I Zingari League

The I Zingari League was an amateur association football competition based in Liverpool, England which existed from 1895 [1].

Its name means 'the gypsies' in dialecticised Italian, and I Zingari was the name of an English amateur cricket club formed in 1845, and an Australian one formed 40 years later. The Liverpool football league’s name invokes their spirit of amateur competition.

The league ran until 2006, when it merged with the Liverpool County Combination to form the new Liverpool County Premier League. It was at one time a feeder to the North West Counties League.[2]

Notable local non-league clubs Marine and Formby competed in this league in the past. A representative fixture against the Lancashire Amateur League was played annually between 1919 and the league's discontinuation.[3]

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Member clubs

The final season's Premier Division featured 14 teams. The final champions were Old Xaverians.

Alsop OB
BRNESC
Collegiate OB
East Villa
Hill Athletic
Liverpool NALGO
Mackets
NELTC
Old Xaverians
Quarry Bank OB
Red Rum
Roma
Turpins Devonshire
Warbreck

I Zingari Combination

The I Zingari Combination was originally the league for the reserve teams of I Zingari League clubs. Despite the discontinuation of the League, the Combination continues to run, now featuring the reserve teams of clubs in the Liverpool County Premier League (as well as the first team of one club, Mexoc). The Combination has run since 1904.[4]

References

  1. ^ 'Non-League Football Review 1986' by Bob Barton.
  2. ^ Redgate Rovers website references this arrangement existing in 2002 (although it also claims that the North West Counties League was at the time a feeder to the Football Conference which is incorrect)
  3. ^ Broughton Amateurs website mentions their players' participation in the final representative match.
  4. ^ Date shown on the Combination's badge on its Football Mitoo page

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