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The Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior Cup is a county cup competition involving teams within the Sheffield and Hallamshire County Football Association. Originally named the Sheffield Challenge Cup, it is the 5th oldest surviving cup competition in the world, after the FA Cup ( 1871–72),
Scottish FA Cup The Scottish Football Association Challenge Cup,1873–74), East of Scotland Shield (1875–76), and Birmingham Senior Cup (1876-77). and Sheffield and Hallamshire County Football Association members at levels 5–11 of the
English football league system The English football league system, also known as the football pyramid, is a series of interconnected leagues for men's association football clubs in England, with five teams from Wales, one from Guernsey, one from Jersey and one from the Isl ...
are currently eligible to compete in the competition. From 1925/26 to 1945/46 the competition was split into two, with the Sheffield & Hallamshire Invitation Cup acting as the more senior competition.


History


2022–23 Participants


Finals


Winners

Bold indicates club is still (2022) active. * 14 wins – Sheffield Wednesday, Frickley Athletic * 13 wins – Worksop Town * 10 wins – Sheffield United * 8 wins – Emley (I) * 6 wins –
Stocksbridge Park Steels Stocksbridge Park Steels Football Club is an English association football club based in Stocksbridge, South Yorkshire. They currently compete in the . The club was formed in 1986 after a merger between two clubs, and uses a yellow and blue home ...
* 5 wins – Denaby United, Sheffield * 4 wins – Doncaster Rovers, Hallam, Mexborough Town * 3 wins – Mexborough,
Barnsley Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. As the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. In Barnsley, the population was 96,888 while the wider Borough has ...
* 2 wins – Lockwood Brothers, Rotherham Town (I), Rotherham County, Rotherham Town (II), South Kirkby Colliery, Mexborough Athletic,
Upton Colliery Upton Colliery was a coal mine near to the village of Upton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The site was north west of Doncaster and north east of Barnsley. Coal was transhipped from the colliery by the former Hull and Barnsley Railw ...
, Rawmarsh Welfare, Beighton Miners Welfare,
Royal Army Service Corps The Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) was a corps of the British Army responsible for land, coastal and lake transport, air despatch, barracks administration, the Army Fire Service, staffing headquarters' units, supply of food, water, fuel and dom ...
,
Bentley Colliery Bentley Colliery was a coal mine in Bentley, near Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England, that operated between 1906 and 1993. In common with many other mines, it suffered disasters and accidents. The worst Bentley disaster was in 1931 when 45 mi ...
, Shaw Lane * 1 win –
Thursday Wanderers Thursday is the day of the week between Wednesday and Friday. According to the ISO 8601 international standard, it is the fourth day of the week. In countries which adopt the "Sunday-first" convention, it is the fifth day of the week. Name '' ...
, Staveley, Heeley, Wombwell, Wath Athletic, Darfield, Ardsley Athletic, Dinnington Athletic, Firbeck Main, Norton Woodseats, Manvers Main, Wombwell Athletic, Thurcroft Welfare, Harworth Colliery, Royston Social, Stocksbridge Works, Grimethorpe Miners Welfare, Redfearn Sports,
Kiveton Park Kiveton Park is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, in South Yorkshire, England. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, from the Norman conquest to 1868, Kiveton was a hamlet of the parish of Harthill-with-W ...
, Frecheville Community Association, Maltby Main, Athersley Recreation, North Gawber Colliery


Invitation Cup

The county FA ran a second Senior Cup competition from 1925/26 to 1945/46,''Sheffield Evening Telegraph'', 8 April 1939, page 17 the Sheffield & Hallamshire Invitation Cup. The competition was open to the more senior non-league clubs in the region as well as the reserve teams of the area's professional (
Barnsley Barnsley () is a market town in South Yorkshire, England. As the main settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley and the fourth largest settlement in South Yorkshire. In Barnsley, the population was 96,888 while the wider Borough has ...
, Doncaster Rovers, Rotherham United, Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday).


Finals


Winners

*5 wins – Sheffield Wednesday reserves *3 wins – Barnsley reserves, Doncaster Rovers reserves *2 wins – Royal Army Service Corps *1 win – Sheffield United reserves,
Bolsover Colliery The Bolsover Colliery Company was a major mining concern established to extract coal from land owned by the Duke of Portland. At its peak the business was a constituent of the FT 30 index of leading companies on the London Stock Exchange. Histor ...
, Thurcroft Main, Firbeck Main, Thurnscoe Victoria


See also

* Sheffield & Hallamshire County Cup * Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior League * Wharncliffe Charity Cup


References


External links


Official Site
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