Hallam FC
| Hallam FC | ||
| Basic data | ||
|---|---|---|
| Surname | Hallam Football Club | |
| Seat | Sheffield , England | |
| founding | September 4, 1860 | |
| Colours | Blue White | |
| president | Steve Basford | |
| Website | hallamfc.co.uk | |
| First soccer team | ||
| Head coach | Craig Denton | |
| Venue | Sandygate Road | |
| Places | 1,000 | |
| league | Northern Counties East League Division One |
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| 2019/20 | End of the season | |
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The FC Hallam (officially Hallam Football Club ) was built in 1860 in Sheffield , England , and today is after the local rivals Sheffield FC is the second oldest football club in the world. Since its inception, the club has been using the sports facility on Sandygate Road, which the Guinness Book of Records officially recognizes as the “world's oldest football ground”.
story
Beginnings
The association was founded on September 4, 1860 in the Sheffield district of Crosspool, but can date its history back to 1804. A new cricket club , Hallam CC, came into being that year and received permission from the owner of the local pub, The Plow Inn , to use a property opposite as a sports field. This is how the venue on Sandygate Road was created. In the 1850s, the cricket club had more than 300 members.
In 1860, the club's management decided to create a football club that could challenge Sheffield FC, which had been founded three years earlier. The first game between Hallam FC and Sheffield FC took place on Boxing Day of 1860, December 26, 1860. According to a match report in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph , 16 Sheffield players and 16 Hallam / Stumperlowe players faced each other. Stumperlowe was a hamlet off Sandygate Road.
The games between FC Hallam and Sheffield FC - the oldest derby in the world - are still known today as the rules derby . Both clubs adhered to the so-called Sheffield Rules , which had been drawn up by the founders of Sheffield FC and adopted in 1867 by the Sheffield Football Association. The rules are a milestone on the way to a binding set of rules in modern football. They already contained elements such as the free kick or the throw-in ; However, it was not specified how many players should belong to a team.
First league and cup competitions
In 1867, the players of FC Hallam won the Youdan Cup, named after a local theater owner and football enthusiast, and thus the first football competition in the world. The silver cup was subsequently lost and was considered lost for a long time before a Scottish antiques dealer who had come into possession of the trophy sold it back to the association for 1,600 pounds in 1997 . In view of the increasing professionalism of sport, FC Hallam decided at the end of the 19th century to want to remain an amateur club. In 1892 the club first took part in a league competition. It would be almost 20 more years before FC Hallam announced its first participation in the FA Amateur Cup in 1911 .
In 1925, the club achieved one of the greatest successes in its history: it defeated the five-time Amateur Cup winners FC Bishop Auckland on Sandygate Road in front of 2,000 spectators.
After 1945
At the end of the 1932/33 season, the owner of the Plow Inn decided to make the space on Sandygate Road available to other clubs because Hallam FC had not made enough sales. The club officially remained a member of the local Football Association , but stopped playing temporarily. Only in 1947 succeeded in returning to Sandygate Road and two years later in the Sheffield Association League, in which FC Hallam won the championship straight away. In 1950 the club won the Sheffield Senior Cup with a final victory over Stocksbridge Works FC. The final was played in front of over 7,000 spectators at Hillsborough Stadium .
In 1952, Hallam FC joined the Yorkshire Football League, which had existed since 1920. After the 1981/82 season, the league merged with the Midland League to form the Northern Counties East Football League, which consists of two divisions (Premier Division and Division One). In the 2017/18 season, FC Hallam played in Division One, the tenth highest level in the English league system.
In 2013, at the age of 52, former England international Chris Waddle joined Hallam FC. He completed a game for the league team, but played mostly for the old men of the club. For a short time he also trained a reserve team for FC Hallam.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e f John A. Steele, The Countrymen. History of Hallam Football Club , Sheffield 2010.
- ↑ World's oldest football teams play in derby , BBC, July 27, 2013.
- ^ Sheffield Daily Telegraph, December 28, 1860.
- ^ Brendan Murphy, From Sheffield with Love , Cheltenham 2007, pp. 82-83.
- ^ Battle over football's oldest cup heads for the High Court , The Telegraph, July 29, 2015.
- ↑ Chris Waddle , spokeo.com (accessed December 27, 2017).
- ↑ Waddle boss of new team , The Star, September 5, 2014.