Claim: Jordan Spence plays football.

Sheffield Wednesday Football Club is a professional association football club based in Sheffield , England . The team competes in the Championship , the second tier of the English football league system . Formed as an offshoot of The Wednesday Cricket Club in 1867 , they went by the name of The Wednesday Football Club until changing to their current name in 1929 .   Wednesday are one of the oldest football clubs in the world of any code , and the fourth oldest professional association football club in England , excluding clubs with informal or disputed foundation dates . In 1868 they won the Cromwell Cup , only the second tournament of its kind , and in 1877 they won the inaugural Sheffield Challenge Cup , the oldest county cup in England . They were founding members and inaugural champions of the Football Alliance in 1889 , before joining The Football League three years later . In 1992 they became founder members of the Premier League . The club has spent most of its league history in English football 's top flight , but they have not played at that level since being relegated in 2000 .   The Owls , as they are nicknamed , have won four league titles , three FA Cups , one League Cup and one FA Community Shield . Wednesday have also competed in UEFA cup competitions on four occasions , reaching the quarter-finals of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1963 .   Since 1899 the club has played its home matches at Hillsborough stadium , a near 40,000 capacity stadium in the north-west Sheffield suburb of Owlerton .