Club

Loughborough Football is the home of Loughborough University FC and Loughborough Students Association Football Club.

Loughborough University are the British Universities’ most successful competitor winning the overall championship 35 times in just over 60 years. The earliest records of Loughborough football date-back to the 1919-20 side, under the name of Loughborough Technical Institute and guidance of Principal Herbert Schofield based in town. 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 won its first UAU Championship in the 1938/39 season and Leicestershire Senior League in 1940, after the war they returned to winning ways in the UAU competition in 1947, 1948 and 1949. Loughborough transformed beyond recognition under Schofield’s leadership until 1950. In the 1950s Loughborough won in the UAU in 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1957 and 1959. The 1960s saw even more success with wins in 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966 and 1969. In 1966 Loughborough became a University and also competed in the Leicestershire Senior League Division Two until 1972. 3 more University titles in the 1970s and 4 more in the 1980s saw Loughborough firmly established as the premier University for football. The wins just kept on coming… 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993. The side waited 35 years for a return to non-league football, entering the Midland Combination for the first time in 2007-08 under the guidance of James Ellis, Tom Curtis and Club Chairmen Peter Simmons and Alex McEwan. After silverware in their first season, in 2009, Loughborough won promotion as champions to the Midland Football Alliance. The new millennium also brought with it more University titles with 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2010 all Loughborough wins.

Loughborough have begun to establish themselves in the Alliance finishing 13th in 2009/10 and 4th in 2010/11. Head Coach Tom Curtis left to take over as National team coach at Antigua & Barbuda towards the end of the season and the club have now appointed Stuart McLaren as the new head coach for the 2011/12 season.

As well as playing in the Midland Alliance, the club have a strong football programme having a side that play in the Midland Combination U21s league and four teams that compete in the British Universities championships.

The pathway

Great Britain Universities & England Universities
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First team (elite) – Midland Alliance & BUCS Premier North
U21s squad – Midland Combination U21s League
Second team – BUCS 1a
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Third team – BUCS 2a
Fourth team – BUCS 2a
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IMS Allstars
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IMS halls programme