Why are Sheffield Wednesday called Wednesday?
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Sheffield Wednesday Football Club was formed in 1867 as an offshoot of the Wednesday Cricket Club.
The name originates from the members of the club, who tended to have Wednesdays as a half-day at work and formed a cricket club which is believed to have started in 1820, but there are some suggestions they formed as early as 1816.
The cricket club played on Wednesdays due to their availability, while the football team were put together to keep members of the cricket club fit and together during the winter months.
The football team was officially formed in September 1867 and played its first match in October of that year.
As the football team's popularity grew and eventually surpassed that of the cricket team, the two formally separated in 1882.
Wednesday joined the Football League in 1892 and were among the founding members of the Premier League a century later, in 1992.
Since joining the Football League, Wednesday have not played their domestic football outside of England's top three divisions.
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