1887-88 Season Summary

Highlights

Leicestershire Football Association was formed – (Sporting Life – 17 Sept 1887)

Loughborough beat a Aston Villa Reserves 8-1 in December.

Leicestershire’s first two inter-county matches – against Northamptonshire and Derbyshire – ended in draws.

Sheepshed won the county’s first Association Football competition – the Leicestershire Senior Challenge Cup. The club were eventually presented with the silver cup in March 1889, when the Association had the necessary funds to purchase it.

South Wigston rugby and association football clubs amalgamated.

Leicestershire Cup Competitions

Competition

Winner

Runner-Up

Sheepshed

Mill Hill House

Friendly Matches

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