Club Details
• This is the basic history of every team related to the early Lancashire Amateur League.
• All info is believed accurate but if you can correct any errors then please let me know.
• It is possible that teams that I have noted as playing in local friendlies were instead playing in an obscure league with limited to no coverage, though they were definitely involved in friendlies at some point throughout the season
• Similarly for new clubs, sometimes it can only be assumed they were newly formed as there were no references seen previously, but they could maybe have been playing in unreported friendlies or in an obscure league with limited to no coverage
• For formation and folded dates, I have used either direct reported evidence or best guess using logic from the available results and reports in some cases.
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Team Name |
Formed |
Joined LAL From |
Seasons in LAL |
Left LAL To Join |
Folded |
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| Blackburn Etrurians * | 1887 | Local friendlies | 1893-1895 | Local friendlies | 1909 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brooklands * | 1890 | Local friendlies | 1893-1895 | Local friendlies | 1914 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chorlton-cum-Hardy * | 1891 | Local friendlies | 1894-1895 | Local friendlies | 1955 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eccles * | 1885 | Local friendlies | 1893-1895 | Local friendlies | 1896 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manchester Social * | 1892 | Local friendlies | 1893-1894 | Local friendlies | 1906 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Old Hulmeians * | 1889 | Local friendlies | 1893-1895 | Local friendlies | 1950 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owens College * | 1890 | College and local friendlies | 1893-1895 | College friendlies | 1903 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preston Association * | 1889 | Local friendlies | 1893-1894 | Local friendlies | 1902 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes
* Blackburn Etrurians played at Witton Park (also known as Witton Ground) and went on to play friendlies and county cup ties after the league folded, and then joined the new Lancashire Amateur League in 1899. Indeed in that 4 year period they won the Lancashire Amateur Cup twice 1895-96 and 1898-99, as well as again the following season and finally in 1904-05. They played until the end of the 1908-09 season when performances started to suffer from a lack of players, after earlier having been regarded as one of the area's strongest amateur clubs. The following season 1909-10, another team "Blackburn Etrurian Old Boys" played friendlies, and while clearly related to some degree, they could be a renaming, or another of the Etrurian school teams. That Old Boys team folded in 1910
* Brooklands later went on to play in the later Lancashire Amateur League from 1911 and then folded in 1914. They were set re-form after World War 1 and re-join the relaunched Lancashire Amateur League in 1919. This though didn't happen and the club didn't resume playing
* Chorlon-cum-Hardy later went on to play in the later Lancashire Amateur League from 1903 right through until 1955 when they folded. They were winners of the Lancashire Amateur Cup in 1906-07
* Eccles were the proposers of the league. After the league folded, they played friendlies, as did most teams, but folded in 1896. A new Eccles was created in 1897 by the merger of two other local teams, Eccles Rovers and Patricroft, and they then joined the Manchester League for 2 seasons and then later the new Manchester Amateur League in 1903
* Manchester Social definitely folded just before the start of the 1906-07 season, whilst in the Manchester Amateur League "due to insufficient support", but they reformed a number of times over the coming years. In 1914 they were in the South Manchester and District League and appeared in other leagues at various other times. In 1894 they left the Lanacshire Amateur League after just the one season, and continued playing friendlies initially, later joining the Longsight and District League in 1901, then the Manchester Sunday School League, before joining the Manchester Amateur League in 1904
* Old Hulmeians palyed at Alexandra Park, close to William Hulme's Grammar School. At the time the school was called The Hulme Grammar School, until changing to William Hulme's in 1939. Before this, in 1932, the Old Hulmeians football club changed their name to Manchester South End, while in the later Lancashire Amateur League, which they had joined in 1903. This Manchester South End is not related to the previous club of that name that was founded in 1885 and played until 1906 and folding while in the Manchester Amateur League. Even though the school was only opened in 1887, and a seperate Hulme Grammar School football team was in operation, the Old Hulmeians side was playing games in 1889
* Owens College before 1890 seemed to play just rugby union with Lacrosse being added later. The football team was first mentioned in 1890 and was playing regular friendlies - including many midweek against other colleges. Their ground was at The College Ground in Fallowfield. After leaving the LAL in 1895 they continued to play college friendlies before joining the new Lancashire Amateur League in 1899, where they remained for just one season before returning to just college games and friendlies
* Preston Association played at a ground behind The Bridge Inn, on Leyland Road in Penwortham. Five years after leaving the league, they attempted in September 1899 to change their name to Preston FC, but an objection by Preston North End saw it eventually rejected by the Lancashire FA. They continued on with friendlies but the football club was eventually folded in summer 1902. Many of the players converted back to rugby union to play for Preston Grasshoppers new A team