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Sheffield Wednesday fans Jonathan Richards and his dad(Image: Provided)<\/p>\nSheffield Wednesday fans have endured a disastrous yearSheffield Wednesday fans Jonathan Richards and his dad(Image: Provided)<\/p>\n
In the last year, Sheffield Wednesday have lost one of the best managers in the club\u2019s recent history, sold several star players on the cheap, been hit with two separate points deductions, entered into administration, faced supporter protests and empty and unsafe stadiums, and nearly gone bust entirely<\/a>. All in all, it\u2019s been a difficult 2025.<\/p>\n For many fans, they might describe it as the worst year of their Wednesday<\/a>-supporting lives. They will be happy to see the back of it.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been absolutely rubbish because you basically have not had a team to support,\u201d Jonathan Richards, 30, said. \u201cEvery game has been kind of redundant. I don\u2019t mind when we lose a game, but when we nearly went bust, it\u2019s just incredibly depressing. You lose the fun of being a fan.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite a strong end to last season, securing a top-half Championship finish for the first time since 2018-19, it quickly became clear the club was in financial disarray, having been run into the ground by owner Dejphon Chansiri. The Owls repeatedly failed to pay staff wages, owed tax to HMRC, and had defaulted on transfer instalments to other clubs. At one stage, the club was under six embargoes for various reasons.<\/p>\n Wednesday entered administration in late October<\/a>, with Kris Wigfield leading the process of finding a new owner. The process is still ongoing, but Mike Ashley, the former owner of Newcastle United, is one of the leading candidates. For Wednesday fans, the twists and turns of the club\u2019s financial disarray has been extremely challenging.<\/p>\n \u201cSomething has kicked off and it just gets worse,\u201d Jonathan added. \u201cEvery time you check something online, it just gets worse. Every time something was rumoured, it happened. Everything that might go wrong actually did. It would be nice to be done with this whole thing, really.\u201d<\/p>\n This season, results on the pitch have been extremely depressing. Wednesday have won just one of their 21 Championship matches as of writing. They sit bottom of the table on minus-nine points with a goal difference of -27. They are a massive 30 points from safety and are almost guaranteed to be relegated.<\/p>\n Subscribe to The Sheffield Drop and get all the latest Sheffield news straight to your inbox <\/strong>using this link<\/strong><\/a>. Or you can read The Sheffield Drop <\/strong>on our website, here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n However, relegation is nothing new for most supporters, who would happily take a year or two in League One if it meant the club had stable ownership. \u201cWe have been relegated before. That happens. But this year has just been dead,\u201d Jonathan said. \u201cI am willing to take League One and no Chansiri. I just want to have a team to support and to actually look forward to a match at the weekend. I don\u2019t care what division we are in.\u201d<\/p>\n For many supporters, the most difficult period was the opening few weeks of the 2025-26 campaign. Many protested against the club and did not attend any matches<\/a>, refusing to spend any money on new shirts or pints at Hillsborough <\/a>or hand any money over to the club until Chansiri was no longer the owner.<\/p>\n Jonathan said: \u201cNot being able to go for months was rubbish. Even going to a match we lost was nice just because we were able to go again. I would usually plan a couple of trips to go to a match, but I haven\u2019t planned anything this year because there was no match to go to.<\/p>\n \u201cIt must have been really hard for people who have lost their fortnightly game. The day it ended, I was on the phone to my dad, looking at the fixtures to see when we could go again.\u201d<\/p>\n The remainder of the season will be testing for many fans. Relegation is inevitable, a new owner has not yet been secured, and a squad ripped apart in a ghastly summer transfer window has left the team severely lacking in talent and experience.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, Wednesday supporters will be more than happy to wave goodbye to 2025 and welcome what they hope will be a new dawn. This has been the worst year of many fans\u2019 lives. They will hope 2026 is a significant improvement.<\/p>\n![\"Sheffield](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_Chansiri-protest-flag.jpg\")
Sheffield Wednesday supporters held up comedic flags against Dejphon Chansiri(Image: Andrew Dowdeswell \/ YorkshireLive)<\/p>\n![\"Sheffield](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1_Sheffield-Wednesday-owner-Dejphon-Chansiri-bought-the-club-in-2015-Mike-EgertonPA.jpg\")
Sheffield Wednesday owner Dejphon Chansiri (Image: PA Archive\/PA Images)<\/p>\n