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Sheffield F.C.

February 19, 2024

Not to be confused with Sheffield F.C. Ladies, Sheffield United F.C., or Sheffield Wednesday F.C..

Sheffield Football Club is an English football club from Dronfield, North Derbyshire. They currently compete in the Northern Premier League Division One East. Founded in October 1857,[3] the club is recognised by FIFA as the oldest existing club still playing football in the world.[4] Sheffield F.C. initially played games under the Sheffield Rules and did not officially adopt the new FA rules until 1878.

Sheffield F.C.
Full nameSheffield Football Club
Nickname(s)The Club
Founded24 October 1857; 166 years ago (24 October 1857)
GroundHome of Football Ground, Dronfield, Derbyshire
Capacity2,089 (250 seats)[1]
ChairmanRichard Tims
ManagerRyan Cresswell[2]
LeagueNorthern Premier League Division One East
2022–23Northern Premier League Division One East, 9th of 20
WebsiteClub website

The club competes in the Rules derby with near neighbours Hallam. In 2004 they were given the FIFA Order of Merit, an award given to only one other club; Real Madrid. In 2007 they were inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame, to commemorate their 150th anniversary.[5]

On the pitch, the club's finest hour came in 1904 when they won the FA Amateur Cup, a competition conceived after a suggestion by Sheffield. They also finished as runners up of the FA Vase in 1977.

History edit

In 1855, members of a Sheffield cricket club organised informal kick-abouts without any official rules.[6] Subsequently, two members, Nathaniel Creswick and William Prest, formed the Sheffield Football Club.[3][7]

 
A London XI who played against Sheffield in 1873.

The inaugural meeting of the club took place on 24 October 1857 at Parkfield House in the suburb of Highfield.[8] The original headquarters was a greenhouse on East Bank Road lent by Thomas Asline Ward, father of the first club president Frederick Ward, and the adjacent field was used as their first playing ground.[9] Initially, Sheffield FC games were played among club members themselves and took the format of "Married v Singles" or "Professionals v the Rest".

 
"Laws for the guidance of playing members", as published in 1859

Creswick and Prest were responsible for drawing up the club's rules of play, which were decided upon at the club's AGM on 21 October 1858, and published the following year.[10] They were referred to as the Sheffield Rules, and were the first detailed set of rules of football to be published by a football club (as opposed to a school or university). At the time, before the formation of the Football Association (FA), many different kinds of football were popular in England. For example, each of the various public schools played football according to their own individual rules, and these varied widely.[11] The Sheffield Rules were later adopted by the Sheffield Football Association when it was formed in 1867.[12]

Sheffield's near neighbour, Hallam, was formed in 1860 and in the same year the two clubs first met each other in a local derby which is still contested today.[13] By 1862 there were 15 clubs in the Sheffield area.[14]

They became members of The Football Association on 30 November 1863 but continued to use their own set of rules.[6] On 2 January 1865, the club played its first fixture outside Sheffield against Notts County, then known as Nottingham Football Club, at the Meadows Cricket Ground; the match was played eighteen-a-side under "Nottingham Rules".[15][16] Sheffield won by a goal to nil.[17]

By this time the club had decided only to play teams outside Sheffield in order to seek a bigger challenge. On 31 March 1866, Sheffield played a "London" team under FA rules at Battersea Park.[18] The game, played as an eleven aside, was won by London by 2 goals and four touches down to nil.[19] However the matter of rules remained a problem with Sheffield clubs continuing to play by their own rules. A number of rule proposals by the club were rejected by the FA in February 1867 and the London Committee were reluctant to commit to further fixtures over Sheffield's refusal to play strictly to FA rules. Sheffield clubs finally adopted the FA rules in 1878.[20]

In 1873 the club entered the FA Cup for the first time, their first ever tie in the competition, against Shropshire Wanderers, being decided after a replay by a coin toss; the only time in the history of the competition that a tie has been decided in this way.[21] They would reach the 4th round of the competition in 1877–78 and 1879–80.[22]

 
A Sheffield squad of 1876

Their reluctance to play against local clubs led to the formation of Thursday Wanderers in 1876, a team of players registered to Sheffield who wished to play in the Sheffield Challenge Cup. The Wanderers operated from 1876 to 1879, winning the cup in their final year.[23]

Sheffield's decline from the top echelon of football began with the introduction of professionalism in July 1885, with the amateurs of Sheffield failing to compete with professional teams, losing heavily that year to Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest and Notts County. After the legalisation of professionalism, the staunchly amateur Sheffield suggested to the FA the creation of a cup exclusively for amateur clubs. The FA Amateur Cup was inaugurated in 1893[24] and Sheffield themselves won the competition in 1904.

They joined their first league competition in 1889 when entering the Midland League, but left after just one season when they finished bottom of the table.[25] They were also founder members of the original Yorkshire League in 1898, but again they spent just a single season in the competition.

After the turn of the century, Sheffield competed mainly in local leagues. By 1925–26 they were competing in the Sheffield Association League.

 
Pelé (left) in Sheffield in November 2007, marking the 150th anniversary of the world's oldest football club, Sheffield F.C.[26]

Fifty years after leaving the competition, the club rejoined the Yorkshire League, in 1949. Three years later they won promotion to Division One, but were relegated back to Division Two in 1954. They returned to the top flight at the first time of asking before entering their centenary year in 1957. Celebrations included games against the England B team at Hillsborough[27] and fellow amateur side Queen's Park F.C. at Bramall Lane.[28]

In 1961, Sheffield was relegated to Division Two again, only returning to the top flight again in 1967, and then only for one more season before another relegation. Three years later, in 1970, they were relegated again, to the newly formed Division Three.[25] Club would spend six seasons in the Yorkshire League's basement division, finishing as low as 10th in 1974. They finally started to turn their fortunes around in 1976 by returning to Division Two, and a year later they were crowned as Division Two champions to return to Division One. In the same season, Sheffield reached the final of the newly formed FA Vase. At Wembley stadium, they drew 1–1 with Billericay Town, before being beaten 1–2 in the replay at the City Ground in Nottingham.

When the Yorkshire League merged with the Midland League to form the Northern Counties East League (NCEL) in 1981, Sheffield were placed in Division One South of the new competition. They stayed in this division for three seasons before the league was restructured, with the club being reassigned to the newly formed Division One. In 1989 they won the division One title, but they were relegated back again a year later because of their lack of floodlights.

 
Sheffield's 150th anniversary celebration match against Inter at Bramall Lane in 2007

At the first time of asking Sheffield again won the division One title, this time remaining in the NCEL Premier Division for 15 years. In 1994 the club won the Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior Cup for the first time, beating Worksop Town on penalties at Hillsborough. They would later win the trophy on a further four occasions throughout the 2010s.

2007 was a momentous year for Sheffield F.C. as they entered their 150th year.[26] They finished as runners-up in the league to secure promotion to the Northern Premier League (NPL) for the first time. In October 2007, FIFA president Sepp Blatter attended the club's anniversary dinner, and the following month the club played anniversary celebration matches against Internazionale and Ajax at Bramall Lane.[26][29] Football legend Pelé was guest of honour at the first game and was introduced to the teams and the fans before the game.[30] The match ended 5–2 to Inter, with 18,741 supporters attending the match. Inter's side included World Cup winner Marco Materazzi and a young Mario Balotelli. As part of his visit, Pelé opened an exhibition which included the first public showing in 40 years of the original hand-written rules of football.[26]

Sheffield have reached the play-offs of the NPL Division One South on three occasions, but have so far failed to win promotion. In their first Division One South campaign in 2008 they reached the final, losing on penalties to Nantwich Town, before being knocked out in the semi-finals in 2010 and 2012. The club first played in the FA Trophy in 2007 after winning promotion to the NPL, but have so far failed to advance past the qualifying rounds. In 2015, the Qataris donated 100000 pounds to Sheffield FC.[31]

Season-by-season record edit

Managers edit

Notable former players edit

Famous players from the club's early days included Nathaniel Creswick and William Prest, who founded the club. Four Sheffield players have appeared for England – Charles Clegg, who played in the first international game against Scotland in 1872,[38] John Owen, in 1874,[39] Thomas Sorby, in 1879, and Jack Hudson, in 1883.[40]

In addition to the above, the following have played in the Football League either before or after playing for Sheffield:

Grounds edit

Sheffield have played at a number of grounds near Sheffield. Initially they played at Strawberry Hall Lane Park.[10] However, like all of the early grounds they played at, it was not owned by the club. In the following years they would play at Old Forge ground and a ground near Hunter's Bar on Ecclesall Road.[41]

There was much reluctance from the owners of Bramall Lane to see the pitch used for football. They did not relent until a charity match between Sheffield and Hallam was suggested in late 1862. The ground was used by Sheffield for its more important fixtures but relations with the owners remained strained. They collapsed altogether in 1875 when the club vowed never to play at the ground again.

In 1921, Sheffield settled at the new Abbeydale Park ground. They moved to Hillsborough Park in 1988,[42] then to Owlerton Stadium and Don Valley Stadium. In 1999, Richard Tims got involved with Sheffield FC when he was invited to a home game in Don Valley Stadium. He noted that the club was struggling as they were playing in a rented stadium. He took over the club and helped it secure its own ground, the Coach and Horses Stadium in Dronfield, Derbyshire.[43]

The club bought the Coach & Horses ground in Dronfield in 2001, which was previously the home of Norton Woodseats F.C., a notable football team who reached the semi-finals of the FA Amateur Cup in 1939. It was the first time the club had owned its own ground.[44] The ground has a capacity of just over 2,000 with 250 seats in the stand behind the southern goal.[45]

In March 2019 it was revealed that Sheffield F.C. was in talks with the Sheffield Transport Sports Club (STSC) to move the club back to its home city after plans to move to the Olive Grove sports ground in the Heeley district of Sheffield fell through in 2016.[46][47] In March 2021 plans for the new stadium based at the STSC facility in the Meadowhead area of Sheffield were revealed. The proposed 4,000 person capacity stadium features a heritage centre celebrating the city's role in football history.[48]

The club has played its FA Cup games at the following grounds:

Years Ground
1857–1873 Strawberry Hall Lane Park, Sheffield
1873–1884 Bramall Lane, Sheffield
1884–1889 Old Forge Ground, Attercliffe
1889–1897 Ecclesall Road, Sheffield
1897–1901 Owlerton Ground, Owlerton, Sheffield
1901–1921 Niagara Ground, Wadsley Bridge
1921–1988 Abbeydale Park, Dore
1988 Hillsborough Park, Hillsborough, Sheffield
1989 Owlerton Stadium, Owlerton, Sheffield
1990–2001 Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield
2001–present Coach & Horses Ground, Dronfield

Gallery edit

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    Owlerton Stadium, Sheffield's home for a period during the 1980s and 1990s.
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    Don Valley Stadium, another of Sheffield's former homes.
  •  
    The south end of the Coach & Horses Ground.
  •  
    The east end of the Coach & Horses Ground, with the Coach & Horses pub to the left.

Honours edit

Records edit

See also edit

References edit

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Not to be confused with Sheffield F C Ladies Sheffield United F C or Sheffield Wednesday F C Sheffield Football Club is an English football club from Dronfield North Derbyshire They currently compete in the Northern Premier League Division One East Founded in October 1857 3 the club is recognised by FIFA as the oldest existing club still playing football in the world 4 Sheffield F C initially played games under the Sheffield Rules and did not officially adopt the new FA rules until 1878 Sheffield F C Full nameSheffield Football ClubNickname s The ClubFounded24 October 1857 166 years ago 24 October 1857 GroundHome of Football Ground Dronfield DerbyshireCapacity2 089 250 seats 1 ChairmanRichard TimsManagerRyan Cresswell 2 LeagueNorthern Premier League Division One East2022 23Northern Premier League Division One East 9th of 20WebsiteClub websiteHome coloursAway coloursThird coloursThe club competes in the Rules derby with near neighbours Hallam In 2004 they were given the FIFA Order of Merit an award given to only one other club Real Madrid In 2007 they were inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame to commemorate their 150th anniversary 5 On the pitch the club s finest hour came in 1904 when they won the FA Amateur Cup a competition conceived after a suggestion by Sheffield They also finished as runners up of the FA Vase in 1977 Contents 1 History 1 1 Season by season record 1 2 Managers 1 3 Notable former players 2 Grounds 2 1 Gallery 3 Honours 3 1 League 3 2 Cup 3 3 Ladies 3 4 Minors 4 Records 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksHistory editIn 1855 members of a Sheffield cricket club organised informal kick abouts without any official rules 6 Subsequently two members Nathaniel Creswick and William Prest formed the Sheffield Football Club 3 7 nbsp A London XI who played against Sheffield in 1873 The inaugural meeting of the club took place on 24 October 1857 at Parkfield House in the suburb of Highfield 8 The original headquarters was a greenhouse on East Bank Road lent by Thomas Asline Ward father of the first club president Frederick Ward and the adjacent field was used as their first playing ground 9 Initially Sheffield FC games were played among club members themselves and took the format of Married v Singles or Professionals v the Rest nbsp Laws for the guidance of playing members as published in 1859Creswick and Prest were responsible for drawing up the club s rules of play which were decided upon at the club s AGM on 21 October 1858 and published the following year 10 They were referred to as the Sheffield Rules and were the first detailed set of rules of football to be published by a football club as opposed to a school or university At the time before the formation of the Football Association FA many different kinds of football were popular in England For example each of the various public schools played football according to their own individual rules and these varied widely 11 The Sheffield Rules were later adopted by the Sheffield Football Association when it was formed in 1867 12 Sheffield s near neighbour Hallam was formed in 1860 and in the same year the two clubs first met each other in a local derby which is still contested today 13 By 1862 there were 15 clubs in the Sheffield area 14 They became members of The Football Association on 30 November 1863 but continued to use their own set of rules 6 On 2 January 1865 the club played its first fixture outside Sheffield against Notts County then known as Nottingham Football Club at the Meadows Cricket Ground the match was played eighteen a side under Nottingham Rules 15 16 Sheffield won by a goal to nil 17 By this time the club had decided only to play teams outside Sheffield in order to seek a bigger challenge On 31 March 1866 Sheffield played a London team under FA rules at Battersea Park 18 The game played as an eleven aside was won by London by 2 goals and four touches down to nil 19 However the matter of rules remained a problem with Sheffield clubs continuing to play by their own rules A number of rule proposals by the club were rejected by the FA in February 1867 and the London Committee were reluctant to commit to further fixtures over Sheffield s refusal to play strictly to FA rules Sheffield clubs finally adopted the FA rules in 1878 20 In 1873 the club entered the FA Cup for the first time their first ever tie in the competition against Shropshire Wanderers being decided after a replay by a coin toss the only time in the history of the competition that a tie has been decided in this way 21 They would reach the 4th round of the competition in 1877 78 and 1879 80 22 nbsp A Sheffield squad of 1876Their reluctance to play against local clubs led to the formation of Thursday Wanderers in 1876 a team of players registered to Sheffield who wished to play in the Sheffield Challenge Cup The Wanderers operated from 1876 to 1879 winning the cup in their final year 23 Sheffield s decline from the top echelon of football began with the introduction of professionalism in July 1885 with the amateurs of Sheffield failing to compete with professional teams losing heavily that year to Aston Villa Nottingham Forest and Notts County After the legalisation of professionalism the staunchly amateur Sheffield suggested to the FA the creation of a cup exclusively for amateur clubs The FA Amateur Cup was inaugurated in 1893 24 and Sheffield themselves won the competition in 1904 They joined their first league competition in 1889 when entering the Midland League but left after just one season when they finished bottom of the table 25 They were also founder members of the original Yorkshire League in 1898 but again they spent just a single season in the competition After the turn of the century Sheffield competed mainly in local leagues By 1925 26 they were competing in the Sheffield Association League nbsp Pele left in Sheffield in November 2007 marking the 150th anniversary of the world s oldest football club Sheffield F C 26 Fifty years after leaving the competition the club rejoined the Yorkshire League in 1949 Three years later they won promotion to Division One but were relegated back to Division Two in 1954 They returned to the top flight at the first time of asking before entering their centenary year in 1957 Celebrations included games against the England B team at Hillsborough 27 and fellow amateur side Queen s Park F C at Bramall Lane 28 In 1961 Sheffield was relegated to Division Two again only returning to the top flight again in 1967 and then only for one more season before another relegation Three years later in 1970 they were relegated again to the newly formed Division Three 25 Club would spend six seasons in the Yorkshire League s basement division finishing as low as 10th in 1974 They finally started to turn their fortunes around in 1976 by returning to Division Two and a year later they were crowned as Division Two champions to return to Division One In the same season Sheffield reached the final of the newly formed FA Vase At Wembley stadium they drew 1 1 with Billericay Town before being beaten 1 2 in the replay at the City Ground in Nottingham When the Yorkshire League merged with the Midland League to form the Northern Counties East League NCEL in 1981 Sheffield were placed in Division One South of the new competition They stayed in this division for three seasons before the league was restructured with the club being reassigned to the newly formed Division One In 1989 they won the division One title but they were relegated back again a year later because of their lack of floodlights nbsp Sheffield s 150th anniversary celebration match against Inter at Bramall Lane in 2007At the first time of asking Sheffield again won the division One title this time remaining in the NCEL Premier Division for 15 years In 1994 the club won the Sheffield amp Hallamshire Senior Cup for the first time beating Worksop Town on penalties at Hillsborough They would later win the trophy on a further four occasions throughout the 2010s 2007 was a momentous year for Sheffield F C as they entered their 150th year 26 They finished as runners up in the league to secure promotion to the Northern Premier League NPL for the first time In October 2007 FIFA president Sepp Blatter attended the club s anniversary dinner and the following month the club played anniversary celebration matches against Internazionale and Ajax at Bramall Lane 26 29 Football legend Pele was guest of honour at the first game and was introduced to the teams and the fans before the game 30 The match ended 5 2 to Inter with 18 741 supporters attending the match Inter s side included World Cup winner Marco Materazzi and a young Mario Balotelli As part of his visit Pele opened an exhibition which included the first public showing in 40 years of the original hand written rules of football 26 Sheffield have reached the play offs of the NPL Division One South on three occasions but have so far failed to win promotion In their first Division One South campaign in 2008 they reached the final losing on penalties to Nantwich Town before being knocked out in the semi finals in 2010 and 2012 The club first played in the FA Trophy in 2007 after winning promotion to the NPL but have so far failed to advance past the qualifying rounds In 2015 the Qataris donated 100000 pounds to Sheffield FC 31 Season by season record edit Season Division Level Position FA Cup FA Amateur Cup FA Trophy FA Vase Notes1873 74 No league entered 3R 1874 75 No league entered 1R 1875 76 No league entered 3R 1876 77 No league entered 3R 1877 78 No league entered 4R 1878 79 No league entered 2R 1879 80 No league entered 4R 1880 81 No league entered 2R 1881 82 No league entered 2R 1882 83 No league entered 1R 1883 84 No league entered 1R 1884 85 No league entered 3R 1885 86 No league entered 2R 1886 87 No league entered 1R 1887 88 No league entered 1R 1888 89 No league entered 1QR 1889 90 Midland League 11th 11 3QR 1890 91 Midland Alliance 8th 8 1QR 1891 92 Midland Alliance 9th 10 1QR 1892 93 Midland Alliance 10th 11 1QR 1893 94 Sheffield Challenge Cup LeagueSheffield amp District League 14th 145th 5 1QR 1R 1894 95 Sheffield Challenge Cup League 15th 15 1QR 1R 1895 96 Sheffield Challenge Cup League 11th 15 1QR 1R 1896 97 Sheffield Association League 4th 10 4QR 2QR 1897 98 United Counties League 3QR 2R 1898 99 Yorkshire League 7th 10 1QR 2QR 1899 00 Sheffield Association League 7th 9 1QR 1R 1900 01 Sheffield Association League 10th 15 PR 1R 1901 02 Sheffield Association League 12th 13 1QR 2R 1902 03 Sheffield Association League 7th 8 1QR 2R 1903 04 Sheffield Association League 8th 14 PR Won 1904 05 No league entered 1QR 1R 1905 06 Sheffield Association League 1QR 2R 1906 07 Sheffield Association League 12th 13 PR 2R 1907 08 Sheffield Association League 16th 16 1QR 1R 1908 09 Sheffield Amateur League 1R 1909 10 Sheffield Amateur League 11th 12 PR 1R 1910 11 No league entered PR 1R 1911 12 Sheffield Amateur League PR 1R 1912 13 Sheffield Amateur League PR 2QR 1913 14 Sheffield Amateur League 10th 11 PR 4QR 1914 15 No league entered EPR 1915 16 Club did not enter any competitions due to World War I1916 17 Club did not enter any competitions due to World War I1917 18 Club did not enter any competitions due to World War I1918 19 Club did not enter any competitions due to World War I1919 20 No league entered PR 2QR 1920 21 No league entered EPR 2QR 1921 22 No league entered EPR 3QR 1922 23 No league entered PR 4QR 1923 24 No league entered PR 3QR 1924 25 No league entered PR 2QR 1925 26 Sheffield Association League 1QR 3QR 1926 27 No league entered PR 2QR 1927 28 No league entered PR 2QR 1928 29 No league entered PR 2QR 1929 30 No league entered 1QR 3QR 1930 31 No league entered PR 3QR 1931 32 No league entered PR 4QR 1932 33 No league entered PR 2QR 1933 34 No league entered PR 2QR 1934 35 No league entered PR 3QR 1935 36 Sheffield Association League PR 3QR 1936 37 Sheffield Association League EPR 1QR 1937 38 Sheffield Association League EPR 1QR 1938 39 Sheffield Association League EPR 2QR 1939 40 Club did not enter any competitions due to World War II1940 41 Sheffield Amateur City League 1941 42 Sheffield Amateur City League 1942 43 Sheffield Amateur City League 1943 44 Sheffield Amateur League 1944 45 Sheffield Amateur League 1945 46 Sheffield Amateur League 1946 47 Sheffield Association League 1QR 4QR 1947 48 Sheffield Association League PR 4QR 1948 49 Sheffield Association League PR 1R 1949 50 Yorkshire League Division 2 10th 18 PR 2R 1950 51 Yorkshire League Division 2 7th 17 PR 2R 1951 52 Yorkshire League Division 2 3rd 13 1QR 2R Promoted1952 53 Yorkshire League Division 1 8th 18 1QR 1R 1953 54 Yorkshire League Division 1 15th 18 2QR 1R Relegated1954 55 Yorkshire League Division 2 3rd 16 2QR 1R Promoted1955 56 Yorkshire League Division 1 6th 18 1QR 4QR 1956 57 Yorkshire League Division 1 10th 18 2QR PR 1957 58 Yorkshire League Division 1 10th 18 2QR 1QR 1958 59 Yorkshire League Division 1 12th 18 4QR 1QR 1959 60 Yorkshire League Division 1 14th 18 1QR 1R 1960 61 Yorkshire League Division 1 16th 18 4QR Relegated1961 62 Yorkshire League Division 2 7th 14 1QR 1962 63 Yorkshire League Division 2 5th 15 3QR 1963 64 Yorkshire League Division 2 6th 15 3QR 1964 65 Yorkshire League Division 2 8th 15 2QR 1965 66 Yorkshire League Division 2 3rd 15 2QR Promoted1966 67 Yorkshire League Division 1 16th 17 1QR Relegated1967 68 Yorkshire League Division 2 8th 17 2QR 1968 69 Yorkshire League Division 2 9th 17 PR 1969 70 Yorkshire League Division 2 11th 18 1QR Relegated1970 71 Yorkshire League Division 3 6th 15 1QR 1971 72 Yorkshire League Division 3 7th 14 1QR 1972 73 Yorkshire League Division 3 8th 16 1QR 1973 74 Yorkshire League Division 3 10th 16 1QR 1974 75 Yorkshire League Division 3 5th 16 4R1975 76 Yorkshire League Division 3 4th 16 3R Promoted1976 77 Yorkshire League Division 2 1st 16 RU League champions promoted1977 78 Yorkshire League Division 1 7th 16 2R1978 79 Yorkshire League Division 1 8th 16 3R1979 80 Yorkshire League Division 1 5th 16 2R1980 81 Yorkshire League Division 1 12th 16 1R1981 82 Yorkshire League Division 1 11th 16 PR1982 83 Northern Counties East League Division 1 South 3rd 14 PR1983 84 Northern Counties East League Division 1 South 4th 14 1R1984 85 Northern Counties East League Division 1 South 6th 16 1R1985 86 Northern Counties East League Division 1 2nd 16 4R1986 87 Northern Counties East League Division 1 17th 18 1R1987 88 Northern Counties East League Division 1 8th 16 1R1988 89 Northern Counties East League Division 1 1st 16 PR League champions promoted1989 90 Northern Counties East League Premier Division 8th 16 1QR 2R Relegated1990 91 Northern Counties East League Division 1 1st 13 PR 2R League champions promoted1991 92 Northern Counties East League Premier Division 6th 19 1QR 2R1992 93 Northern Counties East League Premier Division 15th 20 2QR PR1993 94 Northern Counties East League Premier Division 4th 20 1QR 2R1994 95 Northern Counties East League Premier Division 18th 20 2QR PR1995 96 Northern Counties East League Premier Division 20th 20 1QR 1QR1996 97 Northern Counties East League Premier Division 18th 20 2QR 1R1997 98 Northern Counties East League Premier Division 15th 20 PR 2R1998 99 Northern Counties East League Premier Division 12th 20 PR 1QR1999 00 Northern Counties East League Premier Division 14th 20 2QR 1QR2000 01 Northern Counties East League Premier Division 7th 20 4QR 1R2001 02 Northern Counties East League Premier Division 9th 20 PR 1QR2002 03 Northern Counties East League Premier Division 7th 20 PR 2R2003 04 Northern Counties East League Premier Division 4th 20 1QR 3R2004 05 Northern Counties East League Premier Division 9 4th 20 1QR 1R2005 06 Northern Counties East League Premier Division 9 4th 20 PR 2QR2006 07 Northern Counties East League Premier Division 9 2nd 20 1QR 2R Promoted2007 08 Northern Premier League Division 1 South 8 4th 18 PR 3QR 2008 09 Northern Premier League Division 1 South 8 11th 20 4QR 1QR 2009 10 Northern Premier League Division 1 South 8 5th 22 1QR PR 2010 11 Northern Premier League Division 1 South 8 11th 22 4QR 1QR 2011 12 Northern Premier League Division 1 South 8 4th 22 PR 3QR 2012 13 Northern Premier League Division 1 South 8 9th 22 PR PR 2013 14 Northern Premier League Division 1 South 8 16th 21 1QR 3QR 2014 15 Northern Premier League Division 1 South 8 15th 22 2QR 1QR 2015 16 Northern Premier League Division 1 South 8 17th 22 PR 1QR 2016 17 Northern Premier League Division 1 South 8 15th 22 1QR PR 2017 18 Northern Premier League Division 1 South 8 15th 22 PR PR 2018 19 Northern Premier League Division 1 East 8 4th 20 PR EPR 2019 20 Northern Premier League Division 1 South East 8 1QR EPR League season abandoned due to COVID 19 pandemic2020 21 Northern Premier League Division 1 South East 8 1QR 2QR League season abandoned due to COVID 19 pandemic2021 22 Northern Premier League Division 1 East 8 17th 19 PR 2QR 2022 23 Northern Premier League Division 1 East 8 9th 20 PR 2QR 2023 24 Northern Premier League Division 1 East 8 TBD TBD TBD Season Division Level Position FA Cup FA Amateur Cup FA Trophy FA Vase NotesSource Football Club History DatabaseManagers edit From To Manager1972 1982 Chris Stanley 1 1982 1984 Paddy Buckley 1 1984 1993 R Evans 1 1993 1997 Kenny Johnson 1 1997 2000 John Pearson 1 From To Manager1999 2008 Dave McCarthy 1 2008 2011 Chris Dolby 1 2011 2012 Mark Shaw 32 2012 2012 Curtis Woodhouse 32 2012 2014 Ian Whitehorne 33 From To Manager2014 2014 Mick Wadsworth 34 2014 2015 Jordan Broadbent2015 2016 Andy Kiwomya2016 2017 James Colliver2017 2017 Mark Hume From To Manager2017 2018 Mark Shaw 35 2018 2021 Gavin Smith 36 2021 Present Ryan Cresswell 37 Notable former players edit Famous players from the club s early days included Nathaniel Creswick and William Prest who founded the club Four Sheffield players have appeared for England Charles Clegg who played in the first international game against Scotland in 1872 38 John Owen in 1874 39 Thomas Sorby in 1879 and Jack Hudson in 1883 40 In addition to the above the following have played in the Football League either before or after playing for Sheffield Steve Fleetwood Samuel Ashworth Billy Bairstow Ollie Banks Craig Boardman Andy Brownrigg T B A Clarke Matt Dickins David Faulkner Tom Fenoughty David Graham George Groves Connor Hall Jamie Jackson Kirk Jackson Matthew Lowton Austin McIntosh Nathan Modest Marc Newsham Scott Partridge Richard Peacock Paul Pettinger John Roxburgh Jimmy Sayer Mark Smith Paul Smith 1 Paul Smith 2 Nick Wood Curtis Woodhouse Jamie YatesGrounds editSheffield have played at a number of grounds near Sheffield Initially they played at Strawberry Hall Lane Park 10 However like all of the early grounds they played at it was not owned by the club In the following years they would play at Old Forge ground and a ground near Hunter s Bar on Ecclesall Road 41 There was much reluctance from the owners of Bramall Lane to see the pitch used for football They did not relent until a charity match between Sheffield and Hallam was suggested in late 1862 The ground was used by Sheffield for its more important fixtures but relations with the owners remained strained They collapsed altogether in 1875 when the club vowed never to play at the ground again In 1921 Sheffield settled at the new Abbeydale Park ground They moved to Hillsborough Park in 1988 42 then to Owlerton Stadium and Don Valley Stadium In 1999 Richard Tims got involved with Sheffield FC when he was invited to a home game in Don Valley Stadium He noted that the club was struggling as they were playing in a rented stadium He took over the club and helped it secure its own ground the Coach and Horses Stadium in Dronfield Derbyshire 43 The club bought the Coach amp Horses ground in Dronfield in 2001 which was previously the home of Norton Woodseats F C a notable football team who reached the semi finals of the FA Amateur Cup in 1939 It was the first time the club had owned its own ground 44 The ground has a capacity of just over 2 000 with 250 seats in the stand behind the southern goal 45 In March 2019 it was revealed that Sheffield F C was in talks with the Sheffield Transport Sports Club STSC to move the club back to its home city after plans to move to the Olive Grove sports ground in the Heeley district of Sheffield fell through in 2016 46 47 In March 2021 plans for the new stadium based at the STSC facility in the Meadowhead area of Sheffield were revealed The proposed 4 000 person capacity stadium features a heritage centre celebrating the city s role in football history 48 The club has played its FA Cup games at the following grounds Years Ground1857 1873 Strawberry Hall Lane Park Sheffield1873 1884 Bramall Lane Sheffield1884 1889 Old Forge Ground Attercliffe1889 1897 Ecclesall Road Sheffield1897 1901 Owlerton Ground Owlerton Sheffield1901 1921 Niagara Ground Wadsley Bridge1921 1988 Abbeydale Park Dore1988 Hillsborough Park Hillsborough Sheffield1989 Owlerton Stadium Owlerton Sheffield1990 2001 Don Valley Stadium Sheffield2001 present Coach amp Horses Ground DronfieldGallery edit nbsp Owlerton Stadium Sheffield s home for a period during the 1980s and 1990s nbsp Don Valley Stadium another of Sheffield s former homes nbsp The south end of the Coach amp Horses Ground nbsp The east end of the Coach amp Horses Ground with the Coach amp Horses pub to the left Honours editLeague edit Northern Counties East League Premier Division Promoted 2006 07 Northern Counties East League Division One Promoted 1988 89 champions 1990 91 champions Yorkshire League Division Two Promoted 1951 52 1954 55 1965 66 1976 77 champions 1976 77 Yorkshire League Division Three Promoted 1975 76 Central Midlands League Division 1 North Reserves Promoted 2021 22 Cup edit FA Amateur Cup Winners 1903 04 FA Vase Runners up 1976 77 Yorkshire League Cup Winners 1977 78 Northern Counties East League Cup Winners 2000 01 2004 05 Sheffield amp Hallamshire Senior Cup Winners 1993 94 2004 05 2005 06 2007 08 2009 10Ladies edit FA Women s Premier League Championship Play Off Final Winners 2014 15 FA Women s Premier League Northern Division Winners 2012 13 2013 14 2014 15 FA Women s National League Cup Winners 2013 14 Runners up 2014 15 Northern Combination Women s Football League Winners 2010 11 North East Regional Women s Football League Premier Division Winners 2009 10 Division 1 South Winners 2007 08 Northern Combination Women s Football League Winners 2010 11 Sheffield amp Hallamshire County Women s Challenge Cup Winners 2011 12 2012 13 2013 14 2014 15Minors edit Egri Erbstein Tournament Winners 2022 Sheffield Eindhoven Challenge Cup Winners 1946Records editBest FA Cup performance 4th round 1877 78 1879 80 Best FA Amateur Cup performance Winners 1903 04 Best FA Trophy performance 3rd qualifying round 2007 08 2011 12 2013 14 Best FA Vase performance Runners up 1976 77 Record attendance 2 000 vs Barton Rovers FA 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