Leicestershire Football Archive

This newspaper photograph shows the Leicester Fosse team in 1904-05, standing in front of the Manor House Hotel on Woodhouse Road in Quorn. The hotel was run by keen Quorn…

The idea of using goal nets came about in the 1890s from John Brodie, an engineer from Liverpool, England. It is said that had the idea after watching a Football…

Former home ground of both Leicester Fosse and Leicester Tigers. In June 1881 it also hosted Leicestershire County Cricket Club against an All England XI. The ground was situated a…

The Football Association compiled a list professional footballers registered at the start of the 1894-95 season. Leicestershire had 84 professional footballers – playing for eight clubs – Coalville Albion (6),…

The northwest Leicestershire colliery town of Whitwick staged a Football League Division 2 fixture on Saturday 31 March 1900 – between Loughborough Town and Burslem Port Vale. Three weeks earlier…

The following “Call to Arms” poem, written by Edward Oppenheim, encouraging footballers to take the King’s shilling, appeared in many newspapers during November 1914. TO LEAGUE FOOTBALLERS LEICESTER NOVELISTS MESSAGE…

An illustration of the British Ladies’ Football Club’s first public match which took place at Crouch End, London on 25 March 1895, between teams representing the ‘North’ and the ‘South’,…

A star studded array of internationals turned out for the famous London-based Corinthians FC against Leicester Fosse at Walnut Street on Boxing Day afternoon 1899. Founded some 17 years earlier…

Fosse Victory …. Nine Players …. Lost Kit … Magenta Shirts …. No goals scored by Fosse players ….. Missed Connection …. and more! Saturday’s game at Grimsby, when Fosse…

In aid of the Town Fund for sending Christmas presents to Market Harborough soldiers and sailors a comic football match and a fancy dance took place on Saturday last, arranged…