Sheffield Wednesday Football Club Youth Academy are the youth team

Youth system

Youth system is a sporting terminology used to refer to a youth investment program within a particular team or league, which develops and nurtures young talent in farm teams, with the vision of using them in the first team if they show enough promise, and to fill up squads numbers in some teams...

 of Sheffield Wednesday

Sheffield Wednesday F.C.

Sheffield Wednesday Football Club are a football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, who are currently competing in the Football League One in the 2011-12 season, in England. Sheffield Wednesday are one of the oldest professional clubs in the world and the fourth oldest in the...

. Their Under-18 team play in the highest level of youth football in England, The FA Premier Academy League

Premier Academy League

The Premier Academy League is the top level of youth football in England. It is contested between the Academy sides of The Premier League and some Football League clubs, including Welsh side Cardiff City...

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The U18 team is the feeder team for the Reserves, where senior members of the team also make appearances. The Academy has also provided backup to the Senior Squad during player shortages. One third of Sheffield Wednesday's current senior squad are ex-Academy players. The Academy is run by Sean McAuley

Sean McAuley

Sean McAuley is an English former professional footballer. He is currently the Academy head coach at Sheffield Wednesday.-Playing career:...

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Honours

Competition	|Achievement	|Year
FA Youth Cup FA Youth Cup The Football Association Youth Challenge Cup is an English football competition run by The Football Association for under–18 sides. Only those players between the age of 15 and 18 on 31 August of the current season are eligible to take part...	Runner-up	1991
Premier Youth League North Premier Academy League The Premier Academy League is the top level of youth football in England. It is contested between the Academy sides of The Premier League and some Football League clubs, including Welsh side Cardiff City...	Champions	1997/98
Premier Youth League Premier Academy League The Premier Academy League is the top level of youth football in England. It is contested between the Academy sides of The Premier League and some Football League clubs, including Welsh side Cardiff City...	Runners-up	1997/98

Notable Academy Graduates

Junior Agogo

Junior Agogo

Manuel "Junior" Agogo is a Ghanaian professional footballer. He is a striker and currently plays for Scottish Premier League side Hibernian. He has spent most of his career in England, as well as spells in the United States, Egypt and most recently Cyprus. He attended St...

 Graham Hyde

Graham Hyde

Graham Hyde is a professional footballer, currently Head Coach at Redditch United.-Playing career:...

 Ritchie Humphreys

Ritchie Humphreys

Richard John "Ritchie" Humphreys is an English footballer who plays for Hartlepool United, where he is the club's record appearance holder....

 Mark Beevers

Mark Beevers

Mark Geoffrey Beevers is an English professional football defender playing in the centre back position who is currently on loan at Milton Keynes Dons on loan from Sheffield Wednesday.-Career:...

 Leigh Bromby

Leigh Bromby

Leigh David Bromby is an English footballer who plays for Leeds United in The Championship of the English Football League. He can play as a Central Defender or Right Back or Left Back. He's the only player to have played 100 games for each of the steel city rivals Sheffield United and Sheffield...

 Kevin Pressman

Kevin Pressman

Kevin Paul Pressman is an English former football goalkeeper, currently coaching at Bradford City. Pressman made 588 appearances in English and Northern Irish league football for 5 different clubs over 3 decades....

 Mel Sterland

Mel Sterland

Melvyn "Mel" Sterland is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds United and in the Scottish Football League Premier Division for Rangers, and was capped once for England.-Playing career:Sterland's career is distinctly in two...

 Sean McAllister

Sean McAllister

Sean Brian McAllister is an English footballer who plays for Shrewsbury Town. He plays primarily as a central midfielder, but is a lively 'box-to-box' player who likes to cover ground and battle with opposition players.-Early career:...

 Richard Wood

Richard Wood (footballer)

Richard Mark Wood is an English footballer who plays for Coventry City as a defender.-Career:Born in Ossett, West Yorkshire, Wood was a Leeds United fan and had a season ticket at Leeds, however Wood came up through the ranks at Sheffield Wednesday and started to support The Owl's instead...

 Tommy Spurr

Tommy Spurr

Thomas "Tommy" Spurr is an English footballer currently playing as a defender for Doncaster Rovers.-Sheffield Wednesday:Spurr was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, Where he played for Seacroft Colts AFC as a youngster...

Current squad

As of 28 August 2011.