During the 1999–2000 English football season, Brentford competed in the Football League Second Division. After returning to the Second Division as Third Division champions, a forgettable season ended in a 17th-place finish.
The Bees enjoyed a 10-match unbeaten start to the season in the Second Division,[4] hovering in the playoff places and setting a new club record of 26 league matches without a defeat, which stretched back into the previous season.[3] The run came to an end with the team's first league defeat of the season at the hands of Gillingham on 19 October 1999.[4] Days earlier, centre back Hermann Hreiðarsson had been sold for a club-record £2,500,000 fee to Wimbledon, which weakened the defence.[3] The backline was shored up with two big-money signings, £250,000 Scott Marshall and £150,000 Ívar Ingimarsson.[3]
The season began to drift away from Brentford in November 1999, with injuries causing a run of eight defeats in 10 games.[4] The League Cup and FA Cup had been exited in the first rounds and the club were knocked out of the Football League Trophy at the semi-final stage in February 2000.[4] £100,000 was spent on new forwardsJulian Charles and Lorenzo Pinamonte either side of the Millennium, neither of whom made an impact.[3] Brentford closed out the season with just one win in 17 matches in all competitions to finish in a disappointing 17th place.[2]
One record was set during the season, that of the shortest Football League career with Brentford,[5] when trainee Clement James made a substitute appearance of 8 minutes on his debut versus Stoke City on 8 April 2000.[6]
^ abcdefghijCroxford, Mark; Lane, David; Waterman, Greville (2013). The Big Brentford Book Of The Nineties. Sunbury, Middlesex: Legends Publishing. pp. 318–323. ISBN9781906796723.