Sheffield Home of Football - Lost Grounds and Youdan Cup - Guided Walk

The SHOF Guided Walk will include visiting the locations where several clubs (at least 30) played in the S2 area from 1857 to 1890, including Sheffield FC, The Wednesday FC, Mackenzie FC, Wellington FC, Milton FC, Truro Works FC, Garrick FC, British Ladies FC, and Sheffield United FC. We also show you where The Farm, Norfolk Park, Hyde Park, and Myrtle Road grounds were.

They will also share more stories about the Youdan Cup and the teams that played in it; the mystery of the formation of the Sheffield FA; Sheffield’s significance in the development of FA’s rules [and the FA’s survival] especially during 1863 to the ‘amalgamation’ in 1877; some of the Sheffield people who saved the FA and the game of football everyone recognises today; the genesis of Women’s football in Sheffield; and several important personalities who helped establish Sheffield as the ‘crucible’ of modern association football, not only in England but across the world.