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Welcome to the Sheffield Wednesday WikiProject!

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organise information in articles related to Sheffield Wednesday F.C. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help check out our task list or sign up here.

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Watchlist

For participants to be able to follow changes to pages and sub-pages of the project, please add Category:WikiProject Sheffield Wednesday to any page of the project you create. To follow all changes to the pages, see the related changes of the above mentioned category. This will work as a sort of watchlist for pages related to the project.

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to establish and organise standards for articles relating to Sheffield Wednesday F.C., including current and former players, managers and staff. This will hopefully result in well-structured and well-written articles, and possibly also in featured articles, and also make all such articles easy to find.

Goals

Write articles:

• on all notable current players.
• on all managers of the club, past and present.
• on all notable former players.

Improve articles:

• to make them comply with standards set up here.
• to make them featured articles eventually.

Categorise articles:

• to make it easy to find what you want to find.

Featured articles

• Sheffield Wednesday F.C. Promoted to FA status on 16 September 2006.

Historic today's featured articles 17 January 2007 Sheffield Wednesday F.C. is one of the oldest football clubs in England; this season they play in the Football League. Based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, Sheffield Wednesday's chief rivals are Sheffield United F.C. with whom they play in the Steel City Derby. As of 2006, The Owls have won four league titles, three FA Cups and one League Cup, but their League Cup triumph (secured 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. Sheffield Wednesday currently play in the Football League Championship. Home games are played at Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield, which had staged numerous FA Cup semi-finals prior to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster which claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool fans. (more...) Recently featured: Halloween – Kitsune – Shoshone National Forest

Did you know?

The following articles have been featured on the Did you know section of the main page.

Did you know... ... that England's Tom Brittleton is the oldest footballer ever to play a competitive match for Sheffield Wednesday? (23 August 2008) ... that following Neil Dewar’s transfer from the club, a Manchester United director was forced to resign due to his daughter eloping with the player? (21 August 2008) ... that, at 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) tall, Teddy Davison was considered the smallest goalkeeper to play for the England national football team? (9 July 2008) ...that former football player and manager Alan Brown quit Huddersfield Town and became a policeman for two and a half years before rejoining the club? (8 March 2008) ...that former Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday footballer Brian Hornsby trekked to Machu Picchu with musician Tony Hadley in aid of Action Medical Research? (4 March 2008) ...that Stockport County physio Rodger Wylde formed a rock group with player Tom Bennett whilst treating his broken leg? (3 March 2008) ...that former England under-21 goalkeeper Lee Grant has been described by Owls manager Brian Laws as "probably the most outstanding keeper" in the Championship? (20 February 2008) ...that Billy Mercer became caretaker assistant manager of Sheffield Wednesday in October 2006, having previously played for rivals Sheffield United? (9 February 2008) ...that Association Footballer Billy Mosforth was a leading exponent of the screw shot, which allows players to bend the ball's trajectory? (1 February 2008) ...that Sheffield Wednesday Ladies F.C. were formed at the Star Inn public house in Rotherham during 1971 following a charity match between men and women at the pub? (28 September 2006) ...that the English footballer David Layne scored 58 goals in 81 games for Sheffield Wednesday F.C. before he was jailed for his involvement in the British betting scandal of 1964? (6 August 2006) ...that the first professional football team, The Zulus, was established in Sheffield, England in 1879? (21 July 2006) ...that the first ever Golden Goal was scored in the Cromwell Cup final at Bramall Lane, Sheffield in 1868 and that the match was won by Sheffield Wednesday 1–0? (22 September 2005)

Milestones

Milestone	Date achieved
WikiProject started	9 July 2006
First Did You Know (The Zulus)	21 July 2006
First Featured Article (Sheffield Wednesday F.C.)	16 September 2006
First Today's Featured Article (Sheffield Wednesday F.C.)	17 January 2007
500th article (Joe Nibloe)	3 June 2008

Participants

To join click the edit link above.

Parentage

• This project was inspired by the excellent work that has been done at WikiProject Football.

Related Wikiportals

• Association football
• English football