Sheffield United

Sheffield United Football Club is a professional football club from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, (England) United Kingdom. Since the 2024–25 season it has competed in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football. They were formed in 1889, as a branch of the “Sheffield United Cricket Club”, and are nicknamed the Blades owing to the history of steel production in Sheffield. They have played home matches at Bramall Lane since their formation.

Sheffield United won the original Football League in 1898 and the FA Cup in 1899, 1902, 1915 and 1925. They were beaten finalists in the FA Cup in 1901 and 1936, and reached the semi-finals in 1961, 1993, 1998, 2003, 2014 and 2023. They reached the League Cup semi-finals in 2003 and 2015.

Sheffield United was the first club in English football to achieve promotion from the newly formed Second Division to the First Division, in 1892–93. The club was also a founder member of the Premier League in the 1992–93 season, during which it scored the first goal of the Premier League era. Brian Deane scored the first goal in a 2–1 victory at Bramall Lane against the eventual champions, Manchester United.

Since the club's formation, it has played in tiers 1 to 4 of the football league. It is one of only four clubs that have finished as champions of each of the first four tiers of the football league. However, most of the club's history has been spent in tier 1.

For most of the club's history they have played in red and white striped shirts with black shorts. Their closest rivals are Sheffield Wednesday, with whom they contest the Steel City derby.