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Welcome to Port Online
...a historical record of Southport FC
Thursday April 23, 2009
This site is an online historical record of Southport Football Club. It is a vast resource covering a lot of the history of the club. It will not be updated with the latest news, except that specifically relating to the content of the site itself. Full Article
The Lancashire County Cup Story
Part II
Wednesday May 04, 2011
An experiment to play all Lancashire Cup games late in the season was deemed unsuccessful and the early rounds of the competition went back to being played in the first half of the campaign. For Southport this meant that by the end of September 1937 their interest in the competition had gone after a 3-1 defeat at home to bury.
As the onset of war loomed ever closer in 1939 the FA temporarily suspended all organised football 3 games into the league campaign, deferring to local authorities to determine whether regional football could be started with restrictions on the numbers allowed to attend matches.
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The Lancashire County Cup Story
Part I (Pre WW2)
Sunday November 28, 2010
The Lancashire FA’s Senior Challenge Cup is one of the oldest cup competitions in England dating back to 1879, two years before Southport Football Club were formed. Their first participation in the Lancashire Cup wasn’t until 1882 when they opened their account as 4-0 victors over Stacksteads Working Mens club.
The early years of the competition were dominated by clubs from East Lancashire such as Blackburn Rovers, Blackburn Olympic, Darwen and Accrington, but as football grew in popularity across the county the number of applicants to join the competition increased.
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Contact
A number of Profiles on this site are referenced and reproduced with Permission from
- The Sandgrounders: The Complete League History of Southport F. C., by Michael Braham and Geoff Wilde (Palatine Books, 1995). ISBN 978-1-874181-14-9
- The Complete Non-League History of Southport Football Club 1978 - 2008, by Trust in Yellow (Legends Publishing, 2008). ISBN 978-1-906796-01-3
Particular thanks to Geoff Wilde, Michael Braham and Rob Urwin. If you can provide any further information or spot anything incorrect please contact me
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