2009–10 Burnley F.C. season
# Pos Player To Fee Date
MF Steve Jones Walsall Released 1 June 2009
GK Gábor Király 1860 München Released 1 June 2009
MF Alan Mahon Tranmere Rovers Released 1 June 2009
27 MF Alex MacDonald Falikirk Loan 10 July 2009
22 FW Besart Berisha Arminia Bielefeld £75,000 5 August 2009
25 MF Adam Kay Chester City Loan 21 August 2009
35 DF Chris Lynch Chester City Loan 21 August 2009
26 MF Remco van der Schaaf Brøndby 18-month Loan 18 January 2010
39 FW Wes Fletcher Grimsby Town Loan 18 January 2010
Transfers -- Out
The 2009-10 season marked Burnley's first season in the Premier League and the end of the club's 33-year absence from the top flight of English football. Burnley became the first newly promoted club to chalk up four successive home victories at the start of a Premier League season. The club ended the season in 18th position, however, and were relegated back to the Championship. In June 2009 manager Owen Coyle signed a contract extension to remain at the club until the end of the 2012-13 season, but left in January to manage Bolton Wanderers. Eight days later Brian Laws was named as his replacement.