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Title Heroes: Hugh Adcock

Club Historian John Hutchinson shines a spotlight on the standout players who powered Leicester City to glory – across nearly a century of triumphs.

2025-12-01T12:00+00:00

by John Hutchinson

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01 Dec, 2025

Title Heroes: Hugh Adcock

Club Historian John Hutchinson shines a spotlight on the standout players who powered Leicester City to glory – across nearly a century of triumphs.

John Hutchinson

2025-12-01T12:00+00:00

Title Heroes: Hugh Adcock

Club Historian John Hutchinson shines a spotlight on the standout players who powered Leicester City to glory – across nearly a century of triumphs.

John Hutchinson

2025-12-01T12:00+00:00

Title Heroes: Hugh Adcock

Club Historian John Hutchinson shines a spotlight on the standout players who powered Leicester City to glory – across nearly a century of triumphs.

John Hutchinson

2025-12-01T12:00+00:00

Title Heroes: Hugh Adcock

Club Historian John Hutchinson shines a spotlight on the standout players who powered Leicester City to glory – across nearly a century of triumphs.

John Hutchinson

2025-12-01T12:00+00:00

From the heroes of our record-breaking eight second tier titles, to the 2021 Women’s Championship triumph, the squad that lifted the League 1 trophy in 2009, and the legends who stunned the world in 2016 to win the Premier League, these are the figures who made history in royal blue.

Hugh Adcock, a speedy and tricky outside-right, was one of our all-time great players, whose 460 games between 1923 and 1935 place him fifth in the Club’s all-time appearances table, behind Graham Cross, Adam Black, Jamie Vardy and Kasper Schmeichel.

He was a key member of the Leicester side which, in 1925, won the first of the Club’s record number of eight second tier titles, finishing two points ahead of Manchester United. Adcock played in 40 of the 42 league matches and in five of the six FA Cup matches that term, and his crosses resulted in many of the combined total of 62 goals scored by strikers Arthur Chandler and Johnny Duncan.

Born in Belvoir Road in Coalville in 1903, Hugh, who was only 5’4” tall, was a pit pony boy in the mines before he became a professional footballer at Leicester City in February 1923.

In addition to winning a Second Division title medal in 1925, he was also a key member of the City side which came within a point of winning the old First Division title in 1929 after finishing third the previous season. While at Filbert Street, Hugh played alongside such Leicester City legends as Scotland international Johnny Duncan, Club record goalscorer Arthur Chandler, and England internationals Ernie Hine, Len Barry, Sid Bishop and Reg Osborne.

In 1929, Hugh won five England caps, playing on the right wing and scoring one goal. His first three international matches were away games against France, Belgium and Spain in May 1929 with Len Barry on England’s left wing. He also played against Northern Ireland and Wales later that year, alongside his cousin, Birmingham City’s Joe Bradford, and his Leicester City team-mate Ernie Hine.

Hugh also represented the Football League against the Scottish League in November 1929.

In 1935, after 12 seasons at Leicester, Hugh moved to Bristol Rovers for a season before playing for Southern League Folkestone. Returning to Leicestershire, he joined Ibstock Penistone Rovers and became landlord at the Horse and Trumpet in Sileby. An accomplished pianist and tenor, he was also a keen race-goer. He later became a maintenance engineer for many years at Clutsom and Kemp, a yarn and textile factory in Coalville. After his retirement, Hugh continued to live in Coalville until he died in 1975.

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