{"history":[],"article":{"id":"ca6ff6bd-1fcc-4fea-ba28-1e68f2dcb3e7","title":"Liverpool and District Cricket Competition","slug":"liverpool-and-district-cricket-competition","content":":::summary\n**Name:** Liverpool and District Cricket Competition \n**Imagesize:** 200px \n**Country:** 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 [England](https://bliptext.com/articles/england) \n**Cricket Format:** Time (target 110 overs) \n**First:** 1892 (known as Liverpool Competition) 1949 (Officially constituted) 2000 ([ECB Premier League](https://bliptext.com/articles/ecb-premier-leagues)) \n**Tournament Format:** League \n**Participants:** 12 (1st XI ECB Premier League) \n**Champions:** Ormskirk CC \n**Website:** [Liverpool and District Cricket Competition](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined) \n:::\n\n# \nThe **Love Lane [Liverpool](https://bliptext.com/articles/liverpool) and District Cricket Competition** is regarded as the top level of competition for recreational [club cricket](https://bliptext.com/articles/club-cricket) in the [Liverpool](https://bliptext.com/articles/liverpool) area and since 2000 has been a designated [ECB](https://bliptext.com/articles/england-and-wales-cricket-board) [Premier League](https://bliptext.com/articles/ecb-premier-leagues).\nThe Competition operates a three divisional system with Premier, First and Second Divisions.\nThe Southport and District Amateur Cricket League is its feeder league.\n\n# History\nAlthough many of the district's clubs had met regularly as far back as 1850, if not earlier, it was not until 1892 that a Liverpool newspaper began publishing a weekly table and calling it the Liverpool Competition to create more interest in the game.\nThe eleven senior clubs making up the original table were [Birkenhead Park](https://bliptext.com/articles/birkenhead-park-cricket-club), [Bootle](https://bliptext.com/articles/bootle-cricket-club), [Formby](https://bliptext.com/articles/formby-cricket-club), [Huyton](https://bliptext.com/articles/huyton-cricket-club), [Liverpool](https://bliptext.com/articles/liverpool-cricket-club), [New Brighton](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-brighton-cricket-club), [Northern](https://bliptext.com/articles/northern-cricket-club), [Ormskirk](https://bliptext.com/articles/ormskirk-cricket-club), [Oxton](https://bliptext.com/articles/oxton-cricket-club), [Rock Ferry](https://bliptext.com/articles/rock-ferry-cricket-club) and [Sefton](https://bliptext.com/articles/sefton-park-cricket-club).\n[Neston](https://bliptext.com/articles/parkgate-cricket-ground) were offered first team fixtures in 1908 and, in 1919, Hightown and Southport and Birkdale joined whilst [Wallasey](https://bliptext.com/articles/wallasey-cricket-club) took over the fixtures of the Rock Ferry club who did not resume after the First War.\n[Boughton Hall](https://bliptext.com/articles/chester-boughton-hall-cricket-club) (later known as Chester [Boughton Hall](https://bliptext.com/articles/chester-boughton-hall-cricket-club)) were invited to join in 1923.\nThe Competition continued until 1947 when it was decided to admit a sixteenth club, and Preston were voted in.\nTwo years later, fixtures were standardised by all clubs agreeing to meet each other, and although there was no suggestion of a league, it was decided to regard the table as official.\nPreston resigned at the end of the 1952 season to be replaced by St Helens Recs in 1953.\nIn recent years the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition has changed radically.\nThere was an expansion in 1996 that introduced clubs from further afield in Lancashire and North Wales but saw founder members Birkenhead Park, [Chester Boughton Hall](https://bliptext.com/articles/chester-boughton-hall-cricket-club), Neston and Oxton resign to join the [Cheshire County Cricket League](https://bliptext.com/articles/cheshire-county-cricket-league) for the 1998 season.\nOf the four, only Oxton had failed to be champions of the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition.\nIn 1999 a two division structure was introduced, and in 2000 the 1st XI Premier Division was awarded [ECB](https://bliptext.com/articles/england-and-wales-cricket-board) [Premier League](https://bliptext.com/articles/ecb-premier-leagues) status.\nFrom the end of the 2004 season, promotion from and relegation to the Merseyside and Southport Cricket Alliance feeder league was introduced, but was then curtailed from the end of the 2009 season.\nAt this time, additional clubs from the Alliance were invited to join, to form a new three divisional structure.\n2nd XIs play in a similar three divisional structure but independent of the 1st XIs.\nThere is a two divisional structure for Saturday 3rd XIs and below, with another structure for those clubs preferring to play on Sundays.\nThey have three Divisions, Premier, Division 1 North and Division 1South.\n\n# Champions\n

\n\n# Premier Division performance by season from 2003","current_revision":null,"created_by":"kACnuQmH5k9Nr5VNVEpVeg7XpvUmMctD","created_at":"2025-01-26T11:12:07.556Z","updated_at":"2025-01-26T11:12:07.556Z","search_vector":"'competit':5 'cricket':4 'district':3 'liverpool':1","search_content":" \n**Name:** Liverpool and District Cricket Competition \n**Imagesize:** 200px \n**Country:** 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 [England](https://bliptext.com/articles/england) \n**Cricket Format:** Time (target 110 overs) \n**First:** 1892 (known as Liverpool Competition) 1949 (Officially constituted) 2000 ([ECB Premier League](https://bliptext.com/articles/ecb-premier-leagues)) \n**Tournament Format:** League \n**Participants:** 12 (1st XI ECB Premier League) \n**Champions:** Ormskirk CC \n**Website:** [Liverpool and District Cricket Competition](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined) \n \n\n# \nThe **Love Lane [Liverpool](https://bliptext.com/articles/liverpool) and District Cricket Competition** is regarded as the top level of competition for recreational [club cricket](https://bliptext.com/articles/club-cricket) in the [Liverpool](https://bliptext.com/articles/liverpool) area and since 2000 has been a designated [ECB](https://bliptext.com/articles/england-and-wales-cricket-board) [Premier League](https://bliptext.com/articles/ecb-premier-leagues).\nThe Competition operates a three divisional system with Premier, First and Second Divisions.\nThe Southport and District Amateur Cricket League is its feeder league.\n\n# History\nAlthough many of the district's clubs had met regularly as far back as 1850, if not earlier, it was not until 1892 that a Liverpool newspaper began publishing a weekly table and calling it the Liverpool Competition to create more interest in the game.\nThe eleven senior clubs making up the original table were [Birkenhead Park](https://bliptext.com/articles/birkenhead-park-cricket-club), [Bootle](https://bliptext.com/articles/bootle-cricket-club), [Formby](https://bliptext.com/articles/formby-cricket-club), [Huyton](https://bliptext.com/articles/huyton-cricket-club), [Liverpool](https://bliptext.com/articles/liverpool-cricket-club), [New Brighton](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-brighton-cricket-club), [Northern](https://bliptext.com/articles/northern-cricket-club), [Ormskirk](https://bliptext.com/articles/ormskirk-cricket-club), [Oxton](https://bliptext.com/articles/oxton-cricket-club), [Rock Ferry](https://bliptext.com/articles/rock-ferry-cricket-club) and [Sefton](https://bliptext.com/articles/sefton-park-cricket-club).\n[Neston](https://bliptext.com/articles/parkgate-cricket-ground) were offered first team fixtures in 1908 and, in 1919, Hightown and Southport and Birkdale joined whilst [Wallasey](https://bliptext.com/articles/wallasey-cricket-club) took over the fixtures of the Rock Ferry club who did not resume after the First War.\n[Boughton Hall](https://bliptext.com/articles/chester-boughton-hall-cricket-club) (later known as Chester [Boughton Hall](https://bliptext.com/articles/chester-boughton-hall-cricket-club)) were invited to join in 1923.\nThe Competition continued until 1947 when it was decided to admit a sixteenth club, and Preston were voted in.\nTwo years later, fixtures were standardised by all clubs agreeing to meet each other, and although there was no suggestion of a league, it was decided to regard the table as official.\nPreston resigned at the end of the 1952 season to be replaced by St Helens Recs in 1953.\nIn recent years the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition has changed radically.\nThere was an expansion in 1996 that introduced clubs from further afield in Lancashire and North Wales but saw founder members Birkenhead Park, [Chester Boughton Hall](https://bliptext.com/articles/chester-boughton-hall-cricket-club), Neston and Oxton resign to join the [Cheshire County Cricket League](https://bliptext.com/articles/cheshire-county-cricket-league) for the 1998 season.\nOf the four, only Oxton had failed to be champions of the Liverpool and District Cricket Competition.\nIn 1999 a two division structure was introduced, and in 2000 the 1st XI Premier Division was awarded [ECB](https://bliptext.com/articles/england-and-wales-cricket-board) [Premier League](https://bliptext.com/articles/ecb-premier-leagues) status.\nFrom the end of the 2004 season, promotion from and relegation to the Merseyside and Southport Cricket Alliance feeder league was introduced, but was then curtailed from the end of the 2009 season.\nAt this time, additional clubs from the Alliance were invited to join, to form a new three divisional structure.\n2nd XIs play in a similar three divisional structure but independent of the 1st XIs.\nThere is a two divisional structure for Saturday 3rd XIs and below, with another structure for those clubs preferring to play on Sundays.\nThey have three Divisions, Premier, Division 1 North and Division 1South.\n\n# Champions\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n# Premier Division performance by season from 2003","revisionCount":0},"hasMore":false,"nextCursor":null}