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You’ll probably have seen the news this week that Sheffield FC has a new leadership group, with Jon McClure from Reverend and the Makers stepping in as chairman.
Sheffield FC isn’t just another non-league side. It’s the world’s oldest football club, founded in 1857 right here in the city where the modern game began. That history still resonates globally, even if locally it sometimes flies a bit under the radar.
At Tickets for Good we’ve been working with the club for several years and renewed our partnership for the 2025/26 season as Community Ticketing Partner, helping make sure more people can experience a match at the place where football started.
This weekend we’re marking that partnership with a Community Game as Sheffield FC take on Thackley. At every home game this season, a number of tickets have been made available through Tickets for Good to NHS staff, teachers, charity workers, volunteers and people accessing events through our Ticket Bank programme. But this weekend is our official Community Game, giving us the chance to shine a bit of a spotlight on the partnership and bring even more people along to the world’s oldest football club.
There’s also something nicely Sheffield about it. Sheffield FC represents the origins of the sport. Tickets for Good is a Sheffield-founded company too, now working internationally to open up access to live events across music, sport, theatre and more. We’re also pleased to see Jon McClure stepping into a formal role with the club. Jon has long been one of Sheffield’s most passionate champions, so it feels fitting that he’s now involved with the club that sits right at the beginning of football’s story.
As Tickets for Good CEO Steve Rimmer puts it:
“Tickets for Good is about opening doors. When NHS staff, teachers, charity workers or people going through a tough time get the chance to come to a match, that is exactly what we are trying to do. This Community Game is a great moment for the partnership, but the important bit is what happens every week. We want more people to feel like football, and live events more broadly, are something they can be part of.”
If you’re joining us through Tickets for Good this weekend, we hope you enjoy the game. And if it’s your first visit to Sheffield FC, it’s not a bad place to start. After all, this is where football began.