Match Preview

This is our first game in the Birmingham Senior Cup this season, and after losing our last two games and being knocked out of 2 cups within a week this is our chance to move forward in another competition.

Leamington Football Club are based in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. They were founded in 1891 and are currently members of the National League North, the sixth tier of English football They play at the New Windmill Ground near Bishop's Tachbrook, a stadium which holds 2300 supporters of which 294 are seated and 720 are under cover.

Their nickname is The Brakes.

When the club was first established it was as Leamington Association Football Club and the following year were renamed Leamington Spa. Following the 1936-37 season the club folded due to financial problems, it was in the same year the Lockheed Brake Manufacturing Company formed a works team. They played under the name of Lockheed Borg & Beck, with the club gaining the nickname "the Brakes" as a result. In 1947 the club was renamed Lockheed Leamington when they bought the former club's Windmill Ground. When Lockheed was renamed Automotive Products in 1973, the football club was renamed AP Leamington but following a bad season in 1984-85 and relegation, the AP was dropped .

Despite the club's status (without an owner), a group of supporters purchased land on Harbury Lane in nearby Whitnash, which was subsequently turned into football pitches from 1993 onwards. After being officially opened in 1999 as the New Windmill Ground, the club restarted playing again in 2000. Floodlights, seats and the PA system were reused from Oxford United's Manor Ground, which closed in 2001.

Here’s to an entertaining and successful game.

COME ON YOU ROYALS