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Nottingham Forest U21

Nottingham Forest Under 21

Kit impression

Founded

1898

Years standing

128

Home ground

Loughborough University Stadium Nigel Doughty Academy

Country

England

The Trophy Cabinet

Adopting Nottingham Forest U21 means England EFL Trophy results start mattering to you, a club going since 1898. Not a novelty, a habit.

The calendar you inherit
England EFL Trophy is cold-weather football: mud in February, breath visible under the lights, and a fixture list that rewards anyone who sticks it out. England does not do easy neutrals.
Old enough to matter
1898 is the founding date, old enough that the club has survived a war, a rebuild and at least one financial scare, young enough that the good years are still in living memory.
Something to defend
The cabinet is not empty: Premier Academy League and Dallas Cup. Small enough to recite from memory, big enough to argue about in a pub.
Home is home
Loughborough University Stadium Nigel Doughty Academy is the address. Learn the walk from the station to the turnstile and you have most of what supporting a club actually is.

Ground: Loughborough University Stadium Nigel Doughty Academy. Go in a day early, find the pre-match pub, buy the programme.

Nearest airport

East Midlands Airport (EMA)

28 km / 17 miles from the ground

Nearest station

Annesley railway station

1.3 km / 1 miles out

Pulling fixtures and table…

Around the ground

Everything within a short walk of the turnstiles: landmarks, museums and the places worth arriving early for.

Landmarks within a 4 km radius

Opens a map centred on the ground. Two hours before kick-off is the sweet spot.

Route Planner

Tell us where you set off from and we will lay out the walk, drive, train and flight options into the ground, with live route links.