Liverpool City (1906)

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

• Liverpool City RLFC
• British rugby league system
• 1906–07 Northern Rugby Football Union season
• Rugby league county leagues
• List of defunct rugby league clubs

References

1. "RL All Time Records". Archived from the original on 2 September 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
2. 324 "Cherry and White" Check |url= value (help).
3. "Widnes History".
4. "Saints Heritage Society".
5. aspx "Hull&Proud" Check |url= value (help).
6. "Warrington History". Archived from the original on 6 July 2010.

External links

• RL All time records