page_title: History of Sheffield Wednesday F.C.
section_title: The Olive Grove years
hierarchical_section_title: History of Sheffield Wednesday F.C. / The 19th century / The Olive Grove years
caption_attribution_description: English: The Sheffield Wednesday FC players posing with the FA Cup trophy won after defeating Crystal Palace.
context_page_description: The history of Sheffield Wednesday F.C. is an article about an English football club from Sheffield, England. Established in 1867, the club would see early regional success followed by a rocky transition to professionalism. Although it has spent the majority of its Football League years in the top flight, its position within the league has varied from the very top to almost slipping to the fourth tier.
  The club has won four English League titles, three FA Cups, one League Cup and one FA Community Shield.
context_section_description: The move to professionalism led to the team building their own stadium rather than playing at venues such as Bramall Lane or Sheaf House whose owners took a share of the "gate". They leased some land by the railway tracks near Queen's Road from the Duke of Norfolk  and in 1887 built the Olive Grove ground. They named it so because an olive farm was bulldozed in order to build it
  In 1889, when their first application to join the Football League was rejected, the club became founder members of the Football Alliance of which they were the first champions in a season that they also reached the 1890 FA Cup Final, losing 6–1 to Blackburn Rovers at The Oval. They finished the following season bottom of the Alliance but recovered to finish in fourth place in the final Alliance season. The following season they were elected to Division 1 of the Football League when it was increased from 14 to 16 clubs, topping the poll with 10 votes. They won the FA Cup in 1896, beating Wolverhampton Wanderers by a 2–1 scoreline at Crystal Palace.
caption: The Wednesday players posing with the FA Cup won in 1896
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