National Futsal Series
In 2019 the National Futsal Series was launched across the men's and women's game. Loughborough Students Futsal first team compete in Tier 1 of NFS with the development squad competing in Tier 2.
The current FA Futsal male pathway sees the NFS Tier 1 at the top of the pyramid with Champions League Futsal available for the winner of the series, directly below sits Tier 2 with promotion to Tier 1 possible for the league winner. Players representing Loughborough Students Futsal club are either current students or alumni.
Jose Llorente
Head Coach
Current Futsal UEFA B and Football UEFA A. Jose Llorente joined Loughborough Students Futsal in 2015 as a volunteer. Being part of the coaching staff since until his current Role as a Head Coach.
Jose started his coaching career at 22 years old coaching on a Primary School with the futsal team while doing a PE teacher placement. A few years later he continued, combining his futsal with football coaching.
Relocated in 2013 to the UK, first helped a local grassroots team to integrate futsal within the club offer and then moved to Leicester City RTC where he worked with the U17 to U11, developing promising female players and named futsal specialist developing twin track on the U10 and U12.
In 2019 Jose moved into Loughborough College leading the football second team to finish top on the league table and became Head Coach of Woman’s Futsal at the University of Loughborough, helping the second team to be a double runner up (League and Conference Cup) and reach the last 8 with the First team. In 2020 took the role of U19 Futsal Head Coach at the college for two years.