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This article is about the club founded in 1906. For the unrelated club which bore the same name between 1951-1968, see Liverpool Stanley.

Liverpool City was a semi-professional rugby league club. The club was based in the Stanley area of Liverpool, a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

The club played in the Rugby League for one season only 1906-07.

History

Very little information is available about the club other than that it played in the Rugby League for the single season 1906-07 finishing in bottom place out of the 26 clubs (Pontefract had folded after only 8 games and their records were expunged, but even they had won 3 of these 8 matches)

Another club, also called Liverpool City was formed in 1951 when Liverpool Stanley changed their name and location. There is no connection between the two clubs.

Ground

The club played at the Stanley Athletics Ground. There are no indications on modern maps as to the exact location of this.

Club Colours

Very little has been written about the club's colours, but it is thought that the club played in blue and yellow.

Records

Club Scoring Record

There do not appear to be any actual details of the club records, probably because it never really had an opportunity to build any sort of fan base, but looking at the playing results (given later) there were many large defeats.

The club do hold, jointly, the record of playing a whole season without a win.

Lost all league matches in a season
Club season League Cup Notes Ref
Liverpool City 1906-07 30 League** 2 Cup-ties ** [1]
Other clubs with the same equal record
Broughton Rangers 1940-41 10 War Lancashire League 1 Cup-tie [1]
Leigh 1940-41 13 War Lancashire League 1 Cup-tie [1]
Bramley 1941-42 19 War Emergency League 4 Cup-ties [1]
Runcorn Highfield 1989-90 28 Division Two 3 Cup-ties [1]
Nottingham City 1991-92 26 Division Three 3 Cup-ties [1]
** Also lost to Pontefract, but this match was expunged from League records after Pontefract disbanded [1]
** Also drew against Bramley but this was expunged from the records as the return match was cancelled [1]

Club League Record

Season Competition Pos Team Name Pl W D L PW PA Diff Pts % No of teams in league Notes Ref
1906-07 RL 26 Liverpool City 30 0 0 30 76 1398 -1322 0 0 26

Heading Abbreviations
Pl = Games Played: W = Win; D = Draw; L = Lose; PF = Points For; PA = Points Against; Diff = Points Difference (+ or -); Pts = League Points
League points: for win = 2; for draw = 1; for loss = 0.

Several fixtures & results

The following are a selection of Liverpool City’s fixtures in their one solitary season in which they played semi-professional rugby league :- [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Season Date Competition Opponent Venue H/A Result Score Att Notes Ref
1906-07 10-12-1906 RL Warrington Stanley Athletic Ground H Lost 7-47 [6]
1906-07 Mon 03-09-1906 RL Wigan Stanley Athletic Ground H Lost 8-41 [6]
1906-07 20-10-1906 RL Widnes Lowerhouse Lane A Lost 4-37 3 [3]
1906-07 Tue 25-12-1906 RL St Helens Knowsley Rd A Lost 0-42 [4]
1906-07 Wed 02-01-1907 RL Wigan Central Park A Lost 3-37 [5]
1906-07 18-02-1907 RL Warrington Wilderspool H Lost 0-52 [6]
1906-07 Sat 16-03-1907 CC R1 Hull Boulevard A Lost 2-63 [3]
1906-07 23-03-1907 RL Widnes Stanley Athletic Ground H Lost 2-49 [6]
1906-07 Sat 30-03-1907 RL St Helens Knowsley Rd A Lost 0-68 [4]
and two other results which were expunged
1906-07 unknown RL Pontefract unknown ? Lost ? 1 [6]
1906-07 unknown RL Bramley unknown ? Draw ? 2 [3]

Heading Abbreviations
CC Rx = Challenge Cup Round x; LC Rx = Lancashire Cup Competition; JPT Rx = John Player Trophy; REGAL Rx = Regal Trophy.

Notes and Comments

1 Pontefract disbanded after only 8 games and all their records, including this one were expunged.[1]

2 The rules at the time stated that, although clubs arranged all their own fixtures, within certain parameters, one of these was that they had to play teams which they do play both home and away. The match against Bramley was expunged from the records as the return match was cancelled. Unfortunately for Liverpool City, the first match was a draw, which meant that had the return match have been played, they would have avoided the record of losing all matches.[1]

3 - Lowerhouse Lane is the original site of the current ground used by Widnes. It was renamed Naughton Park in 1932 in honour of club secretary, Tom Naughton - and later renamed Halton Stadium after being completely rebuilt in 1997.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "RL All Time Records".
  2. ^ 324 "Cherry and White". {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  3. ^ a b c d "Widnes History".
  4. ^ a b c "Saints Heritage Society".
  5. ^ a b aspx "Hull&Proud". {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  6. ^ a b c d e f "Warrington History".
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