Alec Sheffield played for Exeter City during the late 1920s having joined the club from Mansfield Town. He was later on the books of Bristol City and Rochdale.

Having represented England at schools’ level, Alec was working as a railway clerk in Nottingham and playing on a semi-professional basis with Shirebrook, when he signed for Mansfield Town in 1926.

Moving to Exeter City in the summer of 1928, Alec made his league debut against Newport County in March 1929 and retained his place for the remainder of the season at right-half. He then played another dozen games in 1929/30 in two runs of consecutive games in early autumn and over the Christmas/New Year period.

On the books of Bristol City during 1930/31, he didn’t play a league game before a similarly unproductive spell with Rochdale.