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The Blades

Sheffield United FC
Founded 22 March 1889 at The Adelphi Hotel
Turned professional 1889

Players provided 34
 Different scorers 12 (19 goals)
Total appearances 101
1892-1992

 

Bramall Lane
Domestic Honours Football League Division Two runners-up 1892-93, 1938-39, 1960-61, 1989-90; winners 1952-53; Division One runners-up 1896-97, 1899-1900, Champions 1897-98; Division Four winners 1981-82; Division Three runners-up 1988-89;
The Sheriff of London's Charity Shield shared 1898;
FA Cup winners 1898-99, 1901-02, 1914-15, 1924-25; runners-up 1900-01, 1935-36;
Watney Cup runners-up 1972 (beaten by Bristol Rovers on pens);
Associate Members Cup best: Northern Semi-finals 1983-84 (beaten by Hull City, 0-1);
After League restructure: Division One/Championship fifth place-play-off runners-up 1996-97, sixth place-play-off semi-finalists 1997-98, third place-play-off runners-up 2002-03 & 2008-09, runners-up 2005-06, 2018-19 & 2022-23, fifth place-play-off semi-finalists 2021-22; Division Two/League One third-place-play-off runners-up 2011-12, fifth place-play-off semi-finalists 2012-13 & 2014-15, winners 2016-17;
FA Premier League best ninth place 2019-20;
Football League Cup best: semi-finals 2002-03 (beaten by Liverpool, agg 2-3), 2014-15 (beaten by Tottenham Hotspur, agg 2-3);
European Honours Anglo-Italian League Cup best: International group stages 1994-95 (fourth of eight teams);
Home venue Bramall Lane, since 1889;
Home strip Red and white striped shirts, black shorts, white socks.

 

The 34 Players   15 with only one app.
Ply no. Name Pos App Gls
GA		 Mins Playing Career
1 194 Mick Whitham LH 1 0 90 1892 90 min
2 186 Harry Lilley LB 1 0 90 1892 90 min
3 217 Ernest Needham LH 16 3 1440 1894-1902 7 years
330 days
4 218 Rab Howell RH 1 1 90 1895 90 min
5 234 Willie Foulke GK 1 0ᵍᵃ 90 1897 90 min
6 237 Tommy Morren CH 1 1 90 1898 90 min
7 246 Harry Thickitt RB 2 0 180 1899 19 days
8 247 Harry Johnson HB 6 1 540 1900-03 3 years
18 days
251 Fred Priest OL 1 0 90 1900 90 min
10 259 George Hedley CF 1 0 90 1901 90 min
11 265 Walter Bennett OR 2 0 180 1901 12 days
12 274 Bert Lipsham OL 1 0 90 1902 90 min
13 294 Alf Common IF 2 3 180 1904 12 days
295 Arthur Brown CF 2 1 180 1904-06 1 year
353 days
15 299 Bernard Wilkinson CH 1 0 90 1904 90 min
16 351 Wally Hardinge IL 1 0 90 1910 90 min
17 352 Albert Sturgess HB 2 0 180 1911-14 3 years
52 days
355 Bob Evans OL 4 1 360 1911-12 1 year
28 days
19 361 Bob Benson LB 1 0 90 1913 90 min
 
20 409 Harold Gough GK 1 3ᵍᵃ 90 1921 90 min
21 435 David Mercer OR 2 1 180 1922-23 149 days
22 444 Fred Tunstall OL 7 0 630 1923-25 1 year
355 days
23 461 Harold Pantling RH 1 0 90 1923 90 min
24 494 George Green LH 8 0 720 1925-28 2 years
363 days
25 530 Vince Matthews CH 2 1 180 1928 2 days
26 572 Bobby Barclay IR 3 2 270 1932-36 3 years
360 days
27 580 Jack Pickering IL 1 0 90 1933 90 min

15 years 178 days...

Eddie Shimwell reserve & unused substitute September 1946
28 673 Jimmy Hagan IR 1 0 90 1948 90 min

Ply no. Name Pos Start/
Sub		 App Gls
GA		 Mins Playing Career
Ted Burgin unused sub November 1951
Derek Hawksworth party member November 1951
Joe Shaw reserve April 1955, reserve April 1959
29 755 Colin Grainger OL 6
0		 6 3 511 1956 189 days
30 758 Alan Hodgkinson GK 5
0		 5 5ᵍᵃ 450 1957-60 3 years
231 days
31 774 Graham Shaw LB 5
0		 5 0 450 1958-62 4 years
30 days
32 838 Mick Jones CF 2
0		 2 0 180 1965 5 days
33 881 Tony Currie M 7
0		 7 1 599 1972-75 3 years
103 days

15 years 273 days....

34 1031 Brian Deane CF 1
2		 3 0 100 1991-92 1 year
99 days

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