On This Day | Promotion at Preston
Swansea City secured promotion to the top flight of English football for the first time in their history with a 3-1 victory over Preston at Deepdale on May 2, 1981.
Today marks 39 years since Swansea City secured promotion to the top-flight for the first time with victory over Preston at Deepdale on May 2, 1981.
From our archives, we revisit a recent interview with club legend Alan Curtis about his memories of that incredible day.
You will have seen we made our long read about the Spanish players who featured for Swansea City available to download as a PDF on Tuesday. We are also planning to share the piece with you as five standalone articles on this website over the coming days.
Here is part three, with a look at the next crop of Spaniards to spend time on the books in SA1.
You will have seen we made our long read about the Spanish players who featured for Swansea City available to download as a PDF on Tuesday. We are also planning to share the piece with you as five standalone articles on this website over the coming days.
Here, we have part two and the arrival of 'The Three Amigos'.
You will have seen we made our long read about the Spanish players who featured for Swansea City available to download as a PDF on Tuesday. We are also planning to share the piece with you as five standalone articles on this website over the coming days.
Here, we start with how it all began and a hopeful telephone call in 2003.
Today marks two years since a certain Michu made his most recent visit to the Liberty Stadium he once graced so spectacularly. The forward was just one of a number of Spanish players to play a part in Swansea City's climb from the basement of the Football League to the Premier League, silverware and Europe.
Here, we tell the story of those players in full in our extensive feature.