Leicestershire Football Archive

FLOODLIGHT MATCH & BICYCLE EVENT BICYCLE RACE. Shortly after seven o’clock, a one-mile bicycle race was commenced. There were 11 entries for the event, but only five put in an…

The first financial statement for Leicester Fosse, which provides a fascinating insight into nineteenth century football, reported a surplus of 1 shilling 10 old pence (9p – equivalent to approx.…

During World War I more than 900,000 women joined the two million Brits already working in munitions factories making bombs, shells, bullets and cartridges imperative to the British war effort.…

Dick, Kerr Ladies F.C. founded in Preston, Lancashire as a World War I-era works team for the company Dick, Kerr & Co. was one of the earliest known women’s association…

The football funeral card above belonged to Sam Bailey who played for the Fosse and lived in Loughborough. He had altered the match date on the card from the original…

Reading from left to right – Hickling; Pickering; G. Bromhead; T. Mills; H. Perkins; W. Cockain; W. Wright; Jas. Cartwright; J. Tyler. Front row:- T.B. Cartwright; A. Mounteney; H. North.…

Oval shaped Baines collecting card, featuring ‘Well Played Fosse’ and a footballer wearing a shirt with chocolate brown and Cambridge blue halves, with white ‘knickers’, with dark ‘stockings’. The card…

This is the earliest plan known of the Walnut-street (Filbert-street) ground, which was published (Leicester Journal – Friday 18 August 1893) prior to the start of the 1893-94 season. Spectators…

Newspaper report of Leicester Fosse’s first-ever match which was published in the Melton Mowbray Mercury and Oakham and Uppingham News on 6 November 1884. The match was played on a…