The History of Quorn Football Club
With our centenary year fast approaching, we spoke with Sue Templeman of the Quorn Online Museum to find out about the history of football in the village.
“The first football club in Quorn was established in the early 1880s” said Sue, continuing “with the most notable from those early days being Quorn Havelock FC. Others over the years have included Quorn Excelsior, Quorn White Cross, Quorn Methodist, School Lane Albion and Quorn Park Rangers.
“The roots of today’s Quorn Football Club date from 1924 from a team formed by the Methodist Boys Life Brigade. This led to Quorn Wesleyans FC which became Quorn Methodist FC. At this time the players had to attend bible class at least twice a month!”
“In the early 1930s the Club moved from the Sunday School League to the Loughborough Alliance, going on to join the Leicestershire Senior League in 1937. Their greatest achievement was in 1950/51 when they won the Leicestershire Senior League Division 1 Championship. In 1951 the Club was renamed Quorn Football Club. The team had always played on various fields in Quorn using different pubs as their changing rooms, badly needing their own ground. After much fundraising, land was bought from Frank Baylis behind the Cradock Drive Cricket Field, off Warwick Avenue, and the new ground and pavilion were opened in 1960.”
“During the 1990s the Club moved to a larger and more modern ground on Farley Way and the old ground was developed, appropriately named Sutton Close after the Sutton family, who had a major involvement with the club over many years.” Sue also went on to recommend Jack Field's 1960s book, specifically about the history of Quorn Football Club, which you can read about on the site.
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Quorn Village On-line Museum was created in July 2009 and is maintained by village volunteers.
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