UNITED COUNTIES LEAGUE
TUES 28 FEB 2023
KO 19:45
ESTABLISHED 1919
WHERE HISTORY BEGINS
Good afternoon and welcome back to the Loughborough University Stadium for today’s league game. I’m delighted to welcome Deeping Rangers management team, players, officials, and supporters.
We have a run of two home games now before we have a month of away fixtures in March. We will be looking to put in a positive performance today to help us get a result.
It’s been good to see a couple of our longer term injuries back on the training ground over the last couple of weeks and we look forward to having them available for the run in.
As always thank you for your continued support and enjoy the game!
JAKE ALLEY (GK)
SAM SMITH (GK)
NIELS HARTMAN
OLLY PUNT
OLLIE PARSONS
FINN BRENNAN
BILLY MYCROFT-EDWARDS
MATTY BOWMAN
JOE FOUNTAIN
LUKE MARTIN
JOSH BAILEY
MAX SMALLCOMBE
DREW LOWE
JOE LLOYD
JOSH WICKS
ETHAN O’TOOLE
DYLAN EDWARDS
ANTHONY LYNN
KIERAN SMITH
RYAN HAYES
Loughborough University currently has two teams in the National Futsal Series. In which the 1st team sit top of NFS Tier 1 and the 2nd team play in NFS Tier 2. In the last three seasons the students have managed to finish in the top two positions in the league with the first team and last season the second team managed to win the Tier 2 North division and finish runners up in the final.
This season, our 1st team sit in 3rd position in the table with 4 wins and 3 losses. In our last win of the season, we played against the current 9 times England champions beating them for first time in our history. On Sunday 12th, the club is hosting the NFS round and playing against York Futsal. Our 2nd team is currently second in the table with 5 points clear of 3rd and have a strong chance to catch first place.
Jose Llorente-Parra
The Club was formed in 1966 (1964 as a Sunday League team) and tasted glory in their first season. Based at Maxey Road, the Club won both the Peterborough and District League Division Three (North) title as well as the PFA Minor Cup in their opening campaign. The first team were crowned champions of Peterborough and District League Division Two in 1968/69 and followed this success with the Division One title the year after. In 1995/96Deeping Rangers were runners-up in the Peterborough and District Premier Division, and again in 1998/99, under the management of Mel Landin, to earn their historic promotion to the United Counties League Division One (UCL).
Maxey Road was our home until 1982 when we moved to the Deepings Leisure Centre. Since 1985 the Club has been based at Outgang Road.
2018/19 Was a season when Rangers played some scintillating football, travelled many miles in pursuit of FA Vase glory and finally broke our silverware drought. Another UCL Premier League runner up position was achieved for the second time in three seasons, this time we finished behind runaway winners Daventry Town. Rangers also excelled in Cup competitions – despite an early exit from the Hinchingbrooke Cup at Potton United. We
should have played in the UCL KO Cup Final after a memorable 6-2 win over Daventry in the semifinal. However, due to a well-documented administrative error over an ineligible player, we were denied the chance of facing local rivals Holbeach in the Final. Our exploits in the FA Vase will live long in the memory as Rangers reached the last 16 of the competition (5th Round) for the first time in our history. Home wins vs Blackstones, Eastwood Community and FC Clacton coupled with away day successes at Walsham le Willows, Newmarket Town and Wantage Town eventually led us to a snowbound Devon early in February to tackle Willand Rovers. Despite our best efforts and leading twice in the game, Rangers agonisingly succumbed 3-2 in front of a crowed of over 900. Despite this setback, Rangers galvanized themselves and continued their excellent League form and, on a wet and windy night in Lincoln, we won the Lincolnshire Senior Trophy beating Grimsby Borough 4-3 on penalties following an entertaining but goalless 90 minutes.
After many years of our Reserves playing in the PDFL, the Club took the decision to compete in the UCL Reserves Division from the start of this current season.
JAMIE CLAPHAM Head Coach
PERFORMANCE COACHING STAFF
SIM JAMES Assistant Coach
OLLIE LEIGHTON Goalkeeper Coach
LEWIS CASSELL Head Coach
DEVELOPMENT COACHING STAFF
TOM BURTON Assistant Coach
PERFORMANCE ANALYST
ETHAN WILLIAMS
MATT PROCTOR
PHYSIOTHERAPIST
MEDIA, MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
NUTRITIONIST
ASHNI DESAI
MILES TREASURE
SPORT SCIENCE
HATTY BATES
RYAN CARTLEDGETAYLOR
NATHAN REDMOND
TOM IACIOFANO
MARGARET FOLWELL Secretary JAKE NELSON Operations Co-ordinator
LUKE MARTIN JOSH BAILEY MAX SMALLCOMBE
THEO MARN
DREW LOWE
JOSH WICKS ETHAN O’TOOLE DYLAN EDWARDS
JOE FOUNTAIN
JOE LLOYD
Earliest records of Loughborough Men’s football date-back to 1919-20 side, under the name of Loughborough Technical Institute and guidance of Principal Herbert Schofield.
In 1920 it became a college of Technology, with the football side winning its first silverware on record in the Northern Junior Cup in 1922.
Loughborough Men won their first University Championship in the 1938/39 season and the Leicestershire Senior League in 1940, after the war they returned to winning ways in the University competition (UAU) from 1947 – 1953, 1955, 1957 and 19591963, 1965, 1966 and 1969. In 1966 Loughborough became a University and also competed in the Leicestershire Senior League Division Two until 1972.
The 1970s was an extremely important decade for the Club. Three more University titles followed and former student and then lecturer, Mike Holliday, took up the reigns of Head Coach, a role he would continue into the mid-90s. Early signs of Mike’s rein included an away victory over a Manchester United XI.
The side waited 35 years for a return to non-league football, entering the Midland Combination for the first time in 2007-08. After silverware in their first season in the shape of the Midlands League Cup, in 2009 Loughborough won promotion as champions to the Midland Football Alliance Loughborough began to establish themselves in the MFA finishing 13th in 2009/10 and 4th in 2019/11. Head Coach Tom Curtis left to take over as National Team Coach of Antigua & Barbuda towards the end of that season.
2011/12 Stuart McLaren’s first term ended with a 5th place finish in the Midland Football Alliance and victory in the League Cup, the club’s highest ever honour so far. The League Cup was retained in 2012/13 as the side equalled their highest ever league finishing position in the MFA of 4th.
In May 2012 the Loughborough University Stadium was opened with a showcase game against a Spurs Academy team. Many Loughborough Football graduates and staff also started to carve extremely successful Coaching roles in the Professional Game – a trend that continues to this day.
Former players include Bob Wilson (former Scotland & Arsenal), Bradley Pritchard (Former Charlton & Leyton Orient), Robbie Simpson (Cheltenham City former Coventry City, Exeter City, MK Dons), Leon McSweeney (Former Northampton Town & Leyton Orient), George Williams (Mk Dons & Former Barnsley).
Other former players and staff are littered throughout the Premiership and EFL, in a coaching and support staff capacity including Kieran McKenna & Eric Ramsay (Manchester United), Sam Erith (England & Manchester City), Nathan Gardiner (formerly Spurs, Fulham), Matthew Prestridge (formerly Sheffield United), Matt Reeves (Leicester City).
In 2014 Loughborough University joined the Midland Football League in its inaugural year.
The 2016/17 saw the Scholars have one of their most positive starts to the MFL season in a number of years. However, a disappointing run in from December saw the 16/17 season fall away with the club finishing in 18th out of 22.
The 17/18 season also saw the appointment of Richard Allen as Director of Football, in January 2018. Richard joined from the FA where he was head of Talent ID. He has extensive knowledge of academy football with previous roles as Head of Academy at QPR and Head of Recruitment at Tottenham.
Progressing onto the 2018/19 season Alex Ackerley was appointed Head Coach continuing to work alongside Jamie Hawthorne, who has since moved in 2019/20 to work as an Academy Coach at Southampton FC.
2018/19 season ended in a County Cup Final appearance against Coalville Town, with the Ravens, who play at Step 3, winning the game 4 – 1 at Holmes Park.
Scholars celebrate their Centenary as well as a new challenge having been moved laterally during the off season into the Uhlsport United Counties Football League. The scholars were sitting in 4th place in mid March when the 19/20 season was deemed null and void due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Yet again the 2020/21 season was affected by the Covid19 virus and Alex Ackerley and his student coaches, Joel Bonner, Callum Crockard and Ben Day saw the season curtailed in January 2021, whilst sitting at the top of the league. Joel moved to Liverpool’s academy during December 2020 to work with the U16s and Ben to Burton Albion shortly after at the turn of the year. Callum will start 2021/22 on his course placement at Southampton, where he will be working in their academy.
The 2021/22 season sees the club return to using the Loughborough Students name across all the teams, both in the leagues and BUCS competitions, the U21s will continue in MFL U21s East. This is a new chapter for the Scholars, with experienced, former professional player and pro-licence
coach, Jamie Clapham arriving in the preseason as the new University Men’s Head Coach, together with the appointment of a new University Football Programme Manager, Harriet Simes, joining from Birmingham City Women, following the departure of Mat Stock to Wolverhampton Wanderers Academy and Alex Ackerley to Sunderland Academy. As always with Loughborough Students FC, you will see some new faces, not necessarily new students, but players who have worked their way through the programme from U21s to earn their place in the performance squad. Everyone is looking forward to the new season, continuing to build on the foundations that Mat and Alex have put in place.
The 21/22 season was a very successful season for Loughborough Students FC with the first team finishing 4th in the United Counties League as well as a record-breaking cup run in the Buildbase FA Vase, reaching the semi-final, before exiting the competition away from home after defeat to Littlehampton Town FC away from home.
Progressing into the 22/23 season, Rebecca Sawiuk has been appointed as Director of Football replacing Richard Allen who has moved onto a new role as Senior Football Executive and Technical Advisor to Yokohama FC based in Japan. We would like to place on record our thanks and appreciation to Richard for all his efforts in developing the Football Programme at the University which included the creation of our Women’s Football Performance Programme.
Rebecca Sawiuk who was previously a Senior Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire boasts an extensive career in football, including fulfilling roles at Regional Talent Centres, England Talent Camps, London Bees FC (Head Coach), Millwall Women (Manager), Oxford Girls Academy (Technical Director), Watford Football Club’s boys’ academy (Lead Coach) and Head Coach of the BT Sport Ultimate Goal series. We look forward to the 22/23 season working with Rebecca, to progress the football programme even further and to build on the fantastic progress already made. continuing to build on the foundations that Mat and Alex have put in place.
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