Exciting news

After many requests, we can now offer families, parents and players the opportunity to purchase a Nirvana tracksuits and/ or Polo's. 

There are adults (£55) and junior (£45) sizes available. This is a quality product and is 100% Polyester 250gsm. 

Orders will be made on a bi-monthly cycle and will only be processed once full payment is recieved. This is totally separate to any club fees and can be purchased by anyone. 

In order to take advantage of this first round. Please complete the form below: 

https://forms.gle/tuPYfSme7RUuyxhg7

In 2016 Leicester City won the Premier League in one of the biggest shocks in sporting history. Some of Leicester Nirvana's youngsters were invited to the King Power Stadium to ask Leicester's title-winning captain Wes Morgan about that incredible season.

Players were given the opportunity to interview Wes and receive a tour of the stadium. What an amazing afternoon for our young ballers.

See video here https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/12673564/pl30-wes-morgan-recalls-leicesters-shocking-win-in-2016

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And these are our children

This is our turf, our land

Our backyard, our playing fields

To which we state our claim

This is where our dreams are built and trophies won

This is where hard lessons are learnt and good deeds are done

These are our respect lines, our codes, and our fears

And this is our badge, which sits proudly above our hearts

This is our journey from Redstar to fame

This is our foundation, our streets and the principles that we hold dear

This is the place where we grow together

This is the place where we live forever

These are the memories we create each day

These are the friends we hold close, come what may

This is where we stand up for what we believe in

And where we plant the seeds for our young crop to grow

This is our time

And these are our moments

This is our community, our family, our people

This is our struggle and these are our victories

This is our club

We are more than just football

We are Nirvana

This means more

Researchers and students at De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) are working with two community football clubs to help them achieve their ambitions of becoming Net Zero. 

The collaboration comes as the United Nations (UN) announced its Football for the Goals Campaign at the Women’s Euros 2022 in Manchester this week.

Leicester Nirvana recently wrote to the United Nations Academic Impact Initiative (UNAI) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Hub based at DMU asking for a partnership to achieve their green ambitions.

Shortly after, the university was connected with SG Eintracht Peitz, near Cottbus, in Germany, a team that also has the same vision.

The project to create a Net Zero amateur football club is believed to be a first in both the United Kingdom and Germany.

The full Leicester Nirvana team

Researchers at DMU have already begun scoping work with Leicester Nirvana to identify how a team from one a city-centre estate with many social challenges begins the process of decarbonisation.

The aim is to help both clubs become Net Zero in carbon emissions in all aspects of the beautiful game. This includes travel to games, the players’ diets and nutrition, the kits the players wear to train, the clubhouses and lighting, recycling practices and inclusive values. Both teams want to use the SDGs as a framework for collaboration to achieve their visions.

An under 13’s coach at Leicester Nirvana FC was informed by his players that they had been discriminated against on the pitch.

In a Sunday fixture against Barrow Town in Leicestershire, players at Leicester Nirvana told their manager that they had received abusive and hurtful comments that they themselves described as racist.

Midway through the first half one player, aged 12 years of age, was told to, ‘go back to Egypt’. He informed his manager, who intern told the referee, who said they did not hear anything but would keep an eye on things. At half time another player revealed he too had been told to ‘go back to Africa’. The abuse however did not stop there, and in the second half another player was told to ‘go and have a bath’. These comments were made by the opposing players who themselves are also 12 to 13 years of age.

The manager for Leicester Nirvana said, “I am absolutely disgusted with the comments that were made against my players. I am also very disappointed by the dismissive way our County FA have brushed aside the experience our 12 year old boys have endured. Personally, I have a mind to walk off the pitch the next time this happens and unfortunately, there will be a next time.”

The club, had shared their frustration with the Leicestershire and Rutland County FA, who told them that ‘after further discussion with their discipline department and based on the evidence provided, they would not be able to raise any disciplinary charges as there is not a realistic prospect that the charge would be found proven.’

Zak Hajat, Chair of Leicester Nirvana said, “This is a common problem in grassroots football and one that has not gone away. We would urge those who can change processes to really take a hard look at what these experiences are doing to our children. It simply cannot continue.”

The club has done so much to raise awareness and have conversations about what needs to change from writing a report poignantly entitled 'Racism and Resistance' in 2013, to surveys ‘Discrimination in Sport, to conferences, one of them specifically young people to participate freely in discussions of race and equality; as well as numerous articles and news appearances.

Leicester Nirvana are asking for a review into the contextual safeguarding of children, their experiences of racism and whether our current safeguarding policies and practices are fit for purpose.