Genesis F.C. started in a pub in Loughborough by 5 guys who used to play football together in the Christian Union Team at Uni. The 5 of us Si Brown, Adrian Holland, Stu Arnold, Steve Straker and myself, Jez Cromie had stayed around in Loughborough to live and work. We were reminiscing at some of our football glory days when someone suggested the idea of us starting our own club. After much amusement the idea gained momentum and became a serious possibility. So in May 2002 we decided to go for it. We had a squad of 5 but that wasn’t going to stop us. Over the coming months many different mates joined us and we had a squad of 15 for our opening game in the North Leicestershire League Div 2. 

 

The name Genesis was chosen as Si brown was a huge Phil Collins fan, not really. We knew we wanted to set up a club that was a bit different to your average club. Some of the guys were Christians and we wanted the club to reflect some of the Christian values in the way it was run and the way we played our football. So Genesis was chosen as it reflected our Christian influence and also because in the bible Genesis is the known as the book of Beginnings and it was the beginning of Genesis F.C. There were some thoughts about changing the name of the club every season and work through the different books of the bible!!