Leicestershire Football Archive

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…