Barnet F.C.

Barnet F.C.

Barnet Football Club ( /ˈbɑːnɪt/) is an English professional football club based in Barnet, London. The club participates in Football League Two, the fourth tier of English football. The ground is situated in the town of Barnet within the London Borough of Barnet.

At the start of the 2012-13 season the club restructured and appointed Mark Robson as head coach. After a disappointing start to the season Edgar Davids was appointed joint head coach.

Barry Fry was the manager who secured Barnet's promotion successes in the early 1990s.

Barnet's most eventful season was the 1992–93 season. They were on the verge of expulsion for failing to pay their players' wages as well as failing to meet a deadline for a £50,000 fine. In spite of these problems Barnet won promotion to Division Two, but the Bees were unable to sustain themselves at this level and went down after one season with just five league wins in the campaign.

In March 2004 they were in one of the play-off positions of the Football Conference but failed to gain promotion to League Two, the lowest flight of the Football League. In the 2004–05 season they won the Football Conference, to return to the Football League after an absence of four years. Before that they had been members of the Football League for ten years.

A number of Barnet players have gone on to represent Premiership clubs. They include Dougie Freedman, Marlon King, Andy Clarke, Linvoy Primus, Maik Taylor, Mark Gower and Jason Puncheon.

A number of players have also played for Barnet towards the end of their careers including Jimmy Greaves, Mark Lawrenson, David Hillier, Alan Pardew and Edgar Davids.

The club are one of the three main powers in the annual Herts Senior Cup; the others being Watford and Stevenage.