The Sheffield & Hallamshire County FA Senior cup final is played tonight at Bramall Lane for the first time since the 1940s. The tournament is the oldest County Cup in England ,which started in the 1876/77 season, so tonight’s final is the 140th ever contested. Shaw Lane FC and Frickley Athletic FC are this year’s finalists, the County […]
In April 1887 five Wednesday FC players formed a break away football club called Sheffield Rovers and threatened to leave unless Wednesday started paying wages. The gamble worked and the full story is in my new book that is available for order now at this link.
Sheffield FC claimed its greatest ever prize by beating Ealing FC 3-1 at the Bradford City ground, and lifted the F.A. Amateur Cup. F.E.M. Chambers played as a back for Sheffield FC in the victory, his father was Harry Waters Chambers, the club’s very first Hon. Sec. back in 1857. It was the Chamber’s family […]
As Sheffield United head over to Oldham FC today looking for three more points towards promotion to the Championship, we remember 22nd March 1889. 128 years ago, Charles Stokes called upon Charles Clegg as a fellow member of the Bramall Lane Ground Committee to solicit his opinion as to the formation of a new football […]
In March 1867 things were not going well for the Football Association. Four years after the launch at the Freemasons tavern, Ebenezer Cobb Morley considered dissolving the organisation because of the lack of interest in clubs taking up the code. Only six people attended the 12th February 1867 F.A. Annual General Meeting “Mr. MORLEY said […]
Heeley FC and Sheffield Wednesday FC played in the final of the first ever Sheffield Association Challenge Cup (1876/77),played at Bramall Lane. “The Sheffield Football Association Challenge Cup. Decidedly the most interesting match of the Sheffield football season was that which took place on Saturday afternoon, at Bramall Lane Ground, between those two well-known clubs, Wednesday […]
No new Sheffield football clubs were formed in this year, no doubt as a result of the Great Flood, an unparalleled disaster that (with the exception of maritime disasters) was the greatest loss of life in the Victorian era in Britain. On the night of 11 March 1864, assisted by a strong south-western gale, the […]
The Youdan Cup Hallam FC were the winners of the oldest Football Cup in the world, the Youdan Cup, in 1867. The first two rounds were on a knockout basis; however, the final was contested between three teams playing each other in turn. The final between Hallam FC and Norfolk FC was played at Bramall […]
Undoubtedly Norton FC’s biggest ever match was in the Youdan Cup on the 25th of February 1867 against Hallam FC, the eventual winners. After a draw the two clubs played again two days later, an astounding 3,000 spectators witnessed the contest, probably at Oakes Park: “Hallam v. Norton. The match between these two clubs was played […]
“Sheffield – Youdan’s Football Cup. The first series of matches played by some of the Sheffield football clubs for the silver cup presented by Thomas Youdan, Esq, to the clubs of the town and neighbourhood took place at Sheffield, on Saturday last, the 16th last, with the following results: – First Draw; 1. United Mechanics […]
