Liversedge F.C.

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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 Counties East League Premier Division.

Full nameLiversedge Football Club
NicknameSedge
Founded1910; 116 years ago (1910)
GroundClayborn,
Cleckheaton
West Yorkshire
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Liversedge
Full nameLiversedge Football Club
NicknameSedge
Founded1910; 116 years ago (1910)
GroundClayborn,
Cleckheaton
West Yorkshire
Capacity2,000
ChairmanBethany Osborne
ManagerDanny Forrest
LeagueNorthern Counties East League Premier Division
2024–25Northern Premier League Division One East, 21st of 22 (relegated)
Websiteliversedgefc.co.uk
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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]

The 2025–26 season saw Liversedge immediately promoted back to step 4 as champions following their relegation to the Northern Counties East Premier Division the previous season.[6]

Records

Honours


League history

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Years League
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
2023–2025 Northern Premier League East Division
2025– Northern Counties East Football League Premier Division
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Seasons

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Season ∆ League Division Pos P W D L F A GD Pts F.A. Cup F.A. Trophy F.A. Vase W.R. County Cup Notes
1972–73 12 YL D3 2 30 18 4 8 63 35 +28 40 Promoted to Division Two
1973–74 11 YL D2 5 30 15 7 8 45 33 +12 37
1974–75 11 YL D2 5 28 14 5 9 56 32 +24 33 2R
1975–76 11 YL D2 3 28 14 10 4 47 25 +22 38 3R Promoted to Division One
1976–77 10 YL D1 14 30 7 6 17 37 57 −20 20 PRE Joined Division Two
1977–78 11 YL D2 5 28 12 10 6 41 34 +7 34
1978–79 11 YL D2 4 30 13 9 8 39 33 +6 35 Promoted to Division One
1979–80 10 YL D1 9 30 10 9 11 34 33 +1 29
1980–81 10 YL D1 10 30 11 7 12 35 49 −14 29
1981–82 10 YL D1 15 30 6 5 19 24 52 −28 17 Joined Northern Counties East League as Founding member
1982–83 10 NCEL D1(N) 8 26 8 9 9 35 35 +0 25 3R[7]
1983–84 10 NCEL D1(N) 13 26 5 7 14 29 53 −24 17 1R[8]
1984–85 10 NCEL D1(N) 8 32 14 6 12 55 50 +5 48 EP 3R[9] Placed in Division Two in re-organisation
1985–86 11 NCEL D2 10 30 11 5 14 46 56 −10 38 1R 2R[10]
1986–87 11 NCEL D2 11 34 10 13 11 40 45 −5 43 PRE 2R[11]
1987–88 11 NCEL D2 6 28 13 5 10 51 40 +11 44 PRE 1R[12]
1988–89 11 NCEL D2 2 26 16 4 6 52 24 +28 52 PRE 1R[13] Promoted to Division One
1989–90 10 NCEL D1 2 28 17 3 8 57 29 +28 54 EP W[14] Runner-up on goal difference
1990–91 10 NCEL D1 3 24 15 2 7 61 35 +26 47 PRE 3R[15] Promoted to Premier Division
1991–92 9 NCEL PD 14 36 11 8 17 54 72 −18 41 1Q 2R 2R[16]
1992–93 9 NCEL PD 14 38 12 8 18 56 77 −21 44 PRE EP SF[17]
1993–94 9 NCEL PD 11 38 17 4 17 63 65 −2 55 2Q 2R 2R[18]
1994–95 9 NCEL PD 19 38 7 8 23 48 81 −33 29 PRE PRE 2R[19]
1995–96 9 NCEL PD 9 38 16 7 15 52 49 +3 55 PRE 2Q 1R[20]
1996–97 9 NCEL PD 20 38 5 9 24 40 87 −47 24 PRE 1Q 2R[21]
1997–98 9 NCEL PD 18 38 7 9 22 41 88 −47 30 2Q 2Q F[22]
1998–99 9 NCEL PD 6 38 21 4 13 87 63 +24 67 1Q 2R SF[23]
1999–2000 9 NCEL PD 4 38 20 5 13 76 45 +31 65 2Q 2Q 2R[24]
2000–01 9 NCEL PD 15 38 9 13 16 50 63 −13 40 1Q 1R 2R[25]
2001–02 9 NCEL PD 11 38 14 6 18 59 66 −7 48 2Q 2Q SF[26]
2002–03 9 NCEL PD 9 38 16 6 16 59 65 −6 54 PRE 1R 3R[27]
2003–04 9 NCEL PD 9 38 17 8 13 72 58 +14 59 1Q 2R 2R[28]
2004–05 9 NCEL PD 6 38 17 10 11 74 62 +12 61 4Q 2Q 1R[29]
2005–06 9 NCEL PD 2 38 25 5 8 106 49 +57 80 EP 3R 2R[30]
2006–07 9 NCEL PD 12 38 13 10 15 58 60 −2 49 PRE 2R 2R[31]
2007–08 9 NCEL PD 4 38 20 8 10 73 41 +32 68 2Q 2Q 2R[32]
2008–09 9 NCEL PD 14 38 14 7 17 60 64 −4 46 EP 1R 2R[33] Three points deducted
2009–10 9 NCEL PD 9 38 17 5 16 89 83 +6 56 EP 1R QF[34]
2010–11 9 NCEL PD 17 38 7 12 19 52 76 −24 32 EP 2Q 2R[35] One point deducted
2011–12 9 NCEL PD 14 38 12 5 21 62 80 −18 41 PRE 2Q 2R[36]
2012–13 9 NCEL PD 15 42 11 12 19 68 81 −13 45 EP 2Q 2R[37]
2013–14 9 NCEL PD 20 44 10 6 28 58 115 −57 36 EP 1R 2R[38]
2014–15 9 NCEL PD 18 40 9 7 24 46 93 −47 34 EP 2Q 2R[39]
2015–16 9 NCEL PD 14 42 13 9 20 61 93 −32 48 EP 1Q 2R[40]
2016–17 9 NCEL PD 11 42 17 8 17 99 73 +26 59 EP 2Q 1R[41]
2017–18 9 NCEL PD 11 42 15 12 15 96 93 +3 57 EP 1R 1R[42]
2018–19 9 NCEL PD 13 38 15 3 20 56 80 −24 48 PRE 1Q 2R[43]
2019–20 9 NCEL PD 2 24 16 5 3 80 42 +38 53 1Q 2Q 1R[44]
2020–21 9 NCEL PD 3 7 7 0 0 25 3 +22 21 EP 4R Joined Northern Premier League
2021–22 8 NPL D1E 1 36 29 6 1 98 22 +76 93 1Q 2R W[45] Promoted to Premier Division
2022–23 7 NPL PD 21 42 11 7 24 48 86 -38 40 2Q 1Q Relegated to Division One East
2023–24 8 NPL D1E 10 38 15 6 17 53 46 +7 51 P 1Q
2024–25 8 NPL D1E 42 21 7 13 22 49 69 -20 34 EP 1Q Relegated
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Gallery

  • View from the seated stand with the floodlights on.
    View from the seated stand with the floodlights on.
  • View of the seated stand taken from the car park
    View of the seated stand taken from the car park
  • Behind the goal is the West Stand, home of The Sedge Kop
    Behind the goal is the West Stand, home of The Sedge Kop
  • vs North Ferriby United in the FA Cup 1st Qualifying round 15 September 2017. Sedge had a 1–0 victory against the Northern Premier League side.
    vs North Ferriby United in the FA Cup 1st Qualifying round 15 September 2017. Sedge had a 1–0 victory against the Northern Premier League side.

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