Liss Athletic F.C.

Liss Athletic F.C. is an amateur 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.

Liss Athletic
Full nameLiss Athletic Football Club
Nickname(s)Blues
Founded1962
GroundThe Newman Collard Playing Fields, Liss
Capacity2,500
ChairmanPeter Storrie
ManagerGary Lines
LeagueHampshire Premier League Senior Division
2019–20Hampshire Premier League Senior Division (season abandoned)

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]

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: 2-14 v Colden Common, September 2019
  • Record Attendance: 89 Romsey Town, August 2006

References
  1. "Charter Standard Clubs". HampshireFA. Retrieved 24 December 2012.
  2. "Liss Athletic FC – Liss". Lissathletic.co.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  3. "Hampshire League 1970–1980". Nonleaguematters.net. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  4. "Hampshire League 1980–1992". Nonleaguematters.net. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  5. "Hampshire League 1992–2004". Nonleaguematters.net. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  6. "Wessex League 1986–2011". Nonleaguematters.net. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  7. "Hampshire Premier League 2007–2012". Nonleaguematters.net. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  8. LISS ATHLETIC at the Football Club History Database

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