What sets this range apart is its composition. Home and away shirts make up roughly two thirds of everything listed, with only a modest number of goalkeeper shirts and shorts behind them.
Training and jacket stock, which dominates several other clubs in this catalogue, is marginal here. If you want a shirt the team actually played in, the odds are strongly in your favour — which is not something that can be said of most pages on this site.
The range reaches back to the late 1980s, and the older material surfaces far less often than recent seasons.
Sheffield United were formed in 1889 as an offshoot of Sheffield United Cricket Club, and have played at Bramall Lane since. The nickname comes from Sheffield’s cutlery trade.
For most of the club’s history the shirt has been red and white stripes with black shorts, which makes the range visually consistent across decades — useful if you are trying to date a shirt by its details rather than its badge. Their main rivals are Sheffield Wednesday, and the Steel City derby shirts are among the most sought after.
The 1-10 grade covers fabric wear, print condition and collar state. It tells you nothing about fit: check the listed size separately, as older English shirts are cut generously.
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