List of Sheffield United F.C. records and statistics

This article lists honours and records associated with Sheffield United F.C..

Honours

Captain George Utley leads Sheffield United out for the 1915 FA Cup final.

• Division One:

Champions 1897-98

Runners up 1896,97, 1899-1900

• Division Two:

Champions 1952-53

Runners-up: 1892-93, 1938-39, 1960-61, 1970-71, 1989-90, 2005-06 (as The Championship)

• Division Four

Champions: 1981-82

• FA Cup

Winners: 1899, 1902, 1915, 1925

Runners-up: 1901, 1936

Records

League

• Record League Win: 10-0 away v Port Vale, Division Two, 10 December 1892 and 10-0 home v Burnley, Division One, 19 January 1929^[1]
• Record League Defeat: 3-10 away v Middlesbrough, Division One, 18 November 1933
• Most League Points in a Season (2 points for a win): 60 in Division Two, 1952–53
• Most League Points in a Season (3 points for a win): 96 in Division Four, 1981–82
• Most League Goals: 102 in Division One, 1925–26

Cup

• Record Cup Win: 6-0 home v Leyton Orient F.C., FA Cup 1st Round, 6 November 2016.
• Record Cup Defeat: 0-13 home v Bolton Wanderers, FA Cup 2nd Round, 1 February 1890^[1]

Team

• Highest number of players to score a goal in a single season 19 in 2008-09 league season plus 1 in cup competitions.

Players

• Most League Appearances: Joe Shaw made 631 appearances between 1948-1966^[1]
• Most Consecutive Appearances: Jack Smith made 203 consecutive appearances between 1935–1948
• Most League Goals in Total Aggregate: Harry Johnson scored 201 goals in 313 games between 1919–1930
• Highest League Scorer in a Season: Jimmy Dunne 41 goals from 41 appearances, Division One, 1930–31
• Most League Goals in One Match: 5 Harry Hammond v Bootle, Division Two, 1892, and 5 Harry Johnson v West Ham United, Division One, 26 December 1927
• Scoring in Consecutive Games: Jimmy Dunne scored in 12 consecutive games in 1930-1931
• Most Capped Player: Billy Gillespie made 25 appearances for Northern Ireland

Keith Gillespie, has played 80 times for Northern Ireland, but not all of them as a Sheffield United player

Peter Ndlovu played 100 times for Zimbabwe, again not all as a Sheffield United player

• Record Transfer Fee Paid: £4 million for James Beattie to Everton on 4 August 2007^[1]
• Record Transfer Fee Received: £8 million for Kyle Naughton and Kyle Walker (combined fee) from Tottenham Hotspur in July, 2009^[1]

Misc

• Highest Attendance: 68,287 v Leeds United, FA Cup 5th Round, 15 February 1936^[1]
• Record gate receipts: £467,036 v Nottingham Forest, first division play-off semi-final, 15 May 2003^[1]

References

1. "United Records". Sheffield United F.C. 18 October 2010. Retrieved 3 February 2011.