frequently they would achieve that tally in games each week.
The Sky Blues enjoyed a taste of European football in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in the 1970s, and in 1987 they won their first and only major trophy when they beat Tottenham Hotspur to win the FA Cup.
Recent decades have been difficult for the club, however; between 1971 and 2017, they held the unenviable record of not finishing in the top 6 of any league in which they competed, and they dropped out of the Premier League in 2001.
