Blue Plaques

Sheffield Home of Football has commissioned a series of blue plaques around the city centre of Sheffield over the coming months and we are seeking funding to add more. These blue plaques highlight the people and places which made Sheffield famous for its unique footballing history. If you think there should be other people and places connected to football which should be commemorated, or you are interested in sponsorship, please get in touch with us.

Here are the Plaques we have installed so far.

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#1 Cemetery Road Church FC

Creswick blue plaque

#2 Sir Nathaniel Creswick

Rules blue plaque

#3 The Original Rules

Yrk Sq

#4 Club linked to a hotel

Shaw blue plaque

#5 John Charles Shaw

Away

#6 First away match & first match between 2 towns

Tasker

#7 John Tasker – first football match under floodlights

8 Sign

#8 The dentist who co-established TWO Sheffield clubs

Parkhouse 3

#9 The world’s first Club House & Changing Rooms

Lockwood blue plaque

#10 The world’s first club to originate from a factory or works

Banks

#11 Sheffield’s own Gordon Banks

Chapman 1

#12 & #13 Herbert Chapman, ‘managerial genius, innovator and inspiration’

East Bank

#14 East Bank – The World’s First Modern Football Ground