county cup
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competition involving teams within the
Sheffield and Hallamshire County Football Association
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. Originally named the Sheffield Challenge Cup, it is the 5th oldest surviving cup competition in the world, after the
FA Cup
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Birmingham Senior Cup
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The Birmingham Senior Cup is ...
(1876-77). and
Sheffield and Hallamshire County Football Association
The Sheffield and Hallamshire Football Association is a County Football Association in England. It was formed in Sheffield in 1867 as the Sheffield Football Association, and is the second-oldest football governing body after the Football Assoc ...
members at levels 5–11 of the
English football league system
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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.
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Sheffield Wednesday
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Frickley Athletic
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History
Although the club itself claims it was formed in 1910, the team was activ ...
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Worksop Town
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History First clu ...
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Sheffield United
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Sheffield
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Doncaster Rovers
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Mexborough
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Barnsley
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Rotherham County
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The club ...
Mexborough Athletic
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History
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Royal Army Service Corps
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Staveley Staveley may refer to:
Places
* Staveley, Cumbria, village in the former county of Westmorland and now in Cumbria, England
** Staveley railway station
* Staveley-in-Cartmel, village formerly in Lancashire, now in Cumbria, England
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Heeley
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Wombwell
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Harworth Colliery
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It was abandoned in 2006 due to troubles at the seam. UK Coal, who owned and maintained the mine, were waiting for a contract to make ...
Kiveton Park
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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
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Doncaster Rovers
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Rotherham United
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Sheffield United
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and
Sheffield Wednesday
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Sheffield & Hallamshire County Cup
The Sheffield & Hallamshire County Cup was a county cup competition involving the professional sides within the Sheffield and Hallamshire County Football Association. It ran from 1920/21 to the mid-1990s, with several gaps between tournaments.
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Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior League
The Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior Football League is an English football league that was founded in 1983 by the merger of the former Sheffield Association League and Hatchard League. The league has three divisions – the Premier Divis ...
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Wharncliffe Charity Cup
The Wharncliffe Charity Cup was an invitational cup competition organised by the Sheffield & Hallamshire County Football Association from 1878 to 1984.
The competition took its name from the Earl of Wharncliffe, who sponsored the event, and w ...