Sheffield Wednesday Football Club is a professional association football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system.

Sheffield Wednesday have historic importance in England as founding members of the Football Alliance in 1899. Four-time champions of the league, between 1903 and 1930 and three-time FA Cup winners. In the 19th century, they played their matches in at several stadiums around central Sheffield, including Olive Grove and Bramall Lane.

Today's crest (shown right) has been in use since 1995 (with the minor addition of a copyright symbol in 2002) and shows the familiar modern image of an owl sitting on the letters 'SWFC' (the abbreviation of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club).

Jan 24, 2016 · Student Robert Walker, pictured in May 1973, after winning a competition to design a new club crest for Sheffield Wednesday. It has been announced that from next season, Sheffield Wednesday's...

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By 1950/51 Wednesday had developed a crest consisting of the club initials over the city crest (sheaves of corn and crossed arrows). In 1956/57 Wednesday introduced a club badge which included the motto, "consilio et animis".

In 1973 the club adopted a regular crest that would be regularly worn on the players' shirts, a stylised outline of an owl. In 1980 they were promoted back to Division Two and only four years later the club was back in the First Division. At this stage the …

Sheffield Wednesday embraced the first official badge in their club history for the 1956/57 term. Yet they rarely had the crest on their kits outside of major matches, like the 1966 FA Cup final. The crest featured an owl sat above the Latin inscription ‘Consilio et …

The club's first official crest was adopted in 1956 but was never used on the team's shirts. This featured an owl, which would become the regular motif of future crests along with the club's Latin motto (which translates as "By Wisdom and Courage").