Liversedge F.C.

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Liversedge
Liversedge F.C. logo.png
Full nameLiversedge Football Club
Nickname(s)Sedge
Founded1910;114 years ago (1910)
GroundClayborn,
Cleckheaton
West Yorkshire
Capacity2,000
ChairmanDavid Smith (acting)
ManagerJonathan Rimmington
League Northern Premier League Division One East
2022–23 Northern Premier League Premier Division, 21st of 22 (relegated)
Website Club website

Liversedge F.C. is a football club based in Cleckheaton, England, on the border with Hightown in Liversedge. They are currently members of the Northern Premier League Division One East.

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Liversedge play their home games at Clayborn, which features a clubhouse to the top west corner of the ground, covered seating at the North, and a small covered-terracing stand to the West behind the goal. In 2017, Liversedge secured much-needed investment from Trevor Best, Managing Director and Founder of Corpad. Best managed Liversedge in the 1990s, [1] and was chairman as they secured two successive promotions.

Selected facts about Sedge

In the 2004–05 season Liversedge reached the 4th qualifying round of the FA Cup and took Coalville Town to a replay. The draw saw them in the televised draw for the first round proper of the Cup, the stage where the Football League clubs join. Coalville won the replay 2–0 to face Wycombe Wanderers. That season saw Sedge achieve their highest finish in the NCEL, second-placed behind Buxton. Promotion was not granted as the ground was not up to the required standard at that time.

Prior to the 2004–05 season the ground had a large slope from the north to the south. The pitch was dug up in closed season of 2005, and the surface was rebuilt from scratch to make a new, flat field. Liversedge had to play their first few games away for the 2005–06 season while the turf bedded in. The money made from the previous years FA Cup run, enabled them to facilitate this.

On 25 July 2010, Sedge played a match to mark the club's centenary against a Legends XI including Peter Beagrie and former Huddersfield Town player Simon Trevitt. The Legends won 2–1 with both their goals being scored by Chris Freestone.

Following a couple of seasons curtailed dramatically by the coronavirus pandemic, Liversedge were promoted to the Northern Premier League East due to having finished both the 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons in the top three of the table (based on a table using a Points Per Games calculation). [2]

For many years Sedge played in a sky blue home shirt but in 2021–22 they started to play in shirts with blue and white stripes on the front and plain white on the back.

At the end of the 2020/2021 season the highest ever polling result for the league goal of the season was when liversedge forward jack hurrell buried the ball into the top corner from the 35yrd mark after a free kick.

In October 2021, Liversedge F.C. went viral on Twitter because their striker Joe Walton had to go in goal in the second round of the FA Trophy against Clitheroe FC following a red card to the Sedge keeper. He made a string of fine saves to get ten-man Sedge to a penalty shootout, which they then won with Walton saving two and scoring one himself as Sedge went through 10–9 on penalties. [3] Footage of this was retweeted on Twitter and Walton got interviewed on the national radio station Talksport. He was originally a central defender at Sedge before he started playing upfront, and had done the same thing in a cup tie at Barton Town in a previous season. [4] Sedge had been playing Association Football for more than a hundred years before they were relegated for the first time in 2022–23.

The closest team, in the Northern Premier League, to Liversedge F.C. is Brighouse Town. Clashes with better-supported Ossett United are regularly held on a Friday night, with requests to arrive early before the match, making it one of the big derby matches in the league.

A record crowd of 1,559 saw Liversedge beat Ossett at Clayborn in their league fixture on 21 January 2022. [5]

Honours

League history

YearsLeague
1919–1922 Bradford League
1922–1927 West Riding County Amateur
1947–1949 Spen Valley and District League
1949–1972 West Riding County Amateur
1972–1982 Yorkshire League
1982–2021 Northern Counties East Football League Premier Division
2021–2022 Northern Premier League East Division
2022–2023 Northern Premier League Premier Division
2023–Present Northern Premier League East Division

Seasons

Season ∆ LeagueDivisionPosPWDLFAGDPts F.A. Cup F.A. Trophy F.A. Vase W.R. County Cup Notes
1972–73 12 YL Division Three 23018486335+2840Promoted to Division Two
1973–74 11 YL Division Two 53015784533+1237
1974–75 11 YL Division Two 52814595632+24332R
1975–76 11 YL Division Two 328141044725+22383RPromoted to Division One
1976–77 10 YL Division One 143076173757−2020PREJoined Division Two
1977–78 11 YL Division Two 528121064134+734
1978–79 11 YL Division Two 43013983933+635Promoted to Division One
1979–80 10 YL Division One 930109113433+129
1980–81 10 YL Division One 1030117123549−1429
1981–82 10 YL Division One 153065192452−2817Joined Northern Counties East League as Founding member
1982–83 10 NCEL Division One (North) 8268993535+025 3R [6]
1983–84 10 NCEL Division One (North) 132657142953−2417 1R [7]
1984–85 10 NCEL Division One (North) 832146125550+548EP 3R [8] Placed in Division Two in re-organisation
1985–86 11 NCEL Division Two 1030115144656−10381R 2R [9]
1986–87 11 NCEL Division Two 11341013114045−543PRE 2R [10]
1987–88 11 NCEL Division Two 628135105140+1144PRE 1R [11]
1988–89 11 NCEL Division Two 22616465224+2852PRE 1R [12] Promoted to Division One
1989–90 10 NCEL Division One 22817385729+2854EP W [13] Runner-up on goal difference
1990–91 10 NCEL Division One 32415276135+2647PRE 3R [14] Promoted to Premier Division
1991–92 9 NCEL Premier Division 1436118175472−1841 1Q 2R 2R [15]
1992–93 9 NCEL Premier Division 1438128185677−2144 PRE EP SF [16]
1993–94 9 NCEL Premier Division 1138174176365−255 2Q 2R 2R [17]
1994–95 9 NCEL Premier Division 193878234881−3329 PRE PRE 2R [18]
1995–96 9 NCEL Premier Division 938167155249+355 PRE 2Q 1R [19]
1996–97 9 NCEL Premier Division 203859244087−4724 PRE 1Q 2R [20]
1997–98 9 NCEL Premier Division 183879224188−4730 2Q 2Q F [21]
1998–99 9 NCEL Premier Division 638214138763+2467 1Q 2R SF [22]
1999–2000 9 NCEL Premier Division 438205137645+3165 2Q 2Q 2R [23]
2000–01 9 NCEL Premier Division 1538913165063−1340 1Q 1R 2R [24]
2001–02 9 NCEL Premier Division 1138146185966−748 2Q 2Q SF [25]
2002–03 9 NCEL Premier Division 938166165965−654 PRE 1R 3R [26]
2003–04 9 NCEL Premier Division 938178137258+1459 1Q 2R 2R [27]
2004–05 9 NCEL Premier Division 6381710117462+1261 4Q 2Q 1R [28]
2005–06 9 NCEL Premier Division 238255810649+5780 EP 3R 2R [29]
2006–07 9 NCEL Premier Division 12381310155860−249 PRE 2R 2R [30]
2007–08 9 NCEL Premier Division 438208107341+3268 2Q 2Q 2R [31]
2008–09 9 NCEL Premier Division 1438147176064−446 EP 1R 2R [32] Three points deducted
2009–10 9 NCEL Premier Division 938175168983+656 EP 1R QF [33]
2010–11 9 NCEL Premier Division 1738712195276−2432 EP 2Q 2R [34] One point deducted
2011–12 9 NCEL Premier Division 1438125216280−1841 PRE 2Q 2R [35]
2012–13 9 NCEL Premier Division 15421112196881−1345 EP 2Q 2R [36]
2013–14 9 NCEL Premier Division 20441062858115−5736 EP 1R 2R [37]
2014–15 9 NCEL Premier Division 184097244693−4734 EP 2Q 2R [38]
2015–16 9 NCEL Premier Division 1442139206193−3248 EP 1Q 2R [39]
2016–17 9 NCEL Premier Division 1142178179973+2659 EP 2Q 1R [40]
2017–18 9 NCEL Premier Division 11421512159693+357 EP 1R 1R [41]
2018–19 9 NCEL Premier Division 1338153205680−2448 PRE 1Q 2R [42]
2019–20 9 NCEL Premier Division 22416538042+3853 1Q 2Q 1R [43]
2020–21 9 NCEL Premier Division 37700253+2221 EP 4R Joined Northern Premier League
2021–22 8 NPL Division One East 13629619822+7693 1Q 2R W [44] Promoted to Premier Division
2022–23 7 NPL Premier Division 2142117244886-3840 2Q 1Q relegated to Division One East
2023–24 8 NPL Division One East 1332136134837+1145

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