West Bromwich Albion Football Club is a professional association football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. It competes in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system. The club was formed in 1878 and has played at its home ground, The Hawthorns, since 1900.

West Bromwich, commonly known as West Brom, is a market town in the borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England. Historically part of Staffordshire, it is 7 miles northwest of Birmingham. West Bromwich is part of the area known as the Black Country, in terms of geography, culture and dialect. West Bromwich had a population of 103,112 in the 2021 Census.