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The Lancashire FA are based at the County Ground, Thurston Road in Leyland.They moved their headquarters to the County Ground in 1998 from Blackburn. [9]The County Ground is the current home of Bolton Wanderers reserve team, who play in the Premier Reserve League and who, in the 2009–10 season, play in the North Division. [10]
The Myles N. Kenyon Cup, popularly known as the Kenyon Cup was an amateur football cup competition held for teams playing in Amateur Leagues in and around Bury, England and is named after former Lancashire captain and batsman and High Sheriff of Lancashire, Myles Noel Kenyon. [1] [2] It was formed in 1922 and the last game was played in 2017.
The last Amateur Cup final was held on 20 April 1974, and Bishop's Stortford became the last tournament winners, defeating Ilford 4–1. [6] In the same year, the FA abandoned its policy of classifying all clubs as either fully professional or fully amateur, and accordingly the Amateur Cup was abolished.
One more reminder that the NBA Cup championship game does not count towards the Week 8 fantasy scoring. With those two days off, we have 17 teams playing two games and 12 teams playing three. The ...
The Lancashire Amateur Football League (more commonly known as the LAL) was founded in 1899. [1] Clubs are situated throughout the old boundaries of Lancashire and Cheshire; stretching from Preston in the north, Southport in the west, Rochdale and Oldham in the east and Lymm in the south.
The big step that the Committees of the various Sunday leagues across England took was the launch of a national cup competition in the 1960–61 season, similar to the FA Amateur Cup which had commenced in 1893. The inaugural final saw Walsall Waflers from the Lichfield & Walsall Sunday league facing the Stamford Rovers of the Grantham & District.
Wembley Stadium was the venue for the final between 1949 and 1974. Matches in the Amateur Cup were played at the home ground of one of the two teams, as decided when the matches are drawn. Occasionally games were moved to other grounds. In the event of a draw, the replay was played at the ground of the team who originally played away from home ...
The match was played at Central Park, Wigan, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 10,020 and receipts were £6,261.00 After relatively little success in the competition, Workington Town had reached the semi-final stage in 1973, 1974 and 1975, had been runner-up in 1976, winner in 1977, and now runners-up again in 1978 ...