Sheffield Wednesday F.C.
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Sheffield Wednesday Football Club is a professional football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The club compete in the Championship, the second tier of English football. The club is currently in administration. Formed in 1867 as an offshoot of The Wednesday Cricket Club (itself formed in 1820), they were known as The Wednesday Football Club until 1929. Wednesday is one of the oldest surviving football clubs in the world of any code, and the second-oldest professional association football club in England. In 1868 its team won the Cromwell Cup, only the second tournament of its kind. They were founding members and inaugural champions of the Football Alliance in 1889, before joining The Football League three years later. In 1992, they became founder members of the Premier League. The team has spent most of its league history in English football's top two flights, though they have not played in the top tier since being relegated in 2000. The Owls, as they are nicknamed, are one of the most successful teams in English football by major honours, having won four league titles, three FA Cups, one League Cup and one FA Community Shield. Wednesday have also competed in UEFA cup competitions on four occasions, reaching the quarter-finals of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1963. In 1991, they defeated Manchester United 1–0 in the Football League Cup final as a second-tier team. As of 2025, they remain the last team to win one of English football's major trophies while outside the top flight. In the 19th century, they played their matches at several stadiums around central Sheffield, including Olive Grove and Bramall Lane. Since 1899, the club has played all its home matches at Hillsborough Stadium, a near-40,000 capacity stadium in the north-west Sheffield suburb of Owlerton. Wednesday's biggest rivals are Sheffield United, with whom they contest the Steel City derby.
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Tables
| Season | Competition | Round | Opponent | Home | Away | Aggregate |
| 1961–62 | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (UEFA Europa League) | Last 32 | Lyon | 5–2 | 2–4 | 7–6 |
| Last 16 | Roma | 4–0 | 0–1 | 4–1 | ||
| Quarter-final | Barcelona | 3–2 | 0–2 | 3–4 | ||
| 1963–64 | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (UEFA Europa League) | First round | DOS | 4–1 | 4–1 | 8–2 |
| Second round | Köln | 1–2 | 2–3 | 3–5 | ||
| 1986–87 | UEFA Cup (UEFA Europa League) | As 5th place in First Division/Premier League. English clubs banned from competition (See Heysel Stadium disaster) | ||||
| 1991–92 | UEFA Cup (UEFA Europa League) | League Cup Winners. English clubs re-admitted to competition but due to lost coeffecient ratings of English clubs due to ban only one team qualified. (See Heysel Stadium disaster) | ||||
| 1992–93 | UEFA Cup (UEFA Europa League) | First round | Spora Luxembourg | 8–1 | 2–1 | 10–2 |
| Second round | Kaiserslautern | 2–2 | 1–3 | 3–5 | ||
| 1995–96 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | Group stage | FC Basel | — | 0–1 | — |
| Górnik Zabrze | 3–2 | — | — | |||
| Karlsruher SC | — | 1–1 | — | |||
| AGF Aarhus | 3–1 | — | — | |||
| Name | Nat | From | To | Record | ||||
| P | W | L | D | Win% | ||||
| Arthur Dickinson | | 1 August 1891 | 31 May 1920 | 919 | 393 | 338 | 188 | 42.27% |
| Robert Brown | | 1 June 1920 | 1 December 1933 | 600 | 266 | 199 | 135 | 44.33% |
| Eric Taylor | | 1 April 1942 | 31 July 1958 | 539 | 196 | 215 | 128 | 36.36% |
| Jack Charlton | | 8 October 1977 | 27 May 1983 | 269 | 105 | 77 | 87 | 39.03% |
| Howard Wilkinson | | 24 June 1983 | 10 October 1988 | 255 | 114 | 73 | 68 | 44.70% |
| Trevor Francis | | 7 June 1991 | 20 May 1995 | 214 | 88 | 58 | 68 | 41.12% |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | NIR | Pierce Charles |
| 2 | DF | SCO | Liam Palmer |
| 3 | DF | ENG | Max Lowe |
| 4 | MF | ZIM | Sean Fusire |
| 5 | DF | JAM | Di'Shon Bernard |
| 6 | DF | ENG | Dominic Iorfa |
| 7 | DF | TUN | Yan Valery |
| 8 | MF | SWE | Svante Ingelsson |
| 9 | MF | JAM | Jamal Lowe |
| 10 | MF | SCO | Barry Bannan (captain) |
| 11 | FW | CAN | Iké Ugbo |
| 12 | DF | ENG | Harry Amass (on loan from Manchester United) |
| 14 | MF | ENG | Nathaniel Chalobah |
| 15 | FW | ENG | Nathan Redmond |
| 16 | DF | SCO | Liam Cooper |
| 17 | FW | ENG | Charlie McNeill |
| 18 | FW | JAM | Bailey Cadamarteri |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | FW | POL | Olaf Kobacki |
| 20 | MF | ENG | Rio Shipston |
| 22 | DF | IRL | Gabriel Otegbayo |
| 23 | DF | BRA | Gui Siqueira |
| 24 | GK | USA | Ethan Horvath (on loan from Cardiff City) |
| 25 | GK | WAL | Logan Stretch |
| 27 | DF | ENG | Reece Johnson |
| 28 | DF | ENG | Cole McGhee |
| 29 | FW | ENG | George Brown |
| 30 | DF | ENG | Ernie Weaver |
| 31 | FW | WAL | Will Grainger |
| 32 | DF | ENG | Joe Emery |
| 33 | DF | ENG | Yisa Alao |
| 35 | GK | ENG | Jack Phillips |
| 36 | MF | POR | Bruno Fernandes |
| 37 | MF | ENG | Jarvis Thornton |
| 39 | FW | ENG | Donald Kamwa |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 34 | GK | IRL | Killian Barrett (on loan at Boston United) |
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- "Sheff Wed 2–2 Crystal Palace"https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/8646785.stm
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- "Sheffield Wednesday: Dejphon Chansiri targets Premier League"https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/31693775
- "Hull City 1-0 Sheffield Wednesday"https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/36348885
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- "Barnsley 0–1 Sheffield Wednesday"https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65667707
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- "Important Sheffield Wednesday embargo update amid fan concern"https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-wednesday/important-sheffield-wednesday-embargo-update-amid-fan-concern-4866479
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- "FOOTBALL RIVALS: THE CENSUS"https://www.skysports.com/football/news/2288869/football-rivals-the-census
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- Wednesday!
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- "Pressman sent for earliest ever bath"https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/878745.stm
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