Statistics

Match Summary
Biggest Home Win		No home victories at present
Biggest Away Win		No away victories at present
Biggest Home Defeat	1-2	12/09/26 v Longridge Town (Premier Division)
Biggest Away Defeat	1-6	05/09/26 v Nelson (Premier Division)
Highest Drawn Home Game		No home draws at present
Highest Drawn Away Game		No away draws at present
Highest Aggregate Home Scoreline	3	1-2 12/09/26 v Longridge Town (Premier Division)
Highest Aggregate Away Scoreline	7	1-6 05/09/26 v Nelson (Premier Division)

 

Season at a Glance
	Home		Away		Total
	#	%	#	%	#	%
Played	1		10		11
Won	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%
Drawn	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%
Lost	1	100.00%	10	100.00%	11	100.00%
Scored	1	1.00	4	0.40	5	0.45
Conceded	2	2.00	33	3.30	35	3.18

 

Progression in Cup Competitions
The Emirates F.A Cup	Extra Preliminary Round	0-5	Clitheroe	(A)
The Isuzu FA Vase	1st Qualifying Round	0-1	Woolton	(A)
The NWCFL Champions Cup	Final	0-3	Wythenshawe	(A)

 

Home Attendance Summary
Average Attendance	1 games	110

 

Number of Games Since
Last Win	11 games
Last Defeat	0 games
Goalless Draw	190 games
Score Draw	23 games
Scored A Goal	0 games
Fail To Score	2 games
Clean Sheet	14 games

 

Scored / Conceded This Season
	Scored		Conceded
	#	%	#	%
None	7	63.64%	0	0.00%
One	3	27.27%	2	18.18%
Two	1	9.09%	1	9.09%
Three	0	0.00%	4	36.36%
Four	0	0.00%	2	18.18%
Five or more	0	0.00%	2	18.18%

 

When the Goals Went In
	For		Against		Total
	#	%	#	%	#	%
0-15	1	20.00%	9	0.00%	1	2.50%
16-30	1	20.00%	7	20.00%	8	20.00%
31-45	2	40.00%	6	17.14%	8	20.00%
46-60	0	0.00%	3	8.57%	3	7.50%
61-75	0	0.00%	7	20.00%	7	17.50%
76-90	1	20.00%	3	8.57%	4	10.00%
90-105	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%
105-120	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%

 

History

AFC Liverpool was formed in 2008 by 1,000 Liverpool FC fans who had become increasingly frustrated at the cost and difficulty in obtaining tickets for Premier League matches. The mooted ‘39th game’, in which Premier League fixtures would be played in different parts of the world, proved to be the final straw as it clearly highlighted that those who ran top flight football were more concerned with money than its fans. At the beginning of March 2008, AFC Liverpool was officially formed and it was made clear that the club was not in any way a response to the contentious ownership issue at Anfield. The creation of the new club was a response to issues at the top end of football in general.
By May 2008, AFC Liverpool had appointed its first manager in Derek Goulding. The following month the club arranged a ground share with Prescot Cables and had been accepted into the North West Counties Football League. The club began its first league season extremely well, beating AFC Darwen 5-0 in their opening competitive game which heralded a run of ten wins in the first eleven games. However, we failed to keep this momentum going, eventually finishing a creditable fourth in the league. The season did prove fruitful though as a 1-0 victory over Padiham in First Division Trophy Final at Ashton Athletic’s Brocstedes Park provided the club’s first piece of silverware.
The 2009/10 season began with three successive victories. But after this, form was inconsistent. After a 5-2 home defeat to Atherton Collieries on Easter Monday, Derek Goulding left the club and ex- assistant and goalkeeping coach Paul Moore was appointed caretaker manager. Under Moore’s stewardship the club had a strong end to the campaign, winning five out of their last seven league games and achieving a fifth place finish in the league. We also retained the First Division Trophy, coming from behind to beat Cheadle Town 2-1 in the final at Flixton. In doing so, AFC Liverpool became the first club to win the Trophy twice and to successfully defend it, and Paul Moore’s appointment was made permanent.
Despite an improved showing in the 2010/11 season, AFC Blackpool and Runcorn Town finished comfortably in the two promotion spots that season. There was further disappointment in the First Division Trophy Final when we went down 3-2 to Atherton Collieries after extra time. However, after the League AGM in July 2011, we were promoted to the North West Counties Premier Division due to administrative reasons caused by Rossendale United resigning from the league and fellow Merseysiders Formby relegated due to an administrative rule breach.
After a difficult start to life in the Premier Division in terms of results, our first win of the 2011/12 season was a 7-0 demolition of Winsford United in November! That result did prove to be a turning point, as we steadily climbed out of the drop zone to safety, finishing 19th. The following season we consolidated our position in the Premier Division, finishing 11th place with 60 points. The 2013/14 season was our best league finish under Paul Moore, with 70 points and a 7th place finish. The tenure of Mooresy also saw the Reds reach two Liverpool Senior Cup Finals. En route to the second Senior Cup Final, we famously beat Everton 4-3 at the Marine Travel Arena in November 2014. At the start of the 2014/15 season we had signed a new groundshare agreement with Marine FC.
Paul Moore stepped aside as Manager in September 2015, and we experienced two Managerial changes during the 2015/16 season, before achieving a 12th place finish in 2016/17 under Kevin Dally. More managerial changes followed in 2017/18 with an overhaul of the team. In a precarious position, the Reds had a strong finish to the season, but results didn’t go our way on the final day, and we were relegated to the First Division North, perhaps unluckily as we were the fourth bottom club, and circumstances dictated that four clubs were relegated that year due to FA reorganisation.
The task of getting the Reds back to the Premier Division fell to the joint management of Stuart Keir and Ben Williams, who had taken over midway through the previous season. Despite the disappointment of relegation from the Premier Division, Keir and Williams ensured the core of players who gave us hope were retained for the 2018/19 season. November of 2018 was the first of two sad events at our club in quick succession. Ben Williams tragically passed away. The club needed a week or so to take stock before returning to the field of play, winning 1-0 at Litherland REMYCA in the Liverpool Senior Cup. Stuart Keir was placed in sole charge of playing matters and coach Chris Anderson promoted to Assistant. However, further sad news followed over the Christmas period when popular supporter and club statistician Don Steele unexpectedly passed away.
The team continued to build on good pre-Christmas form reaching the quarter finals of the Liverpool Senior Cup and First Division Trophy and losing only one more league game to secure a third place finish in the First Division North. Indeed the 2018/19 season turned out to be our best yet in terms of points gained. It was especially satisfying to have our efforts rewarded by the League as Callum Schorah won the First Division North Player of the Year Award and the club won the Division's FA Fair Play Award.
Stuart Keir stepped down as manager at the end of the season due to family commitments so Assistant Manager Chris Anderson was given the opportunity to take charge of the first team. Anderson appointed Matt Potter as his assistant, retained the core elements of the squad he inherited, and made some judicious additions.
We had played twenty-nine league games and progressed to the semi-finals of both League cup competitions when the FA controversially declared season 2019/20 "null and void" because of the global COVID-19 pandemic. We channelled our disappointment into participating in the ultimately unsuccessful legal challenge against the FA’s decision.
The North West Counties Football League decided the previous season’s cup competitions should be played to their conclusion so we resumed playing on 4 September 2020 when we lost on penalties to Runcorn Town in the League Challenge Cup semi-final after a thrilling 3-3 draw. A week later we suffered penalty heartbreak again, this time losing to Sandbach United in the First Division Trophy final.
In December a further national lockdown curtailed the 2020/21 season, but this decision did not prevent another planned FA restructure of steps 4 to 6 of the National League System. To determine who would be promoted, each club was allocated an unweighted points per game figure on the basis of its completed fixtures in both the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons. Clubs were ranked within their respective leagues on the basis of those calculations. Our performances in those seasons put us comfortably in-line for promotion so the hard work of the last two years was rightfully rewarded with a place in the NWCFL Premier Division for the 2021/22 season.
Consolidation as a Premier Division side was achieved with a creditable fourteenth place finish in the league. Early exits in both the FA Cup and League Challenge Cup were somewhat offset by a thrilling run in the FA Vase in which we progressed to the fourth round before being beaten on penalties by Abbey Hey.
Prior to the start of the 2022/23 season, Matt Potter was appointed as manager following the departure of Chris Anderson, who accepted an assistant manager role at National League North side Chorley FC. Potter’s team had an impressive start to the season, keeping pace with the front-runners Vauxhall Motors, Avro and Wythenshawe Town. Following an FA Vase exit on penalties in January, a poor run of form then saw us slip down the table. Despite an underwhelming final few months of the 2022/23 season, we still finished in an impressive sixth position in the NWCFL Premier Division, our highest ever placing. In May 2023 there was an unexpected turn of events as manager Matt Potter surprisingly departed to Skelmersdale United. Reacting decisively, we approached our former club captain, Phil Stafford, who was announced as our new manager on 1 June 2023.
Stafford’s first season in charge saw us record our highest ever home attendance v Bury FC as 877 spectators paid to see the game. The Club’s objective, as with other recent Managers, was very much to stay in the Premier Division and we finished fourteenth.
Stafford’s first season in charge was certainly something to build on. And build on we certainly did. With the spine of the side built around skipper Adam Moorcroft, the versatile Midfielder Matty Brown, and prolific striker Elliot Taylor (who beat Ryan Cox’s long standing league scoring record), the non-league Reds produced a very solid league season in 2024/25, finishing in 9th place. The Club was also very proud that winger Caleb Jones won North West Counties League Premier Division Player of the Season.
The early weeks of the 2025/26 season did little to suggest this could be a season that could see the Club enjoy their best moment to date. We were hovering in and around the relegation zone prior to travelling to Chadderton on the last Saturday in October. We had though played the all Division’s strongest sides away from home, and we felt that we were in a false position. This proved to be true as we beat Chadderton 1-0 and our season turned itself around, helped by a run in the Macron Cup. Victories over South Liverpool, Maghull, Cammell Laird, Euxton Villa, and Nelson set up a place in the Final against West Didsbury and Chorlton.
The final turned out to be a memorable day out, as two goals from Elliot Taylor and one from Caleb Jones ensured we brought the Trophy back to Merseyside with a 3-1 victory. Once more, Elliot smashed the club’s scoring records. In the League we finished in 11th place, and had the start of the season been better, we do wonder where we could have ended up.
With success, unfortunately there can come a downside. Manager Phil Stafford was approached to take over at Burscough, and felt that the West Lancashire Club had presented him with an opportunity he could not turn down. Phil has been replaced by former Assistant Manager Jack Edwards for the 2026/27 season.

CLUB HONOURS

NWCFL First Division Trophy Winners: 2008/09, 2009/10
NWCFL First Division Trophy Runners Up: 2010/11, 2019/20
Liverpool County FA Senior Cup Finalists: 2013, 2015
Fans Club Trophy Winners: 2008, 2009, 2010
Joe Fagan Commemorative Trophy Winners: 2008, 2009
NWCFL League Cup Winners: 2025/26
Record Victory: St Helens Town 0-9 AFC Liverpool 13th
September 2014
Most League Goals in a Season: Elliot Taylor 36 (2025/26)
Most Goals (All Competitions) in a Season: Elliot Taylor 46 (2025/26)