Loughborough Sport Men’s Football Programme 22nd November 2022

WELCOME

JAMIE CLAPHAM MEN’S HEAD COACH

Good evening and welcome back to the Loughborough University Stadium for today’s league game. I’m delighted to welcome Heanor Town management team, players, officials, and supporters.

It is strange having a game whilst the World Cup has just started but hopefully, we will see more support for local teams whilst the top two divisions are on a mini break.

Unfortunately, we couldn’t better or repeat last year’s FA Vase results and lost to Stourport swifts in what was our first game in this year’s competition.

As always thank you for your continued support and enjoy the game!

TODAYS TEAMS

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC V HEANOR TOWN

BEN WHITING (GK)

LOUIS ANTHONY SAM SMITH (GK) JORDAN BALL

NIELS HARTMAN ASHLEY BUTTERWORTH OLLY PUNT JAKE CARLISLE OLLIE PARSONS JOSHUA CRADDOCK

FINN BRENNAN KYLE DALEY BILLY MYCROFT-EDWARDS

MATTY BOWMAN

JOE FOUNTAIN

JACK DANDO

JACK NEIL DESMOND

JAKE DICKINSON

LUKE MARTIN MATHEW FEURTADO

JOSH BAILEY THOMAS HILTON

MAX SMALLCOMBE REECE HORNE

DREW LOWE

JOHNATHAN JEBBISON

JOE LLOYD BRADLEY LATHALL

JOSH WICKS JOSHUA MASON-BARRATT

ETHAN O’TOOLE JOSHUA MELVILLE

DYLAN EDWARDS

ANTHONY LYNN

JOSEPH NICE

RUEBAN NWADIKE KIERAN SMITH

LUIS ROSE

MYLES SCOTT JAMIE SLEIGH KIAN TANSLEY MAX THORNBERRY

LEWIS WEAVER DYLAN WHARTON

PLAYER PROFILE

Course: Sport and Exercise Science

Year of study: 1st Previous Clubs: Wrexham AFC

Highlight so far: First goal vs Newcastle Best thing about Loughborough Football Programme: Top quality training and facilites alongside a degree Aims for the season: Play as many games as possible and get promoted

TODAYS OPPOSITION HEANOR TOWN

Heanor Town Football Club owes its humble beginnings to long before their 1883 formation at the Rays Arms Hotel. Teams representing the town and playing under the name of ‘Heanor’ or ‘Heanor Town’ were recorded in 1878, but it was not until a public meeting was called in September 1883 that these fragmented issues were drawn together under one roof and the Club affiliated to the Derbyshire County FA.

They joined the Derbyshire League, but within a decade the Club had established itself as a top Midland League side, on one occasion finishing seventh when the top four were promoted to the Football League. And four times during this period reached the First Round Proper of the FA Cup (today’s equivalent would be the Third Round because the competition then had six Qualifying Rounds) losing to Aston Villa (away) 1-4, Nottingham Forest (away) 0-1, Bury (home) 0-3 and Southampton St. Mary’s (home) 0-1. In the latter game only a broken leg suffered by centre forward Sam Widdowson ensured that Heanor played with ten men for almost 80 minutes this after a 1-1 draw at Southampton. During this period such teams as Mansfield Town, Chesterfield, Lincoln City and Northampton Town were beaten in the Qualifying Competition.

Since then, the Lions have played in the Derbyshire League, Mid-Derbyshire League, Midland League (four times), Central Combination, Central Alliance, Notts Alliance, West Midlands (Regional) and Northern Counties East. In 1986 they joined the Central Midlands and are the only Club to have held continuous membership of the Supreme Division since its formation. Last season they added the new East Midlands Counties League to the list in which they have competed.

One (North). But the strength of that league at the time can be judged by the fact that Ilkeston Town and Creswell Colliery was other clubs who also graced the FA Cup competition proper. In 1963 The Lions were a

The club’s best Midland League finish was in 1966 when they were runners-up, and twelve months later they were one of only six Midland League clubs with the best record selected to become founder members of the Northern Premier League. However, the Heanor Committee at the time declined the opportunity because of the costs involved and their place was taken by Goole Town.

In 2009 the Club appointed Joint Managers Craig Hopkins and Glenn Kirkwood who set themselves a target to win the East Midlands Counties League championship within three years. In their first season they finished seventh, the season after they improved to third then in their third season they achieved their goal when they were crowned champions in front of a home crowd of 154, beating local rivals Blackwell Miners Welfare 1-0 courtesy of a Josh Royce goal in the penultimate game of the season.

Managers Kirkwood and Hopkins left Heanor Town giving short notice on the 12 January 2013 to join local strugglers Mickleover Sports. Jordan Hall, one of the playing squad was appointed as interim manager later that day and guided the club to an 11th place finish in the NCEL Premier league.

In June 2013 local business man Geoff Clarence purchased the club and immediately spent thousands of pounds updating the facilities at the Town Ground including a complete renovation of the ageing clubhouse. Glen Clarence was appointed first team manager assisted by James Baker & Steve Huntington, the trio built a young local squad which improved the club to an 8th placed finish in the league along with two semi final appearances in the Derbyshire and League cups. In later years the club have had spells in the Midland Football League and East Midlands Counties and have recently following the two season affected by covid achieved promotion for the 2021/2022 to Step 5 and the United Counties League

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC THE STAFF

PERFORMANCE COACHING STAFF

JAMIE CLAPHAM Head Coach

JAMES Assistant Coach

DEVELOPMENT COACHING STAFF

SIM

OLLIE LEIGHTON Goalkeeper Coach

LEWIS CASSELL Head Coach

TOM BURTON Assistant Coach

ROB SUCKLING Strength and Conditioning Coach

OPERATIONS

MARGARET FOLWELL Secretary PHYSIOTHERAPIST

NELSON

ETHAN WILLIAMS

NUTRITIONIST

HATTY BATES SPORT SCIENCE

TOM IACIOFANO

NATHAN REDMOND

RYAN CARTLEDGETAYLOR

MATT PROCTOR

ASHNI DESAI

REBECCA SAWIUK Director of Football

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC SQUAD LIST

GOALKEEPERS

NIELS HARTMAN OLLY PUNT OLLIE PARSONS

FINN BRENNAN KIERAN SMITH

TOBY LARSEN BEN WHITING SAM SMITH

ALEX ZASIURA JAKE EDWARDSALLEY

MIDFIELDERS

FORWARDS

BILLY MYCROFTEDWARDS

LUKE MARTIN JOSH BAILEY MAX SMALLCOMBE

THEO MARN DREW LOWE

JOSH WICKS

ETHAN O’TOOLE DYLAN EDWARDS

JOE FOUNTAIN

JOE LLOYD

ANTHONY LYNN

LOUGHBOROUGH STUDENTS FC A BRIEF HISTORY

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 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.

THE 35 YEAR WAIT

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.

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.

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.

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 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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SAT 06/08/2022 15:00

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MON 29/08/2022 19:45

SAT 03/09/2022 15:00

TUE 06/09/2022 19:45

TUE 13/09/2022 19:45

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

SAT 15/10/2022 15:00 H BELPER UNITED

SAT 22/10/2022 14:00 HEATHER ST JHON’S

SAT 29/10/2022 15:00 A EASTWOOD CFC

SAT 05/10/2022 15:00 H KIMBERLEY MINERS WELFARE

SAT 12/11/2022 15:00 H STOURPORT SWIFTS

SAT 22/11/2022 19:45 HEANOR TOWN

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

FINN BRENNAN

BILLY MYCROFT- EDWARDS

SID KERR

MATTY BOWMAN

THEO MARN JOE F OUNTAIN LUKE MARTIN JOSH BAILEY MAX SMALLCOMBE DREW LOWE

JOE LLOYD JOSH WICKS

ETHAN O’TOOLE DYLAN EDWARDS ANDY KANGA ANTHONY LYNN DOMINIC FORBES MAX AMBROSE CRANE EMILIO STAVROU

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