Sheffield United Football Club
(1889-present)
group, association football club, and football managerial post
Aged 135
Commemorated on 1 plaque
10 Norfolk Row. In this building on the evening of Friday 22 March 1889 the committee of Sheffield United Cricket Club met with senior officials from the Sheffield Football Association, in the office of Club Secretary Mr Joseph Wostinholm, and decided to form a new football club for the 1889-90 season. The club would play on the Bramill Lane Ground. The next day an advertisement in the Sheffield morning newspapers invited professional players to send their testimonials and particulars to Mr Wostinholm by 30 March 1889. Sheffield United Football Club was born.
10 Norfolk Row, Sheffield, United Kingdom where it was born (1889)