The third Monday of January each year is reckoned to be the most depressing day of the year.
It has been termed “Blue Monday” after a scientist came up with an equation to work that out.
Whist opinions differ on the merits of the designated “day”, what is not in question is the positive rehabilitation effects on mental health that sport provides.
The benefits of playing sport on Mental Health are these:
Improved mood – Studies show that physical activity has a positive im…
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The third Monday of January each year is reckoned to be the most depressing day of the year.
It has been termed “Blue Monday” after a scientist…
Prestige Worldwide (pictured above) took the eye as they called the tune with a 9-0 victory to take the lead as the Newbridge 6 a side league kicked o…
A chance to fly to Germany on holiday is on offer as a brand new community 6 a side football competition gets ready for kick off in February.
The l…
The first Leisure Leagues Prize Draw of 2019 took place at Head Office yesterday, and it kept up the fun – literally.
In amongst the prize giving -…
6 a side football is the healthiest sport there is. That is the finding of a series of studies conducted over the last decade.
Over 70 studies have…
It’s been another record breaking year for Leisure Leagues, as we cement our reputation as the biggest and best 5 and 6 a side football provider in th…
Just a day after the self-styled Special One, José Mourinho was sacked at Old Trafford, a Manchester United legend has made a comeback.
Ron Atkins…
Everyone at Leisure Leagues sends our best wishes to Boro Rangers U-7s, who are seen here celebrating after their latest matches.
The boys and girl…
“So this is Christmas and what have you done” Asked John Lennon once.
Whatever he was getting at, in 1971 when he released the song, he probably…
Leisure Leagues is delighted to welcome Slovakia as the latest country to join our global network.
Javer Gusejnov, an experienced league official a…
Christmas is upon us. There’s lights are going up, the John Lewis advert is on and everyone is saying “I don’t feel very Christmassy yet.”
If that …
Leisure Leagues is now the only place that you can play 6 a side football at Eastbourne Borough FC after they signed an exclusive deal with the footba…
Footballers in Aylesbury will have even more choice next month as a long established football firm expands its business.
Leisure Leagues – Europe…
A chance to fly to Germany on holiday and a chance to benefit charities too, is on offer as two brand new community 6 a side football competitions get…
The latest instalment of the Leisure Leagues prize draw took place this afternoon in Head Office, and there were all kinds of sweet thrills and spills…
The first ever Socca Champions League took place last month as some of the best club sides in 6 a side football battled it out for the right to take s…
Leisure Leagues are delighted to confirm that we will be the new and exclusive provider of 6-a-side leagues at Eastbourne Borough FC!
The worlds b…
The first night of the Mountain Ash 6 a side football league went off with a real bang this week, with the town coming out in droves to play some Sund…
A former referee turned owner of a football leagues franchise in Weston Super Mare was scoring big himself this week as he received a £500 cash windf…
We have, for many months now, been running the Goal of the month competition on the Leisure Leagues Facebook page.
There have been some cracking go…
Footballers in Worcester will have even more choice next week as a long established football firm expands its business.
Leisure Leagues – Europe…
A Blackwood man was left with a suspended prison sentence – and good causes were left counting the cost – after he stole the money from an Aberdare …
The next season in the brand new 6 a side league in Rugeley is kicking off next week– and teams are urged to join now before the last few remaining …
A new season is starting in the Nuneaton 6 a side leagues – and teams are urged to join now before the last few remaining places are snapped up!
…
It was a case of Who Dares Wins as the first ever Leisure League in Keighley kicked off last night.
Not only is that the motto of the SAS, but a te…
The brand new Winsford 6 a side league saw its second fixtures take place this week and there is only one team with a 100% record after the opening pa…
Poland’s Dynamik Torun were crowned as the first Socca Champions League victors after four stunning days of action in Croatia.
Torun edged an-all…
A report by one of the UK’s leading football organisations has uncovered the Government’s multi-million pound donations to the FA have continued d…
The first ever Socca Champions League gets underway in a little over two and a half hours time and three Leisure Leagues teams were involved as the dr…
The whole of the Leisure Leagues family is behind the Balkan’s Stars as they head to Croatia in search of Socca Champions League glory.
The team, …
It’s time for the ever-popular goal of the month vote for September.
And this month it is really special!
We thought that this month, instead of…
Footballers in Reading will have even more choice next month as a long established football firm expands its business.
Leisure Leagues – Europe…
The Leisure Leagues Prize draw for September took place this lunch-time and one of the star prizes was snapped up.
The Zorb football day courtesy o…
With the great and the good of the Socca Club Game decamping to Croatia in 10 days’ time for the first Socca Champions League, here’s our handy gu…
After the excitement of Germany’s win in the first Socca World Cup, thoughts now turn to Croatia in a couple of weeks time, as the best club teams t…
A chance to fly to Germany on holiday is on offer as a brand new community 6 a side football competition gets ready for kick off in October.
The le…
Players affected by the closure of the Powerleague sites across the country have been offered a footballing lifeline by Leisure Leagues.
Last week,…
Germany won the first Socca World Cup – Powered by Leisure Leagues – after a late goal saw them home 1-0 against Poland.
A strike from Kuhle fo…
The first of two brand new 6 a side football leagues in Bristol kicked off last night – and it was enough to give the defenders nightmares.
The p…
England and Scotland are through to the know out stages at the Socca World Cup in Lisbon.
The inaugural event is hosted in a purpose-built stadium …
Teams from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland arrive in Portugal to participate in the inaugural Socca World Cup. The International Socca Federation…
One of Banbury’s longest serving teams, The Trotters, had plenty of reason to run down to the league after bagging the runners-up prize in the August …
Free Entry is on offer to all UWE students as two brand new 6 a side football leagues kick off in Bristol.
Students can celebrate the start of term…
It’s not often that the Mansfield Tuesday 6 a side league at Brunt’s School, gets to set the news agenda, but it did this week as the BBC’s Brexit Bus…
To be fair, Jens Lehmann, John Terry, Ben Thatcher, Roy Keane, Robbie Savage and Craig Bellamy would make a fabulous 6 a side team – but according t…
There were some really strong entries in the Goal Of The Month for September.
Players from our leagues up and down the land have been bulging t…
The players in two popular 6 a side Leagues in Stafford will soon be the newest members of the world’s biggest network of leagues, as they change ha…
Leisure Leagues’ first ever 6 a side league in Buxton kicked off in real style this week, as hundreds of players took part in the grading games to dec…
Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Lionel Messi – and you!
The opportunity to follow in the footsteps of those legends is on offer to all 6 a side f…
A new season is starting in one of the Sittingbourne 6 a side leagues – and teams are urged to join now before the last few remaining places are sna…
Footballers in Walsall will have even more choice next month as a long established football firm expands its business.
Leisure Leagues – Europe…
The chance to join genuine legends of the world game is on offer to players who sign up to play in the brand new six a side football league in Keighle…
A chance to fly to Germany on holiday and a chance to benefit charities too, is on offer as a brand new community 6 a side football competition gets r…
The first season in the brand new 6 a side league in Colchester is kicking off early next month – and teams are urged to join now before the last fe…
The new season in the Bridgwater league has just started, but there is still time to get one of the last few remaining spots – but you will need to …
A new season is starting in the Braintree 6 a side leagues – and teams are urged to join now before the last few remaining places are snapped up!
…
Haven’t Got A Kalou are top of the tree in the Bideford 6 a side league, as it completed it’s second round of fixtures this week.
They are one of t…
The new season in the Brackley league has just started, but there is still time to get one of the last few remaining spots – but you will need to ge…
A new season is starting in the Bicester 6 a side leagues – and teams are urged to join now before the last few remaining places are snapped up!
…
It was a case of some “berry good” goals again this month as the Leisure Leagues Goal Of The Month for June claimed his prize of a football courtesy o…
The latest instalment of the Leisure Leagues prize draw took place at Head Office yesterday and it was a cracking show – literally.
In amongst the …
The first season in the brand new 6 a side league in Bideford is kicking off next week– and teams are urged to join now before the last few remainin…
World Cup Fever hasn’t ended for Leisure Leagues players as 6 a side footballers throughout the country will be able to watch the small sided versio…
Another batch of wonderful goals was posted on our Facebook page yesterday, as they vie for the honour of being the winner for June and to follow in …
The prize draw for the June winners took place a couple of weeks ago and it was – as is now surely expected – a brand of thrills, spills and mayhem.
…
The excitement of yesterdays penalty drama in Russia was no match for the joy which swept the nation earlier in the day as the Leisure Leagues Prize d…
As World Cup Fever sweeps England in advance of the game with Columbia tomorrow night, Leisure League can reveal that it is not just the Jules Rimet t…
The Leisure Leagues Prize Draw on the first Tuesday of the month has become a fixture in the calendar for thousands of teams over the last few months …
Our hugely popular Facebook page has included a new feature in recent weeks – and you and your team can be part of it!
The Team Of The Week has bee…
Thrills, spills and prizes – as well as plenty of lager and cinnamon all over the place – as the Leisure Leagues Prize Draw hit its third month.
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The Leisure Leagues Goal Of The Month has taken our social media channels by storm in the last couple of months, with teams from all across the countr…
The Leisure Leagues prize draw happens again next week, and this months winners are already spending their winnings!
First off were Tilton Rifles…
Leisure Leagues MVP award winner, Curtis Bradshaw said: “I am going to have bit of fun!” as he took his delivery of the prize at the league.
Cu…
For this month’s Partner Of The Month feature, we catch up with one of our newest, Stephen Prosser, who has just started his first league in the West …
The first ever Leisure Leagues Goal Of The Month competition took place last month and saw Rob Cormack from our High Wycombe league take the honours.
…
The Leisure Leagues prize draw took place again this morning – with the May edition providing thrills, spills, competitions and prizes galore.
Th…
Tomorrow marks the date of our April Prize Draw show, LIVE from Leisure Leagues HQ.
We’ve made some changes, so it’s not only the Winners, Runners …
One of our newer partners, Jack Jones from Trowbridge, was in the spotlight – literally – earlier in the year at the Partner Seminar. This month, he i…
In the history of Leisure Leagues we have had some nail-biting finishes to seasons, but perhaps there has been nothing to match the climactic drama of…
Paul Cox, the captain of Cobra’s Reunited, was pretty certain about the destination of the Leisure Leagues star prize: “I am keeping it!” he adm…
Foxtrot Uniform, Charlie, Kilo, from our Warwick League, have plenty of opportunity to celebrate after scooping the runners-up prize in the recent dra…
“It’s what community is all about!” Those words were music to our ears this week as we delivered the first Leisure Leagues MVP Prize draw winner…
A significant deal has been finalised which has secured the global brand and identity of Leisure Leagues throughout the international community.
Th…
The first ever Leisure Leagues prize draw took place at Head Office and was a massive success.
Watched by thousands on Facebook, the draws for Wood…
One team could be jetting off to Germany with flights, accommodation and tickets to a Bundesliga game worth £12,000 ✈
The countdown starts today…
This week saw a brand new league kick off. Monday Night Football came to Northwich – and let’s be honest, that’s got to be better than listening…
The brand new season kicked off this week in the Pen Y Bont League, just one of many competitions that we run in the Bridgend area. TCCBC FC took the …
This month, we talk to Andy Smith, our partner in Weston Super Mare, about his remarkable journey to Leisure Leagues.
Back in the 1980s there w…
If you and your team play in one of our leagues you may know that we give awards out to the winning team who get a large trophy presentation pa…
Leisure Leagues are changing the way we reward our winners.
We already give the best trophies and prize package in small sided football, but no…
Leisure Leagues provided the officials as one of the oldest football rivalries of all was under the microscope again this weekend as Wales hosted Engl…
From one of our newest leagues to one of our oldest, and in a week where the second city took the football spotlight with one of the bitterest derbies…
One for our newest leagues – this Sunday will be third week of the first season in Kendal. The competition has quickly become the talk of the Lakela…
Leisure Leagues were thrilled to be at the first meeting of the International Socca Federation took place in Birmingham, England yesterday. Over 50 gu…
The International Socca Federation, using the term ‘ISF’ or ‘Socca’, will be launching in Birmingham at the prestigious Hyatt Regency Hotel on…
The latest gathering of Leisure Leagues partners took place last weekend and was another extremely productive day.
Partners from all across Britain…
We are giving all the players in our Welsh leagues the chance to win the shirt of new manager Ryan Giggs in our latest competition.
The l…
This week we’ve seen the best and worst of VAR. On Tuesday, Kelechi Iheanacho of Leicester City became the first player to score a goal, thanks to a…
It might be a case of “Didier Dog-ba” scoring the goals in a team managed by “Mauricio Pooch-etiino”, if the lucky pups of Warwickshire get in…
Footballers in some of the most underdeveloped areas of Karachi are benefiting from free games, thanks to a unique initiative from Leisure Leagues…