FOOTBALL CLUB 2020-21 Season
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Welcome to The Farley Way Stadium QUORNFOOTBALL CLUB 2020-21 Season PRE-SEASON PREVIEW 2020-21 QUORN FOOTBALL CLUB Welcome to Farley Way Stadium.... Welcome to our 2020-21 season. We have put this booklet together to give you an insight into our pre season opponents. Quorn Football Club (Founded 1924) Whilst at this moment the games are all behind OFFICIALS closed doors, we can assure you that as soon as we can welcome supporters back into our Chairman ground we will do so, but hope in the meantime, Stuart Turner (Tel: 01509 412753) supporters can continue to remain connected to the team online and via social media Football Secretary / Club COVID Officer Darren Kay Our schedule at present is listed below - (Email: [email protected]) Saturday 1st August - Loughborough Dynamo Treasurer Saturday 8th August - Tamworth FC Stuart Turner Friday 14th August - Burton Albion Committee Saturday 22nd August - Melton Town Stuart Turner Saturday 29th August - Corby Town Margaret Berry Reg Molloy After these games it is hoped the season will Jane Penny start with the FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round Derek Phipps Andrew Webb on Tuesday 1st September and with the ulhsport United Counties League starting on Saturday 5th First Team Staff September. These dates are only provisional at Manager - Cleveland Taylor present and may alter at short notice depending Assistant Manager - Neil Pursglove on the current constraints due to the Coronavirus pandemic and any further ongoing restrictions. When we do get to hold games with supporters at Farley Way we will also ask all those FA RULE 2.13 attending to follow the Coronavirus Guidelines Quorn Football Club. that we will publish on our website in due course. Registered in England, Number: 10800338. In accordance with Regulations Rule 2.13 introduced by the FA in August 2012. We hope you can experience the pre season schedule with us today in a different way and Club Name: Quorn Football Club please remain safe. Chairman: Stuart Turner Vice President: David Steans Club & Legal Secretary: Darren Kay QUORN FOOTBALL CLUB Club Welfare Officer: Jacqui Brown The Farley Way Stadium Management Board: Farley Way - Quorn - Leicestershire Stuart Turner, Darren Kay, Jane Penney, Telephone 01509 620232 Derek Phipps, Andrew Webb, Sue Handley, Zoe Handley and Phil Chamberlain Twitter - @QuornAFC Website - www.quornfc.co.uk QUORN FOOTBALL CLUB QUORN FOOTBALL CLUB QUORN FOOTBALL CLUB FACTS Founded - 1955 Nickname - Moes Ground - ADT Stadium Nanpantan Sports Ground Loughborough Dynamo FC is a member of the Evo-Stik League, playing in Division One East. The club, founded in 1955, plays at the ADT Stadium in Watermead Lane, Loughborough, Leicestershire. Dynamo was formed in 1955 by pupils of Loughborough Grammar School. A few years after World War II the school switched from football to rugby. Several pupils wanted to play organised football, so the club was formed in what might say was a secretive manner, including unauthorised meetings in the school library! The club’s name comes from FC Dynamo Moscow, which had played in the United Kingdom in friendly matches on tours in both 1945 and 1955. The club colours of gold and black come from Wolverhampton Wanderers, who played against Dynamo Moscow at Molineux on November 9th, 1955. After two seasons of leading a nomadic existence playing away friendly matches, the club ventured into league football in 1957 and found its first home, the old Shelthorpe playing fields in Loughborough (now an 18-hole par 3 golf course). The league was the Loughborough Alliance League. Dynamo entered in Division 3 and quickly rose through the divisions, eventually winning the League. However, Dynamo was prevented from moving into the Leicestershire Senior League due to lack of facilities. The club switched to the Leicester and District League in 1966, by which time Dynamo had moved across Loughborough to Bottleacre and the old ground of Morris Sports. This ground had been the sports club of the company of Herbert Morris Crane Manufacturers. The firm had vacated the ground, but still owned it. Dynamo played in this league for five years, moving into the East Midlands League in 1971. However, Dynamo underperformed at this level and saw relegation to the Central Alliance League and almost immediately back to the Leicester and District League. During this period Dynamo experienced two further moves of ground, enforced by Morris Sports sale of the Bottleacre ground for use as industrial premises. First was back to LOUGHBOROUGH DYNAMO Shelthorpe, this time to Shelthorpe Primary School, then on to the club’s current home of the Nanpantan Sports Ground (NSG), renamed The ADT Stadium in the Summer of 2018, ADT Taxis being the club’s new ground sponsor. On the Charnwood Forest side of the town and on the edge of Loughborough, the ground had recently been bought by Charnwood District Council from the Brush manufacturing company of Loughborough. The Council own it to this day. It was at its current home that the club was playing in the Leicestershire Senior League Division 1, but the facilities were not good enough to enable promotion the Premier Division. The specific requirement was floodlights. It was then that discussions took place between the club and Loughborough University, the education facility was looking QUORN FOOTBALL CLUB QUORN FOOTBALL CLUB to integrate into the local community, and the offer was to develop, with Dynamo, the facilities at the NSG. Also, James Ellis came on board as manager. All this occurred in the early 2000’s and enabled the club to gain promotion to the Premier Division and start its development to where it is today. The period of James Ellis’s management saw the club stabilise in the Premier Division and then go on a period of success in Leicestershire football circles. The club won the Premier League title, won the Leicestershire Senior Cup and retained it the following season, and also won the League Cup and President’s Cup. Promotion was then achieved to the Midland Football Alliance (MFA). This promotion was also thanks to the LOUGHBOROUGH DYNAMO massive effort from volunteers to enable the NSG to be ready to stage football at MFA level. Dynamo stabilised in the MFA, and then came the memorable season of 2007-8 when under the management of Adam Beazeley, assisted by John Folwell and Simon Tebbutt (James Ellis having moved on), the club achieved promotion to the Northern Premier League Division One South (now the Evo-Stik League). Dynamo still plays at this level, but the restructuring of the leagues around this level in the Summer of 2018 has seen Dynamo move into the newly formed Evo-Stik League Division One East. 2010 saw Dynamo lift the Westerby Challenge Cup, the main knockout cup for Leicestershire sides, at the Walkers (now King Power) Stadium, the home of Leicester City. The club had a joint managerial team at this point of Ian Blyth and Scott Clamp, Barwell being the defeated opponents. Two years later, with the Walkers Stadium now renamed the King Power Stadium and with Scott Clamp as sole manager, Dynamo won the trophy for a second time, defeating Hinckley United from two leagues higher in the non-league pyramid. Tom Brookbanks became Manager in May 2013, and by the start of the 2014-15 season had built an entertaining side, and in September of that season Dynamo topped the division, the highest position in the club’s history. But off fields matters came to a head the following month and the management team and squad was suddenly ripped apart, and the club slid down the table. The following two seasons were not easy on the pitch, finishing 20th in both the 2015- 2016 and 2016-2017 campaigns, one place above the relegation positions. In the latter season the experienced Peter Ward took over as Dynamo’s Manager just after Christmas 2016 and steered the club to its own ‘Great Escape’, winning the last four matches of the season (the first three of those matches being away, two to the other clubs involved in the relegation battle) to finish four points clear of the relegation places. Under Peter’s Management Dynamo finished the 2017-18 season fifteen points and six places better than a year previously, as well as reaching the Leicestershire Challenge Cup, going down 7-6 on penalties to Premier Division Coalville Town, after the game finished 2-2. Peter felt this was the best time to move on with Peter’s Assistant, former Dynamo player Lee Attenborough, stepping up into the Manager’s post. Lee has previous managerial experience at Leicestershire Senior League Sileby Town and East Midlands Counties League side Ashby Ivanhoe. Dynamo go into the new season with one of, if not the youngest, coaching teams in the history of the League, looking to build on the stability Peter Ward brought to the club. QUORN FOOTBALL CLUB QUORN FOOTBALL CLUB QUORN FOOTBALL CLUB QUORN FOOTBALL CLUB FACTS Founded - 1933 Nickname - Lambs Ground - The Lamb Ground Over four score years ago, in the summer of 1933, a football team in Tamworth was just a dream for the lovers of the beautiful game who worked together to set up a new club in the town. The demise of Tamworth Castle FC left the town with no senior level football club, but a campaign involving a town businessman and the local newspaper set the wheels in motion to form another club, and so Tamworth FC was born. The original ground on which the team played was next to the now demolished Jolly Sailor pub, and from 1934 TAMWORTH FC TAMWORTH onwards The Lamb became the club’s new home, where they remain to this day.