Club: | Sheffield Wednesday |
Season: | 2022–23 |
Owner: | Dejphon Chansiri |
Manager: | Darren Moore |
Stadium: | Hillsborough Stadium |
League: | League One |
League Result: | 3rd |
Cup1: | Play-offs |
Cup1 Result: | Winners (promoted) |
Cup2: | FA Cup |
Cup3: | EFL Cup |
Cup4: | EFL Trophy |
Cup4 Result: | Group stage |
League Topscorer: | Michael Smith (17) |
Season Topscorer: | Michael Smith (21) |
Highest Attendance: | 33,442 (vs Plymouth Argyle; League One) |
Lowest Attendance: | 3,173 (vs Leicester City U21; EFL Trophy) |
Average Attendance: | 25,378 |
Largest Win: | 5–0 (vs Forest Green Rovers & Cambridge United; League One) |
Largest Loss: | 4–0 (vs Peterborough United; League One Playoffs) |
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Prevseason: | 2021–22 |
Nextseason: | 2023–24 |
The 2022–23 season was the 155th season in the existence of Sheffield Wednesday and the club's second consecutive season in League One. In addition to the league, they also competed in the 2022–23 FA Cup, the 2022–23 EFL Cup and the 2022–23 EFL Trophy.
On 20 June, the players reported back to pre-season training.[1]
On 2 July, the club announced that manager Darren Moore would miss the first pre-season friendly against Alfreton Town due to recent knee surgery.[2]
On 12 July, the club unveiled their new kits for the 2022–23 season.[3]
On 12 July, the club announced their new shirt sponsor Host & Stay Limited.[4]
On 19 July, the club announced their first-team squad numbers for the 2022–23 season.[5]
On 9 September, the fixture against Plymouth Argyle was postponed following the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.[6]
On 16 September, Mark McGuinness was called up to the Republic of Ireland U21 squad.[7]
On 30 September, James Shan joined the clubs coaching staff.[8]
On 20 January, manager Darren Moore confirmed that ex-loan star, Michael Hector was currently on trial at the club.[9]
On 14 February, following their 3-0 victory against Morecambe, the club broke their record for most clean sheets during a single league campaign breaking the previous record of 17.[10]
On 24 February, Marvin Johnson was given a three-match suspension for violent conduct for an incident during the game against Ipswich Town.[11]
On 25 February, following their 1-0 victory against Charlton Athletic, the club broke their unbeaten league record, breaking the previous record of 19 games unbeaten.[12]
On 16 March, Pierce Charles was called up to the Northern Ireland U19 squad for their upcoming fixtures.[13]
On 19 April, Liam Palmer was awarded the Wise Old Owls Player of the Season award.[14]
On 23 April, Barry Bannan and Josh Windass were both included into the EFL League One Team of the Season.[15]
On 30 April, Liam Palmer was named Player of the Season, Players player of the Season, and a Lifetime Achievement award, whilst Will Vaulks won Community Player of the Season and Goal of the Season at the club’s end of season awards.[16]
On 3 May, the clubs academy retained list was published.[17]
On 7 May, the club finished the season breaking another club record of 96 points. This was the fourth club record to be broken after a new clean sheet record (24), unbeaten run (23) and most away wins (12) during a league season.[18]
On 12 May, the club faced Peterborough United at London Road Stadium in the first leg of the League One play-offs, where they would lose 4–0.[19] On 18 May, they faced off again in the second leg at Hillsborough Stadium. In one of the most dramatic play-off matches in history, Sheffield Wednesday overturned their 4–0 deficit and scored four goals, taking the match into extra time. The game would finish 5–1 (5–5 on aggregate), meaning penalties would decide who would go through to the final. Wednesday would win the shoot-out 5–3.[20]
On 29 May, Sheffield Wednesday faced Barnsley in the League One play-off final. The match nearly went to penalties until where Josh Windass scored a last-minute winner in extra time to promote Wednesday back to the EFL Championship.[21]
On 8 June, Wednesday announced their first pre-season friendly against Harrogate Town before heading off to Portugal for a warm weather training camp.[22] [23] On 13 June, the club announced that a Wednesday XI made up of U23 and U18 players will face Wakefield.[24] On 16 June, a friendly against Alfreton Town was announced.[25] Additional friendlies against Wigan Athletic and Rayo Vallecano were announced on 1 July.[26] [27] A behind-closed-doors friendly against Bournemouth during their pre-season trip to Portugal was announced on 2 July.[28]
See main article: 2022–23 EFL League One.
On Thursday, 23 June 2022, the EFL League One fixtures were revealed.[29]
See main article: 2023 English Football League play-offs. Sheffield Wednesday finished 3rd in the regular 2022–23 EFL League One season, so were drawn against 6th placed Peterborough United in the Play-off Semi Final. The first leg took place at the Weston Homes Stadium and the second leg took place at Hillsborough.
See main article: 2022–23 FA Cup.
Sheffield Wednesday were drawn at home to Morecambe in the first round[30] and to Mansfield Town in the second round.[31] On 28 November 2022, Sheffield Wednesday were drawn against Newcastle United in the third round.[32] On 8 January 2023, Sheffield Wednesday were drawn at home to Fleetwood Town in the fourth round.[33]
See main article: 2022–23 EFL Cup. Wednesday were drawn against Sunderland in the first round on 23 June 2022.[34] The second round draw took place on 10 August 2022 by Clinton Morrison and Michael Gray in which Wednesday were drawn against Rochdale.[35] The third round draw took place on 24 August 2022 and Sheffield Wednesday were drawn against Southampton.[36]
See main article: 2022–23 EFL Trophy.
The Owls were drawn into Group H of the Northern section alongside Bradford City, Burton Albion and Leicester City U21.[37]
Date | Pos | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 July 2022 | Bobby Dunn | Free transfer | [38] | ||
1 July 2022 | Free transfer | ||||
1 July 2022 | Free transfer | [39] | |||
1 July 2022 | Free transfer | [40] | |||
1 July 2022 | Free transfer | [41] | |||
1 July 2022 | Free transfer | [42] | |||
1 July 2022 | Free transfer | [43] | |||
6 July 2022 | Undisclosed | [44] | |||
21 July 2022 | Undisclosed | [45] | |||
4 August 2022 | Adam Alimi-Adetoro | Free transfer | [46] | ||
4 August 2022 | Free transfer | ||||
22 August 2022 | Undisclosed | [47] | |||
30 January 2023 | Favour Onukwuli | Volenti Academy | Undisclosed | [48] | |
Date | Pos | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Ref. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
30 June 2022 | Released | [49] [50] | ||||
30 June 2022 | Released | [51] [52] | ||||
30 June 2022 | Alex Bonnington | Released | [53] | |||
30 June 2022 | Josh Dawodu | Released | [54] | |||
30 June 2022 | Released | [55] | ||||
30 June 2022 | Lewis Farmer | Released | [56] | |||
30 June 2022 | Released | [57] | ||||
30 June 2022 | Released | [58] | ||||
30 June 2022 | Caelan Kilheeney | Released | [59] | |||
30 June 2022 | Rejected contract | [60] [61] | ||||
30 June 2022 | Rejected contract | [62] | ||||
30 June 2022 | Forward Madison | Released | [63] | |||
30 June 2022 | Joshua Render | Released | ||||
30 June 2022 | Released | |||||
30 June 2022 | Released | [64] | ||||
30 June 2022 | Rejected contract | [65] | ||||
30 June 2022 | Basile Zottos | Released | [66] | |||
10 August 2022 | Isaac Holland | Undisclosed | [67] | |||
10 August 2022 | Undisclosed | [68] | ||||
27 August 2022 | Undisclosed | [69] | ||||
1 September 2022 | Undisclosed | [70] | ||||
2 February 2023 | Undisclosed | [71] | ||||
23 March 2023 | Bobby Dunn | Undisclosed | [72] |
Date | Pos | Player | Loaned from | Until | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
7 July 2022 | End of Season | [73] | |||
18 August 2022 | 19 January 2023 | [74] | |||
29 August 2022 | 10 January 2023 | [75] | |||
27 January 2023 | End of Season | [76] | |||
Date | Pos | Player | Loaned to | Until | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 July 2022 | End of season | [77] | |||
13 September 2022 | End of season | [78] | |||
26 November 2022 | Luke Jackson | 26 December 2022 | [79] | ||
2 December 2022 | 2 January 2023 | [80] | |||
2 December 2022 | Paulo Aguas | 2 January 2023 | |||
9 December 2022 | End of season | [81] | |||
5 January 2023 | 5 April 2023 | [82] | |||
6 January 2023 | 2 February 2023 | [83] | |||
3 February 2023 | Luke Jackson | 18 March 2023 | [84] | ||
Date | Pos | Player | Length | Expiry | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
8 June 2022 | — | — | [85] | ||
17 June 2022 | — | — | [86] | ||
24 June 2022 | Josh Ashman | — | — | ||
24 June 2022 | Fuad Sesay | — | — | ||
20 July 2022 | — | — | [87] | ||
14 October 2022 | — | — | [88] | ||
9 December 2022 | — | — | [89] | ||
14 December 2022 | Rio Shipston | — | — | [90] | |
24 March 2023 | Barry Bannan | — | — | [91] | |
|-|colspan="14"|Players that left the club mid-season:|}
Includes all competitive matches.
Player | League One | Playoffs | FA Cup | EFL Cup | EFL Trophy | Total | ||||
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1 | FW | 24 | Michael Smith | 17 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 21 | |
2 | FW | 11 | Josh Windass | 11 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 16 | |
3 | FW | 9 | Lee Gregory | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
4 | FW | 13 | Callum Paterson | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | |
5 | MF | 10 | Barry Bannan | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
6 | DF | 2 | Liam Palmer | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
MF | 14 | George Byers | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||
7 | MF | 17 | Fisayo Dele-Bashiru | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | |
8 | MF | 8 | Dennis Adeniran | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
9 | MF | 18 | Marvin Johnson | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
10 | MF | 4 | Will Vaulks | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
FW | 7 | Mallik Wilks | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
FW | 45 | Alex Mighten | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
11 | DF | 3 | Jaden Brown | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
DF | 15 | Akin Famewo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
MF | 19 | Tyreeq Bakinson | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
DF | 33 | Reece James | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
DF | 34 | Mark McGuinness | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
MF | 38 | Will Trueman | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
FW | 40 | Sylla Sow | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
DF | 44 | Aden Flint | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
Own goals | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||||
Total | 80 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 104 |
No. | Pos. | Name | League One | Playoffs | FA Cup | EFL Cup | EFL Trophy | Total | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | ||
33 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | ||
6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | ||
2 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | ||
4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | ||
20 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | ||
10 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | ||
13 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | ||
18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
34 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||
3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
32 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
44 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
40 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
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25 | 33 | 51.52% | 13 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 17 | ||||||||||
31 | 27 | 44.44% | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||||||||||
Player of the Month awards for the 2022–23 season.
Month | Player | % | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
August | Liam Palmer | 80% | [92] |
September | Michael Smith | 38% | [93] |
October | Barry Bannan | 55% | [94] |
November | Mark McGuinness | 53% | [95] |
December | Mark McGuinness | 58% | [96] |
January | Josh Windass | 33% | [97] |
February | Liam Palmer | 50% | [98] |
March | Lee Gregory | – | [99] |
Player of the Year award for the 2022–23 season.
Month | Player | Ref. | |
---|---|---|---|
August | Liam Palmer | Winner | [100] [101] |
October | Barry Bannan | Nomination | [102] |
December | Cameron Dawson | Nomination | [103] |
January | Josh Windass | Nomination | [104] |
Month | Manager | Ref. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
August | Darren Moore | Nomination | [109] | |
October | Darren Moore | Nomination | [110] | |
November | Darren Moore | Nomination | [111] | |
January | Darren Moore | Nomination | ||
February | Darren Moore | Nomination | [112] |
Round | Player | Goal | Ref. | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Dennis Adeniran | 16' vs Sunderland, 10 August | Winner | [115] |
2 | 44' vs Rochdale, 23 August |