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Liss Athletic Football Club was established in 1962. The Blues joined Division Four of the Hampshire League for the start of the 1975/76 campaign, and were immediately promoted to Division Three when they finished third.
Further promotion followed in the 1979/80 season, when the top two teams expanded and Liss were placed in Division Two, where the club remained for three seasons before leaving the Hampshire League at the end of 1982/83.
The club returned to the Hampshire League for the 1987/88 season, placed into Division Two, where they remained until 1994/95, promoted to Division One as champions.
Liss remained in the top tier of the Hampshire League until the end of the 2003/04 campaign - finishing fourth - after which they joined the newly created Division Two of the Wessex League, which then became Division One after two seasons, until the end of the 2007/08 campaign.
The club joined the newly-formed Hampshire Premier League - which had been founded a season earlier, and were twice reprieved from relegation in finished bottom of the table in consecutive seasons of 2010/11 and 11/12, with the club's best finish in recent years in 2015/16, when they finished fourth.
The same season saw Liss reach the League Cup final, defeated 2-0 by Hamble Club at AFC Portchester - while the reserves brought silverware by completing the Combination (East) League and Cup double.
After two abandoned seasons owing to the Covid pandemic, 2021/22 saw a new-look Liss Athletic finish just above the relegation spots under manager, Mark Glazier, with opportunity handed to a number of youth team players, where the club operates a side at every age group as part of its growing set-up.
Twelve months later, the side progressed to mid-table, while reaching its first League Cup semi-final for six years.
Continued on-field improvements saw the club rank fifth in 2023/24 – their highest HPFL finish for eight years.
Year-on-year progression continued into 2024/25 - the reserves brought home the Hampshire Combination & Development League Cup with penalty shoot-out victory over Downton at Westleigh Park in April - a first silverware for nine years.
Meanwhile, the first team won the George Mason Memorial Shield, beating Denmead at AFC Portchester to go with a runners-up finish in the Senior Division - another milestone for the club’s home-grown talent and its management.
Honours: Hampshire Premier League - Division One Champions - 1994/95
George Mason Memorial Shield Winners - 2024/25
Hampshire Premier League Cup Finalists - 2015/16
Hampshire Combination & Development League Cup Winners - 2024/25
Hampshire Premier League Combination East Champions - 2015/16
Hampshire Premier League Combination Cup Winners - 2015/16
Highest Ever Finish: 5th - Wessex League Division Two (*now One): 2005/06
Record Attendance: 414 vs Pompey Legends (Club Fundraiser), May 2024