Blue Plaques
Marked, in blue.
SHOF's blue plaques mark the founders, the clubs, the grounds and the matches that made Sheffield the home of football.
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#12 & #13 Herbert Chapman, ‘managerial genius, innovator and inspiration’
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#1 Cemetery Road Church FC
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#2 Sir Nathaniel Creswick
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#3 The Original Rules
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#4 Club linked to a hotel
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#5 John Charles Shaw
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#6 First away match & first match between 2 towns
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#7 John Tasker – first football match under floodlights
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#8 The dentist who co-established TWO Sheffield clubs
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#9 The world’s first Club House & Changing Rooms
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#10 The world’s first club to originate from a factory or works
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#11 Sheffield’s own Gordon Banks
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#14 East Bank – The World’s First Modern Football Ground
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