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Leamington
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Full name Leamington Football Club
Nickname(s) The Brakes
Founded 1891, 1933
Ground New Windmill Ground
(Capacity: 3,000)
Chairman Flag of England Jim Scott
Manager Flag of England Paul Holleran
Current League National League North 
2023–24 Southern League Premier Division Central, 3rd
(promoted via play-offs)
Website Club home page
Leamington 2024-25 homeLeamington 2024-25 away

Leamington Football Club is a football club in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, who are the currently in the National League North, the sixth tier of English football.

History[]

The club was founded in 1933 as Leamington Borg & Beck, known as 'Lockheed Borg & Beck', as they became associated with a local works. The team soon became 'Lockheed Leamington', and then ' in 1973, as the works team for Automotive Products. In 1985 the club returned to their original name, but within three years the ground had been sold and the club went into hiatus until re-emerging in 2000.

With the club at its playing pinnacle, Automotive Products decided to sell the Windmill Ground in Tachbrook Road for housing. The last match was played in April 1988.

The club was relaunched in 2000 playing at the New Windmill Ground in Harbury Lane, Whitnash, (a small town adjoining Leamington to the south), and winning two successive promotions: the Midland Football Combination Division Two title in the first year and as runners-up in Division One a year later. Three years later Leamington gained promotion to the Midland Alliance. In 2005 the team beat 5 teams (with 2 replays and penalty shoot-outs) to make excellent progress in the FA Cup, gaining significant national media coverage, culminating in a 9–1 defeat to Colchester United, a professional team six leagues above Leamington, in the First Round Proper. At the start of the 2008–09 season the senior team became affiliated with Leamington Lions, the ladies team and the Leamington Junior Brakes teams. The 2012/13 season saw the club win the Southern Football League title and get promoted to the Conference North. The 2014/15 season saw the club get relegated from the Conference North to the Southern Football League. In the 2015/16 season Leamington managed to reach the play off final where they played Hungerford, they went on to lose the final 2-1 after leading the game 1-0. The following season they were runners up in the league and managed to beat Hitchin Town in the play off final to win promotion.

Famous ex-players include former Coventry City captain Charlie Timmins (1958–1961), George Green, who won the 1925 FA Cup Final with Sheffield United and Harry Redknapp (1976).

Players[]

Current squad[]

As of 8 November 2016
No. Pos. Nation Player
GK Flag of England Tony Breeden
DF Flag of England Ben George
DF Flag of England Connor Gudger
DF Flag of England James Mace
DF Flag of England Jamie Hood
DF Flag of England Tom James
MF Flag of England Joe Magunda
MF Flag of England Callum Gittings
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF Flag of England Richard Taundry
MF Flag of England Ahmed Obeng
MF Flag of England Darren Pond
MF Flag of England Jack Edwards
MF Flag of England Rob Thomson-Brown
FW Flag of England Courtney Baker-Richardson
FW Flag of England Ryan Rowe
FW Flag of England Richard Gregory

External links[]

Template:Leamington F.C. squad Template:Leamington F.C.

National League North 2024–25

Alfreton Town · Brackley Town · Buxton · Chester · Chorley · Curzon Ashton · Darlington · Farsley Celtic · Hereford · Kidderminster Harriers · King's Lynn Town · Leamington · Marine · Needham Market · Oxford City · Peterborough Sports · Radcliffe · Rushall Olympic · Scarborough Athletic · Scunthorpe United · Southport · South Shields · Spennymoor Town · Warrington Town

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