Barwell F.C. season saw them win the Leicestershire and Rutland Challenge Cup, beating Coalville Town 3–1 in the final. The club were transferred to the Premier Central division of the Southern League at the end of the 2017–18 season as part of the restructuring of the non-League pyramid. The club play at Kirkby Road in Barwell. The sports complex also incorporates bowling facilities and a cricket pitch, which was once used for first class matches. Floodlights were installed prior to the 1992–93 season, and a number of seats were obtained from the old main stand at Leicester City's Filbert Street ground. A
1880–81 Home Nations rugby union matches at an international level; and also brought in Charles Taylor, a teenager from Edinburgh Academy. Taylor was the first schoolboy to play in a forward position in an international match. After the inability of the South Wales Football Union to successfully organise matches with teams from other countries, Richard Mullock, secretary of Newport Athletics Club, managed to arrange an international with the Rugby Football Union, between a Wales XV and England. With a date set, Mullock now needed an international team. The group of players brought together to form the very first Wales team were selected for their geographic spread,