Sheffield Wednesday Football Club is a professional affiliation football club situated in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Britain. The group contends in League One, the third level of the English football League framework. Framed in 1867 as a branch-off of The Wednesday Cricket Club (itself shaped in 1820), they were known as The Wednesday Football Club until 1929.
Wednesday is one of the most established football clubs in the realm of any code, and the second-most established proficient affiliation football club in Britain. In 1868 its group won the Cromwell Cup, just the second competition of its sort. They were establishing individuals and debut heroes of the Football Collusion in 1889, preceding joining The Football League three years after the fact. In 1992, they became pioneer individuals from the Premier League. The group has burned through a large portion of its association history in English football's first class, yet they have not played at that level since being consigned in 2000.
The Owls, as they are nicknamed, are perhaps of the best group in English football, having brought home four league championships, three FA Cups, one Association Cup and one FA People group Safeguard. Wednesday have likewise contended in UEFA cup contests on four events, arriving at the quarter-finals of the Between Urban areas Fairs Cup in 1963. In 1991, they crushed Manchester United 1-0 in the Football League Cup Last as a second-level group. Starting around 2022 they stay the last group to win one of English football's significant prizes while outside the first class.
In the nineteenth 100 years, they played their matches at a several stadiums around focal Sheffield, including Olive Grove and Bramall Lane. Starting around 1899, the club has played all its home matches at Hillsborough arena, a close to 40,000 limit arena in the north-west Sheffield suburb of Owlerton. Wednesday's greatest opponents are Sheffield Joined together, with whom they challenge the Steel City derby.