What other old, historic clubs are out there?

Clubs like Sheffield should never be forgotten for the contribution they have made to the history of football and to their community

To add a little bit more of the history of Sheffield football, as a few have correctly mentioned already Sandygate, the home Hallam FC, is the oldest ground still in use, and has been their home since they formed in 1860. Bramall Lane was originally the home of The Wednesday Football Club (formed 1867). The unusual name (it's actually not as unusual as you think) comes from the day off the workers had from the steel works. Like with Sheffield FC, Hallam FC and Sheffield Wednesday (The Wednesday Football Club), all these clubs formed from cricket teams looking to keep their players fit during the winter. Bramall Lane is, I believe, the oldest ground currently in use in the professional game and was vacated in or around 1888 by The Wednesday Football Club over a disagreement with the landlords, over rent. Football was much more popular than cricket at this point, and they simply tried - and yet failed - to capitalise on footballs popularity by increasing their rent. After The Wednesday Football Club vacated for Olive Grove (which is now the site of a Council depot), it left a hole to fill, and so Sheffield United were formed from the players who couldn't get a game for The Wednesday Football Club. Sheffield United have played there since. Sheffield United are now known as "The Blades", however this was the name originally used by The Wednesday Football Club until 1907. Until that point Sheffield United were known as "The Cutlers", with both names giving reference to the city's steel industry. In 1907 The Wednesday moved from Olive Grove to a new stadium in the Owlerton district of Sheffield, and from that point on became known as "The Owls", with United taking the nickname "The Blades".

What a lovely guy Rich is. He summed up a lot of people's feelings when expressing his own.

This is definitely on my bucket list, along side Hallem FC too.

Wow, this is on my bucket list. Awesome video. Glad you got a staff member to encourage the world to come and visit the "Home of Football".

You’re not done yet mate, you got to visit Hallam FC, home of the 2nd oldest club and they play at the worlds oldest football ground

Brilliant vid, mate. I love Sheffield FC cos they're a great piece of history in football. The biggest small club in this damned world.

Was waiting for this one. Next Notts County? Used to be the oldest professional football club before they was relegated a few years back. Amazing stadium Meadow Lane. Thanks for this video. Sheffield FC rocks 👍

he fell out of love with the elite game - the exact reason I watch this channel !

Superb content as always

Loving the content you are uploading

Love this video. Love the stats. Have you considered just doing lots of match vlogs and then combining this side as well. That would be awesome.

Superb effort ! Fantastic to hear members of the clubs talking with such enthusiasm - must get to Hallam one day !

while you are down this way it would be great if you could do a video about West Auckland Fc the 1st winners of the World Cup. There are a few TV programmes and movies about them. They used to have the original Thomas Lipton Trophy in a glass case in the Working mens club. I believe it got stolen in the 90s and never recovered. Really interesting story and well worth a Vlog

Love your channel mate!

Well done mate👍🏼 Interesting video👍🏼

Need to go to Bradford Park Avenue, loads to see there with the old ground still standing

Great insight! Really good video MR FA 👏

I recently found out that the Sheffield FC game with Inter Milan at Bramall Lane was Mario Ballotelli's first start for Inter.

Another great upload. Thanks.

Enjoyed that. Your camera work has become really good. Keep up the great work 👍

queens park played Sheffield fc in 1957 in a centenary match at bramall lane and have played them in Glasgow on 2 occasions since,Sheffield and Glasgow football associations used to play each other yearly from 1874 to 1960 using select teams from the cities clubs, last match was at Celtic park in 1960

I've been discovering lower-tier league and non-league football and it's fantastic. Same as with minor league and independent league baseball here in America which I've found more enjoyable and accessible than the Big League game, which has gotten over-hyped, too expensive, too money-soaked and now infested with analytics which is just sucking the human element out of baseball altogether.

Great to see the coach and horses! As a student in Sheffield from 2015-18 I regularly went to watch Club. Interesting, different vibe - with lots of football tourists and the occasional foreign tour (met some guys from Borussia Dortmund's fans team at a game!). Last game I saw there was a pre-season game against Hallam in July 2019 IIRC! Honestly not sure what to think about their proposed move north in to the city, with the new ground... The coach and horses is very much fit for purpose with the club where they are now...

Thanks for this one "The oldest football club " just fantastic to see thanks so much showing us the history just so awesome.

Love the vids! You should go to Notts County next another very old and historic club. plus i believe they are the closest stadiums together in England to Nottingham Forest, they are seperated by only three hundred yards. Another cool fact is Juventus based their jersey and colors off of Notts County they sure have been around for a long time!

Alan Shields Hamilton South Lanarkshire Scotland. Excellent vlog first of all Sam. Had just finished watching Arsenal Tula VS Spartak Moscow from The Russian Premier League just before your latest vlog came up. My understanding is that it is The Cambridge rules we play buy today. My Understanding of The Sheffield rules is that once you scored a goal in order for it to count you had to then pick the ball up & touch it against the crossbar this is what was sead in a B.T Sport documentary a few years ago. Football & many other team Sports around the world share the same roots you sead about The Sheffield rules they had scrums like both Rugby codes of today but Ice Hockey also at first used scrums aswell. I would love to go & watch Sheffield F.C but I would not know where to start because of there nomadic experience. I see clubs like Sheffield F.F , Hallam , Queens Park & Corinthian Casuals formally Corinthians Casuals before the merger as custodians of the game. Crossing my fingers I can get to a Pollok game A.S.A.P. Getting itchy feet in terms of wanting to travel & see games in different geographic locations it's so frustrating. I would say people should get out & watch none League or Junior clubs as we say in Scotland as much as possible aswell as lower league clubs. Keep Safe Sam.

Amazing video, thx

Great post, love the football history 💙⚪

Really interesting video. Just subscribed.

good stuff enjoyed that,as a everton fan

Quality content, I cannot wait to come overseas from the US to visit some grounds around England and Scotland.

They are actually playing in Derbyshire now

Awesome vid I live just up the road from the stadium

Would love to see Sheffield FC go on a big FA cup run or get into the football league

Legend club in Football

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Quality content not long and you will be on a 100k

Ah! My current neck of the woods :) Despite our pro clubs being absolute pants this year, Sheffield really is the home of football!

Had some great results there with my football team Leek Town

Actually the 1. FC Nürnberg (Nuremberg) is also nicknamed "the Club", or "der Club" in German, because of their successes in the 1920s and 30s. Despite their last league title was in 1968 they still won the second most German Championship titles (9) right after Bayern Munich (31).

This club is truly special. it hild a lot of history.

You should have also gone to World's oldest football ground that Hallam FC at Sandygate !!

Traducción porfavor. Muy buen material.

Proud to be from Sheffield

I love Sheffield FC & Sheffield Wednesday FC

Brilliant 👏, Sheffield fc play in the same league as Chasetown fc, in Staffordshire, come and visit Chasetown, you will love it 😀.......

Sheffield FC Stadium Dronfield Derbyshire.

5:16 That sounds a lot like calling for mark in rugby, interesting hearing about old versions of football and comparing them to the modern versions

Can you do a video on the history of pitch markings from 1863-1937.

You need too head too Villa park, we have a statue of the man who formed the Football league ✌🏼

Legendary club football⚽⚽⚽

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Don’t u reckon the old rules kinda sound like Gaelic football as we know it today?

I've always wondered something about the first football club...who did they play against?

Can u do the history of hull city please sam

where was the first official game of football played?

I watched sheffield fc play inter Milan in a special anniversary match at bramall Lane, pele was the guest of honour!!!

Pls go to barnsley oakwell

Sheffield are moving back to Sheffield in the near future. Only a stones throw from the current ground but back over the border and in the city. Building on the old Sheffield United youth ground and Transport club.

What about 1824 football club in Edinburgh

Fun fact: Sheffield fc's current ground isn't actually in sheffield,its in dronfield

There really should be more money invested in this fine old club. You look at Rugby school and it's a huge feature throughout the town. If this club were in the leafy south east no doubt it would be treated with far more reverence and be treated as a lauded place of historical importance. Alas it's in the dark north.

The rules the world uses today are the Association Football rules - *Soccer* for short. Before formalisation of the rules which eventually formed into two prime camps, Association rules and Rugby rules, there were many rules. Many clubs had their own rules with visiting teams having to play to their rules. Sheffield FC were one of these clubs. Rugby School another. These rules were formalised being adopted by other clubs being played in some towns or city regions. Some of the rules were quite strange to what we know today. Association Football rules were laid down in 1863. The rules of the other camp were Rugby Football rules laid down in 1871. The Sheffield rules, used from 1858 until 1877 allowed handling of the ball. Goals were scored by kicking the ball into the goal, and also scoring by a _rough,_ basically a touch down try similar to Rugby. Rugby retains this to this day. The Association rules forbid _roughs,_ with scoring only by kicking into the goal. Association rules allowed handling with only a _fair catch,_ which was catching the ball in mid flight but not running with it. After the catch the ball was placed on the ground for a free kick. The fair catch was abolished in *1866,* making the Association rules totally hands free apart from the goalkeeper. The Association rules from the change in 1866 resemble that of football today in broad outline. Many sports clubs are quite old, but when they started to play Association Football is the date of their founding as a *soccer club.* An example is Everton, who were founded in 1878 as soccer club, but older as a cricket club. _Liverpool Football Club,_ established 1857, not Liverpool Athletic Football Club in the Premier League, is a rugby club, never having played Association rules - but named a _football_ club. So the name of a club is meaningless. It is when a club started to play to the Association rules (soccer) is the key day for that club, not what sport they played previously. Liverpool Football Club could adopt the Association Football rules next season. They would be a soccer club from then onwards, however still a 165 year old sports club. There were originally 11 members of the Football Association playing to Association rules in 1863. Sheffield FC was *not* one of them, as they were playing to different rules, the Sheffield rules. Sheffield FC joined the Football Association shortly after its inception, not being a founding member. In 1866 The Sheffield Football Association was formed playing to Sheffield rules. Sheffield continued to play Sheffield Football Association rules until 1877, 14 years after the Association rules were formed, and 11 years after no holding of the ball was introduced, soccer. There is only one club still in existence of the original 11 Association football clubs, that is _Civil Service FC._ *_Civil Service FC_* *is the oldest existing Association Football club in the world.* Sheffield FC is the oldest *open* football club in the world still in existence playing to Association rules, although not 100% playing to the Association rules until 1877, as they played FA and Sheffield rules. Open, means open to anyone to play not having to be a member of an institution, like a university or the army. _Liverpool Football Club_ is the oldest *open* club playing to the 1871 Laws of the Rugby Football Union. Rugby Football Rules spurned a number of other rules such as American football. There are many clubs holding the honour of being the _oldest_ professional _Association_ club. The FA only allowed professionalism in 1885. So any club that went pro' when rules were changed is one of the joint oldest professional clubs, of which there are many. Notts County and Everton are amongst them. A club only became a _soccer club_ when adopting association rules from 1866 onwards, and that means joining the FA. There is also vagary in that some clubs played to association rules but were not official members of the FA. When a club enters an FA approved competition (challenge or league, amateur or professional) that club then becomes a soccer club playing to Association rules. Notts County claim a record. That they are the oldest _current professional club_ that has played association rules the longest whether as amateur or professional. So, we have these firsts relating to existing clubs: *1)* Civil Service FC - oldest Association football club in the world. *2)* *** Sheffield FC - oldest _open_ Association football club in the world. *3)* Notts County - a _current_ professional football club in the world to have played to Association rules the longest. Many disregard numbers *2)* and *3)* as being pedantic second tier records. *** Number *2)* Sheffield FC may be regarded as being a 100% Association football club from 1877, as they also played to the Sheffield rules, which had the _rough_ which is the equivalent to a try in Rugby rules, and occasionally the Association rules until then. If that is accepted then many other clubs hold the distinction of being the oldest _open_ Association football club in the world.

When they started did they look around and think "who are we going to play?". Must've been hard to find clubs. Who are the second oldest? Is it Hallem?

(on my girlfriends account) i played for hallam FCs under 18 side hahahah, ive played against sheffield boys (the academy of sheffield FC) who are actually very good. The club might be in the 10th tier but the academy is of a very good standard

The old rules sound much better.

Just got back from there

Good video nice of you to shed more light on the birth place of the beautiful game! Shame that bloke failed to mention THE WEDNESDAY when talking about our city's football heritage!? We're the biggest and oldest professional club in Sheffield pal!

Today is FC Sheffield's birthday! (24th October)

World first club is RFC TURKANIA FAYMONVILLE

Shame nobody bought them and made them relevant like Wednesday and Blades

Shame on me. I hadn't heard of them and i thought i knew my football.

The only club to play real football was queens park

I thought Foot-ball Club of Edinburgh (1824) was the oldest football club?

Stoke City

This is the one that really pisses me off, Excuse my language. When pundits call Sheffield united- Sheffield and Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield. Do they know Sheffield is Sheffield fc united is Sheffield united and Wednesday is Sheffield Wednesday. So stop calling us Sheffield unless you're referring to Sheffield f.c

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Not sure where you got this info from..Notts County are the oldest club in the world, pretty common knowledge, Juventus used to borrow their kits back in the old days...I'd say Sheffield FC are maybe in the top 10 when it comes to age, but defo not number one.

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Why the terrible racket? Neither tune or anything else, pointless and distracting.

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