Hallam F.C.
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| Full name | Hallam Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Countrymen |
| Founded | 4 September 1860 (reformed 1887) |
| Dissolved | 1886 |
| Ground | Sandygate Road |
| Capacity | 1,000 (250 seated) |
| Chairman | Steve Basford |
| Manager | Ryan Hindley |
| League | Northern Counties East League Division One |
| 2015–16 | Northern Counties East League Division One, 6th |
Hallam F.C. is an English football club based in Crosspool, Sheffield, South Yorkshire. They play in the Northern Counties East League Division One, at level 10 of the English football league system. Founded in 1860, it is second only to local rivals Sheffield F.C. in the list of the oldest association football clubs in the world. Games between these two clubs are known as the Rules derby.
They have played at their Sandygate Road home in the Sheffield suburb of Crosspool since formation, with the ground being officially recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as "The Oldest Football Ground in the World".
In 1867 the club made history by winning the world's first ever football tournament, the Youdan Cup. The club still possess this historic trophy.
Although formed in 1860, the football club can trace its links even further back, to 1804, when the owner of the Plough Inn public house on Sandygate Road agreed to allow a new cricket club, Hallam CC, to start playing on an adjacent field he owned.
The club had in excess of 300 members by the 1850s, and in 1860 it decided to form a football club to oppose Sheffield F.C., formed three years earlier. On Boxing Day 1860 the two clubs played each other on Sandygate Road for the first time. The match report for the game in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph states that the game was played between 16 of Sheffield and 16 of Hallam and Stumperlowe (Stumperlowe being a hamlet half a mile from Sandygate).
The Hallam Football club's founder and captain, John Charles Shaw, soon became President of the Sheffield Football Association which organised matches to the locally preferred rules for its growing number of member clubs. Shaw was directly instrumental, with Charles Alcock of the London-based Football Association, in the formation of nationally accepted rules for playing the game. Shaw and Alcock were the respective captains in the first game between a Sheffield XI and a London XI, in 1871, in which the preferred rules were experimented.
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