Rovers Veterans FC

24/10/2026

🔵⚪ ROVERS VETERANS FC | 2026/27 MATCH KIT REVEAL ⚪🔵

We’re proud to unveil our new match kit for the 2026/27 season! Same colours, same goals 💪🏼

A huge thank you Veterans Living History Museum CIC (VLHM) for becoming our new front-of-shirt sponsor and for purchasing our new kit. Your continued support means a great deal to everyone involved with Rovers Veterans FC, and we’re incredibly grateful to have you alongside us. 🙌

💙 THIS SEASON, WE REMEMBER A ROVERS LEGEND.

Our 2026/27 kit carries a special tribute to the late, great Tony Parkes — a true Blackburn Rovers legend whose contribution to the club will never be forgotten.

Our shirt also features the two main funders of our veteran’s projects in BAE Systems and Veterans Foundation. Without their funding, the programmes would not be able to run at the level they do.

From everyone at Rovers Veterans FC, thank you to VLHM, BAE Systems and Veterans Foundation for your generosity, continued commitment and support of our team.

One club. One community. One legend never forgotten. 💙🤍

| BAE Systems Veterans' Foundation Royal British Legion 🔵⚪️

20/10/2026

👏 A HUGE THANK YOU TO McDONALD’S EWOOD! 👏

On behalf of our Veterans Football Team, we would like to say a massive thank you to McDonald's Ewood for their generous support in purchasing our team’s new tracksuits. ❤️

Your kindness and support mean a great deal to us, helping our veterans look the part, feel part of a team, and represent our club with pride. ⚽️💪

It’s fantastic to see local businesses supporting our veterans and the work we do through football, camaraderie and community spirit.
From everyone involved with the team, thank you, McDonald’s Ewood, for your generosity and support! 🙌

We would also like to thank our kit supplier John Harrison Sports Ltd for getting these made up for us. Great work as always.

| Blackburn Rovers Community Trust BAE Systems Veterans' Foundation Veterans Living History Museum CIC 🔵⚪️

10/10/2026

⚽️ Today, our Veteran football team hosted The Royal Tank Regiment Veterans FC (RTR) in a 7 aside friendly in the BRIC. A really good, fast pace game of football with RTR coming out 7-4 winners.

🔵⚪️ After our fixture, both teams headed over to the stadium to watch Rovers face Cardiff City in the Sky Bet Championship.

🤝 We would like to thank RTR for travelling up to play our team today. We hope you have enjoyed it and look forward to catching up again soon. Well done to both teams for a great game of football. We would also like to thank Blackburn Rovers for providing the veterans match tickets to be able to watch the game, enabling us to strengthen our new friendships and rediscover that camaraderie we had when serving.

| Blackburn Rovers Community Trust BAE Systems Veterans' Foundation Veterans Living History Museum CIC Royal British Legion

27/09/2026

🏆 Victory on our return to the NWMVL 🏆

⚽️ Today our Veterans returned to the FA Northwest Military Veterans League for the 2026/27 season having sat last year out. Today’s opponents were Morecambe FC Community Foundation Veterans and we knew they are a strong opposition.

Morecambe took the lead early on but Rovers levelled the game from the penalty spot. Another 2 great goals seen us lead 3-1 at half time.

The second half started well but both teams struggled to capitalise until Rovers found another well worked goal to make it 4-1. Morecambe did manage to get a goal late on but the lads seen it through to finish the game 4-2 winners.

Well done team and thanks to our opponents Morecambe for a great game of football. Onto the next 🔵⚪️

| Blackburn Rovers Community Trust BAE Systems Veterans' Foundation Veterans Living History Museum CIC Royal British Legion Lancashire Football Association

05/07/2026

⚽️ Some of our Veterans have made the short trip to Accrington today to take part in a 6 aside tournament organised by Accrington Stanley Community Trust. Good luck team 🔵⚪️

| Blackburn Rovers Community Trust BAE Systems Veterans' Foundation Veterans Living History Museum CIC

27/06/2026

⚽️Great day of football today in Fylde. As expected, some really tough opponents coming up against the serving teams of the Lancs. We finished our group with 1 win and 3 losses. We of course do not want to lose games but it’s all about the camaraderie and connecting with serving members/veterans in the Armed Forces community.

🏆 Congratulations to 1 Lancs B on winning the tournament and a big thanks to The Duke Of Lancaster's Regiment for having us over.

🚀 Special mention to Scotty C for his goal from our own box (good clearance mate 😏) well done to all involved. Onto the next….

| Blackburn Rovers Community Trust BAE Systems Veterans' Foundation Veterans Living History Museum CIC John Harrison Sports Ltd 🔵⚪️

27/06/2026

27/06/2026

🏆 Ready to go in Fylde for the ‘Lions of England’ tournament. Good luck lads.

| Blackburn Rovers Community Trust BAE Systems Veterans' Foundation The Duke Of Lancaster's Regiment 🔵⚪️

23/06/2026

⚽️ Last night, our Veterans marked the start of Armed Forces Week with a very hot, but great session of football. Well done to all who attended.

🏆 Some of the Veterans now look forward to Saturday where we travel to Fylde to take part in ‘The Lions of England’ tournament, as part of The Duke Of Lancaster's Regiment 20th anniversary celebrations. Good luck team.

📧 For more information on how you can get involved with veterans football, or any of our other veteran sessions, please contact Ryan at [email protected]

| Blackburn Rovers Community Trust BAE Systems Veterans' Foundation Veterans Living History Museum CIC 🔵⚪️

20/04/2026

🤝Yesterday, some of the Veterans travelled to Wales to take on Wales Armed Forces Veterans FC in an 11 aside friendly at Colliers Park.

⚽️Wales are an established international veterans team who are due to play in the Veterans World Cup, so it was going to be a big challenge from the start.

Wales came out on top 6-3 winners but the lads should be proud of their performance, especially with being so inexperienced playing together in this format. Some very good football from both teams in what was an enjoyable fixture to watch.

Well done to all involved and a big thank you to Team Wales for hosting us. We look forward to meeting up with Wrexham Armed Forces Veterans soon.

📧 For more information on how you can get involved with Veterans football, please contact Ryan at [email protected]
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| Blackburn Rovers Community Trust Veterans' Foundation BAE Systems Royal British Legion Veterans Living History Museum CIC