Sheffield Wednesday are a football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. They are known in English football as the ‘Owls’ and do have a record in winning titles, though much of it were during the times of ‘The Football League.’ The Owls play their home games at the 39,000-capacity Hillsborough Stadium, the exact ground where the unfortunate Hillsborough incident happened. Sheffield Wednesday are one of those teams that usually play with a striped home shirt in white and blue.
Sheffield Wednesday 23/24 Kits
Sheffield Wednesday did have a few home shirts that deviated from the traditional design, such as the white pinstriped, predominantly blue 2016/17 and the blue body-white sleeved 2017/18 home shirts. Other than that, almost always the club opted for that familiar white-and-blue vertical stripes, which underwent several design interpretations like the altering of the width profile, graphic-laden stripes, offset pinstripe borders and accented ones.
23/24 Sheffield Wednesday Home Shirt
Sheffield Wednesday maintained their white and blue stripes for their 2023/24 Macron home shirt. They had extended the said pattern toward the sleeves. The season’s novelty to their traditional look was the addition of a golden yellow pinstripes on the blue stripes, in addition to the striping of the same colour to the polo collar and sleeve cuffs.
23/24 Sheffield Wednesday Away Shirt
Sheffield Wednesday’s identity as the Owls was at the forefront of their 2023/24 Macron home shirt. Hidden with its predominantly white colourway was an embossed all-over pattern based on an owl wing. Black accents mainly came from the sleeve cuffs and polo collar, which both had a white middle band further housing black parallel pinstripes. The polo collar further had a black strip running down the button line.
Sheffield Wednesday Home Kits
2022/23 Sheffield Wednesday Home Shirt
The Owls added black pinstripes as borders between the traditional blue and white stripes for its 2022/23 Macron home shirt. Sheffield Wednesday opted to carry the pattern towards the sleeves for a consistent overall look. A striping pattern in blue and white informed the profile of the sleeve cuffs and collar.
2021/22 Sheffield Wednesday Home Shirt
Sheffield United’s Macron home shirt for 2021/22 was one of the season’s kits in blue and white vertical stripes. Solid blue sleeves with white cuffs complement the traditional pattern, while the Korean collar construction built on it with its blue front and white rear.
Sheffield Wednesday Away Kits
2022/23 Sheffield Wednesday Away Shirt
Sporting a more plain look relative to the home, Sheffield Wednesday’s 2022/23 Macron away shirt was predominantly yellow with light blue accents coming from the broad sleeve cuffs and retro-inspired collar. A subtle embossed striping adorned the body to represent the bespoke club shirt design on the jersey.
2021/22 Sheffield Wednesday Away Shirt
Sheffield Wednesday’s Macron away shirt for 2021/22 had an all-over mosaic pattern against a pink base. Additional black accents complement the jersey’s primary colour through the sleeve cuffs and collar, both of which had a pink middle pinstripe.
Sheffield Wednesday is one of the oldest football club in the world, having roots as far back as the 19th century when football was still considered a past time and not yet a full-blown professional sport. In fact, the association with the weekday Wednesday was due to the founding members’ having their half-day off-work on the said day.
Initially a cricket team named “The Wednesday Cricket Club” formed in 1820, the club decided to add a football team in 1867. Its full transition to football came in 1882 amidst the rising popularity of the sport and the breakaway of the cricket side due to financial disputes. The change of name from ‘The Wednesday’ to ‘Sheffield Wednesday’ occurred in 1929.
Sheffield Wednesday had won the English league on four occasions and the FA Cup three times. They had famous players such as Des Walker, Chris Woods and Chris Waddle pull on the teams kit.
Sheffield Wednesday play a heated rivalry with city rivals Sheffield United, which are nicknamed ‘Steel City derbies’ due to the steel industry the city of Sheffield is known for.