Since joining the Football League in 1892, Sheffield Wednesday have competed in the top flight for most of their history and never played below the third level.

Sheffield FC have won four League titles, three FA Cups and one League Cup, but the latter, in 1991, has been the football club's only major trophy since 1935. Sheffield Wednesday reached both domestic cup finals in 1993 under Trevor Francis but lost 2-1 to Arsenal at Wembley on both occasions.

The football club was formed by members of the Wednesday Cricket Club, which was named after the day of the week on which they played their matches. The cricketers wanted a way of keeping fit in the winter, so The Wednesday Football Club was set up in 1867, only changing its name to Sheffield Wednesday in 1929.

In 1892 the football club was elected to the Football League and success came four years later when Sheffield Wednesday FC won the FA Cup, beating Wolverhampton Wanderers 2-1.

The first decade of the 20th century was a strong one for the Sheffield Wednesday side, winning the League twice in a row and the FA Cup in 1907.

The Owls had to wait until 1929 for their next League title, but that was the prelude to a seven-year run in which the football club finished lower than third only once and collected a third FA Cup in 1935.

Sheffield Wednesday FC was relegated to the Second Division in 1937 and stayed there for 13 years, before winning promotion, only to yo-yo between the top two divisions in the 1950s until re-establishing themselves in the First Division from 1959 to 1970.

Then came the lowest point in the football club's history as they were relegated to the Second Division in 1970 and to the Third Division in 1975, for the first time in Sheffield Wednesday history.

A revival in the football club's fortunes took the Owls back into the First Division in 1984 and Sheffield Wednesday was one of the founding members of the Premier League in 1992, only to drop out of the elite in 2000 and switch between Divisions One and Two since.