Liss Athletic F.C.

Liss Athletic
Full name Liss Athletic Football Club
Nickname(s)
  1. WeareLiss Liss Lions
Founded 1962
Ground The Newman Collard Playing Fields, Liss
Ground Capacity 2,500
Chairman Peter Storrie
Manager Scott Hymers
League Hampshire Premier League Senior Division
2016–17 Hampshire Premier League Senior Division, 11th of 15

Liss Athletic F.C. is a semi-professional football club based in Liss, near Petersfield, in England.The club is affiliated to the Hampshire Football Association and is an FA chartered Standard club[1] The club are currently members of the Hampshire Premier League Senior Division.

History

The club was established in 1962.[2] The club 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.[3] Further promotion followed in the 1979–80 season, when the top two teams expanded and liss were placed in Division two.[3] The club then remained in Division two for three seasons before leaving the Hampshire league at the end of the 1982–83 season.[4] The club returned to the Hampshire league for the 1987–88 season and was put into Division two.[4] The club remained in Division two until the end of the 1994–95 campaign when they were promoted to Division one as champions.[5]

The club remained in the top division of the Hampshire league until the end of the 2003–04 campaign, after which they joined the newly created Division two of the Wessex League.[5][6] The club remained in that division, which was renamed Division one after two seasons, until the end of the 2007–08 campaign.[6]

The club then left the Wessex League to join the Hampshire Premier League, which had been founded a season earlier.[7] The club has since remained in the Hampshire Premier League despite finishing bottom of the league two seasons in a row in the 2010–11 and 2011–12 competitions.[7]

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
England GK Jimmy Todd
England DF Preston Tee
England DF Nathan Haywood
England DF Mitch Frost
England DF Jake Warlow
England DF Chris Kelly
England DF Tom Scott
England DF Dan Errington
England MF
England MF
England MF
England MF
England MF
England MF
England MF
England MF
England MF
England MF
England MF
England FW
England FW Josh Benfield


Ground

Liss Athletic play their home games at Newman Collard Playing Fields, Hill Brow Road, Hampshire, Liss GU33 7LH.

Honours

Records

  • Highest League Position:[8] 5th in Wessex League Division Two 2005–06
  • Record Victory: 9–4 v (Paulsgrove), February 2010
  • Record Defeat: 3–13 v Colden Common, September 2008
  • Record Attendance: 89 Romsey Town, August 2006

References

  1. ↑ "Charter Standard Clubs". HampshireFA. Retrieved 2012-12-24.
  2. ↑ "Liss Athletic FC – Liss". Lissathletic.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  3. 1 2 "Hampshire League 1970–1980". Nonleaguematters.net. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  4. 1 2 "Hampshire League 1980–1992". Nonleaguematters.net. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  5. 1 2 "Hampshire League 1992–2004". Nonleaguematters.net. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  6. 1 2 "Wessex League 1986–2011". Nonleaguematters.net. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  7. 1 2 "Hampshire Premier League 2007–2012". Nonleaguematters.net. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  8. 1 2 LISS ATHLETIC at the Football Club History Database

Coordinates: 51°02′24.65″N 0°53′17.83″W / 51.0401806°N 0.8882861°W / 51.0401806; -0.8882861

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