Leicestershire Football Archive (LFA)

The LFA celebrates the history of football in Leicestershire, which is full of drama, excitement, controversy, violence, and even a tinge of sadness.

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Coalville FC's first-ever game - February 1876
For more 19th century Leicestershire fotball - see:
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#Coalville #Leicestershire #football #Sheffieldrules #retrofootball #history

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Discover the bad behaviour shown by Leicestershire footballers during the 19th century.
#leicester #leicestershire #LCFC #foxesneverquit #leicestershirefootballarchive #football
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Classified advertisement from the Leicester Daily Post - 13 July 1895. Would you apply?
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#LCFC #Leicestershire #Foxes #Foxesneverquit #Leiceserfosse #leicestercity #leicestershirefootballarchive

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Sketch of the Belgrave Cricket and Cycle Ground - which hosted the Fosse, The Tigers and County #Cricket in the late nineteenth century.
#leicester #leicestershire #leicestertigers
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Drawn in the 1940s - this is the only known sketch of the Mill-lane enclosure - home of the Leicester Fosse between 1889 and 1891. #LCFC #leicester #leicestershire
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The day #Whitwick became the third #Leicestershire town - after #Leicester and #Loughborough - to stage a Football League fixture. For the full story: https://t.co/dzJNx7wPD9
#soccer #football #vintagefootball

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Loughborough ‘Town’ were the first Leicestershire club to play in the FA Cup – October 1889 -see match report
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#footballhistory #football #retrofootball #oldfootball #facup #leicestershirefootballarchive #loughborough #leicestershire

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Leicester Fosse played their first ever FA Cup tie – a first round qualifier -on Saturday 4 Oct 1890
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#football #leiesterfosse #leicestercity #lcfc #foxes #leicestershirefootballarchive #leicester #leicestershire

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North v South British Ladies FC first ever match - March 1895
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#football #soccer #womenssoccer #woso #futbolfemenino #womensoccer #lionesses #futfem #girlsfootball #ladiesfootball #fawsl #soccergirls #nwsl #womeninsports

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Leicester Daily Mail – 20 Dec 1947
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#footballhistory #football #retrofootball #classicfootball #footballvintage #footbalnostalgia #oldfootball #leiesterfosse #leicestercity #lcfc #foxes #leicestershirefootballarchive #leicester #Leicestershire

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Jan 2nd– 1917
Fosse Victory …. 9 Players …. Lost Kit … Magenta Shirts….. Missed Connection …. and more!
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#footballhistory #football #retrofootball #leiesterfosse #leicestercity #lcfc #foxes #leicestershirefootballarchive #leicester #leicestershire

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Leicester Daily Mail - 8 December 1943
FOUNDER OF LEICESTER CITY F.C. DEAD
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#footballhistory #football #classicfootball #footballvintage #oldfootball #leiesterfosse #leicestercity #lcfc #foxes #leicestershirefootballarchive #leicester #leicestershire

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Leicestershire Football Archive #leicestershirefotballarchive #leicester #leicestershire #footballhistory #soccerhistory #LCFC #LeicesterCity #Foxes
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Football Jerseys, Knickers & Stockings - Victorian style.
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#footballhistory #football #footballvintage #footbalnostalgia #oldfootball #leiesterfosse #leicestercity #lcfc #foxes #leicestershirefootballarchive #leicester #leicestershire

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Should Women Play Football? – Leics Chron 1950
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EMGALS – Leics Chron 1967
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Provide a fascinating insight into women’s football & social attitudes in the late 50s & 60s.
#Leicester #leicestershire #WomensSoccer

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Xmas Day 1940 football results
Two matches - loss in the morning and a win in the afternoon against the #Cobblers
#leicestercity #lcfc #foxes #leicestershirefootballarchive #leicester #leicestershire

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Corinthian’s Christmas Spirit - Filbert Street, Boxing Day 1899
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#leicestercity #leicester #leicestershire #football #leicesterfosse

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Earliest shot of #LCFC in action [vs Leeds City, 1914] where you can actually make out the players.
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#leicestercity #Leicestershire #leicester #football

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140 years ago this month, Leicester Fosse played their first-ever game - against Syston Fosse. Remarkably the event was reported in the Melton Mowbray Mercury and Oakham & Uppingham News on 6 Nov 1884.
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#LCFC #leicestercity

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