Loughborough Students FC Programme Issue 1 by Loughborough University

FOOTBALL LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS

NEWARK & SHERWOOD UNITED FC

THE EMIRATES FA CUP EXTRA PRELIMINARY ROUND SAT 6 AUG 2022 KO 15:00

ESTABLISHED 1919

WHERE HISTORY BEGINS ISSUE 1

£2

CONTENTS 4

WELCOME FROM REBECCA SAWIUK

TODAYS TEAMS

LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING

TODAY’S OPPOSITION

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

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V NEWARK & SHERWOOD UNITED FC

REBECCA SAWIUK

DIRECTOR OF FOOTBALL Hello and welcome to the Loughborough University stadium for our first home game of the season, what’s better than the Emirates FA Cup! It’s a great honour to be the new Director of Football at such a prestigious organisation and since my arrival in April everyone has gone to great efforts to make me feel welcome, as a result I have settled in quickly. It’s fantastic to have all of the fans with us as we embark on the start of our FA Cup journey this season. I know we are all hoping for a little bit of FA cup magic! We have had a positive preseason with some excellent performances, a lot of learning and some good results against Hackney Wicks, Derby U23s, Watford U23s and Newport Pagnell. Jamie Clapham our Head Coach has finalised his squad and backroom team for the 22-23 season, and I am really excited to see what this group can achieve! The men kicked off their league campaign away to Pinchbeck resulting in a 2-0 win followed by playing Anstey Nomads away from home resulting in a 1-1 draw with some positive performances. We have retained the services of our key players and welcomed many new faces to the programme, who I would like to extend a personal warm welcome to. It’s also really important to make a special mention and congratulations to Tope Fadahunsi who has signed his first professional contract for Sutton United in Sky Bet League 2. This really is a great success story of our programme here and a testament to the staff’s hard work. It’s not only the success of our players that we celebrate here at Loughborough, Ella Hudson our men’s performance coach has secured a fulltime role in the Tottenham Hotspurs Academy and we all very proud of her and wish her well with this endeavour. We are all really pleased that ALDI have continued their sponsorship of the men’s football programme this season and would like to take this opportunity to thank them for this ongoing support. We are still looking for sponsorship for our women’s football team this season, and if this is something that interests you then please do get in touch. The women’s Loughborough Lightning team are preparing for their first home game of the season where they will play Stoke City Women here at the Loughborough stadium on August the 21st, 4pm KO, in a special double header! Keep an eye out for an imminent announcement.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the football staff team, Ian, Harriet, Jamie, Issy, Joao and Margaret for their exceptional hard work during the summer to ensure this programme continues to evolve and operate at the highest level possible. And finally, I would like to extend a warm welcome to our opposition today from, Newark & Sherwood United FC, the players, staff and fans. I hope you all have an enjoyable day with us and I look forward to what will no doubt be an exciting game of football.

Rebecca Sawiuk Director of Football

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V NEWARK & SHERWOOD UNITED FC

TODAYS TEAMS LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC

NEWARK & SHERWOOD UNITED FC

BEN WHITING (GK)

NYLE BLAKE

TOBY LARSEN (GK)

CALLUM BROOKS

ALEX ZASIURA (GK)

ELLIOTT BURRELL

JAKE EDWARDS-ALLET (GK)

KIERAN CUMMINGS

SAM SMITH (GK)

JONATHAN D’LARYEA

NIELS HARTMAN

RYAN EBANKS

OLLY PUNT

NICK EATOUGH

OLLIE PARSONS

AINSLEY FINNEY

FINN BRENNAN

JAMIE GODDARD

BILLY MYCROFT-EDWARDS

JAMES GARDNER

SID KERR

MAZ JEMSON

MATTY BOWMAN

ARUN JONES

THEO MARN

RYLEY JOSEPH THOMPSON

JOE FOUNTAIN

SAMUEL KING

LUKE MARTIN

JOSHUA LAWE

JOSH BAILEY

JAMES LEVERTON

MAX SMALLCOMBE

LIAM MARSDEN

DREW LOWE

LIAM MAYS

JOE LLOYD

KOSI NWOBI

JOSH WICKS

DECLAN O’HARE

ETHAN O’TOOLE

KACPER RATJER

DYLAN EDWARDS

BEN RICHARDS

ANDY KANGA

KIAN SKETCHY

YAW ANTWI-BOASIAKO

THOMAS SLONE

ANTHONY LYNN

ABOUBACAR SYLLA

LUKE WALKER

LUKE WHITE

ROSS WOOLLEY

BAILEY WRIGHT

REFEREE: ALEXANDER COTTERILL AR ZAC SHEPPARDS AR ISABEL DANSON

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V NEWARK & SHERWOOD UNITED FC

LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING

Lightning are currently in week 5 of pre-season, working towards the start of the National League on 21st August. We have had some great new additions to the squad, both players and staff, all pulling together to make sure we start the season in the form we finished at the end of last season. We are all obviously very inspired by the success of the Lionnesses, winning the Euros last weekend. I really hope such a significant moment in womens sport helps to raise the profile of womens football, including of course our own. Wishing the boys the best of luck today in their FA cup tie, we all love the magic of the cup! by Issy Martin

H: MATC NEXT August v’s ay 7 Sund ord, Away Oxf .00 KO 14

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V NEWARK & SHERWOOD UNITED FC

TODAYS OPPOSITION

NEWARK AND SHERWOOD FC

Founded in 1901 as AJ Simpson and Co., the football club began life in the Newark Ironmongers’ League. No records survive from those early days, but it is known that in 1935 the club, now renamed Worthington Simpson, entered the Nottingham Spartan League. After winning back-to-back titles, Simmo’s or the Works (as the club became known locally) joined the Notts Alliance League in 1949, going on to win that title in the momentous football years of 1953 and 1966. The Notts Alliance Cup brought the club’s greatest success up to that point, first in 1970 beating Notts Combined Police two-nil in a replay at Notts County’s Meadow Lane ground and then the trophy returning to Newark in 1972 after an epic five-three extra time victory, the team coming back from three goals down to restore parity in the fourth minute of injury time with George Best look alike Donny Hage jinking through the Thoresby defence to send the five coach loads of supporters delirious. The trophy returned to Newark again 1981, 1989 and finally 1999 when a single Gary Breden proved the difference. Name changes followed in the late ‘90s, first to IDP and then to Newark Flowserve, and in 2004 the club’s name was entered into the first level of the FA’s national pyramid by joining the Central Midlands League Premier Division. Following a short break, the first team re-formed in 2013 and finished a creditable third in Notts Senior League (NSL) Division Two, securing promotion to the First Division. Another successful campaign followed a year later when the team finished runners-up and clinched their place in the NSL Premier Division, taking the club back to step seven football. The Highwaymen – named after the town’s historic links with the ‘noble’ art – won the NSL Premier Division and League Cup double in magnificent style, finishing a remarkable 25 points clear of runners-up Awsworth Villa. Season 2018/19 saw the club playing step six football in the East Midlands Counties Football League (EMCFL) where they achieved a second place and promotion to the Midland Football League Premier Division. For the second year running the club also

picked up the league cup, this time the EMCFL League Cup! Sadly the 2019/20 season was ended abruptly because of the global CVOID-19 pandemic, however, the club finished in 4th place in the league, were still in the MFL League Cup and were in the semi-finals of the Nottinghamshire FA’s Senior Cup. To add to this, club had been accepted into The FA Vase for the first time in its history – a debut which saw them bow out in the last 32 of the competition at Preston based Longridge Town. Notwithstanding the promotions achieved in the previous three seasons, it is generally accepted that this was certainly on par with anything else achieved by the club in its long history. 1st September 2020 was memorable for two firsts with 270 spectators and the TV cameras seeing a four-nil victory under the new floodlights in a debut F.A. Cup match against Deeping Rangers. After beating Maltby Main “the highwaymen” travelled to step three side Rushden & Diamonds and raced into a three-goal lead inside twenty minutes before recording a five goal victory and the performance of the round award. In May 2020 after requests from The FA over sponsorship issues relating to any future promotion the club dropped the Flowserve and became Newark FC. With the factory closed it was inevitable the club’s famous old ground with its all history would be lost and the club found itself ground sharing at Basford United for a traumatic 21/22 season. With new investment, a change of name and a management team lead by ex-Lincoln City star Nathan Arnold, 22/23 looks promising. Newark & Sherwood United have moved back to the Newark area at Collingham’s upgraded Station Road ground until new state of the art facilities is built in the town For over eighty years the club played in an all-white strip making this their tradition kit, after spells in purple, yellow and latterly orange its Nottinghamshire green for this season’s home kit. As the club embarks on a new existing era take time out to remember there is one hundred and twenty- one years of tradition to follow.

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V NEWARK & SHERWOOD UNITED FC

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC 2021/2022 SEASON

HOME FIXTURES

DATE

TIME

OPPONENTS

SAT 06/08/2022

KO 15:00

NEWARK & SHERWOOD UTD FC

SAT 13/08/2022

KO 15:00

WISBECH TOWN

SAT 08/09/2022

KO 15:00

HEANOR TOWN

TUE 06/09/2022

KO 19:45

DUNKIRK

TUE 13/09/2022

KO 19:45

QUORN

SAT 17/09/2022

KO 15:00

AFC MANSFIELD

SAT 24/09/2022

KO 15:00

ANSTEY NOMADS

SAT 01/10/2022

KO 15:00

SKEGNESS

SAT 15/10/2022

KO 15:00

BELPER UNITED

SAT 05/11/2022

KO 15:00

KIMBERLEY MINERS WELFARE

SAT 12/11/2022

KO 15:00

EASTWOOD CFC

SAT 03/12/2022

KO 15:00

SLEAFORD TOWN

SAT 17/12/2022

KO 15:00

SHERWOOD COLLIERY

TUE 20/12/2022

KO 19:45

MELTON TOWN

SAT 14/01/2023

KO 15:00

SELSTON TOWN

SAT 28/01/2023

KO 15:00

HEATHER ST JOHNS

SAT 11/02/2022

KO 15:00

BOSTON

SAT 04/03/2023

KO 15:00

PINCHBECK UNITED

SAT 08/04/2023

KO 15:00

NEWARK AND SHERWOOD UTD

SAT 15/04/2023

KO 15:00

LEICESTER NIRVANA

SAT 22/O4/2023

KO 15:00

DEEPING RANGERS

RESULTS

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V NEWARK & SHERWOOD UNITED FC

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC

THE TEAM COACHING TEAM

JAMIE CLAPHAM Head Coach

SIM JAMES

Assistant Coach

SILVA LOPEZ BRION

OPERATIONS

MARGARET FOLWELL Secretary

HARRIET SIMES

Programme Manager

SPORT SCIENCE

NATHAN REDMOND

TOM IACIOFANO

Assistant Coach

VICE PRESIDENTS

JAKE NELSON

ALAN GOODLEY GRAHAM HERRING GORDON WATSON PETE SIMMONS SHIRLEY HORNER ALEX ACKERLEY MATT STOCK RICHARD ALLEN

MEDICAL TEAM

PERFORMANCE ANALYST

LAURA DALES

ETHAN WILLIAMS

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LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC

SQUAD LIST GOALKEEPERS

TOBY LARSEN

BEN WHITING

ALEX ZASIURA

SAM SMITH

JAKE EDWARDSALLEY DEFENDERS

NIELS HARTMAN

OLLY PUNT

OLLIE PARSONS

FINN BRENNAN

MIDFIELDERS

BILLY MYCROFTEDWARDS

SID KERR

MATTY BOWMAN

THEO MARN

JOE FOUNTAIN

LUKE MARTIN

JOSH BAILEY

MAX SMALLCOMBE

DREW LOWE

JOE LLOYD

FORWARDS

JOSH WICKS

ETHAN O’TOOLE

YAW ANTWIBOASIAKO

DYLAN EDWARDS

ANTHONY LYNN

ANDY KANGA

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC

A BRIEF HISTORY 1919-20

THE 35 YEAR WAIT

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

LOOKING FORWARD

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.

PROGRESSING 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.

OPPONENTS

SAT 30/07/2022

15.OO

PINCHBECK UNITED

TUE 02/08/2022