Brentford Football Club is a professional
football club based in
Brentford, in the
London Borough of Hounslow, that currently plays in the
Football League Championship. It was founded on 10 October 1889 and plays its home games at
Griffin Park, its home stadium since 1904, after a nomadic existence playing at five previous grounds. Brentford's most successful spell came during the 1930s, when it achieved consecutive top six finishes in the
First Division. Since the Second World War, it has spent most of its time in the third and fourth tiers of English football. Brentford has been
FA Cup quarter-finalists on four occasions, and has three times been
Football League Trophy runners-up.