SEAN Dyche will hope to toast his 200th league game in charge of Burnley at Bournemouth tomorrow with the result that confirms the Clarets place in the Premier League next season.

Their goal difference advantage over Hull City has the Clarets all but safe in the top flight this season, but they can make absolutely certain on the south coast.

Dyche knows it will be a remarkable achievement, and possibly his best in his time at Turf Moor, but it still won't match his first full season in East Lancashire, when Burnley stunned the Championship to finish second behind Leicester City and claim a promotion that nobody had seen coming.

"We had a miracle season, and it still is to this day," Dyche said of the 2013/14 campaign.

"It's probably the favourite season of my career because it was free-flowing, full of energy, committed, everything you'd want from a group to suddenly go whack. It was a diluted version of Leicester (winning the Premier League)."

Burnley had been tipped to struggle in that season having lost Charlie Austin on the eve of the campaign, but Danny Ings and Sam Vokes fired them to promotion, and although the next season ended with relegation, Dyche still takes pride in their efforts.

"The next season was hard but enjoyable because it was the challenge of the Premier League," he said.

"Someone asked me which is the best but it's such a difficult thing to measure.

"If you went on productivity against finance then this season because it's brutal in the Premier League. If you went on maximising a group then the last Premier League season because the group wasn't strong enough really.

"We were working with the smallest group ever and just had a go. I'm really proud of that season. I get prouder as time goes on because we shouldn't have had a chance really.

"This year I genuinely thought that we had a chance with this group. Bit more depth, a bit more competition in-house, a bit more money to bring a few in. I thought this group had enough.

"The first promotion is actually the best one because it meant the most. The club could build the training ground and move forward. That meant the most. It was a wave of emotion with joyous scenes at Turf Moor."

Dyche was pleased with the way he was able to re-organise Burnley for promotion via the title a year ago, but admits this has been his toughest season yet at Turf Moor.

"This season has been probably the biggest challenge," he said. "There's been the anxiety to get it done and get it over the line and achieve something in a Premier League season.

"The main thing I'm pleased about is the ongoing trend of development for players. If I get that right then I get the knock on effect. I've seen that they are better players now than when they got here. That's a really big thing and that's happened to a lot of our players so I'm really proud of that.

"It's hard to do 200 league games as a manager nowadays. We all know the stats. To be at a club for 200 league games is very difficult as a manager. I'm pleased with that, let alone all the things that have been done alongside it."