Liverpool City (1906)

This article is about the club founded in 1906. For the unrelated club which bore the same name between 1951–1968, see Liverpool Stanley.

Liverpool City

Club information
Full name	Liverpool City Rugby League Football Club
Nickname(s)	All Blacks, Citizens[1]
Founded	1906; 119 years ago (1906)
Exited	1907; 118 years ago (1907)
Former details
Ground(s)	Stanley Athletics Ground
Competition	Rugby Football League
Uniforms
Home colours

Liverpool City was a semi-professional rugby league club. The club was based in the Stanley area of Liverpool, a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

The club played in the Rugby League for only one season, in 1906–07.

History

The club played in the Rugby League for the single season 1906–07, its first match being a 41–8 defeat at home to Wigan on 3 September 1906, watched by 1,000 spectators; the club's two tries both scored by J. H. Cooper.^[2] The club finished in bottom place out of the 26 clubs (Pontefract had folded after only 8 games and their records were expunged, but even they had won 3 of these 8 matches). The team lost all 30 official league matches played. It did draw one game, at home to Bramley, which at the time had also lost all of its matches in the season; the match ended 3–3, the points coming from one try each; Dunbobbin going over for the Citizens.^[3] However, as the return fixture was cancelled, the first (drawn) fixture was expunged from the records.

The club resolved to continue in 1907–08 in the West Lancashire Rugby League,^[4] but it was unable to fulfil its fixture commitments, and was wound up in November 1907.^[5]

Another club, also called Liverpool City was formed in 1951 when Liverpool Stanley changed their name and location. There is no connection between the two clubs.

Colours

The club wore black jerseys with white collars and white shield with the Liver bird in black, and was known as the English "All Blacks".^[6]

Ground

The club played at the Stanley Athletics Ground off Fairfield Street, Stanley.^[7]

Records

The club holds, jointly, the record of playing a whole season without a win.

Lost all league matches in a season
	Club	season	League	Cup	Ref
	Liverpool City	1906-07	30 League**	2 Cup-ties	[8]
Other clubs with the same equal record
	Broughton Rangers	1940-41	10 War Lancashire League	1 Cup-tie	[8]
	Leigh	1940-41	13 War Lancashire League	1 Cup-tie	[8]
	Bramley	1941-42	19 War Emergency League	4 Cup-ties	[8]
	Runcorn Highfield	1989-90	28 Division Two	3 Cup-ties	[8]
	Nottingham City	1991-92	26 Division Three	3 Cup-ties	[8]

See also

• British rugby league system
• List of defunct rugby league clubs

References

1. "Northern Union". Liverpool Daily Post: 5. 4 September 1906.
2. "Northern Union". Liverpool Daily Post: 5. 4 September 1906.
3. "Weaklings divide points". Athletic News: 2. 5 November 1906.
4. "Liverpool City". Manchester Courier: 9. 30 May 1907.
5. "The passing of Liverpool City". Yorkshire Evening News: 5. 23 November 1907.
6. "English athletic notes". Edinburgh Evening News: 4. 2 February 1906.
7. Delaney, Trevor (1991). The Grounds of Rugby League. Thornton and Pearson. p. 198. ISBN 978-095099822-0.
8. "RL All Time Records". Archived from the original on 2 September 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2011.

External links

• RL All time records