- Andy Gray
Andrew David Gray (born November 15 1977 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England) is a Scottish football player currently at Burnley F.C. He is the son of the former Scotland defender Frank Gray and nephew of Leeds United legend Eddie Gray. He started his career as a midfield player but later moved into a forward position. Andy began his career with Leeds United and has also played for Nottingham Forest, Bury, Preston North End, Oldham Athletic, Bradford City, …
- Neil Warnock
Neil Warnock (born December 1, 1948) is a football manager, formerly of Sheffield United. He was appointed as manager of Sheffield United in December 1999 and resigned on 2007-05-16. Warnock was born in Sheffield and is a lifelong fan of the Blades.
- Andy Johnson
Andrew James "Andy" Johnson (born 2 May 1974 in Bristol, England) is an English born Welsh international footballer who is currently playing for Barnsley. He was recently released by Leicester City. His career started out at Norwich City, before joining Nottingham Forest in 1997, failing to give Johnson the opportunity to fulfil his potential at the club. Having made over one hundred appearances in Forest's squad, …
- Bryan Robson
Bryan Robson OBE (born January 11, 1957) is a former England, West Bromwich Albion, and Manchester United footballer who also captained his country. He is the current manager of Sheffield United. He was born and brought up in Witton Gilbert, County Durham. The family moved to the nearby town of Chester-le-Street when he was six. Where he began playing football and supporting Newcastle United.
- Rob Hulse
Robert William "Rob" Hulse (born October 25, 1979 in Crewe, Cheshire) is an English professional footballer who currently plays as a centre forward for Sheffield United in Coca Cola Championship.
- Gary Megson
Gary Megson (born 2 May 1959 in Manchester) is a former English footballer and manager. He is currently without a job, having left Nottingham Forest by mutual consent in February 2006. As a player, he is arguably best remembered from his days at Sheffield Wednesday, where his father Don Megson also played in the 1960s. As manager he enjoyed his most successful spell at West Bromwich Albion, whom he twice got promoted to the Premiership.
- Marcus Bent
Marcus Bent (born 19 May 1978 in Hammersmith, London) is an English footballer, who in a short career has managed to play for several different professional sides. He currently plays for Charlton Athletic. He attended St Paul's College in Sunbury-on-Thames and graduated through the Brentford F.C. youth ranks, usually playing as a forward. He played his first senior game at Bury on 17 August 1996, and scored his first senior goal on 10 September the same year, …
- Paddy Kenny
Patrick Kenny (born May 17, 1978 in Halifax, West Yorkshire) is an Irish football player, who currently plays as a goalkeeper for Sheffield United in the Coca Cola Championship.
- Phil Jagielka
Philip "Phil" Jagielka (born August 17 1982 in Sale, Greater Manchester) is an extremely versatile football player who can operate as a midfielder, defender, and even in emergencies has acted as goalkeeper (indeed, to such distinction that former Sheffield United manager Neil Warnock rarely took substitute goalkeepers to Championship and even Premiership games). Jagielka currently plays for Everton for whom he signed for £4m in July, 2007.
- Chris Morgan
Christopher Paul Morgan (born November 9, 1977 in Barnsley) is an English football player who currently plays for Sheffield United in the Coca Cola Championship. He started his football career in 1998 with his hometown of Barnsley and made a total of 212 appearances for "The Reds" in six seasons, including their only season in the F.A. Premier League, before signing for Sheffield United in July 2003.
- Billy Sharp
William Louis "Billy" Sharp (born 5 February 1986 in Sheffield) is an English professional footballer currently playing a striker role at Sheffield United.
- Kevin McCabe
Kevin Charles McCabe is an English property businessman and the plc chairman of Sheffield United Football Club.
- Colin Kazim-Richards
Colin Kazim-Richards is a professional footballer for who plays for Turkish Fenerbahçe SK in the Turkcell Super League. His father is of Antiguan descent, and his mother is Turkish Cypriot. The Turkish forename "Kâzım" was intended to be a middle name, which would have rendered his full name 'Colin Kazim Richards', but due to an error, he was registered as 'Colin Kazim-Richards'.
- Keith Gillespie
Keith Robert Gillespie (born 18 February 1975 in Larne, County Antrim) is a Northern Irish professional footballer, who plays in midfield. He currently plays for Sheffield United of the English Football League Championship.
- Danny Webber
Daniel Vaughn Webber (born December 28, 1981 in Manchester) is an English football player. He is a striker for Sheffield United in the Coca Cola Championship although he has started the season playing on the right wing.
- Michael Tonge
Michael William Tonge (Born April 7, 1983 in Manchester, England) is a football player. Tonge began his football career at Manchester United but moved to Sheffield United at the age of sixteen after being released by the premiership club. His talent quickly emerged and he was in the Sheffield United first team by April 2000. Good performances led to an England youth international call-up and by the end of 2002 interest from clubs such as Liverpool, …
- Luton Shelton
Luton Shelton (born on November 11, 1985) is a football player from Jamaica and is currently playing as a striker for Sheffield United in the Coca Cola Championship. Shelton is an extremely quick player with a great sense of finding the net. In August 2005 he was due to move to a then high flying Championship side Burnley FC after a very successful pre season trial They attempted to sign the player however a work permit was rejected, …
- Stuart McCall
Andrew Stuart Murray McCall (born 10 June 1964 in Leeds) was a Scottish football player who played in central midfield. Until May 2007, he was assistant manager at Sheffield United but was confirmed as the new manager of Bradford City on May 22, 2007. His father was Andy McCall, also a footballer.
- Derek Geary
Derek Peter Geary (born. June 19, 1980 in Dublin, Republic of Ireland) is an Irish footballer, who plays as a full-back for English Football League Championship team Sheffield United. Geary is also one of the few players to have played for both sides in Sheffield. He was signed by Sheffield Wednesday from Rivermount Boys of Finglas in Dublin, his only schoolboy club, on November 11 1997, …
- Leigh Bromby
Leigh Bromby (born June 2 1980 in Dewsbury) is a football player who currently plays for Sheffield United in the Coca Cola Championship.
- Michael Brown
Michael Robert Brown (born January 25, 1977 in Hartlepool, England), is a professional footballer who plays in a midfield position for Fulham in the English Premiership. Brown is notable for his competitiveness, after a series of vicious fouls on players such as Sean Davis, Ryan Giggs, Ashley Cole and most recently a head butt on Xabi Alonso.
- Stephen Quinn
Stephen Quinn (born April 4, 1986 in Clondalkin) is a professional footballer from the Republic of Ireland. He currently plays as a midfielder for Sheffield United in the English Football League Championship. Stephen Quinn is the younger brother of fellow Blades midfielder Alan Quinn and the older brother of Sheffield United Youth team midfielder and captain Keith Quinn. In "MATCH!" magazine it was stated he was going to be the next big thing from Sheffield United.
- Claude Davis
Claude Davis (born March 6, 1979 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a footballer, who plays for Derby County in the Premier League.
- Chris Lucketti
Christopher James Lucketti (born September 28, 1971 in Littleborough, Rochdale, England) is an English footballer. He is a highly rated centre-back, and currently plays for Sheffield United.
- Nick Montgomery
Nicholas Anthony Montgomery (born October 28, 1981 in Leeds, England) is a footballer who plays in a midfield position for Sheffield United. He came through the youth ranks at Bramall Lane, before making his debut at Carrow Road against Norwich City on October 21 2000, and has now established himself as a regular in the first team with almost 200 League and Cup appearances for the Blades. A hard-working attacking midfielder with the ability to run at defenders, …
- Alan Quinn
Alan Quinn (born June 13, 1979 in Dublin) is a professional footballer from the Republic of Ireland. He plays for Sheffield United in the Football League Championship.
- Mark Kennedy
Mark Kennedy is a footballer who plays for Crystal Palace and his position is winger or midfielder. He wears the number 15 shirt. Kennedy began his career in south-east London, at Millwall, and impressed hugely, eventually joining Liverpool for £2.3million, in 1995. Having developed further at Anfield (a development which included a loan spell back in the capital with Queens Park Rangers), Kennedy saw fit to move back to the capital to Wimbledon, for £1.75million, …
- Chris Armstrong
Christopher Armstrong (born August 5, 1982 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England) is a professional footballer, who currently plays left-sided midfield for Sheffield United in the Football League Championship.
- Gary Naysmith
Gary Andrew Naysmith (born November 16, 1978 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a football defender, currently playing for Sheffield United in the Football League Championship.
- Paul Simpson
Paul David Simpson (born 26 July 1966) is the current manager of Football League Championship team Preston North End, having been named as the successor to the departing Billy Davies on June 16, 2006. Simpson managed Carlisle United football club to the Football League Two Championship in the 2005/2006 season, a second successive promotion following Carlisle's promotion from the Nationwide Conference in 2004/2005.
- Luke Beckett
Luke Beckett is an English professional footballer who plays for Huddersfield Town in Coca-Cola League One. Beckett made his name as a striker scoring over 100 goals for Chester City, Chesterfield, and Stockport County before moving to Sheffield United in November 2004 for £50,000.
- David Weir
David Weir (born 1863 in Aldershot, died 1933 in Bolton) was an English footballer who played for several clubs in the 19th century, including Bolton Wanderers and Ardwick (Manchester City), and won two caps for England. In the infancy of professional football Weir played for a number of teams, including Hampton, Glasgow Thistle, Maybole and Halliwell. He then signed for Bolton Wanderers, where he was an ever-present in the first ever season of the Football League.
- Cameron Jerome
Cameron Zishan Jerome (born October 14, 1986 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire) is an English footballer He plays for Birmingham City in the position of striker.
- Tony Currie
Anthony William Currie (born 1 January 1950) was an English football player, born in Edgware, London, who went on to play for Sheffield United, Leeds United, Queens Park Rangers and England. Tony Currie was a talented schoolboy footballer who represented Hendon Boys before joining Queens Park Rangers as an amateur, whilst working for a building firm. He joined Chelsea as an apprentice, but was released and moved to Watford to complete his apprenticeship, …
- Ian Ross
Ian Ross (born January 13, 1986 in Sheffield) is an English footballer who plays for Sheffield United as a central midfielder. Ross started his career as a trainee with Sheffield United. His Blades career his been limited to just two League Cup games in which he scored one goal. He had loan spells with Bury and Boston during the 2005-06 season. In July 2006, he joined Notts County on a six-month loan deal which saw him play 31 games and score 1 goal.
- Ian Bennett
Ian Michael Bennett (born October 10, 1971 in Worksop, England) is an English footballer and goalkeeper who currently plays for Sheffield United Starting with Queens Park Rangers in 1988, Bennett moved to Newcastle United in March of the same season. However, having failed to make a single appearance for either team he signed for Peterborough United. Between March 22, 1991 and December 17, 1993, he played 72 league games for Peterborough.
- Jonathan Stead
Jonathan Graeme "Jon" Stead (born April 7 1983 in Huddersfield, England) is an English football player who currently plays for Sheffield United as a forward.
- Don Hutchison
Donald Oliver Hutchison (born 9 May 1971 in Gateshead, UK) is a football player. He plays in either midfield or attacking positions. He is currently without a club, after leaving Coventry City. He has earned 26 caps for the Scottish national team. Hutchison started his career at Hartlepool United as a trainee, but was quickly spotted by the big guns and moved to Liverpool in 1990. He is one of a small group of players that have played for both Liverpool and Everton.
- Geoff Horsfield
Geoffrey Malcolm "Geoff" Horsfield (born November 1, 1973 in Barnsley) is an English footballer who is currently playing for Sheffield United in the Football League Championship. He started at Scarborough before moving to Halifax Town in April 1994. His first stint with the Shaymen was less than successful and he was released after just one season.
- Mikele Leigertwood
Mikele Benjamin Leigertwood (born November 12 1982 in Enfield) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Sheffield United in the Football League Championship. He is of Antiguan descent. He began his career with Wimbledon, but he made his professional debut while on loan to Leyton Orient in November 2001. He got his first game at Wimbledon at the end of the 2001-2002 season, in a 1-0 defeat against Barnsley.