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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 county football associations are the local governing bodies of association football in England and the Crown dependencies.County FAs exist to govern all aspects of football in England.
The Lancashire FA Women's County League is an amateur competitive women's association football competition based in Lancashire, England run by the Lancashire FA.Founded in 1996 as the Lancashire FA Girls League, [1] the league consists of two division at levels 7 and 8 of the women's pyramid.
The Lancashire and Cheshire Amateur Football League is an English association football league founded in 1909. As of the 2024/25 season, the league consists of six divisions – Premier, One, Two and Three, then A and B. Historically the divisions named A-D were for Reserve sides of teams in the top four divisions, but 1st teams can now play at the lower levels.
The County Ground is located next to the Motor Vehicle Museum and was originally home to Leyland Motors FC who played in the Lancashire Combination from 1933 until 1980 when they joined the Cheshire County League, where they played for two seasons, before becoming founder members of the North West Counties Football League in 1982. [1]
The competition was stopped in 1974 due to concerns over the format and lack of interest in adding to fixture lists. [2] It was then revived and revamped as a pre-season tournament in 1982, becoming known as the 'Lancashire Manx Cup' due to its sponsorship by the Isle of Man Tourist Board.
The first Lancashire FA Challenge Trophy took place in the 1885–86 season, when Bells Temperance were the winners. The only times the trophy was not competed was 1915–18 during World War I, 1940–41 season during World War II, although it did continue for the rest of the war years, and 2020-21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lancaster City Football Club is an English semi-professional non-League football club based in the northern city of Lancaster, Lancashire.They currently compete in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, the seventh tier of English football, and play at Giant Axe.