Sunday Football

[jack reacher 10]

 What year did Sunday football start in Sheffield ?

[crookesey 635]

1889/90

[jack reacher 10]

 Realistic answers please

[Alextopman 1,434]

23 hours ago, jack reacher said:

 Realistic answers please

It started in London in the 1930's but I've no idea when in Sheffield.

The first ever league game played on a Sunday was Millwall v Fulham on the 2oth of January 1974 they kicked off early to be the first as there were other games on that day.

Edited August 18, 2022 by Alextopman

[jack reacher 10]

 I was meaning junior football

[ukdobby 225]

2 hours ago, jack reacher said:

 I was meaning junior football

I played most of my footy in the Amateur league,it was formed in 1906 but reckon they’ll be some earlier.

[jack reacher 10]

 Amateur league was Saturday

[ukdobby 225]

1 hour ago, jack reacher said:

 Amateur league was Saturday

Yes it was.

[PillyB 0]

Around 1966 I reckon. I was 16 then and remember being asked to play for Brightside Heating in the Sunday Sports League. I remember thinking , “ Football on a Sunday ?!”

[jack reacher 10]

 My initial thoughts were 66/67

 

[St Petre 85]

3 hours ago, jack reacher said:

 My initial thoughts were 66/67

 

It was prohibited by some local councils-Sheffield included- as they owned most of the pitches, when they relented I don't know,

[Longcol 610]

12 hours ago, St Petre said:

It was prohibited by some local councils-Sheffield included- as they owned most of the pitches, when they relented I don't know,

Far more likely that 66/67 was when Sheffield and Hallamshire FA allowed local Sunday League's to affiliate to it.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_league_football_in_England#:~:text=The first Sunday League to,the Essex Corinthian in 1937.

 

"The rise in the 1960s

After the FA allowed all Sunday leagues to be affiliated to the County Associations, there was a rapid increase in the creation of more leagues. Burton & District was founded in 1964, Gloucester & District and the Tameside Sunday League in 1965, Barnet & District, Coventry & District, Bletchley & District, Leamington & District, Nuneaton & District, Sutton & District in 1966, Cheltenham Sunday League and Hyde & District in 1968 etc."

 

Prior to this, any player or referee participating in sunday football were banned from playing on a Saturday.

 

"In 1959 the FA announced that any players or referees participating in the Sunday leagues would be banned from the official Saturday football, after noticing that many professionals - including England's and Wolves' outside left, Jimmy Mullen were also playing Sunday league football."

 

I remember 66/67  as the first year we had a sunday league team in Rossington near Doncaster. They played, like most mining village teams, on the ground owned by the Miners Welfare. In and around Sheffield a large number of sports facilities were owned by various steelworks, water works etc.

 

Edited August 24, 2022 by Longcol