Sports and Leisure
Take part in thrill-seeking challenges, learn a new sport or just have active family fun. Leicester is also a topflight sporting city for spectator sports including rugby, football, basketball, cricket and speedway. The nation’s top athletes train at Loughborough University, so we help Great Britain compete on the global sporting stage too.
There are many sport and leisure pursuits to be enjoyed in our beautiful county with over 70 miles of waterways and a 200 square mile National Forest, and a city with the latest in leisure and active entertainment facilities.
The greatest benefits to our physical and mental health comes from when we go from doing no physical activity at all to doing just a little bit!
So, get ready to have some active fun in Leicester and Leicestershire, indoor or outdoor, choose a gentle stroll or some energetic fun packed action.
Leicester City Football Club
Leicester City Football Club, also known as the Foxes, is a professional football team based in the city.
Stoney Cove
Shiver me Timbers! A wreck to explore 60 miles from sea. Shipwrecks, aquatic wildlife and scuba diving, all in the most landlocked county in the UK?
Leicester Tigers
The illustrious history of the formidable Leicester Tigers dates back to 1880, making them the best-supported and most successful club in English rugby today.
The National Forest
England’s first forest for 1,000 years – With landscape features which go back 500 million years, the former industrial landscape of north-west Leicestershire
