LOUGHBOROUGH FOOTBALLSTUDENTS £2 ISSUE 2 VS TOWNWISBECH ESTABLISHED 1919 WHERE HISTORY BEGINS UNITED COUNTIES SATLEAGUE13AUG 2022 KO 15:00
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I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge all of the excellent support Loughborough men’s football programme has behind the scenes. It has been a real pleasure to meet Alan Goodley, Gordon Watson and Shirley Horner in recent weeks who are the real heartbeat of this club alongside Margaret. We are all very grateful for your continued support. We have also welcomed Jake Nelson to our men’s football workforce as the team’s operation assistant, Jake will work alongside our very own Harriet Simes. We are all passionate about the development of our students and staff here at Loughborough, within the football programme and for this season Jamie has some fantastic individuals. I have had the pleasure of witnessing just how well Sim James, Nathan Redmond, Tom Iaciofano and Ethan Williams have all settled into Jamie’s backroom staff team. I look forward to watching you all grown and develop over the course of the Theseason.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. Before the big kick off at 4pm we are hosting Barclays Women’s Super League sides West Ham Women V Liverpool Women at 1pm. Tickets are now available to purchase in our online ticket store. Make sure you do not miss it! And finally, I would like to extend a warm welcome to our opposition today, Wisbech Town, their 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.
It’s fantastic to have all of the fans with us as we embark on the start of our season in our home stadium. The grounds staff have done an excellent job throughout the summer to ensure the grass stadium pitch is looking beautiful. I know we are all hoping for a big performance and result today against a very good Wisbech team.
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Good afternoon and welcome back for our first home league game of the 2022/23 season here at Loughborough University Stadium. I’m delighted to welcome Wisbech Town management team, players, officials and supporters.
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It is very early in the season and you often get some surprise results as squads start to settle in for the long season campaign but with 2 wins from the first 3 league game at the start of the season todays opponents Wisbech sit joint top of the league with 6 points so we look forward to what I’m sure will be a tough game today. As always thank you for your continued support and enjoy the game!
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Todays game follows on from our recent FA Cup preliminary round win against Newark-Sherwood UTD. Newark started their season with 2 wins out of 2 in the league but a very good performance saw us win 5-1, and we can now look forward to an away tie at Carlton Athletic on the 20th August. The season at Loughborough University always brings lots of new faces to the performance and U21 development squads, as well as new volunteer support staff. I want to take this opportunity to welcome them all to the team for this season.
Hello and welcome to the Loughborough University stadium for our first home league game of the season! It was fantastic to see all of the fans in the stadium for my first competitive men’s game last weekend and what a fantastic result. Well done to all of the players and staff on the 5-1 win against Newark in the FA Cup preliminary round. I am looking forward to the next round.
TODAYS TEAMS LOUGHBOROUGHSTUDENTSFC V WISBECH TOWN BEN WHITING (GK) 01 01 LUKE PEARSON TOBY LARSEN (GK) 02 02 OWEN HOWARD ALEX ZASIURA (GK) 03 03 KIERAN HAMILTON JAKE EDWARDS-ALLET (GK) 04 04 KRIS MASIARZ SAM SMITH (GK) 05 05 CHRIS WARD NIELS HARTMAN 06 06 PATRICK KACIREK OLLY PUNT 07 07 MOMODOU JANNEH OLLIE PARSONS 08 08 KEGAN EVERINGTON (C) FINN BRENNAN 09 09 KYLE ONYON BILLY MYCROFT-EDWARDS 10 10 THEO HUDSON SID KERR 11 11 DANNY SETCHELL MATTY BOWMAN 12 12 DANNY BROOKS THEO MARN 13 13 NIALL SHACKELTON (GK) JOE FOUNTAIN 14 14 JAKE GADSEN LUKE MARTIN 15 15 LEON METTAM JOSH BAILEY 16 MAX SMALLCOMBE 17 DREW LOWE 18 JOE LLOYD 19 JOSH WICKS 20 ETHAN O’TOOLE 21 DYLAN EDWARDS 22 ANDY KANGA 23 YAW ANTWI-BOASIAKO 24 ANTHONY LYNN 25 KIERAN SMITH 26 REFEREE: AMY BARBER AR ISABEL DANSON AR TOBY KING 5LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V WISBECH TOWN
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LOUGHBOROUGH LIGHTNING NEXT MATCH: Sunday 21 August v’s Stoke City, Home KO 14.00This weekend marks the end to our 6 week pre-season, we now look ahead to entering week 1 the FA women’s national league. Pre-season has been very positive, a range of tests for the group to learn from ahead of the league starting. The team behind the team have worked wonders for our big kick off, creating, for the first time, a back to back fixture event with WSL sides West Ham and Liverpool kicking off at 1, and ourselves kicking off at 4 vs Stoke. Please check out our social media for all the information and head down to support. Wishing the boys the best of luck today. by Issy Martin 8 LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V NEWARK & WISBECH TOWN
TODAYS OPPOSITION
With football becoming more popular after the First World War, the existing local clubs were no match for the other Town Clubs in the area, such as March and Kings Lynn. So a decision was made in 1920 to amalgamate three local clubs to form a Town football club which then entered the Peterborough and King’s Lynn Leagues – the latter won at the first attempt –while in the Amateur Cup they reached the First Round Proper in 1930/31 only to go out to the losing finalists InHayes.1995
2013/14 saw the Fenmen challenging for honours in the UCL after a 12-match winning run in the second half of the season put them in contention. The team ultimately finished 3rd after two away defeats in April cost the chance of runners-up spot as well.
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After initially agreeing to stay on for the new season, Dick Creasey resigned as manager in June 2015 and was replaced by Brett Whaley. Brett’s tenure as manager started well, but after eight home defeats in the league, he resigned in late March 2016 and was replaced by the returning Dick Creasey. Once an inconsistent start to the 2016/17 season had been negotiated, the team finished 6th in the UCL and runners-up in the League Cup.
The Fenmen’s first season at the new level proved to be a difficult one, with a record low of only six wins in the League all season, but relegation was avoided thanks to 13 draws which meant the team finished in 17th place. Gary Setchell decided to end his tenure as manager after the end of the season and the club appointed Seb Hayes as his replacement, for his first job at this level. He was left with almost no players from the previous season and had had to build a squad virtually from scratch to compete in the BetVictor Northern Premier League Division One South East. Seb resigned in December 2019 with Wisbech bottom of the table and after a month with Seb’s former assistant Kev Ward in interim charge, Brett Whaley returned as manager, only for the season to be declared null and void after just four games due to the Coronavirus Lastpandemic.season, the team started badly and achieved only one win in the League (against Cleethorpes) and were knocked out of both FA competitions at the earliest opportunity. Covid then reared its head again and we look forward to the challenges of the NPL Midland Division with a few more local derbies!
The Fenmen again reached the First Round Proper of the FA Cup losing to Kingstonian. This stage in the competition was again attained in the next two seasons, the last making a second appearance in the Second Round Proper losing to Bristol Rovers in front of 3,500 spectators at Fenland Park. In the first season back in the ECL, under manager Ian Benjamin, the Club enjoyed a good FA Cup run, reaching the fourth qualifying round and enjoyed a 17-match unbeaten run in the League, eventually finishing in sixth place.
The next few seasons were disappointing, even flirting with relegation, previously unheard of for the Fenmen at this level. The appointment of Dick Creasey as manager in December 2004 saw an upturn in the Fenmen’s fortunes, finishing 4th in 2005/06, whilst a rather slow start to the 2006/07 campaign dented the Fenmen’s chances of challenging for the League, but a run to the 4th Qualifying Round of the FA Cup was a welcome distraction. Poor form at home meant a mid-table finish was always likely and with the purse strings being tightened, Dick decided to call it a day. The 2012/13 season saw the club finish runners-up to Dereham Town in the League but gained some consolation winning the Red Insure (ECL) Cup with a 2-1 win over Stanway Rovers. Promotion to Step 4 was declined during the close season and instead the club transferred to the United Counties League.
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LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC 2021/2022 SEASON HOME FIXTURES
DATE TIME OPPONENTS RESULTS SAT 06/08/2022 KO 15:00 NEWARK & SHERWOOD UTD FC 5-1 WIN 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
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LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC THE TEAM HARRIET SIMES Programme Manager JAMIE CLAPHAM Head MARGARETCoachFOLWELL Secretary ALAN GOODLEY GRAHAM HERRING GORDON WATSON PETE SIMMONS SHIRLEY HORNER ALEX ACKERLEY MATT STOCK RICHARD ALLEN VICE PRESIDENTS OPERATIONS SPORT SCIENCECOACHING TEAM TOM IACIOFANO JAKE NELSON NATHAN REDMOND ETHANPERFORMANCEANALYSTWILLIAMS MEDICAL TEAM LAURA DALES SIM JAMES Assistant Coach 11LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V WISBECH TOWN
LOUGHBOROUGHGOALKEEPERSDEFENDERSSTUDENTS FC SQUAD LIST NIELS HARTMAN OLLY PUNT OLLIE PARSONS FINN BRENNAN KIERAN SMITH TOBY LARSEN BEN WHITING SAM SMITH ALEX ZASIURA JAKE EDWARDS-ALLEY 12 LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V WISBECH TOWN
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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 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.
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.
1919-20 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 InSchofield.1920itbecame a college of Technology, with the football side winning its first silverware on record in the Northern Junior Cup in 1922.
LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC A BRIEF HISTORY
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.
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.
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 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 ProgressingTottenham.
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 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.
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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.
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, ClaphamJamiearriving 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.
LOOKING FORWARD 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
RebeccaProgramme.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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BEN WHITING TOBY LARSEN ALEX ZASIURA JAKE EDWARDS-ALLEY SAM SMITH NIELS HARTMAN OLLY PUNT KIERAN SMITH OLLIE PARSONS DATE TIME V OPPONENTS RESULTS SAT 30/07/2022 15.OO A PINCHBECK UNITED 2-0 WIN TUE 02/08/2022 19:45 A ANSTEY NOMADS 1-1 DRAW SAT 06/08/2022 15:00 H NEWARK & SHERWOOD UTD FC 5-1 WIN SAT 13/08/2022 15:00 H WISBECH TOWN TUE 16/08/2022 19:45 A SHERWOOD COLLIERY MON 29/08/2022 19:45 A LEICESTER NIRVANA SAT 03/09/2022 15:00 H HEANOR TOWN TUE 06/09/2022 19:45 H DUNKIRK SAT 10/09/2022 15:00 A NEWARK & SHERWOOD UNITED TUE 13/09/2022 19:45 H QUORN SAT 17/09/2022 15:00 H AFC MANSFIELD WED 21/09/2022 19:45 A SELSTON FC SAT 24/09/2022 15:00 H ANSTEY NOMADS SAT 01/10/2022 15:00 H SKEGNESS SAT 08/10/2022 15:00 A HEATHER ST JOHNS SAT 15/10/2022 15:00 H BELPER UNITED SAT 29/10/2022 15:00 A DEEPING RANGERS SAT 05/10/2022 15:00 H KIMBERLEY MINERS WELFARE SAT 12/11/2022 15:00 H EASTWOOD CFC SAT 19/11/2022 15:00 A AFC MANSFIELD SAT 26/11/2022 15:00 A BOSTON TOWN SAT 03/12/2022 15:00 H SLEAFORD TOWN SAT 10/12/2022 15:00 A WISBECH TOWN SAT 17/12/2022 15:00 H SHERWOOD COLLIERY TUE 20/12/2022 19:45 H MELTON TOWN STARTING GOALSCORERPLAYER UNUSED SUBSTITUTE USED SUBSTITUTE 2021/2022 FIXTURES & RESULTS EMIRATES FA CUP EMIRATES FA VASE
FINN BRENNAN BILLY MYCROFT- EDWARDS SID KERR MATTY BOWMAN THEO MARN FJOE OUNTAIN LUKE MARTIN JOSH BAILEY MAX SMALLCOMBE DREW LOWE JOE LLOYD JOSH WICKS ETHAN O’TOOLE DYLAN EDWARDS ANDY KANGA YAW ANTWI-BOASIAKO ANTHONY LYNN DOMINIC FORBES MAX AMBROSE CRANE STAVROUEMILIO 2021/2022 FIXTURES & RESULTS
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