Sheffield Wednesday Football Club is a professional football team based in Sheffield, England who currently compete in the Championship, the second tier of the Football League. Wednesday are one of the oldest professional clubs in the world.

Nicknamed the "Owls", the club has won four league titles, three FA Cups and one League Cup, but their League Cup triumph 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.

Their main rivals are neighbours Sheffield United. Matches between Wednesday and United are nicknamed Steel City derbies and are usually the highlight of the season for both sets of fans. Famous matches include The Boxing Day Massacre, a Football League Third Division match which took place at Hillsborough on 26 December 1979. A record Third Division crowd of 49,309 fans watched Wednesday beat United 4-0 and the game has become part of Sheffield Wednesday folklore, even inspiring a song.

Whilst they have some successes, there has been a few bleak moments for the Owls. After relegation from the First Division in 1970, Wednesday did not reappear at this level until 14 years later after a grim 70s. Currently, they have played in the top tier 66 times, but have not returned since 2000.

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The Football Association Community Shield (formerly the Charity Shield) is an English association football trophy contested in an annual match between the current champions of England (currently the Premiership) and the winners of the FA Cup. It is equivalent to the Super Cups found in many countries. If a team wins The Double (both the league and the FA Cup), then the Double winner plays the runner-up. The match is contested at the beginning of the following season, and has traditionally been played at Wembley Stadium, although it was played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales while Wembley has been being rebuilt. The newly built Wembley held the 2007 final and every other Community Shield since, but there has been only two finals that weren't played there. In 2012, Villa Park (Home of Aston Villa) filled in as the host as Wembley hosted the final of the 2012 Olympic football tournament on the same weekend as the proposed date for the Community Shield, and in 2022, the King Power Stadium (Home of Leicester City) stood in as the replacement venue with Wembley hosting the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 final. This meant that Leicester became the first club to host this fixture more than once aside from Wembley.

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2023–24 in English football

Leagues

• 2023–24 Premier League
• 2023–24 English Football League
• 2023–24 EFL Championship
• 2023–24 EFL League One
• 2023–24 EFL League Two
• 2023–24 National League

Cups

• 2023–24 FA Cup
• FA Community Shield
• 2023–24 FA Trophy
• 2023–24 EFL Cup
• 2023–24 EFL Trophy
• 2023–24 FA Youth Cup