Liversedge F.C.
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| Full name | Liversedge Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Sedge | ||
| Founded | 1910 | ||
| Ground | Clayborn, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire | ||
| Capacity | 2,200 (250 seated) | ||
| Chairman | Steve Newton | ||
| Manager | Eric Gilchrist | ||
| League | NCEL Premier Division | ||
| 2012–13 | NCEL Premier Division, 15th | ||
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Liversedge F.C. is a football club based in Cleckheaton, England, on the border with Hightown in Liversedge. For the 2013–14 season, they play in the Northern Counties East Football League Premier Division .
Liversedge play their home games at Clayborn, which features a clubhouse to the top West corner of the ground, covered seating at the North, and small covered terracing stand to the West behind the goal. Prior to the 2004–05 season the ground had a large slope from the North to the South. The pitch was dug up in closed season of 2005, and the surface was rebuilt from scratch to make a new, flat field. Liversedge had to play their first few games away for the 2005–06 season while the turf bedded in.
Liversedge have been close to promotion into a higher league, including the 2005–06 season, when they finished runners-up to Buxton and won the League Cup in addition. However, there were not sufficient facilities for promotion to the Northern Premier League, it was noted that they did not have separate changing rooms for female referees.
Sedge have an under-19s team who play in the Northern U19 Alliance League West Division.
Recent history
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In the 2004–05 season, under the guidance of Eugene Lacy the former Farsley Celtic manager, Liversedge reached the 4th qualifying round of the FA Cup and took Coalville Town to a replay after being robbed by a linesmans flag, having an Asif Hussain free kick chalked off for off side, Sky sports reports of the game showed the goal which proved to be wrongly disallowed. The draw saw them in the televised draw for the first round proper of the Cup, the stage where the Football League clubs join. Coalville won the replay 2–0 to face Wycombe Wanderers .
Forward Paul Walker rejoined Sedge at the start of the 2009–10 season to play as a striker and by the start of December had scored 26 goals including 22 in the league, including 5 goals in the 9–2 home victory over basement club Brodsworth Welfare on 14 November. Several teams tried to sign him and he eventually left for Garforth Town in early December. Despite leaving for a Northern Premier League team so early in the season Walker still finished joint-5th top scorer in the Northern Counties East League Premier Division at the end of the season.
With their leading goalscorer having moved on Sedge finished the season in the top half of the table in 9th place, former under-19s player Jamie "Wez" Wasley taking over the mantle as the team's main goal threat.
2010–11 was an interesting season for local derbies with close neighbours Brighouse Town joining the Premier Division after finishing runners-up in the First Division and a re-established Farsley team based in Leeds being allowed by the FA to join the Premier Division.
On Sunday 25 July 2010 Sedge played a special match to mark the club's centenary against a Legends XI including Peter Beagrie and former Huddersfield Town player Simon Trevitt. The Legends won 2–1 with both their goals being scored by Chris Freestone. It was Sean Regan and his assistant Billy Miller's last game in charge before Regan left to join Scunthorpe United to work with their junior sides. His replacement as manager, Stuart Waddington, left after a disappointing start to the season and was replaced by the returning Billy Miller together with Player/Assistant Manager Cory Larkin.
Several ex-players were re-signed during the middle of the season to strengthen the squad, most notably Darryl Leach a centre-half who steadied them at the back and also scored some important goals, and goalkeeper Lee Ashforth.
Despite losing their final game of the season to fellow relegation candidates Hallam they finished fourth bottom as other results went in their favour and can still boast that in their 100 year history they have never been relegated.
Current squad
As of 3 September 2013[update]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Honours
- NCEL – President's Cup 2007–08
- NCEL – League Cup 2005–06
- Reserve Team Cup – 2002–03
- West Riding County Challenge Cup – 1948–49 1951–52 1969–70
- West Riding County Cup – 1989–90
- West Riding County – Amateur League 1923–24 1925–26 1926–27 1964–65 1965–66 1968–69.
- Spen Valley League Cup - 1947-48 1948-49
- Spen Valley League - 1948-49
- Wheatley Cup - 1919-20 1950-51 1952-53 1953-54 1955-56 1960-61 1961-62 1964-65 1967-68 1968-69
- Bradford Hospital Cup - 1924-25
- Bradford League - 1920-21
League history
- Bradford League 1919-1922
- West Riding County Amateur 1922–27
- Spen Valley League 1947-49
- West Riding County Amateur 1949-72
- Yorkshire 1972–82
- NCEL 1982 – present
Images from Clayborn
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View from the seated stand with the floodlights on. -
View of the seated stand taken from the car park -
Behind the goal is the West Stand, home of The Sedge Kop -
vs North Ferriby United in the FA Cup 1st Qualifying round 15/9/7. Sedge had a 1–0 victory against the Northern Premier League side.
References
- ^ "1st Team – Players & Coaches". pitchero.com/clubs/liversedge. Retrieved 13 November 2011.