Sheffield Wednesday F.C.

Sheffield Wednesday Football Club are a football club in the English Football League, based in Sheffield, UK.

Colours

Since its founding the club has played its home games in blue and white shirts, traditionally in vertical stripes. However, Richard A. Spalding's book 'Romance of the Wednesday' published in 1926 shows a monochrome photograph from 1874-75 of the Wednesday team in plain dark shirts. Percy M. Young's book 'Football in Sheffield' (1962) reprinted the 1871 'Rules of the Sheffield Football Association' with the Wednesday club colours listed as blue and white hoop.

Related Topics:
Richard A. Spalding - Percy M. Young

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The current home strip consists of blue and white vertical stripes with black shorts and blue socks. The change strip (used for away or cup fixtures where there is a clash of colours) is all black with blue and white trim.

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For many years football teams often wore white as their alternative shirt colour. When Wednesday reached the 1966 FA Cup Final they had not only played all their ties away from home (six in total) but wore an all white strip in each game.

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