During the 2013–14 football season, Sheffield Wednesday Football Club will compete in three professional football competitions. Sheffield Wednesday will compete in the 2013–14 Football League Championship, 2013–14 FA Cup, and the 2013–14 Football League Cup. It will be the Owls' second consecutive season in the Football League Championship having secured promotion from League One in the 2011–12 season and then securing Championship safety on the last day of the 2012–13 season. The Football League season will kick-off at the beginning of August, along with the League Cup in the same month. Meanwhile, with Sheffield Wednesday being within the top two-tiers of the English football league system the club doesn't enter the FA Cup until the beginning of January 2014 where they enter at Round 3 of the competition.

Pre-season for Sheffield Wednesday started on 5 May 2013, the day after the finish of the 2012–13 football league season. It started with all players on loan from that season going back to their parent clubs, with it being unknown whether or not they would sign again permanently or temporarily. These players included: Jérémy Hélan, Danny Pugh, Seyi Olofinjana, Leroy Lita, and Steve Howard. Many players were out of contract in the summer of 2013 and therefore many decisions had to be made on players' futures at the club within May and June. The first transfer of the new pre-season was confirmed just a few days after the end of the 2012–13 football season as development squad player Bastien Héry signed for Rochdale. Sheffield Wednesday youth players Ayo Obileye, Emmanuel Dieseruvwe and Johnny Fenwick soon all signed their first professional contracts with the club, all lasting one-year.

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