1903–04 Brentford F.C. season
| 1903–04 season | |||
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| Chairman | Charlie Dorey | ||
| Secretary Manager |
Dick Molyneux (until March 1904) William Lewis (from March 1904) |
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| Stadium | York Road | ||
| Southern League First Division | 13th | ||
| FA Cup | Intermediate round | ||
| Top goalscorer |
League: Buchanan, Underwood (6) All: Buchanan, Underwood (10) |
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During the 1903–04 English football season, Brentford competed in the Southern League First Division. Despite leading the division in September 1903, disruption behind the scenes and the suspension of manager Dick Molyneux for the final month of the season led to a 13th-place finish.
Directly after the end of the dire 1902–03 season, the Brentford committee decided to act and appoint a first team manager.Dick Molyneux became the first official manager in the club's history and arrived at York Road having served as manager at Everton for 12 years, with a CV boasting one Football League First Division championship and two FA Cup runners-up medals. One of the first major changes Molyneux enacted was to request that the board raise funds to pay adequate summer wages for the playing squad, which would put an end to the failures of previous seasons, when the board waited until almost before the beginning of the season to transfer players in, so as to cut down on off-season wages. Due to the majority of clubs conducting their transfer business shortly after the end of the season, the tactic meant that Brentford were always short on transfer options, when conducting business close to the beginning of the following season. The board raised £330 in donations (approximately £37,000 in 2017) and Molyneux set about building a 16-man all-professional squad which could compete in the Southern League First Division. Of the previous season's squad, only goalkeeper Tommy Spicer, inside left Percy Turner and outside left Tosher Underwood were retained and by early June 1903, Molyneux had signed an almost entirely new XI. Brentford's colours were changed for the first time since the mid-1890s, with the old claret and blue replaced by a kit consisting of gold shirts with blue stripes, white shorts and black socks.
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