Sheffield Wednesday F.C.
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Full name : Sheffield Wednesday Football
Nickname(s) : The Owls
Founded : 4 September 1867
Ground : Hillsborough Stadium
(Capacity 39,814)
Manager : Brian Laws
League : The Championship

Sheffield Wednesday F.C.
--------------------------------------------------------------------    Sheffield Wednesday Football Club are a professional football club based in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England who currently compete in the Football League of England in The Championship division, the second tier of English football. Wednesday are one of the oldest professional clubs in the world and since first joining the Football League in 1892 they have competed in the top-flight for the majority of their history. Their main rivals are Sheffield United, and the two clubs have contested the Steel City derby on a regular basis for some 100 years. Sheffield Wednesday have not done the league double over Sheffield United for 94 Years.
   The Owls have won four League titles, three FA Cups and one League Cup, but their League Cup triumph in 1991 is their only major trophy since World War II. They did reach both domestic cup finals in 1993, but lost 2–1 to Arsenal each time.
   They play their home matches at Hillsborough Stadium in the north-western suburb of Owlerton, a 39,814 all-seater stadium built in 1899 when the lease expired at their previous ground at Olive Grove. The largest attendance was 72,841, which was achieved in 1934.

Stadium
--------------------------------------------------------------------    Originally, Wednesday played matches at Highfield, where Highfield Library is now located but moved several times before adopting a permanent ground. Other locations included Myrtle Road, Heeley and Hunter's Bar. Major matches would be played at Sheaf House or Bramall Lane, before Sheffield United made it their home ground.
   Sheffield Wednesday's first permanent home ground was at Olive Grove, a site near Queen's Road originally leased from the Duke of Norfolk. The first game at Olive Grove was a 4–4 draw with Blackburn Rovers on 12 September 1887. Extensions to the adjacent railway forced the club to move in 1899, when work began on Hillsborough Stadium at Owlerton, to the northwest of the city centre. The first game at Hillsborough was played on 2 September 1899 and ended in a 5–1 win for Wednesday over Chesterfield. The stadium was originally named Owlerton Stadium but in 1914 Owlerton became part of the parliamentary constituency of Hillsborough and the ground took on its current name.
   The Hillsborough disaster occurred on 15 April 1989 at an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death after the terraces at the Leppings Lane end of the ground became overcrowded. The following report concluded that the root cause of the disaster was the failure of local police to adequately manage the crowds. A memorial to the victims of the disaster stands outside Hillsborough's South Stand, near the main entrance on Parkside Road.    Hillsborough is the biggest stadium in the Championship and 12th biggest in the whole of England.

Name origins and nicknames
--------------------------------------------------------------------    The club was initially a cricket club named The Wednesday Cricket Club after the day of the week when they played their matches. The footballing side of the club was established to keep the team together and fit during the winter months.
   The club was formerly known as "The Wednesday Football Club" until 1929, when the club was officially renamed "Sheffield Wednesday Football Club" under the stewardship of manager Bob Brown. However the name Sheffield Wednesday dates back as far as 1883: the former ground at Olive Grove had the name Sheffield Wednesday painted on the stand roof.
   Wednesday's original nickname was "The Blades", a common name for Sheffield clubs during the 19th century due to the city's links to the cutlery industry and now the nickname of their long-term local rivals Sheffield United. At the start of the 20th century, when a player presented them with an owl mascot to honour their stadium at Owlerton, adjacent to Hillsborough, the club became known as "The Owls".