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| QUORN F.C. - Northern Premier Div One South | |||||
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QUORN F.C. - Based in the village of
Quorn, near Leicester, Leicestershire, currently playing in
the Northern Premier League Division One South. The club was
originally founded in 1924 by attendees of the local
Wesleyan Chapel and accordingly was named Quorn Methodists
F.C., changing its name in 1952. In 1937 the club joined the
Leicestershire Senior League. Immediately after World War II
they played in the Central Division, and then from 1948 in
Division 2 after a league re-organisation. Quorn won this
division in 1950 and then followed up by winning the first
division the following season. Over the next fifty years the
club moved up and down between the divisions on four
separate occasions, finally cementing their place in the
renamed Premier Division in the late 1990s, before claiming
the league title, and with it promotion to the Midland
Alliance in 2001. In 2003 the club was the only one at its
level to sell a player to a Football League team, when Luke
Varney moved to Crewe Alexandra for £50,000. Dion Dublin
also once played for the club.
In 1998 Newcastle United trained at the club's ground whilst staying in the area. Management asked if Alan Shearer would be willing to be photographed wearing Quorn's number 9 shirt, which he was, but unfortunately the shirt itself was unavailable as it was at the launderette at the time.
In the 2006–07 season they finished
3rd in the Midland Alliance and, due to the expansion of the
Northern Premier League First Division into two regional
divisions, were therefore accepted into the Northern Premier
League Division One South. In May 2007 the club received a
£400,000 windfall after Luke Varney's £2,000,000 move from
Crewe to Charlton Athletic. |
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