“Rugby Borough FC as it is now, began life in 1994 under the name of Rugby Town Junior Football Club, and it was the Junior club who masterminded the development of our home ground facilities at Kilsby Lane.

The site, which is 35 acres, contains 2 full size 3G Astro pitches, 2 medium Astro pitches, and 17 grass pitches. For season 2023/24 over 70 teams will train and play at the site.

The forward vision of the club enabled Rugby Borough FC senior section to be set up in 2017/18 with the management team of Darran Tank, Ady Fuller and Danny Finlay, who between them had many years of non-league experience. After being accepted into the Leicestershire Senior League Division 1 we became champions in our very first season, and were promoted to the Premier Division for 2018/19

The new season saw Borough win the Premier Division title, but promotion was denied because of a local planning decision delay, preventing us from meeting the ground standards required in the allocated timeframe.

Although the 2019/20 and 20/21 seasons were curtailed by the pandemic there were some major changes going on behind the scenes, culminating in the Junior Boys and Girls, and Senior Men and Women’s sections unifying, and taking the name Rugby Borough Football Club.

In 2022 Liam O`Neill was welcomed to the club to as Head of the Rugby Borough Academy of Football, with students aged from 16 to 19 playing, training and being educated at Kilsby Lane. This move has allowed the club to enter the National League U19 Alliance and the Midland Floodlit Youth League.

Borough fully focussed and ready for the 2021/22 season won the Leicestershire Senior League Premier Division under the leadership of Dan Carter and Kiel Mullen. With the ground now up to standard, promotion to the Spartan South Midlands Division 1 and step 6 of the non-league pyramid was finally achieved. Promotion to step 5 was achieved at the first attempt, via the playoffs, having finished third in the league during the 2022/23 season.

Season 2023/24  and our first in the United Counties League Premier Division South saw us travelling less, but facing tougher competition, and after being knocked out of the FA Cup at Walsall FC,  Dan and Kiel felt it was time to leave. We continued to see the season out with Justin Marsden and Dan Gibson taking on the roles of player/manager and coach, finishing out of danger, but low in the table.

Here we are at season 24-25 in the UCL with a new management team, with many years’ experience between them and at higher levels of football, consisting of Dave Stringer and Craig Herbert, with Dan Gibson coaching and Kirsty Alderman as physio.

Let’s see what happens…….