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Sheffield Wednesday
Source OpenFootballUpdated Founded 1867Ground Hillsborough StadiumSeasons held 8
Current manager not recorded. Wikidata gives no head coach spell for Sheffield Wednesday that is still open, so none is shown.
Sheffield Wednesday were founded in 1867, with Sheffield their home city. Their earlier honours include 4 First Division titles and 3 FA Cups. The League Cup followed in 1990/91, shortly before the Premier League era. The archive starts its detailed league record at 1992/93.
Hillsborough Stadium is the stored ground throughout Wednesday's seasons here. The opening Premier League campaign included a winning sequence running from December into February, covering 7 league matches. Wednesday finished the season in 7th place, their highest placing in this coverage.
The next campaign repeated that league position while improving the points total and goal difference. Its 64 points remain the club's best season return in the archive. A 5–0 victory against West Ham United at Hillsborough also belongs to that campaign and is their widest league win here.
The later seasons ended in the lower half, with both position and points falling from those earlier returns. Their goal difference became negative, rather than matching the positive balances of the opening Premier League campaigns.
A rise back to 7th place came in 1996/97. The campaign included an unbeaten sequence spanning 12 league matches, from October into January. That final points return was below both earlier seasons ending in the same position, and the goal difference remained negative.
A lower league finish followed before a partial improvement the following season. Neither campaign returned Wednesday to the top half, although the later points total and goal difference improved.
The final upper-half campaign therefore matched the position reached in the early Premier League years without matching the points return from either of those seasons. Their final Premier League campaign brought another fall in the points return, alongside their most negative goal difference here. Relegation followed, with no later Premier League season among the club's covered results. Wednesday finished 19th in 1999/00, their latest campaign in this history.
Coverage Premier League matches only, in the seasons the archive publishes; cups and European matches are not included. Team sheets (line-ups, minutes, cards) are held for 2025/26 only. History and all-time records refer to this archive's coverage, not the club's entire existence. Manager and ground histories may have gaps; no missing spells are inferred.
Sources Football Research Archive data, Wikidata (CC0), Facts from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Sheffield Wednesday F.C.)Figures up to 16 Oct 2026Approved 17 Oct 2026
Source OpenFootballUpdated Founded 1867Ground Hillsborough StadiumSeasons held 8
Sheffield Wednesday finished as high as 7th and as low as 19th in 8 completed Premier League seasons held, and went down after 1999/00.
| Season | Position | Clubs | Points | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999/00 | 19th | 20 | 31 | Relegated |
| 1998/99 | 12th | 20 | 46 | Not held |
| 1997/98 | 16th | 20 | 44 | Not held |
| 1996/97 | 7th | 20 | 57 | Not held |
| 1995/96 | 15th | 20 | 40 | Not held |
| 1994/95 | 13th | 22 | 51 | Not held |
| 1993/94 | 7th | 22 | 64 | Not held |
| 1992/93 | 7th | 22 | 59 | Not held |
Data cutoff 22 Oct 2026, 15:21 BSTMetrics league position, points
Source: Wikidata (CC0), Q19498, revision 2517765684, checked 15 Oct 2026. The ground comes from the ground history below.
| Ground | When | Seasons here | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillsborough Stadium | throughout the archive's seasons | 1992/93 to 1999/00 (8) | Wikidata Q19498, revision 2517765684Wikipedia, “Sheffield Wednesday F.C.”, revision 1378836409 |
Dates come from Wikidata's home venue statements where they carry start and end dates, and otherwise from the club's English Wikipedia article. A move between seasons is dated by season. Matches count at a ground by these dates; the archive holds the venue of each match only for 2025/26.
League results for the 8 seasons below. It is not a complete club history: cups and European matches are not included.
| Season | Competition | Position | Ground | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999/00 | Premier League | 19th of 20 | Hillsborough Stadium | 38 | 8 | 7 | 23 | 38 | 70 | −32 | 31 | Relegated |
| 1998/99 | Premier League | 12th of 20 | Hillsborough Stadium | 38 | 13 | 7 | 18 | 41 | 42 | −1 | 46 | |
| 1997/98 | Premier League | 16th of 20 | Hillsborough Stadium | 38 | 12 | 8 | 18 | 52 | 67 | −15 | 44 | |
| 1996/97 | Premier League | 7th of 20 | Hillsborough Stadium | 38 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 50 | 51 | −1 | 57 | |
| 1995/96 | Premier League | 15th of 20 | Hillsborough Stadium | 38 | 10 | 10 | 18 | 48 | 61 | −13 | 40 | |
| 1994/95 | Premier League | 13th of 22 | Hillsborough Stadium | 42 | 13 | 12 | 17 | 49 | 57 | −8 | 51 | |
| 1993/94 | Premier League | 7th of 22 | Hillsborough Stadium | 42 | 16 | 16 | 10 | 76 | 54 | +22 | 64 | |
| 1992/93 | Premier League | 7th of 22 | Hillsborough Stadium | 42 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 55 | 51 | +4 | 59 |
Positions and points are calculated by the archive from the results, after any sourced points adjustment (*). Promoted and relegated are inferred only by comparing adjacent seasons the archive publishes.