During the 1951–52 English football season, Brentford competed in the Football League Second Division. The Bees secured a third-consecutive top 10 finish and reached the fourth round of the FA Cup, taking Luton Town to two replays before going out.

After two consecutive 9th-place finishes in the Second Division, Brentford manager Jackie Gibbons elected to keep his squad together for the 1951–52 season, with former Brighton & Hove Albion utility player Frank Morrad being his only first team signing.

Aided by the goalscoring of full back-cum-centre forward Fred Monk, Brentford showed great form in the first half of the season, losing just five of the opening 21 matches to sit 2nd in the table. The push for promotion was derailed by a Christmas 1951 bust-up between manager Gibbons on one side and half backs Ron Greenwood and Jimmy Hill on the other. The bust-up resulted in Greenwood and Hill requesting transfers, with Hill eventually moving to local rivals Fulham in March 1952 in exchange for inside forward Jimmy Bowie. Centre forward Billy Dare came into goalscoring in the second half of the season, but the disruption to the Harper-Hill-Greenwood half back line (though Greenwood would later rescind his transfer request) led to an increase the amount of goals conceded and Brentford were forced to settle for a 10th-place finish, having slowly drifted out of contention from promotion in February 1952. Former England international Tommy Lawton had been signed amid much fanfare for a club record £16,000 fee in March 1952, but managed to contribute only two goals in his 10 appearances.

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