Loughborough Students FC Programme Issue 14 by Loughborough University

FOOTBALL LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS

QUORN AFC

UNITED COUNTIES FOOTBALL LEAGUE SAT 5 FEB 2022 KO 15:00

ESTABLISHED 1919

WHERE HISTORY BEGINS ISSUE 14

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CONTENTS 4

WELCOME FORM RICHARD ALLEN

TODAYS TEAMS

LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING

TODAYS OPPOSITION

HOME FIXTURES

11 THE TEAM 12 SQUAD LIST 14 A BRIEF HISTORY 16 FIXTURES AND RESULTS 18 UPCOMING FIXTURES

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LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V QUORN AFC

RICHARD ALLEN

DIRECTOR OF FOOTBALL Good afternoon and a very warm welcome to Loughborough University Stadium for our United Counties Premier division fixture versus Quorn AFC. The team have been on great form in recent weeks having been unbeaten in the United Counties League in our last 3 games. Our fixture versus Heanor Town last weekend was an exciting one as we came back from 1-0 down in the 75th minute to score a flurry of goals in the final 20 minutes and come out 4-1 winners. The team had endless chances but left it late to capitalise and win the game. This week our BUCS teams have been back in action with our Men’s 3s, 4s and 5s all picking up wins. Our 5th team are sat top of their league table and hoping to stay there as they approach the end of the season as well as the 3rd and 4th team now sat mid table. Our Women’s teams also had a successful Wednesday with the 3rd and 4th team coming out on top to continue their fantastic run of form. Quorn AFC will be a tough game today. Despite facing each other very early on in the season and coming out 4-1 winners, Quorn have found some good form since then and we expect today to be a competitive encounter against the local side. Next week, we will face Abbey Hey at home in the Fifth Round Proper of the FA Vase. Please do put the date in the diary as we are expecting a big crowd to come and support the Scholars as we look to progress to the Quarter Finals for the first time in the club’s history! It would be great to see you all there.

We would like to welcome the players, supporters and directors of Quorn AFC and look forward to what will no doubt be an exciting game Richard Allen Director of Football

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V QUORN AFC

TODAYS TEAMS LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC BEN WHITING (GK)

SAM SMITH (GK)

TOBY LARSEN (GK)

MATTY BOWMAN

KIERAN SMITH

THEO SACKEY-MENSAH

DAMI AGBOOLA

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CHARLIE WOODS

KYLE BRYANT

REFEREE: WILLIAM BOOTH

HARRY CLIBBENS

LEAVI OSHUNGBURE

AR KEVIN ALLEN

ETHAN COOK

JAMES CULLINGWORTH

AR DAVID KENNEDY

MATT DAWSON

FINN BRENNAN

BEN GOWING

OLLIE PARSONS

TAWANDA MANGONDOZA

BEN LE ROUGETEL

JACK SAMPLES

CHARLIE ALEXIOU

CHRIS CAMWELL

GEORGE WARD

BRANDON FOX

PAUL FIELD

CHARLIE MARZANO

MAX SMALLCOMBE

MOUSSA CISSE

BILLY MYCROFT-EDWARDS

DAVIS ASSUNCAO

SID KERR

JORDAN CLARKE

ETHAN O’TOOLE

CHIB CHILAKA

TOM IACIOFANO

JOE LLOYD

LUKE MARTIN

GEORGE WILSON

DYLAN EDWARDS

TOPE FADAHANSI

CAM MOORE

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LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING

H: MATC NEXT ebruary v’s ay 6 F Sund oke, Away St .00 KO 14 Last Sunday’s fixture has to go down as Lightning’s most exciting to date. A great game for the neutral as 9 goal thriller saw us beat Brighouse 5-4, the winning goal in extra time. Incredibly proud of all players and IDT pushing each other to get a huge 3 points which sees us get out of the relegation zone. We know to stay above the drop line we have to continue pushing for results, especially against Stoke sitting just above us. It’ll be a tough physical and competitive game, but the momentum this side of Christmas is with us. by Issy Martin

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TODAYS OPPOSITION

QUORN AFC

The club was founded in 1924 by attendees of the local Wesleyan Chapel and accordingly was named Quorn Methodists F.C., changing its name in 1952. In 1937 the club joined the Leicestershire Senior League. Immediately after World War II they played in the Central Division, and then from 1948 in Division 2 after a league re-organisation. Quorn won this division in 1950 and then followed up by winning the first division the following season.

moved to Crewe Alexandra for £50,000. Dion Dublin also once played for the club.

ground for now FA Women’s Super League Team Leicester City Women.

In the 2006–07 season they finished 3rd in the Midland Alliance and, due to the expansion of the Northern Premier League First Division into two regional divisions, were therefore accepted into the Northern Premier League Division One South. In May 2007 the club received a £500,000 windfall after Luke Varney’s £2,000,000 move from Crewe to Charlton Athletic.

Our Current Management Team consists of ExHinckley United Captain – Richard Lavery alongside Lee Harriman and Tom Cherry.

Over the next fifty years the club moved up and down between the divisions on four separate occasions, finally cementing their place in the renamed Premier Division in the late 1990s, before claiming the league title, and with it promotion to the Midland Alliance in 2001.

In 2011 Quorn won the Westerby Cup for the first time with a 5–4 victory over Hinckley United at Walkers Stadium under the management of Lawrie Dudfield, but were relegated from the Northern Premier League Division One South during the same season.

In 2003 the club was the only one at its level to sell a player to a Football League team, when Luke Varney

Quorn traded their old award winning grass pitch surface into a 3G All Weather Surface in 2018 and up to last season the ground was the home

#QuornAFC #FoxHunters

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LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC 2021/2022 SEASON

HOME FIXTURES

DATE

TIME

OPPONENTS

RESULTS

TUE 03/08/2021

KO 19:45

MELTON TOWN

2-1 LOSS

SAT 14/08/2021

KO 15:00

NEWARK

7-0 WIN

SAT 21/08/2021

KO 15:00

NEWARK

3-2 WIN

FRI 10/09/2021

KO 19:45

SLEAFORD TOWN

2-0 WIN

SAT 02/10/2021

KO 15:00

GRESLEY ROVERS

1-1 DRAW

SAT 06/11/2021

KO 15:00

DEEPING RANGERS

5-1 WIN

TUE 16/11/2021

KO 19:45

SELSTON

3-0 WIN

SAT 20/11/2021

KO 15:00

GRESLEY ROVERS

2-0 WIN

SAT 04/12/2021

KO 15:00

LONG EATON UNITED

0-3 LOSS

SAT 11/12/2021

KO 15:00

SANDBACH UNITED

4-0 WIN

TUE 04/01/2022

KO 19:45

LEICESTER NIRVANA

1-0 LOSS

TUE 18/01/2022

KO 19:45

HEATHER ST. JOHN’S

5-0 WIN

SAT 22/01/2022

KO 15:00

SKEGNESS TOWN A.F.C.

2-1 WIN

SAT 29/01/2022

KO 15:00

HEANOR TOWN

4-1 WIN

SAT 05/02/2022

KO 15:00

QUORN

SAT 12/02/2022

KO 15:00

ABBEY HEY

SAT26/02/2022

KO 15:00

EASTWOOD

TUE 01/03/2022

KO 19:45

HOLBEACH

SAT 05/03/2022

KO 15:00

ANSTEY NOMADS

SAT 26/03/2022

KO 15:00

BOSTON TOWN

SAT 02/04/2022

KO 15:00

PINCHBECK UNITED

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LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC

THE TEAM

RICHARD ALLEN Director of Football

JAMIE CLAPHAM Head Coach

MARGARET FOLWELL Secretary

HARRIET SIMES

Programme Manager Media & Press enquiries h.h.simes@lboro.ac.uk

SPORT SCIENCE

CALLUM FOSTER MEDICAL TEAM

ELLA HUDSON PERFORMANCE ANALYST

OLIVER FAIRS VICE PRESIDENTS

ALAN GOODLEY GRAHAM HERRING GORDON WATSON PETE SIMMONS SHIRLEY HORNER ALEX ACKERLEY MATT STOCK LAURA DALES

TARA PHETHEAN

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LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC

SQUAD LIST GOALKEEPERS

TOBY LARSEN

BEN WHITING

SAM SMITH

DEFENDERS

DAMI AGBOOLA

CHARLIE ALEXIOU

PAUL FIELD

MATTY BOWMAN

BEN LE ROUGETEL

FINN BRENNAN

OLLIE PARSONS

DEFENDERS

THEO SACKEYMENSAH

KIERAN SMITH

GEORGE WARD

MIDFIELDERS

TOM IACIOFANO

SID KERR

LUKE MARTIN

JOE LLOYD

BILLY MYCROFTEDWARDS

ETHAN O’TOOLE

MAX SMALLCOMBE

GEORGE WILSON

FORWARDS

DYLAN EDWARDS

TOPE FADAHANSI

CAM MOORE

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC

A BRIEF HISTORY 1919-20 Earliest records of Loughborough Men’s football date-back to 191920 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.

1930-1970 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 1959-1963, 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 35 YEAR WAIT 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. 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,

LOOKING FORWARD

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 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. The 2019/20 season saw the 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, with the addition of a reserve team playing in the Leicester Senior League, 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 pastures new. 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.

QUORN

1-4 WIN

SAT 04/09/2021