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Club History

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Ground capacity: 15,231(Keepmoat Stadium)

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Record attendance: 37,149 vs. Hull City, Division 3 (N), 2nd October 1948 (Belle Vue)

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Colours: Red and white hooped shirt, white shorts, white socks

Change colours: Black shirt, black shorts, black socks

Year formed:1879

Turned professional:1885

Club nickname: Rovers

Previous grounds: 1880-1916, Intake Ground; 1920, Bennetthorpe Ground; 1922-2006 Belle Vue

Record league victory: 10-0 vs. Darlington, Division 4, 25th January 1964

Record cup victory: 7-0 vs. Blyth Spartans, FA Cup first round, 27th November 1937

Record defeat: 0-12 vs. Small Heath, Division 2, 11th April 1903

Most league goals: 123, Division 3 (N), 1946-47

Highest league scorer in a season: Clarrie Jordan, 42, Division 3 (N), 1946-47

Most capped player: Len Graham, 14, Northern Ireland

Record transfer fee paid: £1,150,000 to Sheffield United for Billy Sharp

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Honours:

Football League: Division 2 Best season: 7th, 1901-1902; Division 3 Champions 2003-04; Division 3 (N) Champions 1934-35, 1946-47, 1949-50; npower League One Champions 2012/13 
Runners-Up: 1937-38, 1938-39; Division 4 Champions 1965-66, 1968-69; Runners-up: 1983-84. Promoted 1980-81 (3rd). 
League One play-off final winners: 2008 
FA Cup: Best season: 5th round, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 2019 
Football League Cup: Best season: 5th round, 1976, 2006 
Football Conference: Play-off final winners 2002-03 
Johnstone's Paint Trophy: Winners 2007 
Sheffield County Cup: Winners 1936, 1938, 1956, 1968, 1976, 1986 
Midlands Counties League: Champions 1897, 1899 
Conference Trophy: Winners 1999, 2000 
Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior Cup: Winners 1891, 1912, 2001, 2002 
Yorkshire Electricity Cup: Winners 1995-96