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On the 24th October 1857, Nathaniel Creswick and William Prest had their inaugural meeting of The Club at Parkfield House in the suburb of Sheffield - The Sheffield Foot ball Club was formed. 

Sheffield Foot Ball Club was officially founded on 24 October 1857 in Parkfield House, the home of Harry Chambers and had its first headquarters in a greenhouse at Park House, the home of the father of its first president Frederick Ward. Although Sheffield Cricket Club had played at the new Bramall Lane ground since 1855, Sheffield opted for a different location, choosing a site at East Bank. 

For many years there was some confusion about the year in which the club was formed, but the diary of one of the founders, Nathaniel Creswick, which has survived to this day, states clearly in his entry of 31 December 1857 that “I have established a foot ball club to which most of young Sheffield can come and kick.” The story is that he was on an autumn walk a few months earlier with his friend William Prest, a fellow member of Sheffield Cricket Club, when they decided to create a football club for winter exercise. 

Happy Birthday Football.