Sheffield Wednesday FC

Sheffield Wednesday is an English football club, founded on Wednesday 4 september 1867 and currently playing in the Football League Championship.

The club was originally founded as a cricket club in 1820 under The name The Wednesday Cricket Club, while football served to the players in the winter months together.The football team, however, was far more successful than the cricket team: al in 1882 the two teams were separated and in 1925 it became cricket team even eliminated.

On 22 april 1887 the club became professional, after a few of the best players had threatened to resign. In 1889 was their notification to join the Football League rejected, but in 1892 they were allowed.

The club was called officially The Wednesday Football Club until 1929 when the name was changed to Sheffield Wednesday Football Club. Nevertheless, this last name back to 1883; in the walk was and is the club known as "The Wednesday". After 1930, the club was no champion more and in 1935 became the latest, and for the moment only, FA Cup won. After that gain it took until 1991 for the club again won a prize. The League Cup was won at the expense of Manchester United. In 1993 became both the finals of the FA Cup (Arsenal won in the extension of the replay 2-1, after the first game ended in 1-1), and the League Cup (again Arsenal won 2-1) lost.

Then went downhill with the club and it even came in the third division of English football was right.

Sheffield Wednesday won on 29 may 2005 the play-offs of the Football League One and to The Championship.

In the 2009/2010 season ended Sheffield Wednesday on the number 22 with 47 points, 2 points behind Crystal Palace, which meant that Sheffield Wednesday in the season 2010/2011 weather played in the Football League One . The 2010/2011 season went bad and threatened to walk out on relegation, but the team knew to avoid this underGary Megson, who succeeded Alan Irvine as a trainer during the season. Wednesday finished at place 15. In the season 2011/2012 played Wednesday under two managers, first Gary Megson and then Dave Jones. Wednesday holds a club record for the number of points in a season by as much as 93 points and finished second in League One, which resulted in an automatic return to the Championship. The season started slowly, but after a strong 2nd half knew Sheffield Wednesday to stave off relegation. The season was decided on place 18, with four points more than the best relegated team.



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[hide] *1 Palmares  ==Palmares[ Edit] ==  English League Championship (4 x)
 * Sheffield in Europe 2
 * 3 notable former players
 * 3.1 Dutch
 * 3.2 Belgians
 * 3.3 Other
 * 4 external links


 * 1902/03, 1903/04, 1928/29, 1929/30

Football League Championship (5 x)


 * 1899/1900, 1925/26, 1951/52, 1955/56, 1958/59

 FA Cup (3 x)


 * 1896, 1907, 1935

 League Cup (1 x)


 * 1991

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> FA Community Shield (1 x)


 * 1935

==Sheffield in Europe<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="57" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Total points for UEFA coefficients: 16.0 ==Notable former players<span class="mw-editsection" len="350" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Dutch<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Belgians<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Other<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * Q = qualifying round
 * 1R = first round
 * 2R = second round
 * 1/8 = 1/8th final
 * PUC = points UEFA coefficients
 * Regi Blinker
 * Royston Drenthe
 * Etiënne Esajas
 * Wim Jonk
 * Glenn Loovens
 * Gerald Sibon
 * Orlando Trustfull
 * Marc Degryse
 * Gilles De Bilde
 * Ross Barkley
 * Benito Carbone
 * Paolo Di Canio
 * Bruce Grobbelaar
 * David Hirst
 * Grant Holt
 * Bradley Jones
 * Ayo Obileye
 * Oguchi Onyewu
 * Carlton Palmer
 * Kyle Naughton
 * Dejan Stefanovic
 * Chris Waddle
 * Des Walker
 * Paul Warhurst
 * Guy Whittingham
 * Chris Woods