Sunday Football

[St Petre]

3 hours ago, jack reacher said:

 My initial thoughts were 66/67

 

It was prohibited by some local councils-Sheffield included- as they owned most of the pitches, when they relented I don't know,

[Longcol]

12 hours ago, St Petre said:

It was prohibited by some local councils-Sheffield included- as they owned most of the pitches, when they relented I don't know,

Far more likely that 66/67 was when Sheffield and Hallamshire FA allowed local Sunday League's to affiliate to it.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_league_football_in_England#:~:text=The first Sunday League to,the Essex Corinthian in 1937.

 

"The rise in the 1960s

After the FA allowed all Sunday leagues to be affiliated to the County Associations, there was a rapid increase in the creation of more leagues. Burton & District was founded in 1964, Gloucester & District and the Tameside Sunday League in 1965, Barnet & District, Coventry & District, Bletchley & District, Leamington & District, Nuneaton & District, Sutton & District in 1966, Cheltenham Sunday League and Hyde & District in 1968 etc."

 

Prior to this, any player or referee participating in sunday football were banned from playing on a Saturday.

 

"In 1959 the FA announced that any players or referees participating in the Sunday leagues would be banned from the official Saturday football, after noticing that many professionals - including England's and Wolves' outside left, Jimmy Mullen were also playing Sunday league football."

 

I remember 66/67  as the first year we had a sunday league team in Rossington near Doncaster. They played, like most mining village teams, on the ground owned by the Miners Welfare. In and around Sheffield a large number of sports facilities were owned by various steelworks, water works etc.

 

Edited August 24, 2022 by Longcol

[St Petre]

5 hours ago, Longcol said:

Far more likely that 66/67 was when Sheffield and Hallamshire FA allowed local Sunday League's to affiliate to it.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_league_football_in_England#:~:text=The first Sunday League to,the Essex Corinthian in 1937.

 

"The rise in the 1960s

After the FA allowed all Sunday leagues to be affiliated to the County Associations, there was a rapid increase in the creation of more leagues. Burton & District was founded in 1964, Gloucester & District and the Tameside Sunday League in 1965, Barnet & District, Coventry & District, Bletchley & District, Leamington & District, Nuneaton & District, Sutton & District in 1966, Cheltenham Sunday League and Hyde & District in 1968 etc."

 

Prior to this, any player or referee participating in sunday football were banned from playing on a Saturday.

 

"In 1959 the FA announced that any players or referees participating in the Sunday leagues would be banned from the official Saturday football, after noticing that many professionals - including England's and Wolves' outside left, Jimmy Mullen were also playing Sunday league football."

 

I remember 66/67  as the first year we had a sunday league team in Rossington near Doncaster. They played, like most mining village teams, on the ground owned by the Miners Welfare. In and around Sheffield a large number of sports facilities were owned by various steelworks, water works etc.

 

Yes , forgot about big firms owning sports ground ie: English Steel (Shiregreen Lane), Firth-Brown's (Atlas & Norfolk, Shirecliffe), those on Bawtry Road etc, etc.