Leicestershire Football Archive

Leicester staged the FA Amateur Cup Final for the first time on Saturday 28 March 1896 on the Walnut Street (aka Filbert Street) ground, between Bishop Auckland overcame Sheffield, Ipswich,…

Suffragette Nettie Honeyball and manager Alfred Hewitt Smit founded the British Ladies’ Football Club or the Lady Footballers, who arranged tours usually as North v South or Reds v Blues…

On Saturday, 5 November 1892, a tragic accident occurred in Barrow, Leicestershire, resulting in the death of William Charles Palmer (36), a labourer from Woodhouse Eaves. Palmer was driving a…

Leicester Chronicle – Saturday 26 February 1876

Leicestershire Football Association ruled football in the county with a rod of iron. Crimes and misdemeanours by players, officials and clubs were severely dealt with. A small selection of the…

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…

In 1879, the Belgrave Road Cricket and Bicycle Ground Company was established with £10,000 in share capital. By November of the same year, they secured an 8-acre plot under 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…