Quorn F.C.

Quorn
Full name Quorn Football Club
Founded 1924 (as Quorn Methodists)
Ground Sutton Park
Farley Way, Quorn, Leicestershire
Ground Capacity 1,400
Chairman Stuart Turner
Manager Dougie Keast
League Midland League Premier Division
2014–15 Midland League Premier Division, 11th

Quorn Football Club is an English football club based in the village of Quorn, near Loughborough, Leicestershire, currently playing in the Midland League Premier Division.

History

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.

Quorn in action against Pelsall Villa in the 2007–08 FA Cup

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 £500,000 windfall after Luke Varney's £2,000,000 move from Crewe to Charlton Athletic.[1]

In 2011 Quorn won the Westerby Cup for the first time with a 5–4 victory over Hinckley United at Walkers Stadium under the management of Lawrie Dudfield, but were relegated from the Northern Premier League Division One South during the same season.

John Folwell was appointed as their new manager in May 2013, joining from local rivals Barrow Town. He resigned in January 2015 due to disagreements with the chairman. Two time former manager Dougie Keast was agreed to take over until the end of the 2014/15 season.

Recent managerial history

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Ground

Sutton Park boasts a 400-seater cantilever stand, which is currently the only covering for spectators at the ground. Car parking is available on the ground and there is also a clubhouse where food and drink are available on match days. Previously the club had played at Warwick Avenue since 1960 but moved out after selling their ground at that site to the Abbeyfield housing association. A new stand was constructed ready for the beginning of season 2008/09

Rivalries

Quorn's main rivals include Shepshed Dynamo and Loughborough Dynamo of the Northern Premier League Division One South and Barrow Town, the closest senior club to Quorn geographically.

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
-- England GK Matt Nurse
-- England GK Michael Turner
-- England GK Ben Brown
-- England GK Sam Green
-- England DF Tom Cooper
-- England DF Callum Earls
-- England DF Sam Buckingham
-- England DF Jordan Wakeling
-- England DF Matt Blake
-- England DF Karl Munton
-- England DF James Orton
-- England MF Niall Prenderville
-- England MF Wade Ball
-- England MF Karl Whymark
-- England MF Lewis Dodd
-- England MF Dan Henton
-- England MF Denis Moran
-- England FW Calum Ross
-- England FW Alex Honour
-- England FW Liam Turner
-- England FW Dom Brennan
-- England FW Liam Read
-- Jamaica FW Carl Adams

Club records

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Coordinates: 52°44′55.831″N 1°10′49.001″W / 52.74884194°N 1.18027806°W / 52.74884194; -1.18027806

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