In not un-similar circumstances to now, the balance of local support in Anfield and other local Stadiums was becoming increasingly aligned with the nature of globalized support, so following the "walk out on 77 minutes" protest, a small group of Liverpool supporters were called together in September 2014 to discuss creating an alternative football offering for friends and family to enjoy.

As we dug further into the concept of a non-league club for the City of Liverpool, we discovered that there was no football being played in Liverpool between Step 7 (the Liverpool County Premier League) and Liverpool and Everton in the Premier League - 11 steps of football.

As we dug deeper we realised why. There was simply no facility in the City that could host football in this massive 11 step gap, it was the Park or Anfield / Goodison.

Being hopeless romantics, we set about changing that with Liverpool City Council.

By March 2015, we had realised that any new club could not just be about Liverpool supporters and must include Evertonians as well and the very many neutrals that live in the City also.

The very first City of Liverpool FC Board meeting took place and a Board of Directors were formed; Paul Manning (Chairman and Marketing), Peter Furmedge (Vice Chairman and Finance Director), Stuart Fitzgerald (Commercial Director), Martin Jones (Director of Football).

In September 2015 we held a public open meeting from which we gained the support of the local population to create a Community Owned football Club and Founder member Peter Furmedge applied for and was granted permission to form a Supporter Owned Club, using the format of a Community Benefit Society and adopting the model rules of the then) Supporters Direct (now FSA).

By December, we began selling annual memberships in the club and had a tremendous up-take, although also in December it became clear that LCC would not be able to provide us with a ground suitable to play in at Step 6 of the football pyramid and the search for a Groundshare agreement began.

As we were a newly formed club we had to apply to join the NWCFL in December also, so it was a busy month, but thankfully were able to reach an agreement with Bootle FC to play at Vesty Road and our application to join the FA National League System at Step 6 was submitted.

Following numerous interviews, we appointed Simon Burton as Manager and were called to Wembley Stadium to explain our application to powers that be. Everything seemed to be going to plan until we were suddenly informed that we had failed in our application and had been placed in the Liverpool Premier League. By this time we had over 800 members.

But Rochdale Town had been removed due to Ground Grading failures and an appeal was possible. We jumped at the chance and messrs Manning & Furmedge returned to Wembley for the Hearing.

We were in Birmingham City Centre on our way home, when the E-Mail came through that our appeal had been successful and we would indeed be playing in the NWCFL come August 2016.

Season 2016/17 was an absolute dream, with brilliant visits all over the North West and ultimately a Treble won with the Reusch Cup secured in April, followed by the Macron Cup Final, completed by winning the PLay-Offs to gain promotion to the Premier Division at the first attempt.

2016/17 was quieter, with a creditable 4th place finish and success in the Champions Cup and culminated with Simon Burton leaving the club.

Craig Robinson was brought in as Manager and delivered in his first Season, winning the Premier Division and gaining promotion to the NPL Div 1 West, in the days when only the Champion Club earned promotion. We narrowly missed out on the Double going down to an 88th minute goal by winners 1874 Northwich a week after securing the title.

And so we moved into a new chapter for the club in the Northern Premier League, not a great period for the club which saw us in 16th place when the COVID Pandemic shut football and the country as a whole down.

Craig departed the club with all good wishes, but us bottom of the table and was replaced by Michael Ellison who was able to secure a 9th place finish the following season before a poor start to the next season saw us part ways, again bottom of the table after 4 games and Paul McNally brought in.

Paul secured us a 12th place finish and had us in 15th place by November 2023 before an outstanding run in the league saw us finish 5th and secure a play-off spot, beating Runcorn Linnets in the Semi Finals and narrowly losing out at Prescot Cables in the final.

We also reached the final of the Liverpool Senior Cup for the first time as well before losing to Marine 2-0.

However, after another poor start to the Season, we found ourselves in 3rd bottom place after 1/3rd of the Season and parted ways with Paul McNally. This created a huge split in the fanbase and at Board level, which de-stabilised the club greatly and saw us lurch from crisis to crisis firstly under Kevin Lynch's tenure, then Andy Owens.

Nothing worked and we eventually finished bottom of the League and were relegated back to the NWCFL Premier League, where we begin Season 25/26.

Karl Clair was appointed Manager to get us ready for the new Season.

What a first 10 years it has been on the Purple Rollercoaster!

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