Sheffield Wednesday

Though Hillsborough has been the home of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club since it opened in 1899, it is probably still remembered for all of the wrong reasons. The ground was the location for what remains the worst sporting disaster in British history, the Hillsborough disaster of 1989. 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives during an FA Cup match between the Merseyside club and Nottingham Forrest. The disaster completely changed the landscape of modern football, seeing all-seater stadiums introduced as standard across the Football League. Though the tragedy must never be forgotten and the victims of it always in our minds, the stadium has plenty of history that we must also discuss. It has been used to host not only FA Cup semi-finals, for example, but also World Cup matches in 1966 and European Championship matches in 1996. The club have also had planning permission accepted to increase the capacity to nearly 45,000 in order for it to be used in future international tournaments, should England win the right to host one in the future.