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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Chapters: 1880 in Gaelic games, 1880 in association football, 1880 in baseball, 1880 in cricket, 1880 in horse racing, 1880 in rugby union, 1880 in tennis, Sports clubs established in 1880, Leicester Tigers, Northampton Saints, 1880 Wimbledon Championship ¿ Singles, Batley Bulldogs, 1880¿81 Home Nations rugby union matches, SC 1880 Frankfurt, Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1880, Cincinnati Tennis Club, 1880¿81 FA Cup, 1879¿80 FA Cup, 1879¿80 Home Nations rugby union matches, Newport Casino, Pill Harriers RFC, New York Metropolitans, Dundee HSFP, 1879¿80 Welsh Cup, Australian cricket team in England in 1880, Castlegar GAA, 1880¿81 Welsh Cup, Larchmont Yacht Club, Maidstone FC, Strachur and District Shinty Club, 1880 FA Cup Final, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Gimnasia y Esgrima de Buenos Aires, Coolderry GAA, Tondu RFC, Granite Curling Club, Royal Colombo Golf Club, 1880 English cricket season, Crumlin RFC, IF Urædd, 1879¿80 in English football, Ystrad Rhondda RFC, Cwmbran RFC, Porthcawl RFC, 1880¿81 in English football, 1880 Kentucky Derby, Oldpark F.C., 1880 VFA season, Mercantile Rowing Club, 1880 Open Championship. Excerpt: Leicester Football Club (nicknamed Leicester Tigers) is an English rugby union club that plays in the Aviva Premiership, of which they are the current champions. The club has been the most successful English club of the professional era, winning the Heineken Cup twice and the league five times under the captaincy of Martin Johnson, all in the space of seven years, as well as three titles in the last four seasons. Leicester are one of only four teams (along with Gloucester, Bath and Wasps) never to have been relegated from the top division, and they have never finished a league season below 6th position. They are also the only English side to have qualified to play in every Heineken Cup in which English teams have participated. The club's turnover for 2009¿10 was £18.5 million. Leicesters biggest rivals are Bath, London Wasps and Northampton Saints. The rivalry with Northampton is known as the East Midlands Derby. Leicester Football Club was formed in a meeting held in the city's George Hotel on August 1880 by the merger of three smaller teams: Leicester Societies AFC, Leicester Amateur FC and Leicester Alert. That October, the new club wore black for their first game against Moseley at the Belgrave Cricket and Cycle Ground. It was not until five years or so later that the nickname "Tigers" was first used, the Leicester Daily Post reporting that "the Tiger stripes were keeping well together". The origin of the nickname is uncertain, but it may have come from the Leicestershire Regiment (which became in 1946 The Royal Leicestershire Regiment). The Regiment had received the nickname 'Tigers' after serving in India, and from 1825 had worn a cap-badge with a 'royal' tiger to mark the connection. An alternative theory is that the team wore a brown and yellow striped shirt. In their early years, they were also known as "The Death or Glory Boys". The now-famous scarlet, green and white jerseys were not introduced until 1891, although these were in a vertical stripe formatio