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Round 1

  1. In which year was Sheffield United founded at Bramall Lane?
  2. Sheffield United have played their home matches at the same ground since the club was formed. Which one?
  3. Which shirt design has been Sheffield United's first choice for most of the club's history?
  4. In which season did Sheffield United win the Football League First Division title?
  5. How many times did Sheffield United win the FA Cup before the Premier League was formed in 1992?
  6. Tony Currie left Sheffield United in 1976 after eight years at Bramall Lane. Which club signed him?
  7. Bramall Lane staged the world's first football match played under floodlights. In which year?
  8. Sheffield United won their first FA Cup in 1899, beating which club 4-1 in the final?
  9. Sheffield United's 1902 FA Cup final went to a replay after a 1-1 draw. Who did they beat 2-1 to lift the trophy?
  10. Sheffield United's 3-0 win in the 1915 FA Cup final is remembered by which nickname?
Answers — round 1
  1. 1889 — Sheffield United Cricket Club set up a football branch at its ground in March 1889 to replace the gate money it had lost.
  2. Bramall Lane — Bramall Lane was already a cricket ground when the football club was created there, and United have never had another home.
  3. Red and white stripes — Red and white stripes with black shorts have been the Blades' colours almost from the beginning.
  4. 1897-98 — Ernest 'Nudger' Needham captained Sheffield United to the championship in 1897-98, the club's only top-flight title.
  5. Four — United lifted the cup in 1899, 1902, 1915 and 1925, and have not reached a final since 1936.
  6. Leeds United — Leeds paid £250,000 for Currie in 1976, a record fee for them at the time; he moved on to QPR three years later.
  7. 1878 — On 14 October 1878, four 30-foot wooden towers lit an exhibition match at Bramall Lane, eleven years before the football club existed.
  8. Derby County — Derby County led at half-time at Crystal Palace before United scored four, with Fred Priest among the scorers.
  9. Southampton — Southampton were still a Southern League club, and both matches were played at Crystal Palace a week apart.
  10. The Khaki Cup Final — Uniformed soldiers filled a neutral ground, and Lord Derby used the trophy presentation to urge more men to enlist.

Round 2

  1. What was the score when Sheffield United beat Cardiff City in the 1925 FA Cup final?
  2. Sheffield Wednesday's win over Sheffield United on Boxing Day 1979 is known as the 'Boxing Day Massacre'. What was the score?
  3. Which forward holds Sheffield United's all-time club goalscoring record, with 201 goals?
  4. After leaving Bramall Lane in 1978, Alan Woodward finished his career in the North American Soccer League with which club?
  5. Sheffield United were relegated to the Fourth Division on the final day of the 1980-81 season after losing to which club?
  6. Sheffield United won the Fourth Division title at the first attempt in 1981-82. Who was their manager that season?
  7. Sheffield United still avoided relegation in 1990-91 despite going how many league games without a win at the start of the season?
  8. Sheffield United won 2-1 at Bramall Lane on 15 August 1992, in a game that produced the first goal of the Premier League era. Who scored it?
  9. Chris Wilder's first season in charge, 2016–17, ended with Sheffield United winning the League One title. How many points did they finish on?
  10. Sheffield United were relegated from the Premier League on the final day of the 2006–07 season. Who was their manager?
Answers — round 2
  1. 1-0 — Fred Tunstall's goal after half an hour settled it, and United have not won the cup since.
  2. 4-0 — A crowd of 49,309 at Hillsborough saw Ian Mellor open the scoring from 25 yards in a 4-0 rout of the Third Division leaders.
  3. Harry Johnson — Harry Johnson scored his 201 goals across the 1920s, comfortably clear of Alan Woodward's 158.
  4. Tulsa Roughnecks — Woodward scored more than 150 goals from the wing for United before joining Tulsa Roughnecks in 1979.
  5. Walsall — Don Givens' late penalty was saved by Ron Green, and Walsall stayed up at United's expense.
  6. Ian Porterfield — Ian Porterfield, scorer of Sunderland's winner in the 1973 FA Cup final, took charge that June and Keith Edwards scored 35 goals.
  7. 16 — United had four points from their first 16 games, then won 13 of the last 22 to finish 13th in the First Division.
  8. Brian Deane — Deane scored twice that afternoon, one of them from the penalty spot, and his opener was the first goal the new competition ever saw.
  9. 100 — Wilder, a boyhood Blade, ended a six-season stay in the third tier at the first attempt — and the Blades reached three figures.
  10. Neil Warnock — He had taken the club up as Championship runners-up the season before, and left within days of the relegation-day defeat at Bramall Lane.

Round 3

  1. Who was Sheffield United's leading scorer in the 2018–19 Championship season, with 23 league goals, as the club won promotion to the Premier League?
  2. Sheffield United were relegated from the Premier League on the final day of 1993–94, losing 3–2 away to which club?
  3. Sheffield United lost the 1993 FA Cup semi-final 2–1 to Sheffield Wednesday. At which ground was the all-Sheffield tie played?
  4. In 2002–03 Sheffield United reached both domestic cup semi-finals. Which club knocked them out of the League Cup?
  5. Sheffield United lost the 2003 First Division play-off final 3–0 at the Millennium Stadium. Which club beat them?
  6. Sheffield United went up to the Premier League as Championship runners-up in 2005–06. Which club won the title that season with 106 points?
  7. In a 1–0 home win in December 2006, Phil Jagielka spent the last half-hour in goal after Paddy Kenny was injured. Which club were Sheffield United beating?
  8. Sheffield United were promoted to the Premier League as Championship runners-up in 2018–19. Which club finished above them as champions?
  9. Sheffield United's first-choice goalkeeper during their ninth-place 2019–20 Premier League season was on loan from which club?
  10. Who was Sheffield United's top scorer in 2002–03, with 16 league goals?
Answers — round 3
  1. Billy Sharp — The Sheffield-born striker came through the club's own academy; McGoldrick was next on the list that season with 15.
  2. Chelsea — Mark Stein scored twice at Stamford Bridge on 7 May 1994, the second in stoppage time, on a chaotic final afternoon that sent the Blades down in 20th.
  3. Wembley — Chris Waddle's second-minute free-kick and Mark Bright's extra-time header settled it; Alan Cork had equalised for United.
  4. Liverpool — United won the first leg 2–1 at Bramall Lane, but lost 2–0 after extra time at Anfield to go out 3–2 on aggregate — and the winners lifted the trophy.
  5. Wolverhampton Wanderers — Dave Jones's side led 3–0 by half-time in Cardiff through Mark Kennedy, Nathan Blake and Kenny Miller; United had beaten Nottingham Forest 5–4 on aggregate in the semi-final.
  6. Reading — The champions ran away with it on 106 points while the Blades finished second on 90; Watford came up through the play-offs.
  7. Arsenal — Jagielka, an outfield player, kept the clean sheet and made a save from Robin van Persie to seal one of the Blades' best results of that Premier League season.
  8. Norwich City — The champions took 94 points; the Blades finished on 89, six clear of third place, and the play-off winners came up through the play-offs.
  9. Manchester United — Dean Henderson played 36 league games on loan as Chris Wilder's newly promoted side, tipped by most pundits for relegation, finished ninth.
  10. Michael Brown — He was a central midfielder rather than a forward, and finished with 22 in all competitions in the season United reached two cup semi-finals and the play-off final.

Round 4

  1. Sheffield United lost the 2003 FA Cup semi-final 1-0. At which ground was the tie played?
  2. Which Sheffield United midfielder scored both goals in the 2-1 League Cup semi-final first-leg win in January 2003?
  3. Who scored the penalty for Wigan Athletic that relegated Sheffield United on the final day of the 2006–07 season?
  4. In June 2020, Sheffield United were denied a clear goal when goal-line technology failed to register that the ball had crossed the line. The 0–0 draw was away at which club?
Answers — round 4
  1. Old Trafford — Freddie Ljungberg scored in the 34th minute in front of 59,170 and David Seaman produced a famous late save.
  2. Michael Tonge — The homegrown midfielder struck in the 76th and 82nd minutes at Bramall Lane, but the tie was overturned in the second leg at Anfield.
  3. David Unsworth — The defender had left Bramall Lane for Wigan that January; his first-half penalty, awarded for a Phil Jagielka handball, kept Wigan up on goal difference.
  4. Aston Villa — Hawk-Eye apologised unreservedly, saying its cameras were blocked by the goalkeeper, a defender and the post as Ørjan Nyland carried Oliver Norwood's free-kick over his own line.

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