Sheffield United

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Basic data
Surname Sheffield United Football Club
Seat Sheffield
founding 1889
Board EnglandEngland Kevin McCabe
Website sufc.co.uk
First soccer team
Head coach EnglandEngland Chris Wilder
Venue Bramall Lane , Sheffield
Places 32,609
league Premier League
2019/20 9th place
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Sheffield United (officially Sheffield United Football Club ) - also known as The Blades ( German  Die Klingen ) - is an English football club . Along with Sheffield Wednesday, it is one of two major football teams in the city of Sheffield . Sheffield United has played in the Premier League since the 2019/20 season and has its sporting home in Bramall Lane . It is the oldest stadium where professional football is still played.

The highest number of spectators reached the team on February 15, 1936 in a game in the FA Cup against Leeds United with 68,287 visitors.

society

The "Blades" play in red and white striped shirts. The club's unofficial anthem is the song "The Greasy Chip Butty Song" .

The club was founded in 1854 as a cricket and soccer club and quickly became one of the top teams in the soccer league. Sheffield United won the FA Cup in 1899 (4-1 against Derby County ), 1902 (1-1 and 2-1 against Southampton FC ), 1915 (3-0 against Chelsea FC ) and 1925 (1-0 against Cardiff City ) and became league champions in 1898 and runners-up in 1897 and 1900. 2006 succeeded with the second place in the Football League Championship, the return to the first class, but the club rose again after only one season. Then you stayed in the midfield of the second division. In the 2010/11 season United finished penultimate and thus rose to the third English professional league.

In the League Cup 2014/15 , Sheffield United reached the semi-finals as the third division, which was lost to Tottenham Hotspur with a total score of 2: 3 . On the way to the semi-finals, United was able to record victories over Burnley , West Ham and Southampton , who were participants in the Premier League this season .

Squad for the 2019/20 season

Status: February 7, 2020

No. Nat. Surname birthday in the team since Contract until
goal
01 EnglandEngland Dean Henderson 03/12/1997 2019 2020
21st NetherlandsNetherlands Michael Verrips December 3, 1996 2019 2023
25th EnglandEngland Simon Moore May 19, 1990 2016 2021
Defense
02 EnglandEngland George Baldock 01/26/1993 2017 2022
03 IrelandIreland Enda Stevens 07/09/1990 2017 2022
05 EnglandEngland Jack O'Connell 03/29/1994 2016 2023
06th EnglandEngland Chris Basham 07/20/1988 2014 2021
12 IrelandIreland John Egan 10/20/1992 2018 2022
15th EnglandEngland Phil Jagielka 08/17/1982 2019 2020
18th WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Kieron Freeman 03/21/1992 2015 2020
19th EnglandEngland Jack Robinson 09/01/1993 2020 2022
29 GreeceGreece Panagiotis Retsos 08/09/1998 2020 2020
midfield
04th ScotlandScotland John Fleck 08/24/1991 2016 2021
07th EnglandEngland John Lundstram 02/18/1994 2017 2020
08th EnglandEngland Luke Freeman 03/22/1992 2019 2022
16 Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Oliver Norwood 04/12/1991 2019 2021
23 EnglandEngland Ben Osborn 08/05/1994 2019 2022
26th EnglandEngland Jack Rodwell 03/11/1991 2020 2020
27 Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Muhamed Besic 09/10/1992 2019 2020
32 NorwayNorway Sander mountains 02/14/1998 2020 2024
Storm
09 ScotlandScotland Oliver McBurnie 06/04/1996 2019 2023
10 EnglandEngland Billy Sharp (C)Captain of the crew 02/05/1986 2019 2021
17th IrelandIreland David McGoldrick 11/29/1987 2018 2021
22nd FranceFrance Lys Mousset 02/08/1996 2019 2022
24 EnglandEngland Leon Clarke 02/10/1985 2016 2020
30th NetherlandsNetherlands Richairo Živković 09/05/1996 2020 2020

Well-known former players

League affiliation

  • 1892-1893: Football League Second Division
  • 1893-1934: Football League First Division
  • 1934-1939: Football League Second Division
  • 1946–1949: Football League First Division
  • 1949–1953: Football League Second Division
  • 1953–1956: Football League First Division
  • 1956–1961: Football League Second Division
  • 1961–1968: Football League First Division
  • 1968–1971: Football League Second Division
  • 1971–1976: Football League First Division
  • 1976–1979: Football League Second Division
  • 1979–1981: Football League Third Division
  • 1981–1982: Football League Fourth Division
  • 1982–1984: Football League Third Division
  • 1984–1988: Football League Second Division
  • 1988–1989: Football League Third Division
  • 1989–1990: Football League Second Division
  • 1990–1992: Football League First Division
  • 1992-1994: Premier League
  • 1994-2004: Football League First Division
  • 2004–2006: Football League Championship
  • 2006-2007: Premier League
  • 2007-2011: Football League Championship
  • 2011–2017: Football League One / EFL League One
  • 2017–2019: EFL Championship
  • 2019– : Premier League0000

successes

Web links

Commons : Sheffield United  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. First team . sufc.co.uk (English)