Shepshed Dynamo

Football appeared in Shepshed in the late 1870s. and records of violent clashes between the Albion club and the Loughborough Corinthians clubs in 1899, but only in 1907 the club joined the Leicestershire Senior League. Albion quickly achieved success, winning the League in 1911 and again in 1921. They remained in the Leicestershire Senior League for the next 60 years.

In the summer of 1975, the club received significant financial support from Charterhouse Holdings plc and changed its name to Shepshed Charterhouse. Under the new name, the club won the second division of the Leicestershire Senior League in the 1977/78 season, after which it won the first division three times in a row (1979, 1980 and 1981), and for the first time in 1981 was admitted to the Midland League.

Charterhouse won the Midland League title on the first try, and when the league united with the to form the 1982 , they immediately found themselves in the Premier Division of the new league. Won their sixth consecutive league title, the club earned promotion to the Midland Division of the Southern Football League in the 1983/84 season. This season was also marked by success in cup competitions, when Charterhouse won the NCEL Cup, and also managed to reach the First Round of the FA Cup , where it lost 5-1 in Preston North End in Deepdale on November 20, 1982.

In the 1983/84 season, Charterhouse took second place in the Midland division of the Southern League and advanced to the Premier Division. The highest place, the seventh, the club achieved in the 1985/86 season. In 1988, Shepshed was transferred to the Premier Division of the Northern Premier League (NPL), from which he dropped out of the First Division of the NPL following the 1991/92 season.

In 1993, the club was transferred to due to its unsuccessful performances. Despite the fact that their only season in the “Combination” was relatively successful, fourth place out of 22, problems outside the field put the club’s future in doubt. With the help of the Loughborough Dynamo team, the club was able to restructure and changed its name to Shepshed Dynamo. The club was accepted into the semi-professional league of the in the 1994/95 season. The club finished its first season in fourth place.

The 1995/96 season began with an impressive 23-game win-win series. Having won the tournament by a margin of eight points, Shepshed was promoted to the First Midland Division of the Southern League in the 1996/97 season. The increase brought its difficulties, and Dynamo were forced to seek financial assistance from the Charnwood City Council to take their place in the Southern League. Their first season in the Southern League led to a safe position in the middle of the table. But in the FA Cup, Shepshed achieved great success. Having won consecutively at , Sandwell-Borough, , Nijpersley Victoria and Bromsgrove Rovers , the club reached the First Round, where it was defeated by the Second Division club. Carlisle United "with a score of 0: 6.

Reorganization of the Southern League at the beginning of the 1999/2000 season led Shepshed to the First Western Division. However, due to the expansion of the English Football Conference to three divisions and the subsequent reorganization of the National League system, Dynamo avoided demotion in the regional division and ended up in the First Division of the Northern Premier League in the 2004/05 season, at the eighth level of the pyramid. Further reorganization of the lower leagues in 2007 led to the fact that the club was in the new First Southern Division of the Northern Premier League.

The 2010/11 season ended for Shepshed. However, due to the exclusion from the football conference of the club “ Rushden & Diamonds ”, the Dynamo team escaped from relegation to the Midland Football Alliance. But the next season, the club flew into the , the ninth, the lowest level of the English football league system. After one season in the United States League, the club was transferred to the Midland Football Alliance. In 2014, the Midland Football Alliance and the football combination merged to form a , and Shepshed was placed in the Premier Division of the new league.

Since 1891, the club has been playing at Dovecot Stadium, located on Butthole Lane on the north side of the city. On the ground, as stated in the Book of the Last Judgment , has long been used as a sports facility for the village. Because of the name Butthole Lane, it is possible that the site was previously used for the practice of village archery. The stadium still belongs to the family of former Charterhouse chairman Maurice Clayton.

The current first team uniform consists of black and white stripes, with black shorts and black socks, and the second is made up of yellow shirts, black shorts and yellow socks. There is a stylized letter “D” on the crest of the club, inherited from the Loughborough Dynamo team that saved the team in 1994. Loughborough, in turn, received the name Dynamo and the D logo from Dynamo Moscow , which toured the UK in 1945 . Previously, the image of a pigeon on a black and white field appeared in the club crest. During Maurice Clayton’s presidency, the club had the nickname “The Raiders”, complete with a crest similar to the American Los Angeles Raiders club, probably inspired by the lucrative Charterhouse Holdings to produce goods for the NFL .

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