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Tranmere Rovers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. The team compete in EFL League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1884 as Belmont Football Club, they adopted their current name in 1885. Tranmere's regular kit is an all-white strip with blue, or occasionally blue and green trim, their main colours since 1962. The club moved to its current home, Prenton Park, in 1912. In 1995, the ground had a major redevelopment in response to the Taylor Report. It now seats 16,567 in four stands: the Main Stand, the Kop, the Johnny King Stand and the Cowshed.
John Allen King was an English football player and manager. He is widely regarded as being the most successful manager in the history of Tranmere Rovers, and had a stand at Prenton Park named in his honour in 2002. In November 2014, a statue of King was unveiled outside the ground.
Ronald David Moore is an English football manager and former player. He has taken charge of several clubs including Rotherham United, Tranmere Rovers and Hartlepool United.
Kevin John Gray is an English former footballer, who played as a defender in the Football League for Mansfield Town, Huddersfield Town, Stockport County, Tranmere Rovers, Carlisle United and Chesterfield.
Michael Joseph Mellon is a Scottish professional football coach and former player who was most recently the manager of Tranmere Rovers. As a player, he was a midfielder for clubs including Bristol City, West Bromwich Albion, Blackpool, Tranmere and Burnley.
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Ian James Muir is an English former professional football striker who scored 146 goals from 330 appearances in the Football League playing for Queens Park Rangers, Burnley, Birmingham City, Brighton & Hove Albion, Swindon Town, Tranmere Rovers and Darlington. He also played in the Hong Kong First Division League for Sing Tao and Happy Valley, before returning to non-league football in England with Nuneaton Borough and Stratford Town. He is Tranmere's all-time record goalscorer, with 180 goals in all competitions.
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John Byrne is a Scottish footballer who played as a winger in the Football League for Tranmere Rovers, Barnsley, Peterborough United and Northampton Town. He also played in his native Scotland for Hamilton Academical, Queen of the South and Hibernian.
Jim Pollard was an English footballer, who played as a winger in the Football League for Tranmere Rovers. He moved to Wigan Athletic in 1949, where he appeared 95 times in the Lancashire Combination.
Jim Williamson was an English footballer, who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Tranmere Rovers.
Jack Lornie was a Scottish footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Leicester City, Luton Town, Carlisle United and Tranmere Rovers. When Lornie finished his career in the English leagues, he moved back to his native Scotland in the summer of 1966 and signed for Dingwall-based, Scottish Highland Football League Club, Ross County FC. Lornie spent circa 10 years at Ross County where he finished as First Team Coach. When Jack was freed by Carlisle United in June 1964, he was about to sign on a part time basis for Inverness Caledonian FC in the Scottish Highland Football League, however, Tranmere Rovers stepped in which gave Jack another two seasons on a full time basis in the English Football League.
Raymond Guy Woods is a footballer who played as a winger in the Football League for Tranmere Rovers, Wigan Athletic, Coventry City and Shrewsbury Town.
The 2019–20 season was Tranmere Rovers' 136th season of existence and their first back in EFL League One in five years following promotion from the 2018–19 EFL League Two. Along with competing in League One, the club participated in the FA Cup, EFL Cup and EFL Trophy.
The 2020–21 season is the 137th season of Tranmere Rovers in existence and their first back in EFL League Two having been relegated after the premature conclusion of the 2019–20 EFL League One season due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on association football. Along with competing in League Two, the club will also participate in the FA Cup, EFL Cup and EFL Trophy. The season covers the period from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.
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- ↑ Brown, Neil (2 September 2012). "Jim Lumby". Post War English & Scottish Football League A – Z Player's Database. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
- ↑ Upton, Gilbert; Wilson, Steve (November 1997). "Players' Data". Tranmere Rovers 1921–1997: A Complete Record. pp. 101–108. ISBN 978-0-9518648-2-1.
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