Sheffield United Football Club is a professional football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. They formed in 1889, as an offshoot of Sheffield United Cricket Club, and are nicknamed The Blades due to Sheffield’s history of steel production. They won the original Football League in 1898 and the FA Cup in 1899, 1902, 1915 and 1925. They were the first club in English football to achieve promotion from the newly formed Second Division to the First Division in 1892–93. The club was also a founder member of the Premier League in the 1992–93 season.
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Sheffield United Football Club is a professional football club in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. They formed in 1889, as an offshoot of Sheffield United Cricket Club, and are nicknamed The Blades due to Sheffield’s history of steel production. Sheffield United won the original Football League in 1898 and the FA Cup in 1899, 1902, 1915 and 1925. They were the first club in English football to achieve promotion from the newly formed Second Division to the First Division in 1892–93. They are one of only four clubs to have finished as champions of each of the top four tiers of the football league. For most of the club’s history they have played in red and white striped shirts with black shorts. Their closest rivals are Sheffield Wednesday, with whom they contest the Steel City derby. United have not won a trophy since 1925, bar those associated with promotion from lower leagues. Their darkest days came between 1975 and 1981, when they were relegated to the Third Division. They reached the semi-finals of the League Cup in 2003 and 2015. They have played home games at Bramall Lane since their formation. The club was also a founder member of the Premier League in the 1992–93 season, during which they scored the first ever goal of thePremier League era, against the eventual champions, Manchester United. They lasted just one season back amongst the elite, before being relegated from the elite amongst the Championship.
Three years later they were controversially signed by Carlos Tevez, who was controversially released by West Ham United and played for West Ham in the Championship Championship. They finished the season as the runners-up in the re-branded Championship One, and also reached the play-off final, where they were beaten 3–0 by Wolverhampton Wanderers. They won the Championship League in 2002–03, but were relegated the following season. They last played in the top division in 2004–05, and were relegated the following season after a poor run of results in the First and Second Divisions. The last time they were in the first division was in 2008–09, and they have never been in the second division since. They also won the FA League in 1961, 1993, 1998, 2003 and 2014, and reached the Semi-final of the League Cup in the 2014 FA Cup. The Blades have won the Football League Cup four times, and the League League Cup three times, most recently in the 2012–13 season. Their best performances in the cup competitions have been several semi-final appearances in theFA Cup and League Cup. They were beaten finalists in 1901 and 1936, and reached the semi- finals of the FA Cup in 1961, 1993, 1998, 2003 and 2014. In 2007, they won the Capital One Cup, beating Manchester United 2-1 in the final. In the same season, they were also beaten finalists in the FA Premier League by Manchester City 2-0.
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