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Sheffield Football Club is an English
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club, currently based in
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,
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. They compete in the , on the eighth level of the English football pyramid. Founded in October
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the club is considered by
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as the oldest existing independent club still playing football in the world. Sheffield F.C. initially played games amongst each other under the
Sheffield Rules The Sheffield Rules was a code of football devised and played in the English city of Sheffield between 1858 and 1877. The rules were initially created and revised by Sheffield F.C., Sheffield Football Club, with responsibility for the laws pa ...
and did not officially adopt the new FA
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until 1878. The club competes in the Rules derby with near neighbours
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. In 2004, they were given the
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, an award given to only one other club;
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. In 2007 they were inducted into the
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, to commemorate their 150th anniversary. On the pitch, the club's finest hour came in 1904 when they won the
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, a competition conceived after a suggestion by Sheffield. They also finished as runners up of the
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in 1977.


History

In 1855, members of a Sheffield
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club organised informal kick-abouts without any official rules. Subsequently, two members,
Nathaniel Creswick Sir Nathaniel Creswick (31 July 1831 – 20 October 1917) was an English footballer who co-founded Sheffield FC, the oldest football club in the world, in 1857. With William Prest, he established the Sheffield Rules, which were highly influenti ...
and
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, formed the Sheffield Football Club. The inaugural meeting of the club took place on 24 October 1857 at Parkfield House in the suburb of Highfield. The original headquarters was a greenhouse on East Bank Road lent by
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, father of the first club president Frederick Ward, and the adjacent field was used as their first playing ground. Initially, Sheffield FC games were played among club members themselves and took the format of "Married v Singles" or "Professionals v the Rest". 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. They were referred to as the
Sheffield Rules The Sheffield Rules was a code of football devised and played in the English city of Sheffield between 1858 and 1877. The rules were initially created and revised by Sheffield F.C., Sheffield Football Club, with responsibility for the laws pa ...
, 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
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(FA), many different kinds of football were popular in England. For example, each of the various
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played football according to their own individual rules, and these varied widely. The Sheffield Rules were later adopted by the
Sheffield Football Association The Sheffield and Hallamshire Football Association is a County Football Association in England. It was formed in Sheffield in 1867 as the Sheffield Football Association, and is the second-oldest football governing body after the Football Assoc ...
when it was formed in 1867. Sheffield's near neighbour,
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, was formed in 1860 and in the same year the two clubs first met each other in a
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which is still contested today. By 1862 there were 15 clubs in the Sheffield area. They became members of
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on 30 November 1863 but continued to use their own set of rules. On 2 January 1865, the club played its first fixture outside Sheffield against
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, then known as Nottingham Football Club, at the Meadows Cricket Ground; the match was played eighteen-a-side under "Nottingham Rules". Sheffield won by a goal to nil. By this time the club had decided to play only teams outside Sheffield in order to seek a bigger challenge. On 31 March 1866, Sheffield played a "London" team under FA rules at
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. The game, played as an eleven aside, was won by London by 2 goals and four touches down to nil. 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. In 1873 the club entered the
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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. They would reach the 4th round of the competition in 1877–78 and 1879–80.Sheffield
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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
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. The Wanderers operated from 1876 to 1879, winning the cup in their final year. 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
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,
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and
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. After the legalisation of professionalism, the staunchly amateur Sheffield suggested to the FA the creation of a cup exclusively for amateur clubs. The
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was inaugurated in 1893 and Sheffield themselves won the competition in 1904. They joined their first league competition in 1889 when entering the
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, but left after just one season when they finished bottom of the table.Sheffield
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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
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. 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 and fellow amateur side
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at
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. 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. 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
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. At
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, they drew 1–1 with Billericay Town, before being beaten 1–2 in the replay at the
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in
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. When the Yorkshire League merged with the
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to form the
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(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. 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
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for the first time, beating
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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. They finished as runners-up in the league to secure promotion to the
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(NPL) for the first time. In October 2007,
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president
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attended the club's anniversary dinner, and the following month the club played anniversary celebration matches against
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and
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at Bramall Lane. Football legend
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was guest of honour at the first game and was introduced to the teams and the fans before the game. The match ended 5–2 to Inter, with 18,741 supporters attending the match. Inter's side included
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winner
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and a young
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. 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. Sheffield have reached the play-offs of the NPL Division One South on four 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, 2012 and 2019. The club first played in the
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in 2007 after winning promotion to the NPL, but has so far failed to advance past the qualifying rounds. In 2015, the Qataris donated £100,000 to Sheffield FC. Since then, Sheffield FC has been on a gradual decline in both form and status in the league. Attendances failed to reflect the perceived status of the club despite fanfare on social media in various campaigns. In 2025, Sheffield faced Hallam FC in the Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior Cup, the first competitive Rules Derby fixture in over a decade. The Club fell in a 2-1 defeat at the hands of their rivals. With games to spare, Sheffield FC were relegated from the Northern Premier League. Away from the pitch, Richard Tims stepped away from the club after 27 years.


Season-by-season record


Managers


Notable former players

Famous players from the club's early days included
Nathaniel Creswick Sir Nathaniel Creswick (31 July 1831 – 20 October 1917) was an English footballer who co-founded Sheffield FC, the oldest football club in the world, in 1857. With William Prest, he established the Sheffield Rules, which were highly influenti ...
and
William Prest William Prest (1 April 1832 – 10 February 1885) was an English cricketer and Association football, footballer born in York. He lived most of his life in Sheffield where he went on to become co-founder of Sheffield F.C., Sheffield Football Club ...
, who founded the club. Four Sheffield players have appeared for
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, who played in the first international game against
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in 1872, John Owen, in 1874,
Thomas Sorby Thomas Heathcote Sorby (16 February 1856 – 13 December 1930) was an English amateur footballer who made one appearance for England. Football career Sorby was born in Sheffield, the fourth of ten children of Thomas Austin Sorby (1823–1885) ...
, in 1879, and Jack Hudson, in 1883. In addition to the above, the following have played in the
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either before or after playing for Sheffield: * Steve Fleetwood * Samuel Ashworth * Billy Bairstow *
Ollie Banks Oliver Ian Banks (born 21 September 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Chesterfield. He will join York City on 1 July 2025. Banks formerly played for Rotherham United, Sheffield, Buxton, Stalybridge ...
* 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 Matthew John Lowton (born 9 June 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays as a right back for UAE Second Division League club Precision. Lowton joined Sheffield United's academy in 2004. He spent time on loan with both non-leagu ...
* Austin McIntosh *
Nathan Modest Nathan Daniel Modest (born 29 September 1991) is an English Association football, footballer who plays as a Striker (association football), striker and Midfielder#Winger, winger for Sheffield F.C., Sheffield in the Northern Premier League, North ...
* Marc Newsham * Scott Partridge *
Richard Peacock Richard Peacock (9 April 1820 – 3 March 1889) was an English engineer, one of the founders of locomotive manufacturer Beyer, Peacock and Company. He was later a Member of Parliament. Early life and education Born in Swaledale, Yorkshire, ...
* Paul Pettinger * John Roxburgh * Jimmy Sayer * Mark Smith *
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(1) *
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(2) * Nick Wood *
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* Jamie Yates


Grounds

Sheffield have played at a number of grounds near Sheffield. Initially they played at Strawberry Hall Lane Park. 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
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. There was much reluctance from the owners of
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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
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ground. They moved to
Hillsborough Park Hillsborough Park is a large () parkland area in Hillsborough, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It is situated three miles north-west of the city centre. It is owned by Sheffield City Council and is one of the 13 designated "City Parks". ...
in 1988, then to
Owlerton Stadium Owlerton Stadium, also known as Sheffield Stadium, is a purpose-built speedway stadium built in 1929, which hosts greyhound racing five-times a week. The track is in Owlerton near Hillsborough in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Greyhound ...
and
Don Valley Stadium Don Valley Stadium, England, was a stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, completed in 1990, and hosted the 1991 World Student Games. It was named after the nearby River Don. The stadium was demolished in 2013. The stadium and facilities were ...
. 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. The club bought the Coach & Horses ground in
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in 2001, which was previously the home of
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, a notable football team who reached the semi-finals of the
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in 1939. It was the first time the club had owned its own ground. The ground has a capacity of just over 2,000 with 250 seats in the stand behind the southern goal. 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 Heeley was a cluster of small villages which now form a suburb in the south of the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The village has existed at least since 1343, its name deriving from ''Heah Leah'', ''High Lea'' then ''Hely'', mea ...
district of Sheffield fell through in 2016. In March 2021 plans for the new stadium based at the STSC facility in the
Meadowhead Beauchief and Greenhill ward—which includes the Areas of Sheffield, districts of Batemoor, Beauchief, Chancet Wood, Greenhill, Jordanthorpe, Lowedges and Meadowhead—is one of the 28 electoral wards in the Sheffield, City of Sheffield, E ...
area of Sheffield were revealed. The proposed 4,000 person capacity stadium features a heritage centre celebrating the city's role in football history. The club has played its
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games at the following grounds:


Gallery

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


Honours


League

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Premier Division **Promoted: 2006–07 *
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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 Division One North (Reserves) **Promoted: 2021–22 *Central Midlands Division One North (Reserves) **Champions: 2023–24


Cup

*
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**Winners: 1903–04 *
FA Vase The Football Association Challenge Vase, also known as the Isuzu FA Vase for sponsorship reasons, is an annual football competition run by and named after The Football Association (The FA), for teams playing in Steps 5 and 6 of the English Nation ...
**Runners-up: 1976–77 * Yorkshire League Cup **Winners: 1977–78 *
Northern Counties East League The Northern Counties East Football League is a semi-professional English football league. It has two divisions – Premier Division and Division One – which stand at the ninth and tenth levels of the English football pyramid respectively. ...
Cup **Winners: 2000–01, 2004–05 *
Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior Cup The Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior Cup is a county cup competition involving teams within the Sheffield and Hallamshire County Football Association. Originally named the Sheffield Challenge Cup, it is the 5th oldest surviving cup competition ...
**Winners: 1993–94, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2009–10 **Runners-up: 1961–62, 2012–13


Records

*Best
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performance: 4th round, 1877–78, 1879–80 *Best
FA Amateur Cup The FA Amateur Cup was an English football competition for amateur clubs. It commenced in 1893 and ended in 1974 when the Football Association abolished official amateur status. History Following the legalisation of professionalism within footb ...
performance: Winners, 1903–04 *Best
FA Trophy The Football Association Challenge Trophy, also known as the Isuzu FA Trophy for sponsorship reasons, is a men's football knockout cup competition run by and named after The Football Association (the FA) and competed by mainly National League ...
performance: 3rd qualifying round, 2007–08, 2011–12, 2013–14 *Best
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performance: Runners-up, 1976–77 *Record attendance: 2,000 vs. Barton Rovers,
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Semi-Final, 1976–77


See also

* Club of Pioneers


References


External links

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"The original football club"
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